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“Let go of your plans. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with, and he will give you the power to accomplish it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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Out of love for God
March 13
“We do not become perfect by the multiplication of exercises, penances, and austerities, but rather by the purity of love with which we do them.”
-St. Francis de Sales
Let others see Him
Love enables us to live in harmony
February 16
“Happy are we, beloved, if love enables us to live in harmony and in the observance of God’s commandments, for then it will also gain for us the remission of our sins.”
-St. Clement I
Loving those who are difficult to love
February 15
“If someone wishes to savor the joy of brotherly love with greater perfection and delight, he must extend even to his enemies the embrace of true love.”
-St. Aelred
The task to which we are set
February 14
“Love is never something that is ready-made, something merely ‘given’ to man and woman; it is always at the same time a ‘task’ which they are set. Love should be seen as something which in a sense never ‘is’ but is always only ‘becoming,’ and what it becomes depends upon the contribution of both persons and the depth of their commitment.”
-Pope St. John Paul II
We become what we love
February 13
"We become what we love. Who we love shapes what we become."
-St. Clare of Assisi
This is our hour
February 12
“When a great suffering or some very little suffering is offered to us, oh, let us think very quickly that ‘this is our Hour’ the hour when we are going to prove our love for Him who has ‘loved us exceedingly.’”
-St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
What do you desire?
February 11
“Why, then, do you wander wide, poor child of earth, in your search after goods for body and soul? Love the One Good, in whom all good things are, and it is enough. For what do you love, O my flesh? What do you desire, O my soul? There it is, there it is: whatever you love, whatever you desire.”
–St. Anselm
Are your actions motivated by love?
February 10
“Everything that is done out of Love acquires greatness and beauty.”
–St. Josemaria Escriva
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