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Wednesday, Nov 27, 2019“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. ”
Barbara Bush
Former First Lady of the United States.
(1925 - 2018)
Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019“In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.”
Walker Percy, Obl. S.B.
American writer and Benedictine oblate.
(1916 - 1990)
Friday, Nov 22, 2019“Trust the past to God's mercy, the present to God's love, and the future to God's providence.”
St. Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
Thursday, Nov 21, 2019“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
George Washington Carver
American botanist and inventor.
(1860s - 1943)
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019“The family is more sacred than the state, and men are begotten not for the earth and for time, but for heaven and eternity.”
Pope Pius XI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1857 - 1939)
Tuesday, Nov 19, 2019“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian and fierce critic of Communism, who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile.
(1918 - 2008)
Monday, Nov 18, 2019“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
Pericles
Greek statesman, orator and general.
(495BC - 429BC)
Friday, Nov 15, 2019“Our entire good consists not only in accepting the truth of God's word, but in persevering in it.”
Saint Francis de Sales
French Friar, Bishop and One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1567 - 1622)
Thursday, Nov 14, 2019“...this is the season not for judgment but for mercy; not for requiring an account, but for showing loving kindness; not for investigating claims, but for conceding them; not for verdicts and vengeance, but for mercy and favor.”
St. John Chrysostom
Bishop & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(349 AD - 407 AD)
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2019“While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious of violating the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case, they are answerable.”
George Washington
1st President of the United States.
(1732 - 1799)
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2019“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. ”
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin aka Molière
French playwright, actor and poet.
(1622 - 1673)
Monday, Nov 11, 2019“And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.”
Joseph Rodman Drake
American poet.
(1795 - 1820)
Friday, Nov 08, 2019“The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.”
Saint Bridget of Sweden
Religious mystic and founder of the Order of the Most Holy Savior.
(1303 - 1373)
Thursday, Nov 07, 2019“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer.
(1880 - 1968)
Wednesday, Nov 06, 2019“If God sends you many sufferings, it is a sign that He has great plans for you and certainly wants to make you a saint. ”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish knight, hermit, priest and theologian. Founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
(1491 - 1556)
Tuesday, Nov 05, 2019“Pray, hope, and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our merciful Lord will listen to your prayers.”
Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist & mystic.
(1887 - 1968)
Monday, Nov 04, 2019“You can't keep a good man down or a bad one up.”
P.K. Thomajan
Author and poet.
(1902 - 1990)
Friday, Nov 01, 2019“No one heals himself by wounding another. ”
Saint Ambrose
Bishop and one of the four original Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(340 AD - 397 AD)
