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Friday, Jul 30, 2021“I will glory not because I am righteous, but because I am redeemed; I will glory not because I am free from sins, but because my sins are forgiven me. I will not glory because I have done good nor because someone has done good to me, but because Christ is my advocate with the Father and because the blood of Christ has been shed for me.”
Saint Ambrose
Bishop, theologian and one of the four original Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(340AD - 397AD)
Thursday, Jul 29, 2021“Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
John D. Rockefeller
American industrialist and philanthropist.
(1839 - 1937)
Wednesday, Jul 28, 2021“We know by whom we are created, and that we stand in a relationship of moral obligation to our creator. Conscience gives us the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
Fritz Hartnagel (quoting Cardinal Newman)
German judge and peace activist.
(1917 - 2001)
Tuesday, Jul 27, 2021“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.”
Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British American novelist and essayist.
(1947 - present)
Monday, Jul 26, 2021“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist.
(1928 - 2014)
Friday, Jul 23, 2021“Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.”
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, Jul 22, 2021“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
John Maynard Keynes, CB FBA
British economist.
(1883 - 1946)
Wednesday, Jul 21, 2021“The best portion of a good man's life: His little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet.
(1770 - 1850)
Tuesday, Jul 20, 2021“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote.”
Ayn Rand
Russian-American author novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter.
(1905 - 1982)
Monday, Jul 19, 2021“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.”
Samuel Johnson
English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
(1709 - 1784)
Friday, Jul 16, 2021“When you pray, you only have to ask for two things: You should ask for the light to see the will of God, and you have to ask for the courage to be able to do the will of God.”
Venerable Monsignor Aloysius Schwartz
American priest and founder of the Sisters of Mary of Banneux and the Brothers of Christ.
(1930 - 1992)
Thursday, Jul 15, 2021“What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?”
Max Lucado
American author, pastor and speaker.
(1955 - present)
Wednesday, Jul 14, 2021“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author, poet and novelist.
(1850 - 1894)
Tuesday, Jul 13, 2021“No socialist system can be established without a political police...No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo.”
Sir Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II & first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States of America.
(1874 - 1965)
Monday, Jul 12, 2021“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)
Friday, Jul 09, 2021“Never will we understand the value of time better than when our last hour is at hand.”
Saint Arnold Janssen
German-Dutch priest and founder of the Society of the Divine Word.
(1837 - 1909)
Thursday, Jul 08, 2021“God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey.”
Melanie Klein
Austrian-British psychoanalyst and author.
(1882 - 1960)
Wednesday, Jul 07, 2021“He who controls the medium controls the message. He who controls the message controls the masses.”
Joseph Goebbels
German Nazi politician, Reich Minister of Propaganda and one of Adolf Hitler's closest and most devoted acolytes.
(1897 - 1945)
Tuesday, Jul 06, 2021“The United States possesses a safeguard, a great bulwark, against [moral skepticism]. I speak of your founding documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. These documents are grounded in and embody unchanging principles of the natural law whose permanent truth and validity can be known by reason, for it is the law written by God in human hearts.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Friday, Jul 02, 2021“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Thursday, Jul 01, 2021“It is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom - freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
