Quote for the Day! - Archive

Friday, Sep 29, 2023

“The world is thy ship and not thy home.”

Saint Therese of Lisieux
French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1873 - 1897)

Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023

“Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

Epicurus
Ancient Greek philosopher and sage.
(341 BC - 270 BC)

Tuesday, Sep 26, 2023

“The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator, and author.
(1936 - 2020)

Monday, Sep 25, 2023

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

Lewis Benedictus Smedes
American author and professor of theology and ethics.
(1921 - 2002)

Friday, Sep 22, 2023

“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”

Saint Therese of Lisieux
French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(1873 - 1897)

Thursday, Sep 21, 2023

“Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.”

Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father & third President of the United States of America.
(1743 - 1826)

Wednesday, Sep 20, 2023

“"[In the post-totalitarian system] because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing. Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfil the system, make the system, are the system.”

Václav Havel
Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident.
(1936 - 2011)

Tuesday, Sep 19, 2023

“The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his or her ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance.”

Václav Havel
Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident.
(1936 - 2011)

Monday, Sep 18, 2023

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer.
(1888 - 1955)

Friday, Sep 15, 2023

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”

Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman
English priest, educator, author & theologian.
(1801 - 1890)

Wednesday, Sep 13, 2023

“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is, what a man does with what happens to him.”

Aldous Leonard Huxley
English writer and philosopher.
(1894 - 1963)

Wednesday, Sep 13, 2023

“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is, what a man does with what happens to him.”

Aldous Leonard Huxley
English writer and philosopher.
(1894 - 1963)

Tuesday, Sep 12, 2023

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)

Monday, Sep 11, 2023

“I still have the shoes I wore to work that day. The soles are melted, and they're caked in ash. I keep them in a shoebox with the word "deliverance" written all around it. They're kind of like my ark, a reminder of God's presence and the life I owe to him.”

Stanley Praimnath
Survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He was one of only 18 survivors from within or above the impact zone of United Airlines Flight 175.
(1956 - present)

Friday, Sep 08, 2023

“The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.”

Charles Spurgeon
English preacher, college president and author.
(1834 - 1892)

Thursday, Sep 07, 2023

“It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
(1809 - 1865)

Wednesday, Sep 06, 2023

“It all comes to this: The simplest way to be happy is to do good.”

Helen Keller
American author, political activist, and lecturer.
(1880 - 1968)

Tuesday, Sep 05, 2023

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

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, Sep 01, 2023

“It is Jesus you seek when you dream of happiness.”

Saint John Paul II
Priest, Bishop, Cardinal & Servant of the Servants of God.
(1920 - 2005)