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— St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
" entryDate[1] = " 01/02/" + year entryContent[1] = "Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved.
— St. Francis de Sales
" entryDate[2] = " 01/03/" + year entryContent[2] = "O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!
— St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
" entryDate[3] = " 01/04/" + year entryContent[3] = "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.
— St. Jerome
" entryDate[4] = " 01/05/" + year entryContent[4] = "The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
— St. Clement of Alexandria
" entryDate[5] = " 01/06/" + year entryContent[5] = "The proof of love is in the works.
— Pope St. Gregory the Great
" entryDate[6] = " 01/07/" + year entryContent[6] = "The bread in your box belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your closet belongs to the naked; the shoes you do not wear belong to the barefoot; the money in your vault belongs to the destitute.
— St. Basil the Great
" entryDate[7] = " 01/08/" + year entryContent[7] = "Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.
— St. Gregory Nazianzen
" entryDate[8] = " 01/09/" + year entryContent[8] = "Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.
— St. Gregory Nazianzen
" entryDate[9] = " 01/10/" + year entryContent[9] = "Let them fear God and love their Abbot with sincere and humble affection; let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and my He lead us all together to life everlasting.
— St. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of St. Benedict
" entryDate[10] = " 01/11/" + year entryContent[10] = "I asked you and you would not listen; so I asked my God and He did listen.
— St. Scholastica
" entryDate[11] = " 01/12/" + year entryContent[11] = "I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like to be watching Heaven's family drinking it through all eternity.
— St. Brigid of Ireland
" entryDate[12] = " 01/13/" + year entryContent[12] = "I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe—that unless I believe, I should not understand.
— St. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, Chapter 1
" entryDate[13] = " 01/14/" + year entryContent[13] = "We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux
" entryDate[14] = " 01/15/" + year entryContent[14] = "Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux
" entryDate[15] = " 01/16/" + year entryContent[15] = "Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.
— St. Jeanne de Chantal
" entryDate[16] = " 01/17/" + year entryContent[16] = "Hitherto I have called you my father on earth; henceforth I desire to say only, \"Our Father Who art in Heaven.\"
— St. Francis of Assisi
" entryDate[17] = " 01/18/" + year entryContent[17] = "Love God, serve God; everything is in that.
— St. Clare of Assisi
" entryDate[18] = " 01/19/" + year entryContent[18] = "O God, what will become of sinners?
— St. Dominic de Guzman
" entryDate[19] = " 01/20/" + year entryContent[19] = "Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.
— St. Anthony de Padua
" entryDate[20] = " 01/21/" + year entryContent[20] = "Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
— St. Albert the Great
" entryDate[21] = " 01/22/" + year entryContent[21] = "Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
" entryDate[22] = " 01/23/" + year entryContent[22] = "Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.
— St. Robert Bellarmine
" entryDate[23] = " 01/24/" + year entryContent[23] = "Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.
— St. John Eudes
" entryDate[24] = " 01/25/" + year entryContent[24] = "Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
— St. Rose of Lima
" entryDate[25] = " 01/26/" + year entryContent[25] = "About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.
— St. Joan of Arc
" entryDate[26] = " 01/27/" + year entryContent[26] = "If I am not [in God's grace], may it please God to put me in it; if I am, may it please God to keep me there.
— St. Joan of Arc
" entryDate[27] = " 01/28/" + year entryContent[27] = "Teach us to give and not count the cost.
— St. Ignatius de Loyola
" entryDate[28] = " 01/29/" + year entryContent[28] = "I am a Christian, and I shall die for God, and for him I will give many thousands of lives if I had them. And so, do with me as you please.
— St. Lorenzo Ruiz
" entryDate[29] = " 01/30/" + year entryContent[29] = "At the end of life, we shall be judged by love.
— St. John of the Cross
" entryDate[30] = " 01/31/" + year entryContent[30] = "From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!
— St. Teresa of Avila
" entryDate[31] = " 02/01/" + year entryContent[31] = "He who prays is saved; and he who does not pray is damned.
— St. Alphonsus Ligouri
" entryDate[32] = " 02/02/" + year entryContent[32] = "If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven!
— St. John Vianney
" entryDate[33] = " 02/03/" + year entryContent[33] = "Sin is the executioner of the good God, and the assassin of the soul. It snatches us away from Heaven to precipitate us into Hell. And we love it!
— St. John Vianney, On Sin
" entryDate[34] = " 02/04/" + year entryContent[34] = "In the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be Love!
— St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Story of a Soul
" entryDate[35] = " 02/05/" + year entryContent[35] = "If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.
— St. Therese of the Child Jesus
" entryDate[36] = " 02/06/" + year entryContent[36] = "God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit—that is the shortest route.
— St. Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy in My Soul, no. 219
" entryDate[37] = " 02/07/" + year entryContent[37] = "Comfort in tribulation can be secured only on the sure ground of faith holding as true the words of Scripture and the teaching of the Catholic Church.
— St. Thomas More
" entryDate[38] = " 02/08/" + year entryContent[38] = "We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
" entryDate[39] = " 02/09/" + year entryContent[39] = "Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to heaven.
— Pope St. Pius X
" entryDate[40] = " 02/10/" + year entryContent[40] = "It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
— Blessed Pope John XXIII
" entryDate[41] = " 02/11/" + year entryContent[41] = "The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter 9
" entryDate[42] = " 02/12/" + year entryContent[42] = "At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
" entryDate[43] = " 02/13/" + year entryContent[43] = "I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!
— Hilaire Belloc
" entryDate[44] = " 02/14/" + year entryContent[44] = "There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church—which is, of course, quite a different thing.
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Radio Replies, Preface
" entryDate[45] = " 02/15/" + year entryContent[45] = "Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the Heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity?
— St. \"Padre\" Pio of Pietrelcina
" entryDate[46] = " 02/16/" + year entryContent[46] = "As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.
— St. Josemaria Escriva
" entryDate[47] = " 02/17/" + year entryContent[47] = "We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[48] = " 02/18/" + year entryContent[48] = "When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[49] = " 02/19/" + year entryContent[49] = "The glory of God is man fully alive.
— St. Irenaeus
" entryDate[50] = " 02/20/" + year entryContent[50] = "A sacrament is a remembrance of the past [Christ's Passion], a proof of the present [grace], and a promise of the future [eternal life].
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
" entryDate[51] = " 02/21/" + year entryContent[51] = "The baby doesn't understand English, and the devil knows Latin.
— Ronald Knox [on refusing to conduct a baptism in English]
" entryDate[52] = " 02/22/" + year entryContent[52] = "Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death by popcorn.
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
" entryDate[53] = " 02/23/" + year entryContent[53] = "If it is daily bread, why do you take it once a year, as the Greeks in the east are accustomed to do? Take daily what is to profit you daily. So live that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily does not deserve to receive it once a year.
— St. Ambrose, On the Sacraments
" entryDate[54] = " 02/24/" + year entryContent[54] = "When we come to the service of Christ, we come to a rough profession.
— St. Robert Southwell, S.J.
" entryDate[55] = " 02/25/" + year entryContent[55] = "The family, grounded on marriage freely contracted, monogamous and indissoluble, is and must be considered the first and essential cell of human society.
— Blessed Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris
" entryDate[56] = " 02/26/" + year entryContent[56] = "And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
— Our Lord to Jeremiah, Jer 3:15
" entryDate[57] = " 02/27/" + year entryContent[57] = "My bags are packed and I am ready to go.
— Blessed Pope John XXIII [his last dying words]
" entryDate[58] = " 02/28/" + year entryContent[58] = "The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard?
— Pope John Paul II, Message for World Communications Day, 2002
" entryDate[59] = " 03/01/" + year entryContent[59] = "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes—our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking about.
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
" entryDate[60] = " 03/02/" + year entryContent[60] = "Christianity, considered as a moral system, is made up of two elements, beauty and severity; whenever either is indulged to the loss or disparagement of the other, evil ensues.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, Sermons on Subjects of the Day
" entryDate[61] = " 03/03/" + year entryContent[61] = "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
— G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, Chapter 5
" entryDate[62] = " 03/04/" + year entryContent[62] = "No soul can be lost by following the simple and well-beaten path of ordinary devotion and prayer.
— R. H. Benson, The Light Invisible
" entryDate[63] = " 03/05/" + year entryContent[63] = "The reasoned arguments for the faith are not sufficiently strong to coerce the unwilling into faith, but they are stronger than any argument that can be brought against Christianity, and are quite sufficiently strong to reinforce and to strengthen the will to believe.
— Arnold Lunn, Now I See
" entryDate[64] = " 03/06/" + year entryContent[64] = "To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, Conscience, Consensus, and the Development of Doctrine
" entryDate[65] = " 03/07/" + year entryContent[65] = "Life is given us that we may learn to die well, and we never think of it! To die well we must live well.
— St. John Vianney, On Death
" entryDate[66] = " 03/08/" + year entryContent[66] = "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God...
— St. Paul to the Ephesians, Eph 2:8
" entryDate[67] = " 03/09/" + year entryContent[67] = "Believe first of all that God is one, that he created all things and set them in order and brought out of nonexistence into existence everything that is, and that he contains all things while he himself is uncontained.
— Hermas, The Shepherd
" entryDate[68] = " 03/10/" + year entryContent[68] = "Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.
— St. Jerome, Commentaries on Isaiah
" entryDate[69] = " 03/11/" + year entryContent[69] = "I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
— St. Augustine, Faith and Creed
" entryDate[70] = " 03/12/" + year entryContent[70] = "We possess nothing certainly except the past.
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
" entryDate[71] = " 03/13/" + year entryContent[71] = "The Church was gathered and the faith was believed before any part of the New Testament was put into writing. And which writing was or is the true scripture neither Luther nor Tyndale knoweth but by the credence they give to the Church.
— St. Thomas More, Apology
" entryDate[72] = " 03/14/" + year entryContent[72] = "May I die, O Lord, through love of Thee, Who through love of me didst not disdain to die!
— St Francis of Assisi
" entryDate[73] = " 03/15/" + year entryContent[73] = "The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still.
— Moses to the Israelites, Exo 14:14
" entryDate[74] = " 03/16/" + year entryContent[74] = "Everywhere have I sought rest and found it not, except sitting apart in a nook with a little book.
— Thomas à Kempis
" entryDate[75] = " 03/17/" + year entryContent[75] = "You cannot have God for your Father if you have not the Church for your mother.
— St. Cyprian, The Unity of the Catholic Church
" entryDate[76] = " 03/18/" + year entryContent[76] = "Faith furnishes facts to the other sciences which these sciences, left to themselves, would never reach, and it invalidates apparent facts, which left to themselves, they would imagine.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
" entryDate[77] = " 03/19/" + year entryContent[77] = "When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— St. John Vianney
" entryDate[78] = " 03/20/" + year entryContent[78] = "I have not so behaved myself that I should be ashamed to live; nor am I afraid to die, because I have so good a Master.
— St. Ambrose
" entryDate[79] = " 03/21/" + year entryContent[79] = "Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
— St. Augustine of Hippo
" entryDate[80] = " 03/22/" + year entryContent[80] = "God made us without ourselves but He will not save us without ourselves.
— St. Augustine of Hippo
" entryDate[81] = " 03/23/" + year entryContent[81] = "That the holiest Church should produce the greatest sinners is but the natural application of the principle that the corruption of the best is the worst.
— Ronald Knox
" entryDate[82] = " 03/24/" + year entryContent[82] = "One good woman can conquer a city.
