Readings for each day of the week
Alcoholics Anonymous, pages 86 to 88; Step Eleven, morning
Friday
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our thinking is cleared of wrong motives.
Saturday
In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind. Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.
Sunday
We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of us have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work. You can easily see why.
Monday
If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in morning meditation. If we belong to a religious denomination which requires a definite morning devotion, we attend to that also. If not members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing.
Tuesday
There are many helpful books also. Suggestions about these may be obtained from one’s priest, minister, or rabbi. Be quick to see where religious people are right. Make use of what they offer.
Wednesday
As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day “Thy will be done.” We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.
Thursday
We become much more efficient. We do not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves.
It works—it really does.
We alcoholics are undisciplined. So we let God discipline us in the simple way we have just outlined.
Calendar readings
01 April 2026
Jim, the car salesman, got drunk because he failed to enlarge his spiritual life. We enlarge our spiritual lives through work and self-sacrifice for others. It’s not working the Steps that enlarges our spiritual life. It’s work and self-sacrifice for others. There’s a fallacy in AA that says that the Steps are the work. No, they’re not. They’re what get you fit for the work. The work is carrying God’s message.
Don P
02 April 2026
But I’m still definitely on the road. A road generally knows what it is doing; all you have to do is follow it.
Jean Giono, Les Grands Chemins
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Je suis cependant toujours bien sur la route. Une route sait généralement ce qu’elle fait ; il n’y a qu’à la suivre.
03 April 2026
They told me, ‘The fight’s over. You lost.’
AA member, Seabrook, Texas
04 April 2026
“Sing to the Lord a new song; his praise is in the assembly of the saints.” We are urged to sing a new song to the Lord, as new men who have learned a new song. A song is a thing of joy; more profoundly, it is a thing of love. Anyone, therefore, who has learned to love the new life has learned to sing a new song, and the new song reminds us of our new life.
From a sermon by St Augustine
05 April 2026
G-d tells us to be compassionate to everyone. We say, “that’s fine for people who are reasonable, but what about people who behave badly, who behave like animals?” G-d says: “That’s my business. Your business is to be compassionate.”
Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, from a class on Exodus, Chapter 13
06 April 2026
Those people who continue to work with others, I don’t see those people slipping.
Don P
07 April 2026
As is the case everywhere, the roads that depart from here go everywhere. It is impossible to keep hold of anything or anyone. One gets attached, but one has no right to attach others.
Jean Giono, Les Grands Chemins
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Comme partout, les routes qui partent d’ici vont partout. Il est impossible de garder quoi que ce soit ni personne. On s’attache, on n’attache pas.
08 April 2026
People didn’t know what to do with me. I knew this because they said, ‘We don’t know what to do with you.’
AA member, Seabrook, Texas
09 April 2026
Before envying anyone anything, ask yourself: Do I know everything about them? If you really knew what price they were paying, you would not be so quick to envy them. As the grandmother’s saying goes, if each person packed up their troubles into a pillowcase and hung them up on a line, and each person got to pick which one to take home, each would take home his own: others’ troubles are always more overwhelming than your own. Your own you can handle.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, from a class on Parshat Yitro, 6th Portion
10 April 2026
Just because you’re spiritually fit today doesn’t mean you’re going to be spiritually fit tomorrow, unless you continue to do the things that got you spiritually fit in the first place.
Don P
11 April 2026
Many thousand things that I now partly comprehend I should have thought utterly incomprehensible; many things I now hold sacred I should have scouted as utterly superstitious.
G. K. Chesterton, St Francis of Assisi
12 April 2026
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
13 April 2026
I got sober at the Good for Nothing Group. They told me to do good for nothing, and then I would be good for something.
AA member, Seabrook, Texas
14 April 2026
Lady Crawley: I don’t understand.
Dowager Countess of Grantham: No. If you wish to understand things, you must come out from behind your prejudice and listen.
Downton Abbey
15 April 2026
In Russian synagogues, they would have samovars with tea with multiple spigots, so that several people could serve themselves tea at once and not have to wait. One week, there wasn’t enough tea, and someone suggested that they should add an extra spigot. Of course, that would not solve the problem, because adding an extra spigot would not change the amount of tea in the samovar, just how it was served. Just so should you rest at least for one day a week. Working on that seventh day will not change the total amount of work you accomplish.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, from a class on Parshat Yitro, 6th Portion
16 April 2026
My material nature says, ‘Put me in the game, coach!’ My spiritual nature says, ‘Let the game go on.’
