Category: Quote of the Day

"You ought to consider the ‘ifs’ now and then. Thinking about ‘if’ sometimes prepares you for ‘when’." – Laura Kalpakian

“Prepping, to me, is much like a seat belt. I wear a seat belt every time I get behind the wheel. I do not expect to need it. I pray to God that I’ll never need it. I’d be ignorant to ignore the possibility that it may save my very life.”  – Pat Riot

“Being prepared is sometimes inconvenient, but not being prepared is always inconvenient.” – Fred Choate

“…those who begin by worshiping power soon worship evil.”  – C.S. Lewis

“Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye. And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.” – Colossians 3:12-15 (KJV)

“Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” – Isaiah 1:16-17 (KJV)

“With Jesus, even in our darkest moment, the best remains. And the very best is yet to be.” – Corrie ten Boom

“In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.” – Horatius Bonar

“If God sends us on stony paths, he provides strong shoes.” – Corrie ten Boom

"Kriget är icke en ström eller en sjö utan ett hav med allt ont." Loosely translated: "War is not a river, or a lake, but an ocean of all that is evil." – Gustavus Adolphus

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”  – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.” – Proverbs 27:10 (KJV)

“Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.” – Isaiah 35:3-4 (KJV)

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts…For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”  – Patrick Henry