— St. Francis de Sales
" entryDate[83] = " 03/25/" + year entryContent[83] = "Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
— Pope Benedict XVI
" entryDate[84] = " 03/26/" + year entryContent[84] = "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
— Pope John Paul II
" entryDate[85] = " 03/27/" + year entryContent[85] = "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
— Pope John Paul II
" entryDate[86] = " 03/28/" + year entryContent[86] = "Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
— Pope Paul VI
" entryDate[87] = " 03/29/" + year entryContent[87] = "Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
— Pope Paul VI
" entryDate[88] = " 03/30/" + year entryContent[88] = "The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
— Pope Paul VI
" entryDate[89] = " 03/31/" + year entryContent[89] = "Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
— Pope John XXIII
" entryDate[90] = " 04/01/" + year entryContent[90] = "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
" entryDate[91] = " 04/02/" + year entryContent[91] = "There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— St. Ambrose
" entryDate[92] = " 04/03/" + year entryContent[92] = "It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— St. Francis of Assisi
" entryDate[93] = " 04/04/" + year entryContent[93] = "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[94] = " 04/05/" + year entryContent[94] = "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
— G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, Chapter 10
" entryDate[95] = " 04/06/" + year entryContent[95] = "I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that were within.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[96] = " 04/07/" + year entryContent[96] = "This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[97] = " 04/08/" + year entryContent[97] = "Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
— St. Jerome
" entryDate[98] = " 04/09/" + year entryContent[98] = "A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
— G. K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
" entryDate[99] = " 04/10/" + year entryContent[99] = "Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
— St. Jerome
" entryDate[100] = " 04/11/" + year entryContent[100] = "If Eve, the beautiful daughter of God, never would have become dust and ashes unless she had sinned, shall we not say that Mary, having never sinned, retained the gift which Eve by sinning lost?
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, Meditations and Devotions
" entryDate[101] = " 04/12/" + year entryContent[101] = "One thing alone I know—that according to our need, so will be our strength.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, \"The Second Spring,\" Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
" entryDate[102] = " 04/13/" + year entryContent[102] = "Love means loving the unlovable—or it is no virtue at all.
— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
" entryDate[103] = " 04/14/" + year entryContent[103] = "For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion. Never did Holy Church need champions against it more sorely than now when, alas! it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, Biglietto speech [upon becoming a Cardinal]
" entryDate[104] = " 04/15/" + year entryContent[104] = "It must never be forgotten that the purpose of instruction at school is education, that is, the development of man from within, freeing him from that conditioning which would prevent him from becoming a fully integrated human being.
— Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, The Catholic School, no. 29
" entryDate[105] = " 04/16/" + year entryContent[105] = "Teachers find the light and the courage for authentic religious education in their unity among themselves...
— Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School, no. 44
" entryDate[106] = " 04/17/" + year entryContent[106] = "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
— G. K. Chesterton, Manalive
" entryDate[107] = " 04/18/" + year entryContent[107] = "In the measure in which subjects are taught by someone who knowingly and without restraint seeks the truth, they are to that extent Christian.
— Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, The Catholic School, no. 41
" entryDate[108] = " 04/19/" + year entryContent[108] = "We need to integrate what has already been learned, and respond to the questions which come from the restless and critical minds of the young.
— Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School, no. 23
" entryDate[109] = " 04/20/" + year entryContent[109] = "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
— Jesus to His disciples, Mk 9:42
" entryDate[110] = " 04/21/" + year entryContent[110] = "I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature
" entryDate[111] = " 04/22/" + year entryContent[111] = "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
— Jesus to Peter, Mt 16:18
" entryDate[112] = " 04/23/" + year entryContent[112] = "Every educator needs a firm hope, because the teacher is never the one who truly reaps the fruits of the labor expended on the students.
— Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, no. 72
" entryDate[113] = " 04/24/" + year entryContent[113] = "Accordingly, peace is also the fruit of love, for love goes beyond what justice can achieve.
— Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes, no. 78
" entryDate[114] = " 04/25/" + year entryContent[114] = "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
— G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to the Book of Job
" entryDate[115] = " 04/26/" + year entryContent[115] = "The common good embraces the sum total of all those conditions of social life which enable individuals, families, and organizations to achieve complete and effective fulfillment.
— Pope John XXIII, Mater et Magistra, no. 74
" entryDate[116] = " 04/27/" + year entryContent[116] = "Both for nations and for individual men, avarice is the most evident form of moral underdevelopment.
— Paul VI, Populorum Progressio, no. 19
" entryDate[117] = " 04/28/" + year entryContent[117] = "A woman who deliberately destroys the fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.
— St. Basil, Letters
" entryDate[118] = " 04/29/" + year entryContent[118] = "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Catholic Church and Conversion
" entryDate[119] = " 04/30/" + year entryContent[119] = "Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
" entryDate[120] = " 05/01/" + year entryContent[120] = "Is it any merit to abstain from wine if one is intoxicated with anger?
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[121] = " 05/02/" + year entryContent[121] = "You were rubbed with oil like an athlete, Christ's athlete, as though in preparation for an earthly wrestling match, and you agreed to take on your opponent.
— St. Ambrose, De Sacramentis
" entryDate[122] = " 05/03/" + year entryContent[122] = "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
— G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 5/5/28
" entryDate[123] = " 05/04/" + year entryContent[123] = "You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
— God to Adam, Gen 3:19
" entryDate[124] = " 05/05/" + year entryContent[124] = "He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
" entryDate[125] = " 05/06/" + year entryContent[125] = "Wherever the bishop appears there let the people be; just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church
— St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrneans
" entryDate[126] = " 05/07/" + year entryContent[126] = "What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
" entryDate[127] = " 05/08/" + year entryContent[127] = "Firmly I believe and truly—God is Three and God is One;
and I next acknowledge duly—Manhood taken by the Son.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Dream of Gerontius
" entryDate[128] = " 05/09/" + year entryContent[128] = "When I get a little money I buy books, and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
— Erasmus
" entryDate[129] = " 05/10/" + year entryContent[129] = "When I am dead, I hope it may be said;
\"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.\"
— Hilaire Belloc, Epigrams
" entryDate[130] = " 05/11/" + year entryContent[130] = "There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, \"Introduction\"
" entryDate[131] = " 05/12/" + year entryContent[131] = "If you wish to sail comfortably in the barque of Peter, stay away from the engine room.
— Ronald Knox
" entryDate[132] = " 05/13/" + year entryContent[132] = "To the good man, to die is to gain.
— St. Ambrose
" entryDate[133] = " 05/14/" + year entryContent[133] = "The devil's snare does not catch you unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
— St. Ambrose, Explanation of Psalm 118
" entryDate[134] = " 05/15/" + year entryContent[134] = "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
— G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
" entryDate[135] = " 05/16/" + year entryContent[135] = "He [the devil] does not dare look at you directly because he sees the light blazing from your head and blinding his eyes.
