Quote for the Day! - Archive

Thursday, Jan 30, 2020

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Priest & Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz during World War II.
(1894 - 1941)

Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020

“Do not become discouraged in the face of difficulties and doubts; trust in God and follow Jesus faithfully and you will be witnesses of the joy that flows from intimate union with Him.”

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

Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020

“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.”

John Adams
Founding Father & second President of the United States of America.
(1735 - 1826)

Monday, Jan 27, 2020

“Our congressional ship of state would float much better if there weren't so many pirates aboard.”

P. Martin "Shoe" Shoemaker
Editor of The Treetops Tattler-Tribune.
(1977 - present)

Friday, Jan 24, 2020

“Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three-quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.”

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

Thursday, Jan 23, 2020

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”

Samuel Adams
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
(1722 - 1803)

Wednesday, Jan 22, 2020

“When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment.”

Sir Roger Scruton
English philosopher and writer.er and writer.
(1944 - 2020)

Tuesday, Jan 21, 2020

“What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.”

Taisiya Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn's mother.
(1894 - 1944)

Monday, Jan 20, 2020

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"”

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel laureate, Baptist minister and civil rights leader.
(1929 - 1968)

Friday, Jan 17, 2020

“The God who is Lord of the universe, the personal God who created and sustains our world so that it does not fall back into nothingness, the God who saves us through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, seeks to be the center of each and every human life.”

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

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2020

“Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”

Dante Alighieri
Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages - Early Renaissance.
(1265 - 1321)

Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020

“To call things by the wrong name is to add to the world's misfortune.”

Albert Camus
French Nobel Laurate, philosopher, author and journalist.
(1913 - 1960)

Monday, Jan 13, 2020

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

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

Friday, Jan 10, 2020

“I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.”

Saint Dominic Savio
Italian student of Saint John Bosco.
(1842 - 1857)

Thursday, Jan 09, 2020

“For God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.”

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

Wednesday, Jan 08, 2020

“There is no education like adversity.”

Benjamin Disraeli
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
(1804 - 1881)

Tuesday, Jan 07, 2020

“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

Saint Thomas Moore
English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and martyr.
(1478 - 1535)

Monday, Jan 06, 2020

“Let nothing trouble you; always be joyful!”

St. John Bosco
Founder of the Salesian Society for the Christian education of the poor.
(1815 - 1888)

Friday, Jan 03, 2020

“Prayer is the best armor we have, it is the key which opens the heart of God.”

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist & mystic.
(1887 - 1968)

Thursday, Jan 02, 2020

“A nation cannot advance into the future if it cuts itself off from the past and it should be remembered that the road upon which we have walked as a nation is a Christian road.”

Blessed Father Jerzy Popieluszko
Polish priest and martyr.
(1947 - 1984)