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Monday, Mar 30, 2020“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
Margaret Thatcher
First woman British prime minister and longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.
(1925 - 2013)
Friday, Mar 27, 2020“The heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind. The fiat of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Savior into the world - because, thanks to her Yes, God could become man in our world and remains so for all time.”
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1927 - present)
Thursday, Mar 26, 2020“You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people's sufferings and not your own.”
Mary Flannery O'Connor
American writer and essayist.
(1925 - 1964)
Wednesday, Mar 25, 2020“I am not ashamed to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance more than one night.”
William McKinley
25th President of the United States of America.
(1843 - 1897)
Tuesday, Mar 24, 2020“If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.”
Daniel Webster
Considered one of the five greatest U.S. Senators.
(1782 - 1852)
Monday, Mar 23, 2020“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.”
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States.
(1731 - 1802)
Friday, Mar 20, 2020“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Abigail Adams
First Lady of the United States.
(1744 - 1818)
Thursday, Mar 19, 2020“Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Swiss priest and theologian.
(1905 - 1988)
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2020“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of it for another.”
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic.
(1812 - 1870)
Tuesday, Mar 17, 2020“But I fear nothing, because of the promises of Heaven; for I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere.”
St. Patrick
Catholic bishop known as the Apostle of Ireland.
(387AD - 461AD)
Monday, Mar 16, 2020“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States.
(1884 - 1962)
Friday, Mar 13, 2020“Open your minds and hearts to the beauty of all that God has made and to His special, personal love for each one of you.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Mar 12, 2020“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”
Will Rogers
American cowboy, humorist, social commentator aka Oklahoma's Favorite Son.
(1879 - 1935)
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
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)
Tuesday, Mar 10, 2020“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist, journalist and philosopher.
(1821 - 1881)
Monday, Mar 09, 2020“Death is not extinguishing the light. It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali author, poet and painter, first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
(1861 - 1941)
Friday, Mar 06, 2020“It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for 'God is Charity'.”
Saint Albert the Great
Bishop, teacher, scientist, theologian & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1206 - 1280)
Thursday, Mar 05, 2020“Blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted. ”
Jesus Christ
Mathew 5:4
Holy Bible
Wednesday, Mar 04, 2020“But I fear nothing, because of the promises of Heaven; for I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere. ”
St. Patrick
Catholic bishop known as the Apostle of Ireland.
(387AD - 461AD)
Tuesday, Mar 03, 2020“In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.”
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, poet & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1542 - 1591)
Monday, Mar 02, 2020“Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet of the Victorian era.
(1806 - 1861)
