Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Oct 30, 2020

“There are only two kinds of people we can call reasonable: either those who serve God with their whole heart because they know Him, or those who search after Him with all their heart because they do not know Him.”

Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and theologian.
(1623 - 1662)

Thursday, Oct 29, 2020

“Democratic Socialists invariably enlarge state power...to regard a dreamy socialism as beneficial and humane, is to ignore dozens of historical examples. The record of existing socialisms is plain, and so is the prognosis of future socialisms. Whatever the high intentions of its partisans, the structures they build by their actions promise to increase poverty and to legitimate tyranny.”

Michael Novak
Philosopher, journalist, novelist and diplomat.
(1933 - 2017)

Wednesday, Oct 28, 2020

“Never complain about what you have and do the best with it. Be willing to work, even if it means working with your hands. And always respect people that work, no matter what background they are from.”

Norman C. Francis
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and former president of Xavier University of Louisiana.
(1931 - present)

Tuesday, Oct 27, 2020

“Unlike any other nation in the world, we consider ourselves bound together, not by genealogy or residence but by belief in certain principles; and the most important of those principles are set forth in the Constitution of the United States.”

Antonin Scalia
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1936 - 2016)

Monday, Oct 26, 2020

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

Saint 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)

Friday, Oct 23, 2020

“It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer and scholar.
(106 BC - 43 BC)

Thursday, Oct 22, 2020

“In what does your life consist except two things? Active duties and passive circumstances. The first is under your control; do these in God's name. The second is outside your control; submit to these in God's name.”

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
American Catholic bishop known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio.
(1895 - 1979)

Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020

“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”

Thomas Carlyle
Scottish philosopher, writer, historian and teacher.
(1795 - 1881)

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020

“Hope can always cope.”

P.K. Thomajan
Author and poet.
(1902 - 1990)

Monday, Oct 19, 2020

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”

Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer.
(1880 - 1968)

Friday, Oct 16, 2020

“It is an outstanding manifestation of charity toward souls to omit nothing from the saving doctrine of Christ.”

Saint Paul VI
Italian Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1897 - 1978)

Thursday, Oct 15, 2020

“All shall be well...”

Julian of Norwich
English mystic, anchorite and author of the first book written in English by a woman.
(1343 - 1416)

Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020

“The world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation, and that quantity of statutory enactment and excess of government offer no substitute for quality of citizenship.”

Warren G. Harding
29th President of the United States of America.
(1865 - 1923)

Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020

“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States.
(1872 - 1933)

Monday, Oct 12, 2020

“Heaven is filled with converted sinners of all kinds, and there is room for more.”

Saint Joseph Cafasso
Italian priest and social reformer.
(1811 - 1860)

Friday, Oct 09, 2020

“The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.”

John Courtney Murray, S.J.
American Jesuit priest and theologian.
(1904 - 1967)

Thursday, Oct 08, 2020

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

G.K. Chesterton
Arguably the greatest thinker & writer of the 20th century. He defended "the common man", common sense, the poor, the family, beauty, Christianity & the Catholic Faith.
(1874 - 1936)

Wednesday, Oct 07, 2020

“The order of nature is that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.”

Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)

Tuesday, Oct 06, 2020

“A nation of profligates, cheats, and cowards, of people incapable of controlling their own lust, greed, rage, and fear, cannot, by the nature of things, use its freedom properly or long endure.”

David Lowenthal
American historian and geographer.
(1923 - 2018)

Monday, Oct 05, 2020

“Every human being is a unique and unrepeatable gift of God.”

Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)

Friday, Oct 02, 2020

“Jesus is with you even when you don't feel His presence. He is never so close to you as He is during your spiritual battles. He is always there, close to you, encouraging you to fight your battle courageously. He is there to ward off the enemy's blows so that you may not be hurt.”

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

Thursday, Oct 01, 2020

“The good man makes others good.”

Menander
Greek dramatist.
(342 BC - 290 BC)