Quote of the Day: 7 July 2022 #QotD

“You can’t just fork it into your head. Learning has to be digested. You don’t just have to know, you have to comprehend.” -Lady Margolotta (thought), Unseen Academicals
[Definitely something to keep in mind. The quantity of reading, classes, or other learning someone engages in gives you a ceiling for their knowledge, but only their understanding establishes a floor.] 

Quote of the Day: 6 July 2022 #QotD

“Children are meant to be protected and cherished in the privacy of a family. They are not meant to be virtue-signaling social-justice pawns for impressing progressive friends.” -Gad Saad
[We, as a society, have lost sight of the things that matter most. The family is one of those things that matter most.]

Quote of the Day: 5 July 2022 #QotD

“Someone must command. But no one who does so is perfect. He will, therefore, make mistakes. And, since the world is dangerous and unfair, it is inevitable that some of those mistakes will eventually have consequences[.]” -Alera, First Lord’s Fury
[I try to give room for grace, but when the mistakes begin to pile one on top of another things have gotten out of hand.]

Quote of the Day: 4 July 2022 #QotD

“I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.—Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.” -John Adams
[Happy Independence Day!]

Quote of the Day: 3 July 2022

“[I]n the midst of this refiner’s fire, rather than get angry with God, get close to God. Call upon the Father in the name of the Son. Walk with Them in the Spirit, day by day. Allow Them over time to manifest Their fidelity to you. Come truly to know Them and truly to know yourself.” -D. Todd Christofferson

Quote of the Day: 2 July 2022 #QotD

“Somehow whenever I ask a question, I end up with a lot of them to answer.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[That does seem to be the way of life, doesn't it?]

Quote of the Day: 1 July 2022 #QotD

“Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else.” -P. J. O’Rourke
[Amen!]