February 27
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
-Venerable Fulton Sheen
Category Archives: Gracelines
What shackles your heart?
February 26
“Don’t you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: ‘Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart – and very often degrade it – leave all that and come with us in search of Love!'”
-St. Josemaria Escriva
The disruption of peace
February 25
“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
To know Him
Three states of the converted
February 23
“There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.”
-St. Gregory the Great
To be perfect
February 22
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
-St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Ordained for salvation
February 21
“Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.”
-St. Catherine of Siena
The things that we love
February 20
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
The living expression of God’s kindness
February 19
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor… Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
My director, Jesus
February 18
“My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him – but all this in peace – in abandonment.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux
