Friday, Dec 30, 2022“It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you...yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, Dec 29, 2022“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.”
C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist, and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)
Tuesday, Dec 27, 2022“O Holy Family-the Family so closely united to the mystery which we contemplate on the day of the Lord's Birth-guide with your example the families of the whole earth!”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Dec 22, 2022“For no people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where knowledge is diffused, and virtue preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight, without the aid of foreign Invaders.”
Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1722 - 1803)
Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology.
(1875 - 1961)
Tuesday, Dec 20, 2022“The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation - no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian.”
Charles Krauthammer
Columnist and political commentator.
(1950 - 2018)
Monday, Dec 19, 2022“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.”
Rudyard Kipling
English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
(1865 - 1936)
Friday, Dec 16, 2022“Every pious desire, every good thought, every charitable work inspired by the love of Jesus, contributes to the perfection of the whole body of the faithful. A person who does nothing more than lovingly pray to God for his brethren, participates in the great work of saving souls.”
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
German nun, Augustinian Canoness Regular, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist.
(1774 - 1824)
Thursday, Dec 15, 2022“Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and no longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.”
Roger Sherman
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1721 - 1793)
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God.”
Anne Frank
German-Dutch diarist & Holocaust victim.
(1929 - 1945)
Tuesday, Dec 13, 2022“Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.”
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British-American novelist.
(1947 - present)
Monday, Dec 12, 2022“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States of America.
(1872 - 1933)
Thursday, Dec 08, 2022“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”
William Samuel Johnson
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1727 - 1819)
Wednesday, Dec 07, 2022“It isn't hate to speak the truth.”
J.K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist.
(1965 - present)
Tuesday, Dec 06, 2022“Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.”
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc aka Hilaire Belloc
Anglo-French writer, historian, orator, poet, sailor, soldier & political activist.
(1870 - 1953)
Monday, Dec 05, 2022“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Charles Kingsley
English Anglican priest, university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist, and poet.
(1819 - 1875)
Friday, Dec 02, 2022“Glory be to God for all things.”
Saint John Chrysostom
Bishop & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(349 AD - 407 AD)
Thursday, Dec 01, 2022“Your first great duties...are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds and exemplified in your lives and conduct.”
William Samuel Johnson
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1727 - 1819)