— St. John Chrysostom, Baptismal Homily
" entryDate[136] = " 05/17/" + year entryContent[136] = "We have continually to test our practical devotion to Him by our practical devotion to one another.
— R. H. Benson, The Friendship of Christ
" entryDate[137] = " 05/18/" + year entryContent[137] = "Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
" entryDate[138] = " 05/19/" + year entryContent[138] = "The skeptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
— G. K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
" entryDate[139] = " 05/20/" + year entryContent[139] = "The drunken man is a living corpse.
— St. John Chrysostom, Homilies
" entryDate[140] = " 05/21/" + year entryContent[140] = "Lay this body wherever it may be. Let no care of it disturb you: this only I ask of you, that you should remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.
— St. Monica [quoted by St. Augustine in his Confessions]
" entryDate[141] = " 05/22/" + year entryContent[141] = "I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore I die in exile.
— Pope Gregory VII
" entryDate[142] = " 05/23/" + year entryContent[142] = "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
— G. K. Chesterton, Autobiography
" entryDate[143] = " 05/24/" + year entryContent[143] = "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the standard it should have done.
— Leonardo da Vinci
" entryDate[144] = " 05/25/" + year entryContent[144] = "The mere probability that a human person is involved would suffice to justify an absolutely clear prohibition of any intervention aimed at killing a human embryo.
— Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, no. 60
" entryDate[145] = " 05/26/" + year entryContent[145] = "Most Englishmen today are only Protestants insofar as they are not Catholics.
— Arnold Lunn, Now I See
" entryDate[146] = " 05/27/" + year entryContent[146] = "Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed.
— G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
" entryDate[147] = " 05/28/" + year entryContent[147] = "All aberrations are founded on, and have their life in, some truth or other.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
" entryDate[148] = " 05/29/" + year entryContent[148] = "For a small living men run a great way; for eternal life many will scarcely raise a single foot from the ground.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
" entryDate[149] = " 05/30/" + year entryContent[149] = "Life is eternal, love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
— Bede Jarrett, O.P.
" entryDate[150] = " 05/31/" + year entryContent[150] = "The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[151] = " 06/01/" + year entryContent[151] = "A thing essentially evil cannot exist. The foundation of evil is always a good subject.
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Disputations Concerning Evil
" entryDate[152] = " 06/02/" + year entryContent[152] = "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
" entryDate[153] = " 06/03/" + year entryContent[153] = "We often do ill and do worse in excusing it.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
" entryDate[154] = " 06/04/" + year entryContent[154] = "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
— G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, Chapter 14
" entryDate[155] = " 06/05/" + year entryContent[155] = "Whoso would pray, he must fast and be clean,
Fatten his soul and keep his body lean.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
" entryDate[156] = " 06/06/" + year entryContent[156] = "If you have a fearful thought, do not share it with a weakling, whisper it to your saddle-bow and ride forth singing.
— King Alfred the Great
" entryDate[157] = " 06/07/" + year entryContent[157] = "We must fear God through love, not love him through fear.
— Jean Pierre Camus
" entryDate[158] = " 06/08/" + year entryContent[158] = "Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thick you love it.
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
" entryDate[159] = " 06/09/" + year entryContent[159] = "There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
— Hilaire Belloc, Verses
" entryDate[160] = " 06/10/" + year entryContent[160] = "You can catch more flies with a spoonful of honey with a hundred barrels of vinegar.
— St. Francis de Sales
" entryDate[161] = " 06/11/" + year entryContent[161] = "God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
— St. Catherine of Siena
" entryDate[162] = " 06/12/" + year entryContent[162] = "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[163] = " 06/13/" + year entryContent[163] = "There is no government without mumbo-jumbo.
— Hilaire Belloc
" entryDate[164] = " 06/14/" + year entryContent[164] = "You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I were not a Catholic.
— Evelyn Waugh
" entryDate[165] = " 06/15/" + year entryContent[165] = "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
" entryDate[166] = " 06/16/" + year entryContent[166] = "The world is only peopled to people heaven.
— St. Francis de Sales, Letters to Persons in the World
" entryDate[167] = " 06/17/" + year entryContent[167] = "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, \"The Inferno\"
" entryDate[168] = " 06/18/" + year entryContent[168] = "We are each our own devils and we make this world our hell.
— Oscar Wilde, The Dutchess of Padua
" entryDate[169] = " 06/19/" + year entryContent[169] = "Hell is full of noise, and is probably full of clocks that emphasize the time that never passes.
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
" entryDate[170] = " 06/20/" + year entryContent[170] = "The world trembled and groaned to find itself Arian.
— St. Jerome
" entryDate[171] = " 06/21/" + year entryContent[171] = "Holiness consists not in doing uncommon things, but in doing all common things with uncommon fervor.
— Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, The Eternal Priesthood
" entryDate[172] = " 06/22/" + year entryContent[172] = "We who live beneath a sky still stained with the smoke of crematoria, have paid a high price to learn that evil is really evil.
— Francois Mauriac, Essays
" entryDate[173] = " 06/23/" + year entryContent[173] = "And let us take care that no unbaptized person taste of the Eucharist nor a mouse or other animal, and that none of it at all fall and be lost. For it is the Body of Christ to be eaten by them that believe and not to be lightly thought of.
— St. Hippolitus, The Apostolic Tradition
" entryDate[174] = " 06/24/" + year entryContent[174] = "Every consecrated Host is made to burn itself up with love in a human heart.
— St. John Vianney
" entryDate[175] = " 06/25/" + year entryContent[175] = "The day's food for the day's march...that is what Holy Communion is meant to be.
— Ronald Knox
" entryDate[176] = " 06/26/" + year entryContent[176] = "Am I my brother's keeper?
— Cain to God, Gen 4:9
" entryDate[177] = " 06/27/" + year entryContent[177] = "I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
— Archbishop Derek Worlock
" entryDate[178] = " 06/28/" + year entryContent[178] = "I'm not very conscious of his presence, but I hope he's dogging my footsteps.
— Graham Greene
" entryDate[179] = " 06/29/" + year entryContent[179] = "For he is less in need who is without a garment than he who is without humility.
