April 1
“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”
-Ven. Fulton Sheen
Tag Archives: Daily Gracelines
Be patient with yourself
March 31
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
-St. Francis de Sales
Risk your life for Christ!
March 30
“Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.”
– St. John Paul II
Make an act of the will
March 29
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working, and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”
-St. Francis de Sales
Lent is the time for greater love
March 28
“As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus’ thirst… He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.”
– St. Teresa of Calcutta
Renew your intentions
March 27
“It is better not to fast and be thereby humbled, than to fast and to be self-satisfied therewith.”
-Blaise Pascal: Pensees
Even the saints struggled
March 26
“Oh how happy I am to see myself imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.”
-St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Not sure how to pray?
March 25
“You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, ‘Lord, I don’t know how to pray!’ you can be sure you’ve already begun.”
-St. Josemaría Escrivá
Lent is like a long retreat
March 24
“Lent is like a long ‘retreat’ during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat the temptations of the Evil One. It is a period of spiritual ‘combat’ which we must experience alongside Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the arms of faith: prayer, listening to the word of God and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our Baptism.”
-Pope Benedict XVI
Lent is a time for deep reflection
March 23
“Lent is a time of going very deeply into ourselves… What is it that stands between us and God? Between us and our brothers and sisters? Between us and life, the life of the Spirit? Whatever it is, let us relentlessly tear it out, without a moment’s hesitation.”
-Catherine Doherty
