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“We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.”
― Clifford Cohen

“I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ's love.

"...make myself available in the routine tasks and myriad interruptions of daily life b/c I believe it is God's will for me to serve my family through them.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“I thought that teaching twenty-eight energetic and needy children how to read had to be the hardest job on earth. I was wrong - mothering was. Now I had to give up my right to sleep when I needed it, to a meal without interruptions, to relaxation when I wanted it, and most importantly, my right to withdraw when I felt overwhelmed.”
― Jani Ortlund, Fearlessly Feminine: Boldly Living God's Plan for Womanhood