Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that in every cloud is an angel's face. 701St. Jerome
We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy. 702
St. Jerome
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him. 703
St. Therese of Lisieux
God is never sought in vain, even when God cannot be found. 704
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite. 705
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
Before you had a being, God loved you. Before your father or mother was born, God loved you. . . And how long before creation has God loved you? Perhaps for a thousand years or for a thousand ages. It is needless to count years or ages; God loves you from eternity. 706
St. Alphonsus Liguori
Silence is the beginning of purifying the soul. 707
St. Basil the Great
All hope consists in confession. Do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God. 708
St. Isidore of Seville
Nothing pleases God more than to be his Son's helpers and to undertake the charge of saving souls. 709
St. Charles Borromeo
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger. 710
St. John Chrystostom
God passes through the thicket of the world and wherever the divine glance falls, all things are turned to beauty. 711
St John of the Cross
Remain calm in times of dryness. 712
St. Teresa of Avila
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love. 713
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God. 714
Brother Lawrence
Graciousness in accepting service is as blessed as graciousness in giving it. 715
Sister Mary Catherine Nolan, O.P.
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself. 716
St. Augustine
There is nothing small in the service of God. 717
St. Francis de Sales
There is only one thing to be feared and that is sin. Everything else is beside the point. 718
St. John Chrysostom
...for I well know that in the sight of our Lord God there is no chance or accident; wherefore I had to grant that all things that are done are well done, for our Lord does them all. 719
St. Julian of Norwich
Know that even when you are in the kitchen, our Lord moves amidst the pots and pans. 720
St. Teresa of Avila
Be Thou the goal of my pilgrimage, and my rest along the way. 721
St. Augustine
You induce yourself to reverence by admiring God's immensity and beholding your smallness. 722
St. Bonaventure
When I gaze with open eyes at what You, my God, have created here, heaven is already mine. 723
Hildegard of Bingen
Every creature, whether it speaks or is silent, whether in Heaven or on Earth, gives glory to its Maker. 724
St. Basil
To find holiness, do the next thing you have to do, do it with your whole heart and find delight in doing it. 725
Meister Eckhart
The devil writes down our sins--our guardian angel all our merits. Labor that the guardian angel's book may be full and the Devil's empty. 726
St. John Vianney
O Lord, I beseech you, that you would lead me into the intermost sanctuary of the sorrows of your soul...Tell me, Jesus, hope of my life, how great was this sorrow of your stricken heart? 727
Blessed Baptista Varani
The only way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. 728
G.K. Chesterton
Let us sing a new song, not with our lips but with our lives. 729
St. Augustine
One must do all one can do for everybody, expecting no return save from God only. 730
St. John Vianney
We await the final outcome of events, remembering who it is who plows the earth of our souls. 731
St. John Chrysostom
Never have I heard Jesus speak, but I feel him within me at each moment guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do. 732
St. Therese of Liseux
When love is placed in God, nothing else can intervene. 733
Juana Inez de la Cruz
May the greatest of all divine attributes, that of...unfathomable mercy, pass through my heart and soul to my neighbor. 734
St. Maria Faustina Kowalska
God's mercy is like an unleashed torrent. It bears all hearts away in its flood. 735
St. John Vianney
It is our emptiness and lowliness God needs, not our plenitude. 736
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
All hope consists in confession. Do not doubt, do not hesitate, never despair of the mercy of God. 737
St. Isidore of Seville
There is never a pilgrim who returns home without one less prejudice and one new idea. 738
St. Thomas More
The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification. 739
St. Francis de Sales
Aim at charity. By this path of love, Christ came down to us. By it, we too may ascend to Him. 740
St. Leo the Great
Only in the spiritual life are children free to choose their parents. 741
St. Gregory of Nyssa
O, Sacred fires & flames of the heart of my Savior, rush in upon my heart and the hearts of all my brethren, and kindle them into as many furnaces of love for my most loving Jesus. 742
St. John Eudes
Everything the Lord did in the world, he did out of love. 743
St. Thomas of Villanova
Remain humble, remain simple; the more you are so, the more good you will do. 744
St. John Vianney
I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled until I set him free. 745
Michaelangelo
I am not always faithful, but I never get discouraged. I abandon myself into the arms of Jesus and there I find again all that I have lost and much more besides. 746
St. Therese of Lisieux
Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, and a shout of joy in the heart. 747
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises. 748
Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
We must serve our Lord according to his liking and not according to our own. 749
St. Jane Frances de Chantal
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. 750
St. Frances of Assisi
To my God a heart of flame; to my neighbor a heart of love; to myself a heart of steel. 751
St. Augustine
Whenever I see a wall between Christians, I try to pull out a brick. 752
Pope John XXIII
Beauty is one of the faces of God. It is God's memory of all that is holy and good, faithful & true. It often appears upon the scene when hope seems gone. It has the power to heal, restore, comfort, and delight that part of you that is overcome with grief. Beauty is God's way of reminding you of your own beauty. It is God remembering you. 753
Sister Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B.
