Quote of the Day: 7 December 2025 #QotD

“Like Naaman resisting the River Jordan or the children of Israel refusing to look at the serpent on the staff, how easy it is for us to dismiss the source of our redemption because the ingredients and the instruments seem embarrassingly plain.” -Jeffrey R. Holland

Quote of the Day: 6 December 2025 #QotD

“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.” -C. S. Lewis
[Perspective is everything. And this life is only temporary.]

Quote of the Day: 5 December 2025 #QotD

“Despair has its own calms.” -Jonathan Harker, Dracula
[But they aren't enjoyable or relaxing.]

Quote of the Day: 4 December 2025 #QotD

“The prevailing vision of our era is long overdue for a critical re-examination—or, for many, a first examination.” -Thomas Sowell
[It is always worthwhile to have explored the bases for your thinking. And to abandon any that don't hold up to scrutiny.]

Quote of the Day: 3 December 2025 #QotD

“[T]here are some who exhaust themselves learning and investigating things that, once learned and investigated, do not matter in the slightest to the understanding or the memory.” -Don Quixote, Don Quixote
[I can think of many such people. Both in and out of academia, by the way. Don't think you're safe from this tendency merely because you don't toil in the fields of the mind for your support.]

Quote of the Day: 2 December 2025 #QotD

“Life is crueler than a parking meter.” -Pig, Pearls Before Swine
[Life is dynamic. A parking meter is fairly static. Of course life has harsher lows. But there are far greater highs, and many more of them as well.]

Quote of the Day: 1 December 2025 #QotD

“Destruction is finite, obstruction is infinite[.]” -G. K. Chesterton
[You can get a lot more satisfaction out of mucking things up than by entirely destroying them. Because then you get to come back and do it all again when order has been restored.]