— Pope St. Gregory the Great, Morals
" entryDate[180] = " 06/30/" + year entryContent[180] = "The day you see yourself as you are, you will think it natural to be despised by others.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[181] = " 07/01/" + year entryContent[181] = "When Christ condemned the Pharisees, make sure he did not have you in mind.
— Quentin de la Bedoyere
" entryDate[182] = " 07/02/" + year entryContent[182] = "Dead matter leaves the factory ennobled and transformed, whereas men are corrupted and degraded.
— Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno, no. 135
" entryDate[183] = " 07/03/" + year entryContent[183] = "We may always rejoice, if we will only keep our head a little raised above the flood of human things.
— St. John Chrysostom
" entryDate[184] = " 07/04/" + year entryContent[184] = "Let justice be done, though the world perish.
— St. Augustine, On St. John the Evangelist
" entryDate[185] = " 07/05/" + year entryContent[185] = "Whether I eat or drink, whatever else I do, the dreadful trumpet of the last day seems always sounding in my ears: \"Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment.\"
— St. Jerome
" entryDate[186] = " 07/06/" + year entryContent[186] = "First I tell them what I am going to tell them, then I tell them, then I tell them what I have told them.
— Hilaire Belloc
" entryDate[187] = " 07/07/" + year entryContent[187] = "Life is only for love, and time is only that we may find God.
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux
" entryDate[188] = " 07/08/" + year entryContent[188] = "To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing.
— Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
" entryDate[189] = " 07/09/" + year entryContent[189] = "The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[190] = " 07/10/" + year entryContent[190] = "Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
" entryDate[191] = " 07/11/" + year entryContent[191] = "Anything done for another is done for oneself.
— Pope Boniface VIII
" entryDate[192] = " 07/12/" + year entryContent[192] = "Where there is no love, put love—and you will find love.
— St. John of the Cross
" entryDate[193] = " 07/13/" + year entryContent[193] = "Love is infinitely inventive.
— St. Vincent de Paul
" entryDate[194] = " 07/14/" + year entryContent[194] = "We like someone because. We love someone although.
— Henri de Montherlant
" entryDate[195] = " 07/15/" + year entryContent[195] = "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
— Tertullian, Apology
" entryDate[196] = " 07/16/" + year entryContent[196] = "I die the King's good servant, but God's first.
— St. Thomas More
" entryDate[197] = " 07/17/" + year entryContent[197] = "\"The Mass is too long,\" you say. And I reply: \"Because your love is short.\"
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[198] = " 07/18/" + year entryContent[198] = "The world would become better off if people tried to become better, and people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off.
— Peter Maurin
" entryDate[199] = " 07/19/" + year entryContent[199] = "The mercy of God may be found between the bridge and the stream.
— St. Augustine, Confessions
" entryDate[200] = " 07/20/" + year entryContent[200] = "Man alone is miserable.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
" entryDate[201] = " 07/21/" + year entryContent[201] = "Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
— Tertullian, The Christian's Defense
" entryDate[202] = " 07/22/" + year entryContent[202] = "The Pope is the boss, and I will obey even if I disagree.
— Basil Cardinal Hume, O.S.B.
" entryDate[203] = " 07/23/" + year entryContent[203] = "Him whom the heavens cannot contain, the womb of one woman bore. She ruled our Ruler; she carried him in whom we are; she gave milk to our Bread.
— St. Augustine, Sermons
" entryDate[204] = " 07/24/" + year entryContent[204] = "Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.
— Pope Leo X
" entryDate[205] = " 07/25/" + year entryContent[205] = "Tell my son Joseph that he will meet my divisions in heaven.
— Pope Pius XII [in response to Stalin, who had sneered, \"How many divisions has the Pope?\"]
" entryDate[206] = " 07/26/" + year entryContent[206] = "If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
— Pope John Paul I
" entryDate[207] = " 07/27/" + year entryContent[207] = "Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son and it's just possible you may take after them.
— Evelyn Waugh, The Tablet, May 9, 1951
" entryDate[208] = " 07/28/" + year entryContent[208] = "Restraining my impatience cost me so much that I was bathed in perspiration.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
" entryDate[209] = " 07/29/" + year entryContent[209] = "Don't lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
— St. Francis de Sales
" entryDate[210] = " 07/30/" + year entryContent[210] = "Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— St. Francis de Sales
" entryDate[211] = " 07/31/" + year entryContent[211] = "To flee from persecution implies no fault in him who flees, but in him who persecutes.
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux
" entryDate[212] = " 08/01/" + year entryContent[212] = "The whole art of the political speech is to put \"nothing\" into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
— Hilaire Belloc
" entryDate[213] = " 08/02/" + year entryContent[213] = "A small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.
— Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, no. 3
" entryDate[214] = " 08/03/" + year entryContent[214] = "Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is not fashionable to talk with them.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[215] = " 08/04/" + year entryContent[215] = "Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
— St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
" entryDate[216] = " 08/05/" + year entryContent[216] = "The priest by nature is like all other men; by dignity he surpasses every other man on earth; by his conduct he ought to compare with the angels.
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux
" entryDate[217] = " 08/06/" + year entryContent[217] = "O priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: \"He saved others, himself he cannot save.\"
— St. Norbert
" entryDate[218] = " 08/07/" + year entryContent[218] = "Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
— St. Basil
" entryDate[219] = " 08/08/" + year entryContent[219] = "Circumstances are the sacraments of God's will.
— Edel Quinn
" entryDate[220] = " 08/09/" + year entryContent[220] = "As long as the Church lasts, it will feel the need for reform, for a more perfect assimilation of its actuality to the ideal which illumines its path.
— Karl Adam, The Spirit of Catholicism
" entryDate[221] = " 08/10/" + year entryContent[221] = "What a travesty to think religion means saving my little soul by my little good deeds and letting the rest go hang.
— Gerald Vann, O.P., The Heart of Man
" entryDate[222] = " 08/11/" + year entryContent[222] = "We make a ladder for ourselves out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves under foot.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[223] = " 08/12/" + year entryContent[223] = "I have felt for a long time—in fact ever since I first knew and loved Christ, and I still feel—that the Church is the total Revolution.
