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Friday, Jan 28, 2022“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
Saint Basil the Great
Bishop, Confessor and & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(330AD - 379AD)
Thursday, Jan 27, 2022“The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.”
Alexander Hamilton
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1755 - 1804)
Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place for those who love us.”
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
French Cistercian priest, monk, founder, abbot, reformer & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1090 - 1153)
Tuesday, Jan 25, 2022“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”
Joseph Story
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1779 - 1845)
Monday, Jan 24, 2022“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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)
Friday, Jan 21, 2022“Abortion is not a non-issue - it is a major issue in our community. Nothing has killed more blacks than abortion. Of the 17 million blacks killed [by abortion] since 1973, how many Martin Luther Kings have been destroyed?”
Luke J. Robinson
American African Methodist Episcopal Church minister.
(1952 - present)
Thursday, Jan 20, 2022“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Wednesday, Jan 19, 2022“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Tuesday, Jan 18, 2022“If Americans permit thought-control, business-control, and freedom-control to continue, we shall surely move within the shadows of fascism.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Monday, Jan 17, 2022“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)
Friday, Jan 14, 2022“Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.”
Saint Vincent de Paul
Patron saint of charitable societies. Spent two years in slavery after being taken captive by Barbary pirates.
(1581 - 1660)
Thursday, Jan 13, 2022“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)
Wednesday, Jan 12, 2022“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Stephen Covey
American educator, author and businessman.
(1932 - 2012)
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2022“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion. Would be autocrats often use economic crises, natural disasters and especially security threats - wars, armed insurgencies or terrorist attacks - to justify antidemocratic measures.”
Steven Levitsky
American political scientist and Professor of Government at Harvard University.
(1968 - present)
Monday, Jan 10, 2022“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”
Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr.
American author, educator, diplomat and clergyman.
(1852 - 1933)
Friday, Jan 07, 2022“Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Jan 06, 2022“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”
James Madison
One of the Founding Fathers and fourth president of the United States of America.
(1851 - 1836)
Wednesday, Jan 05, 2022“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.”
Anne Frank
German-Dutch diarist & Holocaust victim.
(1929 - 1945)
Tuesday, Jan 04, 2022“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”
Joseph Story
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1779 - 1845)
Tuesday, Jan 04, 2022“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”
Joseph Story
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1779 - 1845)
Monday, Jan 03, 2022“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1706 - 1790)
