Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Aug 29, 2025

“Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.”

Saint John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, poet & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1542 - 1591)

Thursday, Aug 28, 2025

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”

Francis Chan
American Protestant author, teacher, and preacher.
(1967 - present)

Wednesday, Aug 27, 2025

“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. ”

Titus Maccius Plautus
Roman playwright.
(254 BC - 184 BC)

Tuesday, Aug 26, 2025

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ”

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

Monday, Aug 25, 2025

“Excellence does not require perfection. ”

Henry James
British-born American author.
(1843 - 1916)

Friday, Aug 22, 2025

“Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.”

Saint Thomas More
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and martyr.
(1478 - 1535)

Thursday, Aug 21, 2025

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ”

Thomas Paine
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1737 - 1809)

Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ”

John Muir
Scottish-born American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, and glaciologist.
(1838 - 1914)

Monday, Aug 18, 2025

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. ”

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Austrian-born businessman, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder.
(1947 - present)

Friday, Aug 15, 2025

“The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.”

Timothy James Keller
American Presbyterian pastor, preacher, theologian, and Christian apologist.
(1950 - 2023)

Thursday, Aug 14, 2025

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

John Jay
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America & first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
(1745 - 1829)

Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025

“The worst thing that can happen to a man or a woman, is for them to succeed before they are ready.”

Robert T. Kendall
Christian writer, speaker, and teacher.
(1935 - present)

Tuesday, Aug 12, 2025

“There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live. ”

John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States of America.
(1917 - 1963)

Monday, Aug 11, 2025

“Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness. ”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
(1841 - 1919)

Friday, Aug 08, 2025

“Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”

C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist, and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)

Thursday, Aug 07, 2025

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Patrick Henry
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1736 - 1799)

Tuesday, Aug 05, 2025

“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. ”

Norman Ernest Borlaug
American agronomist, Nobel laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal recipient.
(1914 - 2009)

Monday, Aug 04, 2025

“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ”

Carl Schurz
American statesman, journalist, and reformer.
(1829 - 1906)

Friday, Aug 01, 2025

“I am sent not only to love God but to make Him loved. It is not enough for me to love God, if my neighbor does not love Him. ”

Saint Vincent de Paul
Patron saint of charitable societies. Spent two years in slavery after being taken captive by Barbary pirates.
(1581 - 1660)