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Thursday, Oct 27, 2022“The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter.”
Simone Weil
French philosopher, mystic and political activist.
(1909 - 1943)
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2022“When a society loses the desire to know the truth, that is a precursor to totalitarianism.”
Hannah Arendt
Political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor.
(1906 - 1975)
Monday, Oct 24, 2022“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
Madeleine L'Engle
American writer and poet.
(1918 - 2007)
Friday, Oct 21, 2022“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, Oct 20, 2022“'When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
Thomas Paine
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1737 - 1809)
Wednesday, Oct 19, 2022“To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer and aviator.
(1906 - 2001)
Tuesday, Oct 18, 2022“Man is now surrounded, besieged, overwhelmed by innumerable objects that have been manufactured and provided by others to serve their own interests rather than his personal development.”
Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger
French Priest, Bishop, and Cardinal.
(1926 - 2007)
Monday, Oct 17, 2022“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher and poet.
(1803 - 1882)
Friday, Oct 14, 2022“The world is charged with the grandeur of God!”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
English poet and Jesuit priest.
(1844 - 1889)
Thursday, Oct 13, 2022“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.”
Thomas Jefferson
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence & Third President of the United States.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE
British-Italian explorer and travel writer.
(1893 - 1993)
Tuesday, Oct 11, 2022“Conservatism is not something preventing upward, forward movement, but something preventing you from sliding back into chaos.”
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev
Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist.
(1874 - 1948)
Monday, Oct 10, 2022“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
American cowboy, humorist, social commentator aka Oklahoma's Favorite Son.
(1879 - 1935)
Friday, Oct 07, 2022“One of our sure guides along the path of life is that we do not know when earthly life will come to an end. How important that our repentance for past and present transgressions be a daily practice.”
Reverend Thomas J. Donaghy, PhD
American priest, educator, and author.
(1928 - 2018)
Thursday, Oct 06, 2022“The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship ... nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.”
James Madison
One of the Founding Fathers and fourth president of the United States of America.
(1751 - 1836)
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2022“America will be great if America is good. if not, her greatness will vanish away like a morning cloud.”
Andrew Reed
English minister, philanthropist, and social reformer.
(1787 - 1862)
Tuesday, Oct 04, 2022“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
(1835 - 1919)
Monday, Oct 03, 2022“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States of America.
(1884 - 1962)
