Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, May 29, 2020

“We do not fix our affections on borrowed goods, because we know that they must soon be returned to the owner. All the goods of this earth are lent to us.”

Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Italian bishop, artist, poet, lawyer, philosopher, theologian, Founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1696 - 1787)

Thursday, May 28, 2020

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Samuel Langhorne Clemens
American author and humorist better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
(1835 - 1910)

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

“Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others.”

Georges Clémenceau
French Prime Minister.
(1841 - 1929)

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”

George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr.
American professional baseball player.
(1895 - 1948)

Friday, May 22, 2020

“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”

Andrew Lang
Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic.
(1844 - 1912)

Thursday, May 21, 2020

“The confusion between good and evil is the greatest tragedy of our time. The intellect no longer seems capable of making such a distinction. Reason no longer knows what is harmful to human nature, to human existence, and what is not.”

Robert Cardinal Sarah
Guinean Priest, Bishop & Author.
(1945 - present)

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

“Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself.”

Saint Francis de Sales
French Friar, Bishop and One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1567 - 1622)

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

“Cultural values and spiritual power are not to be secured by fire and sword, by oppression and violence, but by freedom, love and respect for the law.”

Pawel Wlodkowic
Polish scholar, jurist and legate to the Council of Constance.
(1370 - 1435)

Monday, May 18, 2020

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

Rabindranath Tagore
Indian Nobel Laurate polymath, writer, poet, musician and artist.
(1861 - 1941)

Friday, May 15, 2020

“Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”

Saint John Chrysostom
Bishop & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(349 AD - 407 AD)

Thursday, May 14, 2020

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.”

Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

“A man and a woman are able to take the risk of loving each other completely because they know themselves to be loved completely and faithfully by God.”

Francis Cardinal George, OMI
American priest, bishop and theologian.
(1937 - 2015)

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

“The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.”

Ernst Jünger
German author and entomologist.
(1895 - 1998)

Monday, May 11, 2020

“No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.”

George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States of America.
(1924 - 2018)

Friday, May 08, 2020

“God loved mothers so much he decided to have one too.”

Old French Proverb

Thursday, May 07, 2020

“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.”

Gottfried Leibniz
German polymath, logician, mathematician and natural philosopher.
(1646 - 1716)

Wednesday, May 06, 2020

“The quality of a civilization is measured by the respect that it has for its weakest members.”

Servant of God Jerome Lejeune
French pediatrician and geneticist who discovered the cause of trisomy 21.
(1926 - 1994)

Tuesday, May 05, 2020

“The contention, then, that the civil government should at its option intrude into and exercise intimate control over the family and the household, is a great and pernicious error.”

Saint Leo XIII
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1810 - 1903)

Monday, May 04, 2020

“If you truly want to help the soul of your neighbor, you should approach God first with all your heart. Ask him simply to fill you with charity, the greatest of all virtues; with it you can accomplish what you desire.”

Saint Vincent Ferrer
Valencian Dominican friar, preacher, missionary and logician.
(1350 - 1419)

Friday, May 01, 2020

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

Saint Augustine
Sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Six Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)