Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-Victor Hugo
July 2
Faith means believing the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all.
-G.K. Chesterton
July 3
The problems with miracles is that it is hard to witness them without wanting one of your own.
-Barbara Brown Taylor
July 4
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
July 5
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
July 6
Faith is not belief without proof but truth without reservation.
-Elton Trueblood
July 7
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
-Longfellow
July 8
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
-Thomas a Kempis
July 9
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels and saints charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ. Rest your weary ones, Bless your dying ones. Soothe your suffering ones. Pity your afflicted ones, shield your joyous ones. And all for love's sake.
-St. Augustine.
July 10
Sometimes you've got to jump off cliffs and grow wings on the way down.
-Ray Bradbury
July 11
Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-St. Francis of Assisi
July 12
But for those who hope in the Lord will renew in their strength. They will soar on wings like the eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
-Isaiah 40:31
July 13
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
-Henry W. Beecher
July 14
If we are going to be made into wine, we have to be crushed; you can not drink grapes.
-Ibid
July 15
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
-Theodore Roethke
July 16
Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight
Feels them give way
Beneath her & yet sings
Knowing that she hath wings.
-Victor Hugo
July 17
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sights is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
-St. Francis of Assisi
July 18
Patience obtains everything.
-St. Teresa of Avila
July 19
Pain is temporary, but quitting is forever.
-Lance Armstrong
July 20
It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us.
-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
July 21
Humility doesn't mean standing in a corner. It means an honest acknowledgment that who you are and what you are is a gift of God-Completely.
-Fr. Berthold Ricker
July 22
Sometimes I yearn so strongly for God that it is painful. But I guess if I found God completely, the search would be over and the whole thing is about the search for God. I don't think we can ever wholly find God or we would be God.
-Sr. Lillian Harrington
July 23
The earth laughs in flowers.
-e.e cummings
July 24
God always finishes his sentences.
-Albert Terhune
July 25
Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.
-Miguel De Cervantes
July 26
Let us not be justices of peace but angels of peace.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
July 27
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.
-Matthew 11:28
July 28
It is when things go wrong, when the good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly. There is no such thing as belief without doubt or struggle.
-Madeleine L'Engle
July 29
Our faults are like a grain of sand beside the great mountain of mercies of God.
-St. John Vianney
July 30
It isn't the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
-Anne Morrow Lindberg
July 31
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing...than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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.
