Feb 10
“Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
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Capacity for hope
February 9
“Leaders are magnanimous in their dreams, visions, and sense of mission; in their capacity for hope, confidence, and daring; in their enthusiasm for the effort required to bring their work to a successful conclusion; in their capacity to challenge themselves and those around them.”
-Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership
Faithfulness, not success
February 8
“Faithfulness, not success.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
Testimonial: How Women of Grace changed Olgamarie
"When I started the Full of Grace Study, I was already an on fire excited convert... but I wasn't excited about being a woman. The study changed that." God worked in my heart and I was just blown away."
Strong in every battle
February 7
"Between women and God is often arranged the eternal salvation of husbands and sons. But for this she must be valiant. Strong to uphold purity of life. Strong to keep inviolate the treasure of faith. Strong in every battle of life. Great-souled in the face of calamity, persecution and death. And remember, sorrow is the training ground of strong souls.”
-St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
Imitation of Mary
February 6
"Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls’ education.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Self-forgetting love
February 5
“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Speak the truth in love
February 4
“Those who remain silent are responsible.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Is your heart open?
February 3
“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds… empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
God's plan
February 2
“Things were in God's plan which I had not planned at all. I am coming to the living faith and conviction that—from God's point of view—there is no chance and that the whole of my life, down to every detail, has been mapped out in God's divine providence and makes complete and perfect sense in God's all-seeing eyes."
-St. Teresa Benedicta
