Quote of the Day: 10 May 2026 #QotD

“Although there is nothing a woman can do that has more far-reaching, eternal impact than to rear her children to walk in righteousness, motherhood and marital status are not the only measures of a woman’s worth.” -M. Russell Ballard
[Happy Mother's Day!]

Quote of the Day: 9 May 2026 #QotD

“I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.” -FitzChivalry Farseer, Assassin’s Apprentice
[Boy, is this true of some people. It is particularly annoying to try to teach my son that this is not true.]

Quote of the Day: 8 May 2026 #QotD

“Every decision we make influences others, and sometimes harms them.… That’s the way of life.” -Nohadon, Wind and Truth
[We cannot help but have an effect on the world. Even a deleterious effect. That is part of life. But it is good to remember that, like ripples on a pond, the effect lessens the further in time and distance from the event that caused it.]

Quote of the Day: 7 May 2026 #QotD

“Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.” -Marcus Aurelius
[Happy National Day of Prayer.]

Quote of the Day: 6 May 2026 #QotD

“It's comforting to pretend that people more successful than you must be secretly bad people[.]” -@allie__voss
[Envy can be deadly. If not to our bodies, then certainly to our humanity.]

Quote of the Day: 5 May 2026 #QotD

“A given man may make a very bad husband; you cannot mend matters by trying to reverse the roles. He may make a bad male partner in a dance. The cure for that is that men should more diligently attend dancing classes; not that the ballroom should henceforward ignore distinctions of sex and treat all dancers as neuter.” -C. S. Lewis
[Men are men; women are women. It would be foolish to assume that one can fulfill the purposes of the other. There are plenty of instances where it makes little to no difference which one does a given thing, but that doesn't negate the myriad circumstances under which you need either a man or a woman.]

Quote of the Day: 4 May 2026 #QotD

“[N]o history is bad if it is true.” -Miguel de Cervantes
[It is better to know the truth than to delude ourselves into believing something that is false.]