Don P
17 April 2026
Whosever plants desire harvests oppression.
Muriel Barbery, L’Élégance du hérisson
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Qui sème le désir récolte l’oppression,
18 April 2026
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.
Yogi Berra
19 April 2026
“Can you believe what I have been telling you? That we don’t belong here, that we come from a better world and have got to go back there if we can?”
“It is very hard,” said the girl, “but I will believe it if you tell me.”
C. S. Lewis, The Dark Tower
20 April 2026
Everyone agrees with all the wonderful advice and ethics written in the books of the sages. Everyone agrees that this is the way to run your life.
Yet each of us has our escape route, to avoid bettering our lives by changing ourselves. We ask, “Were those words truly meant for me, or perhaps for someone else in another time and another place?”
If it is truth, it is meant for you, here, now.
Tzvi Freeman
21 April 2026
Any thoughts of negativity, not only thoughts of sin, but when people say, “I’m no good,” and “It’s bleak,” and, “It’s never gonna happen,” and “I’m never gonna do it,” “I’m having a nervous breakdown, I earned it, and I deserve it, and no one has a right to take it away from me,” all of those are alien thoughts. What are thoughts of the godly soul? “I am created by G-d,” “G-d gave me the energy I have,” “G-d doesn’t test me more than that which I can pass”, “I can do it,” “I think I can, I think I can, I know I can,” “I’m exuberant; let’s go and serve G-d.” Have a wonderful day.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, from a class on Chapter 28 of Tanya
22 April 2026
The Big Book tells us to pause when agitated or doubtful. Let pausing become a habit. Just because we’re doubtful doesn’t mean we need to be agitated. Being doubtful just means there are two or more options to choose from.
Don P
23 April 2026
Step One: I can’t drink, and I can’t not drink.
AA member, League City, Texas
24 April 2026
Start here: Open yourself to receive all that heaven wants to give you.
How will you receive it? By being empty.
Full of self-concern, of “what will become of me?” of “where life is taking me?”—there’s no room for life to enter.
But a simple, open spirit is filled with joy from heaven.
Tzvi Freeman
25 April 2026
Jim, the used car salesman, drank when the information didn’t show up. Fred drank when the information didn’t show up. The Big Book gives us a lot of information. But the information is not what keeps us sober. The information gets us to take actions to put us in touch with God, and it’s God who keeps us sober.
Don P
26 April 2026
Men who lose themselves in their wants would do better to stick to their needs.
Muriel Barbery, L’Élégance du hérisson
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Les hommes qui se perdent de désirer, feraient bien de s’en tenir à leurs besoins.
27 April 2026
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.
Alan Watts
28 April 2026
To those who believe, there are no questions; to those who don’t, there are no answers.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon
29 April 2026
Love is active concern for the growth and welfare of others.
Don P
30 April 2026
We were overwhelming underdogs.
Yogi Berra
01 May 2026
Earl of Grantham: She likes to fight for what she believes in.
Violet Crawley: Oh, no. It’s not a matter of what she likes. It is her fuel. Some people run on greed, lust, even love. She runs on indignation.
Downton Abbey
02 May 2026
But there were two things that saved us: we would wash ourselves every morning, even if it was raining or freezing; moreover, we resolved to laugh, whatever the misfortunes that befell us; that was our way of resisting, of proving that they did not have the upper hand.
Jean-Michel Guenassia, Les Terres Promises
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Mais il y a deux choses qui nous ont sauvés, on se lavait tous les matins, qu’il pleuve ou qu’il gèle, et puis nous avons décidé de rire, quels que soient les malheurs qui nous frappaient, c’était notre manière de résister, de prouver qu’ils n’étaient pas les plus forts.
03 May 2026
Everyone can be of profit to his neighbour, if he will fulfil his role.
From the homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Acts of the Apostles
04 May 2026
Look at the trees of the forest: how strong they are, how beautiful, how large also, and smooth, and of great height, but they do not bear fruit. If we had a garden, we should much rather have pomegranates or fruitful olive trees. The others are for the delight of the eye, not for profit, which in their case is very small. Men who are interested only in themselves are like the forest trees, or rather they are not even so good. In fact they are fit only for the fire, while the forest timber can be used for building houses and palisades.
From the homilies of St John Chrysostom on the Acts of the Apostles
05 May 2026
When an organ is healthy, you don’t feel anything. When it is unhealthy, you are aware of it, and it hurts. That is what the ego is: When we are aware of ourselves and are hurt, we are unhealthy: this is a sign we have damaged our connection with God.