— Jules Gerard Cardinal Saliege
" entryDate[224] = " 08/13/" + year entryContent[224] = "Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
" entryDate[225] = " 08/14/" + year entryContent[225] = "A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
— Ronald Knox
" entryDate[226] = " 08/15/" + year entryContent[226] = "There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
— William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
" entryDate[227] = " 08/16/" + year entryContent[227] = "If you find a place where God is not, go there and sin with impunity.
— St. Anselm
" entryDate[228] = " 08/17/" + year entryContent[228] = "Nor did demons crucify him, it is you who have crucified him and crucify him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
— St. Francis of Assisi, Admonition
" entryDate[229] = " 08/18/" + year entryContent[229] = "No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[230] = " 08/19/" + year entryContent[230] = "Now there is an eighth Cardinal Sin
— Jaime Cardinal Sin [on receiving the red hat]
" entryDate[231] = " 08/20/" + year entryContent[231] = "It is true, whoever said it, that the soul and the body are two enemies that cannot be separated, and two friends that cannot get along.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[232] = " 08/21/" + year entryContent[232] = "One single act done with dryness of spirit is worth more than many done with sensible devotion.
— St. Francis de Sales, Spiritual Conferences
" entryDate[233] = " 08/22/" + year entryContent[233] = "Just as walking, marching, and running are bodily exercises, so the methods of preparing and devoting the soul...can be called spiritual exercises.
— St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
" entryDate[234] = " 08/23/" + year entryContent[234] = "Do you think the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?
— St. \"Padre\" Pio of Pietrelcina [when asked if the stigmata were painful]
" entryDate[235] = " 08/24/" + year entryContent[235] = "Jesus did not come to explain suffering, but to fill it with his presence.
— Paul Claudel
" entryDate[236] = " 08/25/" + year entryContent[236] = "Sickness is a wonderful grace, an incomparable richness.
— Marthe Robin
" entryDate[237] = " 08/26/" + year entryContent[237] = "In the war of the senses, the conquerors are the cowards who fly.
— St. Philip Neri
" entryDate[238] = " 08/27/" + year entryContent[238] = "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[239] = " 08/28/" + year entryContent[239] = "Pray, trust, and don't worry.
— St. \"Padre\" Pio of Pietrelcina
" entryDate[240] = " 08/29/" + year entryContent[240] = "Let us have a reason for beginning, and let our end be within due limits. For a speech that is wearisome only stirs up anger.
— St. Ambrose
" entryDate[241] = " 08/30/" + year entryContent[241] = "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
— Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
" entryDate[242] = " 08/31/" + year entryContent[242] = "When we are whom we are called to be, we will set the world ablaze.
— St. Catherine of Siena
" entryDate[243] = " 09/01/" + year entryContent[243] = "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda or even stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
— Dorothy Day
" entryDate[244] = " 09/02/" + year entryContent[244] = "It is most laudable in a married woman to be devout, but she must never forget that she is a housewife and sometimes she must leave God at the altar to find him in her housekeeping.
— St. Frances of Rome
" entryDate[245] = " 09/03/" + year entryContent[245] = "If the man is the head of the family, the woman is the heart, and as he occupies the chief place in ruling, so she may and ought to claim for herself the chief place in love.
— Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, no. 27
" entryDate[246] = " 09/04/" + year entryContent[246] = "Such things have been revealed to me that all that I have written seems to me as so much straw. Now I await the end of my life.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
" entryDate[247] = " 09/05/" + year entryContent[247] = "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
— Flannery O'Connor
" entryDate[248] = " 09/06/" + year entryContent[248] = "Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
— Pope Benedict XVI
" entryDate[249] = " 09/07/" + year entryContent[249] = "The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
— T. S. Eliot
" entryDate[250] = " 09/08/" + year entryContent[250] = "To get the full flavor of an herb, it must be pressed between the fingers, so it is the same with the Scriptures; the more familiar they become, the more they reveal their hidden treasures and yield their indescribable riches.
— St. John Chrysostom
" entryDate[251] = " 09/09/" + year entryContent[251] = "With this church, because of its superior origin, all churches must agree—that is, all the faithful in the whole world—and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition.
— St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies
" entryDate[252] = " 09/10/" + year entryContent[252] = "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[253] = " 09/11/" + year entryContent[253] = "There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.
— St. Cyprian of Carthage, Letters
" entryDate[254] = " 09/12/" + year entryContent[254] = "Who is ignorant that the first of the apostles is the most blessed Peter?
— St. Augustine, Commentary on John
" entryDate[255] = " 09/13/" + year entryContent[255] = "You alone and your Mother are more beautiful than any others, for there is no blemish in you nor any stains upon your Mother. Who of my children can compare in beauty to these?
— Ephraim the Syrian, Nisibene Hymns
" entryDate[256] = " 09/14/" + year entryContent[256] = "A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[257] = " 09/15/" + year entryContent[257] = "One can try to deal with problems either by denying their existence or by facing up to them. The first method is the more comfortable one, but only the second leads anywhere.
— Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity
" entryDate[258] = " 09/16/" + year entryContent[258] = "It is in keeping with their dignity as persons that human beings should take an active part in government.
— Pope John XXIII, Pacem In Terris, no. 73
" entryDate[259] = " 09/17/" + year entryContent[259] = "I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for drink I desire his blood, which is love incorruptible.
— St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans
" entryDate[260] = " 09/18/" + year entryContent[260] = "We call this food Eucharist, and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true and who has been washed in the washing which is for the remission of sins and for regeneration and is thereby living as Christ enjoined.
— St. Justin Martyr, First Apology
" entryDate[261] = " 09/19/" + year entryContent[261] = "\"Eat my flesh,\" he says, \"and drink my blood.\" The Lord supplies us with these intimate nutrients, he delivers over his flesh and pours out his blood, and nothing is lacking for the growth of his children.
— St. Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor of Children
" entryDate[262] = " 09/20/" + year entryContent[262] = "You tell me that in your breast you have fire and water, cold and heat, empty passions and God...one candle lit to Saint Michael and another to the devil. Don't worry: as long as you want to fight there are not two candles burning in your breast. There is only one: the Archangel's.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[263] = " 09/21/" + year entryContent[263] = "The Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot.
— St. Augustine of Hippo
" entryDate[264] = " 09/22/" + year entryContent[264] = "Steadfast faith is a strong tower, and for one who has faith, Christ comes to be all.
