Friday, Dec 20, 2024“Holiness of life is better than a thousand sermons.”
Saint John Chrysostom
Bishop & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(349AD - 407AD)
Thursday, Dec 19, 2024“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Dec 18, 2024“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author, poet, and novelist.
(1850 - 1894)
Tuesday, Dec 17, 2024“Right is based, not upon men's opinions, but upon Nature.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, and scholar.
(106 BC - 43 BC)
Monday, Dec 16, 2024“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic.
(1812 - 1870)
Friday, Dec 13, 2024“Happiness is secured through virtue.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Dominican Friar, Priest & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1225 - 1274)
Thursday, Dec 12, 2024“Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.”
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)
Wednesday, Dec 11, 2024“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
Coach John Wooden
As head basketball coach at UCLA he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period, including an unprecedented seven in a row.
(1910 - 2010)
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson
English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
(1709 - 1784)
Monday, Dec 09, 2024“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.”
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman.
(1847 - 1931)
Friday, Dec 06, 2024“Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the saints, we must live like them.”
Saint Théodore Guérin
French-American Sister and foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Mary-of-the-Woods College.
(1798 - 1856)
Wednesday, Dec 04, 2024“Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to God. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With Him we must be ready for anything.”
Paul Tournier
Swiss physician and author.
(1898 - 1986)
Tuesday, Dec 03, 2024“Western societies are well advised to recover their religious roots in a cultural tradition informed by Jewish and Christian beliefs.”
William James Durant
American historian and philosopher.
(1885 - 1981)
Monday, Dec 02, 2024“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Grover Thurber
American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright.
(1894 - 1961)