October 2004 Quotations

October 1

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen; for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

October 2

You nourished your people with food of angels and furnished them bread from heaven, ready to hand untoiled for, endowed with all, delights & conforming to every taste.

-Wisdom 16:20

October 3

The more the soul loves, the more it desires to love, and the greater its suffering, the greater its healing.

-St. Columban

October 4

Stern as death is stern love,

relentless as the nether world is devotion.

Its flames are a blazing fire.  

Deep waters can not quench love;

nor floods sweep it away.

-Song of Songs 8

October 5

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.

-St. John of the Cross

October 6

Seasons

You shall ask

what good are dead leaves

And I will tell you

They nourish the sore earth.

You shall ask

what reason is there for winter

And I will tell you

To bring about new leaves.

You shall ask

Why are the leaves so green

And I will tell you

Because they are rich with life.

You shall ask

why must summer end

And I will tell you

so leaves can die.

-Nancy Wood, Native American Poet

October 7

I will give my life for the salvation of souls.

-Bl. Rafael Guizar Valencia

October 8

In the holy soul, as on a sacred altar, the flame of charity consumes whatever evil is present and burns for God the fragrant incense of repentance.

-St. Caesarius of Arles

 October 9

Anyone who wishes to keep the flame of ardor alive within himself should frequently or rather incessantly contemplate in his hart Christ dying upon the cross.  That is why the Lord said of old:  " The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it must not go out.  Every morning the priest shall put firewood on it."

Your heart is the altar of God.  It is here that the fire of intense love must burn always.  You are to feed it every day with the wood of cross of Christ and commemoration of his passion.  The Prophet Isasias says:"  You shall draw waters with joy out of the savior's fountains"; meaning that whoever wishes to obtain from God the waters of grace, the waters of devotion, the water of tears, must draw from the "fountains" which are the five wounds of Christ.

-St. Bonaventure

October 10

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

-William Blake

October 11

I will not allow my life's life to be determined by the darkness around me.

-Sojourner Truth

October 12

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.  Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.

-Mohandas Gandhi

October 13

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

October 14

Do you seriously wish to travel the road to devotion?  If so, look for a good person to guide and lead you.

-St. Francis de Sales

October  15

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

-Author Unknown

October 16

May all be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.

-John 17:21

October 17

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

-Romans 13:8

October 18

If you discover your nature is changeable, transcend yourself.

-St. Augustine

 October 19

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

-Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

October 20

Love comes out of heaven unasked and unsought.

-Pearl S. Buck

 October 21

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to you; my soul also which you have rescued.

-Psalm 71:23

 October 22

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-Beverly Sills

October 23

Doubts are like ants in the pants of faith.  They keep it moving.

-Frederick Buechner

October 24

 October 25

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

-Dakota Proverb

October 26

Dreams come true.  Without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.

-John Updike

October 27

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

-Albert Einstein

October 28

There must be more to life than having everything.

-Maurice Sendak

October 29

We like someone because. We love someone although.

-Henri de Montherlant

October 30

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

-Willa Cather

October 31

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

-Karl Barth