Thursday, Dec 11, 2025“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and statesman.
(1749 - 1832)
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025“Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”
William Clement Stone
American businessman, philanthropist, and author.
(1902 - 2002)
Tuesday, Dec 09, 2025“We need the greater and lesser hopes that keep us going day by day. But these are not enough without the great hope, which must surpass everything else. This great hope can only be God, who encompasses the whole of reality and who can bestow upon us what we, by ourselves, cannot attain.”
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - 2022)
Monday, Dec 08, 2025“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)
Friday, Dec 05, 2025“I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone.”
Saint Francis of Assisi
Friar, preacher, and founder of the Order of Friars Minor (the "Franciscans").
(1182 - 1226)
Thursday, Dec 04, 2025“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Dec 03, 2025“When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ, His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them. There can never be enough of it.”
Servant of God Dorothy Day
American journalist, social activist and Catholic convert.
(1897 - 1980)
Tuesday, Dec 02, 2025“The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say the things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which may convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.”
Samuel Gompers
British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader, and founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
(1850 - 1924)
Monday, Dec 01, 2025“Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope.”
Pope Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - 2022)