Rabbi Ben-Tzion Krasnianski
06 May 2026
I’ve taken a lot of things too seriously. I’ve learned that there are very few things I should be serious about.
Don P
07 May 2026
If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
Yogi Berra
08 May 2026
Grace is more likely to come in gentleness than in force.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
09 May 2026
Trust me, young man, opportunity does not arrive by itself; it needs a helping hand, and you need to believe in it. Ask yourself why some people succeed, and others never do. ... Believing is not enough; you have to want to believe.
Jean-Michel Guenassia, Les Terres Promises
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Fais-moi confiance, mon grand, la chance ne vient pas seule, elle a besoin d’un coup de pouce et qu’on croie en elle. Demande-toi pourquoi des gens réussissent et d’autres jamais. ... Croire ne suffit pas, il faut vouloir croire.
10 May 2026
Have you ever felt abandoned? I’ll tell you the answer. People come and people go. Some stay longer than others. And over time I’ve learned that some stay longer than they should.
Don P
11 May 2026
— Do you get bored?
— Me, I never get bored; how could a person be bored in a world where there is so much to do, to discover, to understand?
Peau d’Âne, Jacques Demy
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— Tu t’ennuies ... ?
— Moi, je ne m’ennuie jamais, ... Comment s’ennuyer dans un monde où il y a tant à faire, à découvrir, à comprendre ?
12 May 2026
Controversy is their meat and drink, and with it come ambition and self-advertisement. How do such people develop these aggressions? Is it because they do not read spiritual books any longer? Is it because they do not read and reflect on Scripture? Is it because they do not pray? One hazards the suggestion that they do not pray.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
13 May 2026
Perhaps that is what love is: the more or less refined boundaries that one establishes—or not—between us and others.
Jean-Michel Guenassia, Les Terres Promises
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Peut-être que c’est cela l’amour, les frontières plus ou moins alambiquées que l’on dresse, ou pas, entre nous et les autres.
14 May 2026
Make yourself small and you will be great.
Know you are nothing and you will be infinite.
At the very least, don’t make such a big deal of yourself and you will be all that much closer to the truth.
Tzvi Freeman
15 May 2026
Love is a state of being, and in that state, the ‘me’, with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions, is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the ‘me’, whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist. That is why it is important to understand the process of the self, the center of recognition which is the ‘me’.
Krishnamurti
16 May 2026
Inventory has proven to me that, given the right circumstances, I am capable of anything. Whatever others have done or will do is something I could do or would do if I were in the right (or the wrong) circumstances. The job is to live in contact with a Power who ensures that such circumstances never arise.
Don P
17 May 2026
We wish we could always be face to face with God, but the experience of being face to face with ourselves is more than we can bear.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
18 May 2026
He wants us in the land, submerged in in the physical. It is there where we are meant to accomplish our purpose. ... We don’t have to fear entering the mundane physical world. We need to embrace it and uplift it to holiness.
Yitzi Hurwitz
19 May 2026
The main traits of Stepan Arkadich that earned him general respect in the administration were firstly his unusual leniency towards others, based on his awareness of his own failings; secondly his innate, perfectly liberal attitude, not a political liberalism but an even-handed, equal treatment of everyone regardless of their status and title; thirdly, and most chiefly, his complete indifference to his work, as a result of which he never lost his head and never made a mistake.
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Главные качества Степана Аркадьича, заслужившие ему это общее уважение по службе, состояли, во-первых, в чрезвычайной снисходительности к людям, основанной в нем на сознании своих недостатков; во-вторых, в совершенной либеральности, не той, про которую он вычитал в газетах, но той, что у него была в крови и с которою он совершенно равно и одинаково относился ко всем людям, какого бы состояния и звания они ни были, и, в третьих, — главное — в совершенном равнодушии к тому делу, которым он занимался, вследствие чего он никогда не увлекался и не делал ошибок.
20 May 2026
Delusions are not permanent, they are not part of you, they are temporary. You can be free from delusions and negative karma. Like a mirror covered by dust, you can clean it. The more you clean it, the clearer the reflection becomes. Your mind becomes clearer the more the delusions are purified.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
21 May 2026
Ambition and aggressiveness are so closely connected that people of ambition have to be both discreet and controlled if they are not to show an instinctive self-assertion. Ambition, secret or acknowledged, normally springs from envy, wanting to go one better than the one at the top.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
22 May 2026
I recognize that G‑d is in control. I don’t have to obsess over what I am going through. He knows what He is doing; it is all from Him. And as long as the focus is on G‑d, life is meaningful.
