Fr. Steven Clark

The essence of wealth is not in material things, but what we have within ourselves. No matter how much you give a person, you will not satisfy him. — St. Anatoly of Optina

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging. — Will Rogers

A man with a conscience is by that very fact a man who suffers. — Dostoyevsky

there ARE the boyars.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; he who plants kindness gathers love. — St. Basil the Great

There is no greater pain than a parent who has lost her/his child.
The original Mother's day was supposed to be the beginning of the end for Mother's children being war fodder.

To be fair, Christian eschatology has been widely misunderstood by Christians. . . . which is why the book of Revelation almost didn't make it into the canon of scriptures.

Wealthy Russians have been stealing since Communism fell. . . .after all, why should the Bolsheviks have all the fun.

We would need to convince ourselves to trust us again.

I'm cool with being "Left behind". I don't really want to monotize that. . . .I just think there should be some kind of "lifetime achievement award" for making it through 100 raptures.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. — Billy Shakespeare

The Passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. — St. Gregory Palamas

You gotta problem with boring?

My music is two lines — one is my sins, and the other is their forgiveness. The first is more complicated and subjective, but the other — simple, clean and objective. — Arvo Pärt

There is no rapture in the book of Revelation. That was something invented in a dream in the 1820s of a woman. A "cleric" Darby used that dream over the objections of the woman to fashion the whole rapture scenario. It is not part of historic Christianity.

She says all that with a straight face.

And she says all this with a straight face.

This will be my 100th rapture. . . . do I get an award?

and she says all this stuff with a straight face.

Oy Vey. .. . . Jeremiah level.

except the stuff that is allegedly in Revelation but isn't is from the 1820s

Education is not something you can finish. — Isaac Asimov

Malice will never drive out malice. But if someone does evil to you, you should do good to him, so that by your good work you may destroy his malice. — Desert Fathers

yes. . . and the young woman was alarmed.

“Who taught you all this, doctor?” The reply came promptly: "Suffering.” — Albert Camus

yea verily.

Humility is hard, since the one who humbles himself has something magnificent in his nature that works against his lowering..The one who becomes obedient, however, undertakes the act of obedience voluntarily. It is precisely through the act of humbling that he becomes obedient. — Hilary of Poitiers

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. — St. Augustine of Hippo

Judas thought he could make this happen too. . . . . didn't work out too well for him.

when you say "with" what do you mean?. . . God is with us. . . . all of us. . . . God is not on a side that says "Trump".