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Tuesday, Apr 30, 2024“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”
Thomas Brackett Reed, Jr.
American attorney, author, and 32nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
(1839 - 1902)
Monday, Apr 29, 2024“One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.”
John W. Gardner
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
(1912 - 2002)
Friday, Apr 26, 2024“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence...The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, Apr 25, 2024“The doctrine of human equality is founded entirely in the Christian doctrine that we are all children of the same Father, all accountable to Him for our conduct to one another.”
John Adams
Founding Father & second President of the United States of America.
(1735 - 1826)
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2024“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Cormac McCarthy
American author.
(1933 - 2023)
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024“Only the family of God can solve the problems of our time.”
James Meredith
American writer and civil rights figure.
(1933 - present)
Monday, Apr 22, 2024“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
Henry Wheeler Shaw
American humorist and writer better known by his pen name Josh Billings.
(1818 - 1885)
Friday, Apr 19, 2024“Don't worry about me no matter what happens in this world. Nothing can happen to me that God doesn't want. And all that He wants, no matter how bad it may appear to us, is really for the best.”
Saint Thomas More
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and martyr.
(1478 - 1535)
Thursday, Apr 18, 2024“Posterity - you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the United States of America.
(1767 - 1848)
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024“Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.”
Robert Collier
American author.
(1885 - 1950)
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2024“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
Eric Arthur Blair
English novelist who used the pen name George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984.
(1903 - 1950)
Monday, Apr 15, 2024“Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.”
Henry "Hank" Louis Aaron
American professional baseball player, National Baseball Hall of Fame member and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
(1934 - 2021)
Friday, Apr 12, 2024“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Apr 11, 2024“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2024“No darkness lasts forever.”
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
American author.
(1929 - 2018)
Tuesday, Apr 09, 2024“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
Philip Kindred Dick
American science fiction writer.
(1928 - 1982)
Monday, Apr 08, 2024“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American author.
(1896-1940)
Friday, Apr 05, 2024“Remember that the passion of Christ ends always in the joy of the Resurrection of Christ, so when you feel in your own heart the suffering of Christ, remember the Resurrection has to come. The Joy of Easter has to dawn. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ Risen.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, Apr 04, 2024“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Maximilian Kolbe
Priest & Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz during World War II.
(1894 - 1941)
Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024“It is suffering, more than anything else, which clears the way for the grace which transforms human souls. Suffering, more than anything else makes present in the history of humanity the powers of the Redemption.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024“It is suffering, more than anything else, which clears the way for the grace which transforms human souls. Suffering, more than anything else makes present in the history of humanity the powers of the Redemption.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Tuesday, Apr 02, 2024“The era of resisting big government is never over.”
Paul Anthony Gigot
American Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator.
(1955 - present)
Monday, Apr 01, 2024“Do not put off till tomorrow the good you can do today. You may not have a tomorrow.”
Saint John Bosco
Founder of the Salesian Society for the Christian education of the poor.
(1815 - 1888)