Yitzi Hurwitz
23 May 2026
No one has ever done anything to me. Even the people that did something to me. There isn’t a situation in my life where I didn’t say, ‘Have at it.’ It is not always conscious. But it’s always there. All of my troubles are of my own making. Even the events that happened in childhood: I might not have brought those events on, but that’s not the problem. What troubles me today is not what really happened but what I have made of it. The first time I remember something that happened, what I remember happening is not what happened; the truth is already concealed by my reaction to it. What’s troubling me now, therefore, never happened. To get free, I need to get past the illusions I have built up and get back to the facts, and look at the facts. When there is genuine wrongdoing on someone else’s part, I get to forgive them for it, and then I am free. I need to get to a position where it is as if it never happened. I cannot get there on my own. I need God to get there.
Don P
24 May 2026
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
25 May 2026
What jealousy is to ill-regulated affection, envy is to ambition, and both can defeat their own ends. Jealousy turns the one loved to exasperation and estrangement; envy gives itself away in the end, and what is most coveted is withheld by people of greater ability
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
26 May 2026
We realize that the word ‘dependence’ is as distasteful to many psychiatrists and psychologists as it is to alcoholics. Like our professional friends, we, too, are aware that there are wrong forms of dependence. We have experienced many of them. No adult man or woman, for example, should be in too much emotional dependence upon a parent. They should have been weaned long before, and if they have not been, they should wake up to the fact. This very form of faulty dependence has caused many a rebellious alcoholic to conclude that dependence of any sort must be intolerably damaging. But dependence upon an A.A. group or upon a Higher Power hasn’t produced any baleful results.
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, page 38
27 May 2026
When tribulations come upon you, receive them as you would receive good things, seeing that nothing happens without God.
The Epistle of Barnabas
28 May 2026
Prejudice means a judgement passed without sufficiently weighing the evidence. We are all prejudiced, and we can only see along the line of our prejudices.
Oswald Chambers
29 May 2026
The Christian view is that men are created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
30 May 2026
Greed, whether in the love of a person or in the desire for a position in the world, does not go with the life of prayer. Greed is the negation of that detachment which we have seen to be a necessary quality in the service of God and at every stage in the development of spirituality.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
31 May 2026
“Knowledge was all-powerful. Intellect could conquer nature. Since we were brighter than most folks (so we thought), the spoils of victory would be ours for the thinking. The god of intellect displaced the God of our fathers. But again John Barleycorn had other ideas. We who had won so handsomely in a walk turned into all-time losers. We saw that we had to reconsider or die. We found many in A.A. who once thought as we did. They helped us to get down to our right size. By their example they showed us that humility and intellect could be compatible, provided we placed humility first. When we began to do that, we received the gift of faith, a faith which works. This faith is for you, too.”
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pages 29 to 30
01 June 2026
Do not equivocate or speak in double meanings. A double tongue is a deadly trap.
The Epistle of Barnabas
02 June 2026
Christ said it was difficult for ‘the rich’ to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 19:23; Mark 10:23; Luke 18:24), referring, no doubt, to ‘riches’ in the ordinary sense. But I think it really covers riches in every sense—good fortune, health, popularity, and all the things one wants to have. All these things tend—just as money tends—to make you feel independent of God, because if you have them you are happy already and contented in this life.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
03 June 2026
There is nothing wrong with ambition in itself, and it can lead to doing great things … But it has to be inspired by grace and not self-advancement. Even what is called “bettering oneself” need not be wrong as long as the person who is bettering himself or herself does not trample on the faces of those lower down the ladder.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
04 June 2026
Share your goods with your neighbour and do not insist that they are yours alone—for if you are sharers in that which is incorruptible, how much more must you be sharers in that which is corruptible.
The Epistle of Barnabas
05 June 2026
Logic and reasoning are only methods of dealing with things as they are; they give no explanation of things as they are.
Oswald Chambers
06 June 2026
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
07 June 2026
Where jealousy is wanting the heart of another, selfish ambition is wanting another’s position, and this is where envy has to be corrected by detachment. Between them, ambition and envy can ruin one’s character, let alone one’s life of prayer.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
08 June 2026
What is idolatry? Turning away from God and giving one’s attention to something else.
