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Friday, Dec 29, 2017“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 9:6
Holy Bible
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Thursday, Dec 28, 2017“Let us pray for each other that Our Lord may give us the grace that we need to become saints.”
St. Bernadette
Humble peasant girl and visionary visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes France in 1858.
(1844 - 1879)
Wednesday, Dec 27, 2017“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet of the Victorian era.
(1806 - 1861)
Tuesday, Dec 26, 2017“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.”
C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)
Friday, Dec 22, 2017“I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.”
Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-born scientist and inventor, who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
(1847 - 1922)
Thursday, Dec 21, 2017“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
Dominican Friar, Priest & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church
(1225 - 1274)
Wednesday, Dec 20, 2017“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
(1809 - 1865)
Tuesday, Dec 19, 2017“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity
(1910 - 1997)
Monday, Dec 18, 2017“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has, and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.”
St. John Chrysostom
Bishop & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church
349AD - 407AD
Friday, Dec 15, 2017“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca aka Seneca the Younger
Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
(4 BC - 65 AD)
Wednesday, Dec 13, 2017“Christ said, "I am the Truth"; he did not say "I am the custom.”
St. Toribio Romo González
Mexican priest and martyr who died in the Cristero War.
(1900 - 1928)
Tuesday, Dec 12, 2017“Put up willingly with the faults of others if you wish others to put up with yours.”
St. John Bosco
Founder of the Salesian Society for the Christian education of the poor.
(1815 - 1888)
Monday, Dec 11, 2017“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.”
Fisher Ames
Framer of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
(1758 - 1808)
Friday, Dec 08, 2017“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
(1809 - 1865)
Thursday, Dec 07, 2017“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing-after they've tried everything else.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II & first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
(1874 - 1965)
Wednesday, Dec 06, 2017“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
Golda Meir
Former Prime Minister of Israel
(1898 - 1978)
Tuesday, Dec 05, 2017“The truthful person recognizes a solemnity in every assertion. He grasps that in everything he utters he is called to bear witness to the truth.”
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Catholic philosopher and theologian.
(1889 - 1977)
Monday, Dec 04, 2017“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”
Elbert Green Hubbard
American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher.
(1856 - 1915)
Friday, Dec 01, 2017“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”
Venerable Fulton John Sheen
Emmy Award winning American Catholic bishop known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio.
(1895 - 1979)
