Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Mar 30, 2018

“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

John 12:13
Holy Bible
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Thursday, Mar 29, 2018

“Love God, serve God: everything is in that.”

St. Clare of Assisi
Italian nun and founder of a monastic religious order for women in the Franciscan tradition, commonly known as the Poor Clares.
(1194 - 1253)

Wednesday, Mar 28, 2018

“Ask rather, What am I to do? What can I do with the rest of my years or months?”

St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist & mystic.
(1887 - 1968)

Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

John Adams
Founding Father & second President of the United States.
(1735 - 1826)

Monday, Mar 26, 2018

“When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.”

René Girard
French historian and anthropological philosopher.
(1923 - 2015)

Friday, Mar 23, 2018

“Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.”

Louis Pasteur
French microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
(1822 - 1895)

Thursday, Mar 22, 2018

“Wisdom is found only in truth.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and statesman.
(1749 - 1832)

Wednesday, Mar 21, 2018

“There are no words, it's only music there (heaven).”

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Italian priest and Baroque musical composer.
(1678 - 1741)

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018

“You miss 100 percent of the shoots you don't take.”

Wayne Douglas Gretzky
Canadian former professional ice hockey player and head coach. Generally agreed to be the greatest hockey player of all time.
(1961 - )

Monday, Mar 19, 2018

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”

Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States.
(1884 - 1972)

Friday, Mar 16, 2018

“Christ has said that he is truth, not fashion.”

Tertullian
Early Christian ecclesiastical writer.
(c. 155AD - c. 240AD)

Thursday, Mar 15, 2018

“Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

Diana, Princess of Wales
Member of the British royal family and mother of Prince William & Prince Harry
(1961 - 1997)

Wednesday, Mar 14, 2018

“When troubles come to us, the question is: Do we wish to trust God, or do we choose to feel frustrated by the silly thought that He has forgotten us?”

Father Benedict Groeschel CFR
Franciscan friar, priest, author, activist and television host.
(1933 - 2014)

Tuesday, Mar 13, 2018

“Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.”

Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill Jr.
47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
(1912 - 1994)

Monday, Mar 12, 2018

“How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.”

Jim Valvano
Coach of the "against all odds" underdog winner of the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament (NC State University).
(1946 - 1993)

Friday, Mar 09, 2018

“Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.”

St. Francis of Assisi
Friar, preacher and founder of the Order of Friars Minor (the "Franciscans").
(1182 - 1226)

Thursday, Mar 08, 2018

“To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.”

Hubert H. Humphrey
38th Vice President of the United States
(1911 - 1978)

Wednesday, Mar 07, 2018

“The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.”

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc aka Hilaire Belloc
Anglo-French writer, historian, orator, poet, sailor, soldier & political activist.
(1870 - 1953)

Tuesday, Mar 06, 2018

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Confucius
Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher.
(551 BC - 479 BC)

Monday, Mar 05, 2018

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Walt Disney
American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.
(1901 - 1966)

Friday, Mar 02, 2018

“The love that moves the sun and other stars pushes us, leads us to the presence of God who gives us hope and a future.”

Dante Alighieri
Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages - Early Renaissance.
(1265 - 1321)

Thursday, Mar 01, 2018

“Fixed ideas of God and human nature are indispensable to the daily practice of men's lives.”

Alexis de Tocqueville
French diplomat, political scientist and historian.
(1805 - 1859)