Rabbi Manis Friedman on Tanya, Chapter 25
09 June 2026
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
10 June 2026
It does no good to oppose the aggression in the world with aggression of our own. It would simply result in an aggressionist race. For the Christian, the contrary tactic is the only possible one, and if nations will not adopt it, individual Christians must. “Those who take up the sword will sooner or later perish by the sword” (Matthew 26:52), so those who take up charity and compassion—the weapons of peace—will, sooner or later, triumph by charity, compassion and peace.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
11 June 2026
Do not be in a hurry to speak, for the tongue is a deadly snare.
The Epistle of Barnabas
12 June 2026
There are people who can silence you with their logic while all the time you know, although you cannot prove it, that they are wrong.
Oswald Chambers
13 June 2026
The Lord lifts up what has been torn down; the Lord frees those in shackles; the Lord gives light to the blind.
From a sermon by St Pacian
14 June 2026
You don’t know in advance whether God is going to set you to do something difficult or painful, or something that you will quite like; and some people of heroic mould are disappointed when the job doled out to them turns out to be something quite nice. But you must be prepared for the unpleasant things and the discomforts.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
15 June 2026
Do not be someone who stretches out his hands to take, and but keeps them tight shut when it comes to giving.
The Epistle of Barnabas
16 June 2026
If the policies of nations are not our concern, charity and compassion are.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
17 June 2026
Whenever we suffer some distress or tribulation, there we find warning and correction for ourselves.
From a sermon by St Augustine
18 June 2026
Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people—which is what I think it does mean—then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn’t wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
19 June 2026
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
Oswald Chambers
20 June 2026
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20
21 June 2026
The mere event of becoming a General isn’t either right or wrong in itself. What matters morally is your attitude towards it. The man may be thinking about winning a war; he may be wanting to be a General because he honestly thinks that he has a good plan and is glad of a chance to carry it out. That’s all right. But if he is thinking: ‘What can I get out of the job?’ or ‘How can I get on the front page of the Illustrated News?’ then it is all wrong.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
22 June 2026
But to get back to souls, and to our own in particular, the element of compassion in the spiritual life is vital. Examine the effect from even a logical angle. To find that other people’s sufferings can move us more than our own, for however short a time, means that the centre of our psychological–spiritual makeup, that is to say ourselves, is no longer quite so central. This in turn means that someone else’s centre is temporally taking the place of our own. In the case of the saints, in the growth of their spirituality, the temporary gives place to the very nearly continuous so that they become literally un-self-centred.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
23 June 2026
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial.
Philip James Bailey
24 June 2026
‘Beg your pardon, sir,’ said Sam, when he had concluded, ‘but when I gets on this here grievance, I runs on like a new barrow with the wheel greased.’
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
25 June 2026
The mind does nothing but talk, ask questions, and search for meaning. The heart does not talk; it does not ask questions; it does not search for meaning. It silently moves towards God and surrenders itself to Him. The mind is Satan’s lawyer; the Heart is God’s Servant.
Saint Francis of Assisi
26 June 2026
To be patient with ourselves means more than putting up with annoyances caused by losing letters, over- or under-sleeping, feeling foolish at having said the wrong thing, making things inconvenient for others on account of our stupidity, getting dates wrong and consequently holding up important matters. At the deeper level, by which is meant at the spiritual level, it means seeing our weaknesses and not being able to do anything to cure them [ourselves].
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
27 June 2026
Supernatural patience does not so much look forward to solutions or wait until the present is forgotten but simply rests in God’s providence and trusts that even if the present goes on forever there is always God’s mercy to be depended on.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
28 June 2026
Would it not be better, it might be asked at this point, to concentrate on patience with other people than on all this patience with oneself? Such a view is understandable but patience, like charity, begins at home. You cannot be truly patient with other people until you can be patient with yourself. When you have seen what you might be, what you ought to be, only then can you help others with your patience to be what they could be.
Dom Hubert van Zeller, And So To God
29 June 2026
And what we call ‘ambition’ usually means the wish to be more conspicuous or more successful than someone else. It is this competitive element in it that is bad. It is perfectly reasonable to want to dance well or to look nice. But when the dominant wish is to dance better or look nicer than the others—when you begin to feel that if the others danced as well as you or looked as nice as you, that would take all the fun out of it—then you are going wrong.
C. S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity
30 June 2026
We have means of inferring the existence of a supernatural world only when it interferes with us.
Oswald Chambers, Job and the Problem of Suffering
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