Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast; you also miss the sense of where you are going & why.
-Eddie Cantor
August 3
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.
-St Igantius of Loyola
August 4
When cares increase within me, your comfort gives me joy.
-Psalm 94:19
August 5
Free choice is found in God.
-St. Thomas Aquinas
August 6
Don't be afraid to be lonely. Loneliness teaches us what we lack--and what we don't. Loneliness is a short course in personal development.
-Sister Joan Chittister, OSB
August 7
There is not telling where God may turn up next--around what sudden bend of path if you happen to have your eyes and ears open, your wits about you id odd, small moments almost too foolish to tell.
-Frederick Buechner
August 8
Rain. Rain. Rain.
My mouth open.
My hands cannot hold all the water that is pouring down.
Rain.
More rain.
I am spinning, eyes closed, head thrown back.
The world is so beautiful.
So utterly, beautiful.
-Terry Tempest Williams
August 9
I have heard thy prayers, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee.
-2 Kings 20:5
August 10
The question for the child is not, "Do I want to be good?", but,"Whom do I want to be like?"
-Bruno Bettelheim
August 11
Be joyful, seek the best, and let the sparrows chirp.
-Pope John XXIII
August 12
What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.
-Cliff Richard
August 13
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family is a great service to humanity.
-Pope John Paul II
August 14
Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that the truth alone makes rich and great.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 15
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
-Charles Lamb
August 16
If you look at a thing nine hundred ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the one thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
-G.K. Chesterton
August 17
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
August 18
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-Colin Powell
August 19
O God, you are my rock, my rescue, and my refuge. I leave it all quietly to You.
-George Appleton
August 20
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson
August 21
It is a severe rebuke upon us that God makes us so many allowances and we make so few to our neighbor.
-William Penn
August 22
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-e.e. cummings
August 23
If we beheld a soul after baptism with eyes of faith, we would see angels taking their watch around it.
-St. Elizabeth Ann Seaton
August 24
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
-St. Francis of Assisi
August 25
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
-Norman Vincent Peale
August 26
"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick do; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance."
-Luke 5:31-32
August 27
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
-Winston Churchill
August 28
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to another.
-Louise Erdrich
August 29
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment I may be startled into seeing that You are here in all your splendor.
Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and, trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for your will come back and take you with me so that you may be where I am going.
