Soul Food: Week of April 20, 2025

 

Sunday: Don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Jesus Christ

 

Monday: What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?

 

Tuesday: Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

 

Wednesday: Love one another as I have loved you.

 

Thursday: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

 

Friday: No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

Saturday: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.

 

Soul Food: Week of April 13, 2025

 

Sunday: A man can be destroyed but never defeated. Ernest Hemingway

 

Monday: The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

 

Tuesday: We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.

 

Wednesday: Courage is grace under pressure.

 

Thursday: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

 

Friday: To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

 

Saturday: Every man’s life ends in the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguishes one man from another.

 

Soul Food: Week of April 6, 2025

 

Sunday: I could always live in my art, but never in my life. Ingmar Bergman

 

Monday: The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Pablo Picasso

 

Tuesday: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle

 

Wednesday: Art is in the eye of the beholder. Various

 

Thursday: Every artist dips his brush in his soul & paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher

 

Friday: Creativity is seeing what others see & thinking what no one else ever thought. Albert Einstein

 

Saturday: You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou

 

Soul Food: Week of March 30, 2025

 

Sunday: Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

 

Monday: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. Abraham Lincoln

 

Tuesday: Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson

 

Wednesday: Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Thursday: In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing. Gen. George S. Patton

 

Friday: It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela

 

Saturday: Forgive [a sinner] seventy-seven times [i.e., without limit]. Jesus Christ

 

Soul Food: Week of March 23, 2025

 

Sunday: Nothing beats being an underdog and beating the top dog.

 

Monday: What counts is how you play the game because it usually determines whether you win or lose.

 

Tuesday: Losers whine, winners get to date the prom King or Queen.

 

Wednesday: I’m not perfect; no one is. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes. Derek Jeter

 

Thursday: The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it. Evelyn Ashford

 

Friday: Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life. B.C. Forbes

 

Saturday: I would prefer to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles

 

Soul Food: Week of March 16, 2025

 

Sunday: War is hell. There is no use trying to reform it. The sooner it is over the better. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

 

Monday: The best way to end the bloodshed is to move forward … I propose to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer. Gen. U.S. Grant

 

Tuesday: There has never been a just [war], never an honorable one – on the part of the instigator of the war. Mark Twain

 

Wednesday: War is politics and politics is war. Carl Von Clausewitz

 

Thursday: To the victor belongs the spoils. Andrew Jackson

 

Friday: The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. Lincoln at Gettysburg

 

Saturday: Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. Gen. Douglas MacArthur

 

Soul Food: Week of March 9, 2025

 

Sunday: It’s hard to be humble but easy to get humbled.

 

Monday: Our strength as a nation comes from our unity. Ben Carson

 

Tuesday: Embrace a crisis as a chance to learn, grow & better serve God.

 

Wednesday: Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. King David

 

Thursday: Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves. G.K. Chesterton

 

Friday: Pride always takes the credit but never the blame. Jill Briscoe

 

Saturday: Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey instead of a horse. April Rodgers

 

Soul Food: Week of March 2, 2025

 

Sunday: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Apostle Saint Paul

 

Monday: Why is it so important to be humble? Didn’t God show us His own humility in the crucifixion death of His only begotten Son?

 

Tuesday: Fact: In our lifetime our shoes will be filled with stones & until we get the boot from the Big Guy.

 

Wednesday: Different strokes for different folks. Proverbial saying

 

Thursday: Nothing is impossible. The very word itself says, “I’m possible.”

 

Friday: Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Dolly Parton

 

Saturday: The sun himself is weak when he first rises, [but] gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. Charles Dickens

 

Soul Food: Week of February 23, 2025

 

Sunday: Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Shakespeare

 

Monday: He who saves his country does not violate any Law. Often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte by his political detractors, although no proof he ever said it in speeches, writings or verified eyewitness accounts 

 

Tuesday: If it saves the country, it’s not illegal. Donald Trump

 

Wednesday: With great power comes great responsibility. Peter Parker, Spider-Man

 

Thursday: The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

 

Friday: A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John C. Maxwell

 

Saturday: Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. Bill Bradley

 

Soul Food: Week of February 16, 2025

 

Sunday: I could always live in my art, but never in my life. Ingmar Bergman

 

Monday: Become who you are. Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Tuesday: Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde 

 

Wednesday: Necessity is the mother of invention. Plato

 

Thursday: I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie

 

Friday: Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Joseph Conrad

 

Saturday: If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. David Rockefeller

 

Soul Food: Week of February 2, 2025

 

Sunday: All we know is that “life is brief & death is certain.” Ecclesiastes

 

Monday: If you feel pain, you’re alive. If you feel other people’s pain, you’re a human being. Leo Tolstoy

 

Tuesday: No man is an island ... Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. John Donne

 

Wednesday: Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy

 

Thursday: To do all that one is able to do, is to be a human being; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Friday: To each their own. Idiom

 

Saturday: The older you get, the more you realize the game clock on life is winding down. Fear competes with hope over whether the two-minute warning is still far off. And if the score between having done good & bad is tied at the buzzer, we pray to be given a generous overtime period to break it.

 

Soul Food: Week of January 26, 2025

 

Sunday: Patience is the companion of wisdom … rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.

 

Monday: A Tree (of Heaven) Grows in Brooklyn to show us show us our ability to not only survive but thrive in difficult conditions. Betty Smith

 

Tuesday: Patience is a virtue, but I must think on that one.

 

Wednesday: To lose patience is to lose the battle. Various

 

Thursday: We could never learn to be brave & patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller

 

Friday: If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And, if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it. Louis Armstrong

 

Saturday: You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile. Evan Esar

 

Soul Food: Week of January 19, 2025

 

Sunday: If you have faith as small as a mustard see, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move. Jesus

 

Monday: Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible. Corrie ten Boom

 

Tuesday: Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King

 

Wednesday: Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley

 

Thursday: God never said that the journey will be easy, but He did say that the arrival will be worthwhile. Max Lucado

 

Friday: Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa

 

Saturday: To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas

 

Soul Food: Week of January 12, 2025

 

Sunday: Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. Denzel Washington

 

Monday: If you get knocked down 7 times, get up 8

 

Tuesday: Without commitment you will never start, but without consistency you will never finish.

 

Wednesday: It’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about what you’ve done with those accomplishments.

 

Thursday: I say luck is when an opportunity comes along & you’re prepared for it.

 

Friday: Don’t just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

 

Saturday: My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

 

Soul Food: Week of January 5, 2025

 

Sunday: The dog days of winter may be upon us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t taste the red-hot spirited days of Christmas the year long.

 

Monday: Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner cause everyone would be in love with me. Little Oscar. Richard Trentlage

 

Tuesday: Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! Jule /Styne, Sammy Cahn

 

Wednesday: Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane, snow is glistening. A beautiful sight, we’re happy tonight walking in a winter wonderland. Aimee Mann

 

Thursday: Winter is the time for comfort, for good food & warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand & for a talk beside the fire: It is time for home. Edith Sitwell

 

Friday: People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov

 

Saturday: No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland

 

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