Quote for the Day! - Archive

Monday, Nov 30, 2020

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Pericles
Greek statesman, orator and general.
(495BC - 429BC)

Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020

“I am ordinary in the correct sense of the term, which means the acceptance of an order; a Creator and the creation, the common sense of gratitude for creation, life and love as gifts permanently good, marriage and chivalry as laws rightly controlling them, and the rest of the normal traditions of our race and religion.”

G.K. Chesterton
Arguably the greatest thinker & writer of the 20th century. He defended "the common man", common sense, the poor, the family, beauty, Christianity & the Catholic Faith.
(1874 - 1936)

Tuesday, Nov 24, 2020

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)

Monday, Nov 23, 2020

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

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, Nov 20, 2020

“Never say or do anything until you have asked yourself whether it will be pleasing to God, good for yourself, and edifying to your neighbor.”

St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish knight, hermit, priest and theologian. Founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
(1491 - 1556)

Thursday, Nov 19, 2020

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

James Madison
One of the Founding Fathers and fourth president of the United States of America.
(1851 - 1836)

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”

Benjamin Franklin
One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
(1706 - 1790)

Tuesday, Nov 17, 2020

“The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a plutodemocracy; that is, a sham clique of enormously wealthy men, who speak through their money, and whose influence, even today, radiates to every corner of the United States.”

William Gibbs McAdoo
American lawyer and statesman.
(1863 - 1941)

Monday, Nov 16, 2020

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

Albert Einstein
German-born Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist and developer of the general theory of relativity.
(1879 - 1955)

Friday, Nov 13, 2020

“God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.”

Saint Robert Southwell
English priest and martyr.
(1561 - 1595)

Thursday, Nov 12, 2020

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

Aesop
Greek fabulist and storyteller.
(620 BC - 564 BC)

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2020

“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world. A veteran does not have that problem.”

Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States of America.
(1911 - 2004)

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2020

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist, and journalist.
(1819 - 1892)

Monday, Nov 09, 2020

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.”

Lin Yutang
Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist and philosopher.
(1895 - 1976)

Friday, Nov 06, 2020

“Do not look for consolation in this life, but rather in heaven, and always thank God for what he has deigned to give here below.”

Saint John of God
Portuguese Founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God whose members make solemn vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the sick for life in their hospitals.
(1495 - 1550)

Thursday, Nov 05, 2020

“How can we doubt that God understands our interests much better than we do and that his dispositions of events in regard to us are advantageous even when we do not understand them?”

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J.
French priest and writer.
(1675 - 1751)

Wednesday, Nov 04, 2020

“The state is not the whole of human existence and does not embrace the whole of human hope. Men and women and their hopes extend beyond the thing that is the state and beyond the sphere of political activity.”

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

Tuesday, Nov 03, 2020

“Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.”

John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the United States of America.
(1767 - 1848)

Monday, Nov 02, 2020

“There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.”

George Washington
1st President of the United States of America.
(1732 - 1799)