Quote of the Day: 23 July 2025 #QotD

“Men who rule by tricks of the mind need not necessarily be men in obvious power.” -Bail Channis, Second Foundation
[Though, we can usually figure out who they are.]

Quote of the Day: 22 July 2025 #QotD

“My life needs a rewind/erase button.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[Don't we all feel this way at times? I know I've had a few things I'd have liked to do over at the time. Thing is, my life wouldn't be what it is now had I been able to. And I kind of like my life as it is.]

Quote of the Day: 21 July 2025 #QotD

“Progress is what matters. Not perfection.” -Cal Newport
[IF you happen to get perfection, great. I don't get it often. But, I'll work toward it and accept the progress I make along the way.]

Quote of the Day: 20 July 2025 #QotD

“True worship means loving God and yielding our will to Him—the most precious gift we can offer.” -D. Todd Christofferson

Quote of the Day: 19 July 2025 #QotD

“Take it from a guy who is all too capable with a lie: nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.” -Hoid, Wind and Truth
[It's hard to be willing to check things that you really want to be true. Those are the ones that need to be checked, though. Otherwise, you're just falling to confirmation bias.]

Quote of the Day: 18 July 2025 #QotD

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.” -Chade, Assassin’s Apprentice
[We always have the freedom to choose how we respond to our situations. Doesn't mean we always like the options available to us, but we do get to choose.]

Quote of the Day: 17 July 2025 #QotD

“We won't be killed by AI.

“We'll be killed by relying on AI to think for us.” -Robb Allen

[Or anything else for that matter. When we stop relying on ourselves to think, we sink to the level of being a subject of whomever we have outsourced our thinking to. What a dreadful way to live.]

Quote of the Day: 16 July 2025 #QotD

“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing.” -C. S. Lewis
[At least, many of us do. Most do as children. Sometimes that curiosity and inquisitiveness is stamped out through the 'education' process. To that individual's and society's detriment.]

Quote of the Day: 15 July 2025 #QotD

“[Y]ou can’t invest your soul in a compromise.” -Ted, The Power of TED
[It has to be something you believe down to your essence. Otherwise, you'll never have the conviction to fully embrace it.]

Quote of the Day: 14 July 2025 #QotD

“[I]t is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.” -Thomas Sowell
[So, this is true. And I've got little to say about it.]

Quote of the Day: 13 July 2025 #QotD

“I witness that there is rejoicing in heaven over those who return. You are needed, and you are loved. I testify that Jesus Christ is our Saviour and that He blesses all who return unto Him with greater peace and with great joy. His arms of mercy are not folded but are open and extended to you. It is not too late for you to come back.” -S. Mark Palmer

Quote of the Day: 12 July 2025 #QotD

“Precise use of language marks an educated reader.” -Susan Wise Bauer
[Perhaps. At least I kind of hope it does, since I have had people tell me I use language precisely, and I aspire to an excellent education.]

Quote of the Day: 11 July 2025 #QotD

“Never be friends with creative types.” -Goat, Pearls Before Swine
[They are creative and have means of making their displeasure your problem. Creatively.]

Quote of the Day: 10 July 2025 #QotD

“The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.” -G. K. Chesterton
[Given that this was written one hundred fifteen years ago, there have been a fair few attempts between then and now to do just this. Not that it has been anything as delicate as a penknife. but more akin to a heavy ax wielded with reckless abandon. The family still stands. For now. I intend to defend it, personally.]

Quote of the Day: 9 July 2025 #QotD

“The real battle for your own soul isn’t about falling from a great height; it’s about descending, or not, one choice at a time.” -Harry Dresden, Battle Ground
[Especially with how gradual it is. You will find yourself somewhere you never intended to be, but the great thing is that you can work your way back to where you want to be. Salvation is available.]

Quote of the Day: 8 July 2025 #QotD

“But the call of life is as powerful as the call of death, and it is no weakness to answer to it.” -Helen, Queen of Eddis, Return of the Thief
[Go live life. Experience the joy of living a full life of enriching events and people. It's worth it.]

Quote of the Day: 7 July 2025 #QotD

“War is not good, but it is required when the alternative is worse.” -Ashok Vadal, Graveyard of Demons
[The violence-never-solved-anything crowd doesn't seem to get this. There are times when push come to shove, and something has to be done.]

Quote of the Day: 6 July 2025 #QotD

“We are followers of Jesus Christ, and we seek to both receive and share His light.” -Gary E. Stevenson

Quote of the Day: 5 July 2025 #QotD

“I never thought I’d see the day when you’d be persuading us to break rules.” -Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
[Every once in a while, you find the exceptional case where rules just cannot dictate your actions.]

Quote of the Day: 4 July 2025 #QotD

“There is arguably no more universal symbol of America than the hamburger. It is as close to a national dish as we have, and just like the American project itself, the burger is reflective of both our regional uniqueness and our national unity.” -Nick Solares
[We could all use a few more symbols of unity at the moment.]

Quote of the Day: 4 July 2025 #QotD

“He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America[.]” -Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises
[Happy Independence Day!]

Quote of the Day: 3 July 2025 #QotD

“The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.” -Maj. Reid, Starship Troopers
[So, what do we do when it begins not to work satisfactorily? Have we reached that point? Are we able to restore the portions we are missing to be able to make it work satisfactorily again? All good questions that deserve proper reflection and difficult wrangling.]

Quote of the Day: 2 July 2025 #QotD

“America is a shared idea. We’re people who think in a certain way, who believe that they can do the things they want to do. Everything else follows from that. It’s confidence, optimism, the one thing that other countries find so strange about us.” -Jack Ryan, Debt of Honor
[That is one thing that sets us apart. Or, at least, used to. I hope we can recover our culture to the point of being able to retain the identity that has made us who we are to this point so far.]

Quote of the Day: 1 July 2025 #QotD

“When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless.” -Moira, Seeds of Rebellion
[A good reminder that legality and morality are only tangentially related, not the same thing.]