January 12

"Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit... and the door that gives access to the other sacraments."

-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1213

January 11

"In the long run, is there any other way of handing on the Gospel than by transmitting to another person one's personal experience of faith?"

-Evangelii Nuntiandi 46

January 10

"Sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them."

-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1869

January 9

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own liking, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths."

-2 Timothy 4:3-4

January 8

"Resist the devil and he will flee from you."

-James 4:7

January 7

"The chief exercise of prayer is to speak to God and to hear God speak in the bottom of your heart."

-St. Francis de Sales

January 6

"Prayer is not one occupation among many, but is at the center of our life in Christ."

-St. John Paul II

January 4

"Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons."

- Gen. 3:7

January 3

"So God created man in His own image."

-Genesis 1:26

January 2

"God is love."

-John 4:16