— St. Mark the Ascetic
" entryDate[265] = " 09/23/" + year entryContent[265] = "Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
— St John of the Cross
" entryDate[266] = " 09/24/" + year entryContent[266] = "Give me ten truly detached men and I will convert the world with them.
— St. Philip Neri
" entryDate[267] = " 09/25/" + year entryContent[267] = "And if I go to hell for infidelity, will you go with me for the sake of fellowship?
— St. Thomas More
" entryDate[268] = " 09/26/" + year entryContent[268] = "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
— St. Francis of Assisi
" entryDate[269] = " 09/27/" + year entryContent[269] = "These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[270] = " 09/28/" + year entryContent[270] = "Never despair. Lazarus was dead and decaying: \"By now he will smell; this is the fourth day,\" says Martha to Jesus. If you hear God's inspiration and follow it—\"Lazarus, come out!\"—you will return to Life.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[271] = " 09/29/" + year entryContent[271] = "The monks have no sadness. They wage war on the Devil as though they were performing a dance.
— St. John Chrysostom
" entryDate[272] = " 09/30/" + year entryContent[272] = "Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect is, as it were, the skirts of their garments, the waving of the robes of those whose faces see God in Heaven.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
" entryDate[273] = " 10/01/" + year entryContent[273] = "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[274] = " 10/02/" + year entryContent[274] = "Abandonment to the will of God is the secret of happiness on earth. Say, then: meus cibus est, ut faciam voluntatem ejus, my food is to do his will.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[275] = " 10/03/" + year entryContent[275] = "Prayer is a bath in which the soul plunges itself.
— St. John Vianney
" entryDate[276] = " 10/04/" + year entryContent[276] = "A work of art represents the mind of the maker.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
" entryDate[277] = " 10/05/" + year entryContent[277] = "If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[278] = " 10/06/" + year entryContent[278] = "Bitterness has sharpened your tongue. Be quiet!
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[279] = " 10/07/" + year entryContent[279] = "So Jesus said to them, \"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.\"
— Jesus to the crowd, Jn 6:53
" entryDate[280] = " 10/08/" + year entryContent[280] = "Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.
— St. Bonaventure
" entryDate[281] = " 10/09/" + year entryContent[281] = "At least six times during the last few years, I have found myself in a situation in which I should certainly have become a Catholic, if I had not been restrained from that rash step by the fortunate accident that I was one already.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[282] = " 10/10/" + year entryContent[282] = "Idleness is something inconceivable in a man who has the soul of an apostle.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[283] = " 10/11/" + year entryContent[283] = "And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
— St. Elizabeth to the Blessed Mother, Lk 1:43
" entryDate[284] = " 10/12/" + year entryContent[284] = "What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth Himself speaks truly, or there's nothing true
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Adoro te devote, Verse 2
" entryDate[285] = " 10/13/" + year entryContent[285] = "If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
— Muriel Spark
" entryDate[286] = " 10/14/" + year entryContent[286] = "Add a supernatural motive to your ordinary work and you will have sanctified it.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[287] = " 10/15/" + year entryContent[287] = "Do whatever he tells you.
— The Blessed Mother to the servants at the wedding, Jn 2:5
" entryDate[288] = " 10/16/" + year entryContent[288] = "Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved in reality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
" entryDate[289] = " 10/17/" + year entryContent[289] = "The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
— Peter Abelard
" entryDate[290] = " 10/18/" + year entryContent[290] = "Long face, rough manner, ridiculous appearance, unfriendly attitude. Is that how you hope to inspire others to follow Christ?
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[291] = " 10/19/" + year entryContent[291] = "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.
— St. Peter to Jesus, Jn 6:68-69
" entryDate[292] = " 10/20/" + year entryContent[292] = "Every judgment of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
" entryDate[293] = " 10/21/" + year entryContent[293] = "Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
— Leonardo da Vinci
" entryDate[294] = " 10/22/" + year entryContent[294] = "Tell him—yes, him—that I need fifty men who love Jesus Christ above all things.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[295] = " 10/23/" + year entryContent[295] = "You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder.
— St. James, Jas 2:19
" entryDate[296] = " 10/24/" + year entryContent[296] = "Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
" entryDate[297] = " 10/25/" + year entryContent[297] = "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
— Leonardo da Vinci
" entryDate[298] = " 10/26/" + year entryContent[298] = "May your dedication pass unnoticed as, for thirty years, did that of Jesus.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[299] = " 10/27/" + year entryContent[299] = "Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
— St. John to the seven churches, Rev 14:12
" entryDate[300] = " 10/28/" + year entryContent[300] = "It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing \"God.\"
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
" entryDate[301] = " 10/29/" + year entryContent[301] = "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[302] = " 10/30/" + year entryContent[302] = "Never be men or women of long action and short prayer.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[303] = " 10/31/" + year entryContent[303] = "I believe; help my unbelief!
— Father of the possessed boy, to Jesus, Mk 9:24
" entryDate[304] = " 11/01/" + year entryContent[304] = "No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[305] = " 11/02/" + year entryContent[305] = "The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[306] = " 11/03/" + year entryContent[306] = "Be men and women of the world, but don't be worldly men and women.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[307] = " 11/04/" + year entryContent[307] = "Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
— Jesus to St. Peter, Mt 26:53
" entryDate[308] = " 11/05/" + year entryContent[308] = "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[309] = " 11/06/" + year entryContent[309] = "You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[310] = " 11/07/" + year entryContent[310] = "All that exterior activity is a waste of time, if you lack Love. It's like sewing with a needle and no thread.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[311] = " 11/08/" + year entryContent[311] = "I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that, if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.
— St. Paul to St. Timothy, 1 Tim 3:14-15
" entryDate[312] = " 11/09/" + year entryContent[312] = "If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[313] = " 11/10/" + year entryContent[313] = "Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[314] = " 11/11/" + year entryContent[314] = "Catholic, apostolic, Roman! I want you to be very Roman. And to be anxious to make your \"path to Rome,\" videre Petrum—to see Peter.
— St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way
" entryDate[315] = " 11/12/" + year entryContent[315] = "Jesus wept.
