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Friday, Apr 30, 2021“The hands should be at work, the heart with God.”
Saint Maria Giuseppa Rossello
Italian Religious Sister and Foundress of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy.
(1811 - 1880)
Thursday, Apr 29, 2021“In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.”
Father Richard John Neuhaus
Priest and author.
(1936 - 2009)
Wednesday, Apr 28, 2021“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American physician, poet and polymath.
(1809 - 1894)
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
English moral philosopher.
(1929 - 2003)
Monday, Apr 26, 2021“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.”
Will Rogers
American cowboy, humorist, social commentator aka Oklahoma's Favorite Son.
(1879 - 1935)
Friday, Apr 23, 2021“Life is a precious good, in its entirety and in every part.”
Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)
Thursday, Apr 22, 2021“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2021“Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.”
Mohandas Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi
Preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India also known as the Father of the Nation of India.
(1869 - 1948)
Tuesday, Apr 20, 2021“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
British novelist, poet, essayist and Atheist-to-Christian convert.
(1898 - 1963)
Monday, Apr 19, 2021“To do well in any field of endeavor, it is an advantage to work with good people.”
Harold Gregory "Hal" Moore, Jr.
United States Army lieutenant general and author.
(1922 - 2017)
Friday, Apr 16, 2021“The synthesis of religion and life...is the indispensable cornerstone for any civilization, the soul by which any culture must live, lest it destroy itself with its own hands and fall into the abyss of human malice which opens under its feet when it begins, by apostasy, to turn away from God.”
Venerable Pope Pius XII
Italian Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1876 - 1958)
Thursday, Apr 15, 2021“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
26th President of the United States of America.
(1858 - 1919)
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
Aleksandr (Alexander) Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian and fierce critic of Communism. He was arrested for criticizing Joseph Stalin and spent 11 years in labor camps and exile.
(1918 - 2008)
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2021“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist.
(1919 - 2008)
Monday, Apr 12, 2021“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end-which you can never afford to lose-with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
Admiral James Stockdale
American Naval aviator and Medal of Honor recipient.
(1923 - 2005)
Friday, Apr 09, 2021“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
John Anthony Ciardi
American poet, translator and etymologist.
(1916 - 1986)
Thursday, Apr 08, 2021“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
Clive James
Australian journalist, broadcaster and writer.
(1939 - 2019)
Wednesday, Apr 07, 2021“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
Orison Swett Marden
American author.
(1848 - 1924)
Tuesday, Apr 06, 2021“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.”
Mary Flannery O'Connor
American writer and essayist.
(1925 - 1964)
Monday, Apr 05, 2021“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator.
(1900 - 1944)
Friday, Apr 02, 2021“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 12:13
Holy Bible
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition.
Thursday, Apr 01, 2021“Force yourself, if necessary, always to forgive those who offend you, from the very first moment. For the greatest injury or offense you can suffer from them is nothing compared to what God has forgiven you.”
Saint Josemaria Escrivá
Spanish priest & founder of Opus Dei.
(1902 - 1975)
