Friday, Dec 28, 2018“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, Dec 27, 2018“Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President.
(1890 - 1969)
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2018“Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even more so through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.”
Saint Maximus the Confessor
Monk, theologian and scholar.
(580 AD - 662 AD)
Friday, Dec 21, 2018“God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.”
Jeremy Taylor
Church of England cleric and author.
(1613 - 1667)
Thursday, Dec 20, 2018“Do not neglect the grace that is offered to you. The God who offers the sinner pardon, does not promise him tomorrow.”
St. Wulfram of Sens
French archbishop and missionary.
(640 AD- 703 AD)
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
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)
Tuesday, Dec 18, 2018“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Eric Arthur Blair
English novelist who used the pen name George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984.
(1903 - 1950)
Monday, Dec 17, 2018“Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.”
Pitirim Sorokin
Russian-born American sociologist and political activist.
(1889 - 1968)
Friday, Dec 14, 2018“You can do more with the grace of God than you think.”
Saint John-Baptiste de La Salle
French priest, educational reformer and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
(1651 - 1719)
Thursday, Dec 13, 2018“Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.”
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Bishop, theologian & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(329AD - 390AD)
Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer.
(1918 - 2008)
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018“It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.”
Al Smith
Governor of New York.
(1873 - 1944)
Monday, Dec 10, 2018“Be who you are, and be that well.”
Saint Francis de Sales
French Friar, Bishop and One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1567 - 1622)
Friday, Dec 07, 2018“There is a God and He is good, and His love, while free, has a self-imposed cost: We must be good to one another.”
George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States.
(1924 - 2018)
Thursday, Dec 06, 2018“I know there is a great God and I am not worried.”
Barbara Bush
Former First Lady of the United States.
(1925 - 2018)
Wednesday, Dec 05, 2018“Be bold in your caring, be bold in your dreaming and above all else, always do your best.”
George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States.
(1924 - 2018)
Tuesday, Dec 04, 2018“There is one truth especially which we think is self-evident: when the sacred rights of God and religion are ignored or infringed upon, the foundations of human society will sooner or later crumble and give way.”
Saint John XXIII
Bishop of Rome & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1881 - 1963)
Monday, Dec 03, 2018“Patience is adjusting your time to God's time.”
Mother Angelica
Cloistered Franciscan nun and Founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN).
(1923 - 2016)