The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it. 754
St. Elizabeth Seton
The more rain falls on the earth, the softer it makes it. Similarly, Christ's holy name gladdens the earth of our heart the more we call upon it. 755
St. Hesychois
Peace begins with a smile--smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace. 756
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen; for God speaks in the silence of the heart. 757
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The more the soul loves, the more it desires to love, and the greater its suffering, the greater its healing. 758
St. Columban
We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly. 759
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Do you seriously wish to travel the road to devotion? If so, look for a good person to guide and lead you. 760
St. Francis de Sales
If you discover your nature is changeable, transcend yourself. 761
St. Augustine
Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 762
St. Thomas Moore
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. 763
G.K. Chesterton
How gently and lovingly You wake in my heart, where in secret You dwell alone; and in your sweet breathing filled with good and glory, how tenderly You swell my heart with love. 764
St. John of the Cross
What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know. 765
St. Augustine
A great number of loved ones await us in Heaven. An enormous host is filled with longing for us. Their concern is only for us. To be in their presence, to be embraced by their arms - - what immeasurable joy it will be for them and for us. 766
St. Cyprian
Only one principle will give you courage, that is the principle that no evil lasts for ever, nor indeed for very long. 767
St. Epicuris
It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give them. 768
St. Vincent de Paul
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. 769
Jean De La Bruyere
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort. 770
St. Padre Pio
Here is a rule for everyday life: Do not do anything which you cannot offer to God. 771
St. John Vianney
No one draws closer to a knowledge of the truth than he who has advanced far in the knowledge of divine things, and yet knows that something always remains to be discovered. 772
St. Leo the Great
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. 773
Michaelangelo
Lord, your hand of love is always stretched out toward me, even when I stubbornly look the other way. 774
St. Teresa of Avila
Grace always attendeth him that is truly thankful. 775
Thomas a’ Kempis
Rightly has a friend been called "the half of my soul". 776
St. Augustine
Never address your words to God while you are thinking of something else. 777
St. Teresa of Avila
The time spent for the glory of God and the salvation of souls is never spent badly. 778
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. 779
St. Francis de Sales
O God, make us children of quietness, and heirs of peace. 780
St. Clement of Alexandria
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand. 781
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. 782
St. Therese of Lisieux
What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. 783
St. Francis de Sales
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?' 784
St. Therese of Liseux
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. 785
G.K. Chesteron
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. 786
St. Thomas Aquinas
Faith means believing the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all. 787
G.K. Chesterton
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. 788
St. Augustine.
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in His sight 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. 789
St. Francis of Assisi
Patience obtains everything. 790
St. Teresa of Avila
Let us not be justices of peace, but angels of peace. 791
St. Therese of Lisieux
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. 792
St Ignatius of Loyola
Free choice is found in God. 793
St. Thomas Aquinas
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. 794
Sister Joan Chittister, OSB
Be joyful, seek the best, and let the sparrows chirp. 795
Pope John XXIII
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. 796
Pope John Paul II
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. 797
G.K. Chesterton
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. 798
Ludwig Van Beethoven
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure. 799
St. Therese of Liseux