— St. John, Jn 11:35
" entryDate[316] = " 11/13/" + year entryContent[316] = "I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[317] = " 11/14/" + year entryContent[317] = "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[318] = " 11/15/" + year entryContent[318] = "God speaks to us without ceasing by his good inspirations.
— St. John Vianney, Sermon on Grace
" entryDate[319] = " 11/16/" + year entryContent[319] = "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
Our Lord to Jeremiah, Jer 6:16" entryDate[320] = " 11/17/" + year entryContent[320] = "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[321] = " 11/18/" + year entryContent[321] = "There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[322] = " 11/19/" + year entryContent[322] = "Troubles melt away before a fervent prayer like snow before the sun.
— St. John Vianney, Catechism on Prayer
" entryDate[323] = " 11/20/" + year entryContent[323] = "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Prov 22:6
" entryDate[324] = " 11/21/" + year entryContent[324] = "I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, \"I am not He, but He made me.\"
— St. Augustine
" entryDate[325] = " 11/22/" + year entryContent[325] = "Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[326] = " 11/23/" + year entryContent[326] = "Everything that God has made...becomes an instrument for good or evil according to the use we make of it.
— St. John Vianney, Sermon on the Enemies of the Soul
" entryDate[327] = " 11/24/" + year entryContent[327] = "Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
— Eccl 9:11
" entryDate[328] = " 11/25/" + year entryContent[328] = "If Samson killed a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass, imagine how many men can be slain with a complete ass like me.
— St. Joseph of Cupertino
" entryDate[329] = " 11/26/" + year entryContent[329] = "There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[330] = " 11/27/" + year entryContent[330] = "When we leave the holy banquet of Communion, we are as happy as the wise men would have been if they could have carried away the Infant Jesus.
— St. John Vianney, Catechism on Frequent Communion
" entryDate[331] = " 11/28/" + year entryContent[331] = "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
— Heb 11:1
" entryDate[332] = " 11/29/" + year entryContent[332] = "You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
" entryDate[333] = " 11/30/" + year entryContent[333] = "One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[334] = " 12/01/" + year entryContent[334] = "The more one prays the more one wishes to pray.
— St. John Vianney, Catechism Notes
" entryDate[335] = " 12/02/" + year entryContent[335] = "And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
— Acts 2:42
" entryDate[336] = " 12/03/" + year entryContent[336] = "Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.
— Elrond, in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
" entryDate[337] = " 12/04/" + year entryContent[337] = "When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[338] = " 12/05/" + year entryContent[338] = "Do you prefer the pleasure of a moment to your God?
— St. John Vianney, Sermon on Good Friday
" entryDate[339] = " 12/06/" + year entryContent[339] = "For though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ...
— St. Paul to the Corinthians, 2 Cor 10:3-5
" entryDate[340] = " 12/07/" + year entryContent[340] = "Deep roots are not reached by frost.
— J. R. R. Tolkien
" entryDate[341] = " 12/08/" + year entryContent[341] = "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[342] = " 12/09/" + year entryContent[342] = "People will go three or four leagues to earn thirty pence, while they will not take thirty steps to hear Mass on a week-day.
— St. John Vianney, Sermon on the Enemies of the Soul
" entryDate[343] = " 12/10/" + year entryContent[343] = "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
— Jesus to the crowd, Mt 11:28
" entryDate[344] = " 12/11/" + year entryContent[344] = "Handsome is as handsome does.
— Samwise Gamgee, in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
" entryDate[345] = " 12/12/" + year entryContent[345] = "We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[346] = " 12/13/" + year entryContent[346] = "There are two ways of uniting ourselves with our Lord...prayer and the Sacraments.
— St. John Vianney, On the Joys of the Interior Life
" entryDate[347] = " 12/14/" + year entryContent[347] = "There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.
— St. Paul to the Ephesians, Eph 4:4-6
" entryDate[348] = " 12/15/" + year entryContent[348] = "It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
— Frodo, in J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
" entryDate[349] = " 12/16/" + year entryContent[349] = "A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[350] = " 12/17/" + year entryContent[350] = "Live on Him that you may live for Him.
— St. John Vianney, Of Holy Communion
" entryDate[351] = " 12/18/" + year entryContent[351] = "Then the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus.
— St. John to the seven churches, Rev 12:17
" entryDate[352] = " 12/19/" + year entryContent[352] = "So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Camilla Unwin, May 20, 1969
" entryDate[353] = " 12/20/" + year entryContent[353] = "Silence is the unbearable repartee.
— G. K. Chesterton
" entryDate[354] = " 12/21/" + year entryContent[354] = "Our greatest Cross is the fear of crosses.
— St. John Vianney, Catechism on Suffering
" entryDate[355] = " 12/22/" + year entryContent[355] = "He must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it.
— St. Paul to St. Titus, Tit 1:9
" entryDate[356] = " 12/23/" + year entryContent[356] = "Well here comes Christmas! That astonishing thing that no \"commercialism\" can in fact defile—unless you let it.
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, Dec 19, 1962
" entryDate[357] = " 12/24/" + year entryContent[357] = "What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
— G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered, \"Christmas\"
" entryDate[358] = " 12/25/" + year entryContent[358] = "Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.
— G. K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem, Chapter 5
" entryDate[359] = " 12/26/" + year entryContent[359] = "When you hear Mass, do you come in the same frame of mind as the Blessed Virgin at Calvary? Because it is the same God, and the same Sacrifice.
— St. John Vianney, Sermon on Good Friday
" entryDate[360] = " 12/27/" + year entryContent[360] = "He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
— St. John of the Cross
" entryDate[361] = " 12/28/" + year entryContent[361] = "Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
— St. Paul to the Corinthians, 2 Cor 11:29
" entryDate[362] = " 12/29/" + year entryContent[362] = "What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!
— St. Bernadette
" entryDate[363] = " 12/30/" + year entryContent[363] = "The Devil writes down our sins, our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full and the Devil's empty.
— St. John Vianney, Catechism on Sin
" entryDate[364] = " 12/31/" + year entryContent[364] = "This empty year is fading into a dull grey mournful darkness: so slow-footed and yet so swift and evanescent. What of the new year and the spring? I wonder.
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Christopher Tolkien, Oct 28, 1944
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