Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Dec 29, 2023

“We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.”

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

Thursday, Dec 28, 2023

“Christmas is an epiphany - the appearing of God and of his great light in a Child that is born for us. Born in a stable in Bethlehem, not in the palaces of kings.”

Pope Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - 2022)

Wednesday, Dec 27, 2023

“The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.”

Ralph Washington Sockman
American minister, speaker, and author.
(1889 - 1970)

Tuesday, Dec 26, 2023

“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)

Friday, Dec 22, 2023

“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
English writer and social critic.
(1812 - 1870)

Thursday, Dec 21, 2023

“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”

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

Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023

“I always entertain great hopes.”

Robert Frost
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet.
(1874 - 1963)

Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023

“When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare.”

Howard E. Kershner
American economist, businessman, author, and children's welfare advocate.
(1891 - 1990)

Monday, Dec 18, 2023

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

Anne Frank
German-Dutch diarist & Holocaust victim.
(1929 - 1945)

Friday, Dec 15, 2023

“If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in sweetness, patience, humility and charity.”

Saint Philip Neri
Italian priest and mystic noted for his piety, good humor and holiness.
(1515 - 1595)

Thursday, Dec 14, 2023

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)

Wednesday, Dec 13, 2023

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

George VI
King of the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
(1895 - 1952)

Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023

“An oppressive government is more to be feared than tigers.”

Confucius
Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher.
(551 BC - 479 BC)

Monday, Dec 11, 2023

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.”

Conrad Nicholson Hilton
American businessman and founder of the Hilton Hotels chain.
(1887 - 1979)

Friday, Dec 08, 2023

“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures. We are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.”

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

Thursday, Dec 07, 2023

“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.”

John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States of America.
(1917 - 1963)

Wednesday, Dec 06, 2023

“'No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”

Althea Neale Gibson
American tennis player and professional golfer.
(1927 - 2003)

Tuesday, Dec 05, 2023

“Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator, and author.
(1936 - 2020)

Monday, Dec 04, 2023

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

Andy Rooney
American radio and television writer.
(1919 - 2011)

Friday, Dec 01, 2023

“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)