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Wednesday, May 15, 2024“There are eight levels of charity... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.”
Maimonides
Sephardic Jewish philosopher.
(1135 - 1204)
Tuesday, May 14, 2024“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and political activist.
(1856 - 1950)
Monday, May 13, 2024“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, and scholar.
(106 BC - 43 BC)
Friday, May 10, 2024“We know not, and we should not ask before the time, where our earthly way will lead us. We know only this, that to those who love the Lord, all things will work together to the good, and further, that the ways by which our Savior leads us point beyond this earth.”
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD (Edith Stein)
German Jewish philosopher, Discalced Carmelite nun and martyr.
(1891 - 1942)
Thursday, May 09, 2024“Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.”
Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, May 08, 2024“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”
Sun Tzu
Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer.
(544 BC - 496 BC)
Tuesday, May 07, 2024“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel Laureate, theoretical physicist and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)
Monday, May 06, 2024“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
William Arthur Ward
American writer and educator.
(1921 - 1994)
Friday, May 03, 2024“The good works men [and women] do are not theirs but God's. To God be honor, glory, and praise, because all things belong to God.”
Saint John of God
Portuguese Founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God whose members make solemn vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the sick for life in their hospitals.
(1495 - 1550)
Wednesday, May 01, 2024“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Leo Tolstoy
Russian Count and writer nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize.
(1828 - 1910)
