there is something insulting about a site driven by AI asking me if I am a Robot

I am seriously out of spoons.......

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices — to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill; suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for scape....cont.

We’re never not speaking and acting upon our religion. We’re always in the thick of it, this living fact of what our human hands have wrought under the dictation of what’s actually going on in our human hearts and minds. Our real sense of what’s really sacred is regularly on display. — David Dark

You’ve been trying to instruct Indians to be capitalists ever since you got here. But we don’t value what you value. — Oren Lyons

I’m not very humble at all, but I do have terrible self esteem. — Sarah Almasi

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. — Thomas Moore

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. — Michel de Montaigne

Beware in front of a bull, behind a donkey, and all around a fool. — Mexican saying

Humility is the hardest of paradoxes. We must master it or all is lost. But when mastered, humility goes away and we must begin again.

Bad times, hard times — this is what people keep saying; but let us live well and times shall be good. WE ARE THE TIMES. Such as we are, such are the times. — St. Augustine of Hippo (sermons)

Theres is nothing more artistic than to love others. — Vincent Van Gogh

The best definition of man is: a being that walks on two legs and is ungrateful. — Fyodr Dostoyevsky (Notes from Underground)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. — Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

For worship to occur, there must be a sense of mystery and an admission of pain. — Robert Shaw

Positive people are missing an electron. — Fr. Steven Clark

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

God uses broken people like you and me to rescue broken people like you and me. — Eddie Cortes

It does not say, 'Blessed are the righteous,' but 'Blessed are those who hunger for righteousness,' that is, those who have a sense of the world’s fallen-ness and their own failings and who yearn for healing. — Martin Mosebach

We are all in deception. The knowledge of this is the greatest preventative against deception. It is the greatest deception to acknowledge oneself to be free of deception. — St. Ignatius Brianchaninov

Freedom is not ease, it is a burden...it is not man who demands freedom from God, but God who demands it from man, and in this freedom He sees the worth and dignity of the Godlikeness of man. — Nikolai Berdyaev

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. — Yogi Berra

You can’t have a war on terrorism, it's not an actual enemy, it’s abstract. It’s like having a war on dandruff. That war will be eternal and pointless, idiotic. That’s not a war; it’s a slogan. It’s a lie; it’s advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented in America. — Gore Vidal

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. — Roger Scruton

Meme seen: Our Country needs to turn back to God ??? In order to turn back to God it would have had to have turned to God at some time in the past. There is no evidence for this.

Great thing about growing old. All my friends are just as weird as I am. They've just gotten tired of trying to hide it. — SRC

Be close to each other as one single soul, wholly devoted to the Lord. — St. Elizabeth the New Martyr (Grand Duchess of Moscow)

Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! — Billy Shakespeare (Antonio from "The Merchant of Venice”)

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw

St Silouan’s belief that God does indeed desire the universal salvation of the human race can be summed up in four short injunctions: love all; pray for all; weep for all; repent for all. — Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. — Mohandes K. Gandhi

I could see that the white man did not care for each other the way our people did… They would take everything from each other if they could… some had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all. This could not be better than the old ways of my people. —Black Elk

Sometimes, suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts. — Kate Jacobs

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all. — Arvo Pärt

America did not invent human rights; in a very real sense, it is the other way around; human rights invented America. — President Jimmy Carter

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — Carl Jung

We can either work to heal our wounds and help others heal theirs, or, we can continue to live our wounds over and over becoming both victim and perpetrator of them. — Rev. Steven Clark

Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. — John Lennon

Find evil in yourself and not in other people or things, with whom you have not learned how to relate properly. — St. Sebastian of Karaganda

If mankind does not love and respect other species they will not survive. — A.D. Williams

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May

In my opinion, the main result of the Protestant Reformation is that man decided he was worthy to sit in the presence of God.* — Archbishop Dmitri (Royster)

A speaker of truth has no friends. — African proverb

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat every step as a prayer. — Black Elk

The main thing that stands in the way of maturity of the heart is our fear of suffering before pain or tragedy. So we have narrowed our heart to protect it. We are afraid to look and see, to listen and hear, to see the person in his suffering and hear the cry of his soul. — Met. Anthony of Sourozh

The struggle upon which we are engaged is full of hardships, full of dangers, for it is the struggle of man against himself. — St. Patrick

Teach your tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and you shall make progress. — Maimonides

From ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end. — Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

An unjust law is no law at all. — St. Augustine of Hippo