To be wealthy and honoured in an unjust society is a disgrace. — Confucius

When someone is beginning the spiritual life, he should not study a lot, but instead watch himself and guard his thoughts. A strong person is the one who chews well, not the one who eats a lot. —St Paisios of the Holy Mountain

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. — Douglas Adams

Well-behaved women seldom make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight with are their due. — Winston Churchill

Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages. Guard the image of man for it is the image of God. — Thomas Merton

Blame is not the point of repentance. — Rev. Andrew S. Damick

Solitude is an aloneness that we enter into to find the person we are outside of the noise of our world that drowns out the cries of our soul. Loneliness is to feel abandoned in the aloneness. . . to fear it. . . to fear the grieving that it might bring. — Rev. Steven Clark

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace, it shouldn't be at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. — Corazon Aquino

No propaganda — only Truth. No hatred — only love. No violence — only Peace. No bigotry — only Tolerance. We desperately need to foment a revolution of love. Humility and service are not weaknesses. A follower of Jesus cannot be a racist. We are light, warmth an...(continued)— Fr. Antony Hughes

Well. . . it's Zero hour. . . .are we still here? Does this count as the 101st end of the world I've lived through?

The Lord seeks creators, not destroyers. For he who creates good thereby destroys evil. And he who sets out to destroy evil will quickly forget about building up good and turn into a villain. — St. John Chrysostom

We're all in a Dali painting. . . . . everything looks as it is supposed to . . . . except . . . something in that corner over there is melting. . . . . .and . . . those rocks over there are beginning to look like Voltaire. — Steven Clark

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise. — Albert Camus

Today is the Olde Calendar Annunciation. . . a Feast of the Incarnation

Today, Donald J. Trump has threatened to start World War 3. Congress, it is your duty to remove him.

And the gratitude that we knew the person who died brings a new grief. . . we grieve for the world that will never know that person or the contributions he or she would have made.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. — Douglas Adams

Let's recreate our society and economy in a way that works for all.

March Madness is over (Can we stop eating Hummus?) My Scores are as follows: Men 76% Women 86%

Don't worry about everyone else's imaginary problems, you have your own imaginary problems to worry about. — John Loveland

I don't know what word in the English language — I can't find one — applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets. The words "evil" doesn't even begin to approach it. — Noam Chomsky

A sign of spiritual life is the immersion of a person within himself and the hidden workings within his heart. — St. Saraphim of Sarov

What if it is WE who are the zombies, eating our own brains? — Rev. Steven Clark

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. — Alexis Carrel

Only through suffering can we find ourselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Even by silence the truth can be betrayed. — St. Gregory the Theologian

Pretty sure the devil is a cosmic toddler. If you hear silence, that's bad. — Fr. Patrick O'Rourke

Today we celebrate the Triumphal Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. — Bertrand Russell

An angry man, even if he raises the dead, is not pleasing to God. — Abba Agathon

When money is our moral authority, humans become commodities and the value of each one's life is measured by an ability to pay. — Author unknown

Their children hate them for the things they're not; They hate themselves for what they are. And yet they drink, they laugh, Close the wound, hide the scar. — Carly Simon, Jacob Brackman

Today we celebrate the raising of Lazarus.

Only one road leads to the knowledge of Truth: Love. Obtaining Love, which is God Himself, man is truly uniting himself with God and in this way is coming closer to real knowledge of Eternal Truth. — St. Justin Popovich of Chelije, Serbia

Another day goes by, and still the children cry Put a little love in your heart If we want the world to know, we won't let hatred grow Put a little love in your heart — Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. — Winston Churchill

And I thought MY Church was weird.

Sometimes all our thoughts are misgiven — Robert Plant & Jimmy Page

Humility and Love: there you have it. This is everything. — St. Paisios the Athonite

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more “manhood” to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. — Alex Karras

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down. — Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. — Spinoza

We are artists because we are ourselves. — Anne Truitt

When a man really considers his neighbour as himself, he will never tolerate having more than his neighbour. — St. Symeon the New Theologian

If we would actually think about our words, there would be fewer words in the world, and they would have more impact. — Rev. Steven Clark

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Woe unto them that...take away justice from the righteous! — Isaiah 5