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Thursday, Jan 30, 2025“My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia
American author, professor and motivational speaker.
(1924 - 1998)
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025“[We] are caught in a whirlwind. But it is during such trials that the highest gifts of the human spirit are manifested. If we perish and lose this world, the fault will be ours alone.”
Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian, and fierce critic of Communism, who spent 11 years in labor camps and exile for criticizing Joseph Stalin.
(1918 - 2008)
Monday, Jan 27, 2025“Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.”
Robert Harold Schuller
American Christian pastor, televangelist, and author.
(1926 - 2015)
Friday, Jan 24, 2025“The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa)
Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity.
(1910 - 1997)
Thursday, Jan 23, 2025“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States of America.
(1911 - 2004)
Wednesday, Jan 22, 2025“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer, poet, journalist, and aviator.
(1900 - 1944)
Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025“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)
Monday, Jan 20, 2025“I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!' ”
Minnie Louise Haskins
British poet and academic.
(1875 - 1957)
Friday, Jan 17, 2025“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and journalist.
(1821 - 1881)
Thursday, Jan 16, 2025“For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.”
George Washington
1st President of the United States of America.
(1732 - 1799)
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025“All things are difficult, before they are easy.”
Thomas Fuller, M.D.
British physician, preacher, and intellectual.
(1654 - 1734)
Tuesday, Jan 14, 2025“You can build something beautiful even from the stones that are put in your way.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and statesman.
(1749 - 1832)
Monday, Jan 13, 2025“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created.”
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 10, 2025“To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.”
Saint Catherine of Siena
Mystic, activist, author & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1347 - 1380)
Thursday, Jan 09, 2025“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.”
Alexander Hamilton
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1755 - 1804)
Wednesday, Jan 08, 2025“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States of America.
(1917 - 1963)
Tuesday, Jan 07, 2025“Misfortune is virtue's opportunity.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca aka Seneca the Younger
Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist.
(4 BC - 65 AD)
Monday, Jan 06, 2025“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Sir Isaac Newton
English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author.
(1642 - 1727)
Friday, Jan 03, 2025“If we celebrate with such solemnity the birth of Jesus, it is to bear witness that every human being [is] somebody unique and unrepeatable...somebody thought of and chosen from eternity, some[one] called and identified by his own name. It is as it was with the first man, Adam. It is as it was with the new Adam, born of the Virgin Mary in the cave at Bethlehem: 'You shall call his name Jesus.'”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Jan 02, 2025“Wake up, O human being! For it was for you that God was made man. Rise up and realize it was all for you. Eternal death would have awaited you had He not been born in time.”
Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)
