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Wednesday, Jan 30, 2019“Do not be overcome by evil overcome evil with good.”
Blessed Father Jerzy Popieluszko
Polish priest and martyr.
(1947 - 1984)
Tuesday, Jan 29, 2019“Prudence is always in season.”
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin aka Molière
French playwright, actor and poet.
(1622 - 1673)
Monday, Jan 28, 2019“It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.”
Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1722 - 1803)
Friday, Jan 25, 2019“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.”
St. Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Jan 24, 2019“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”
William Shakespeare
English poet and playwright.
(1564 - 1616)
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019“In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ - that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.”
Michael Novak
Philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat.
(1933 - 2017)
Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.”
Thucydides
Athenian historian and general.
(460BC - 400BC)
Monday, Jan 21, 2019“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Friday, Jan 18, 2019“Have great confidence in God's goodness and mercy, and He will never abandon you.”
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist & mystic.
(1887 - 1968)
Thursday, Jan 17, 2019“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”
Martin Van Buren
Eighth President of the United States.
(1782 - 1862)
Wednesday, Jan 16, 2019“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.”
F. A. Hayek
Nobel Prize winning economist and philosopher.
(1899 - 1992)
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2019“In the last analysis the most important objectives of human existence-goodness, virtue, godliness, salvation-are not achieved through the state; and those who seek them there are doomed to disappointment.”
Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(1936 - 2016)
Monday, Jan 14, 2019“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare
English poet and playwright.
(1564 - 1616)
Friday, Jan 11, 2019“[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.”
G.K. Chesterton
Arguably the greatest thinker & writer of the 20th century. He defended "the common man", common sense, the poor, the family, beauty, Christianity & the Catholic Faith.
(1874 - 1936)
Thursday, Jan 10, 2019“Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.”
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - present)
Wednesday, Jan 09, 2019“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Tuesday, Jan 08, 2019“It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.”
St. John Vianney, T.O.S.F. (aka "Curé d'Ars")
French parish priest and patron saint of parish priests.
(1786 - 1859)
Monday, Jan 07, 2019“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
Thomas Carlyle
(1795 - 1881)
Scottish philosopher, writer, historian and teacher.
Friday, Jan 04, 2019“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
St. Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Jan 03, 2019“The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author.
(1613 - 1680)
