Quiet people have the loudest mind. — Stephen Hawking

If we behold our political opinions & assume that "God is on our side" then we err. We will find other opinions that also assume that "God is on our side". That they are not the same side should astonish no one. And to a certain point they are correct; and to a certain point they are abomin...[more]

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

If you try to cure evil with evil, you will add more pain to your fate. — Sophocles (Antigone)

For a moment •• People's perception of me changes and depends on appearances Affected with their understanding and understanding..! Our Lord’s look to me does not change You see a sweet thing to get bored.. And you see who deserves it. God's look is linked to what's inside a heart ..! — Michael Adel

We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like. — Tyler Durden

Come change your ways, acknowledge your own powerlessness so that you can come to your rest in your own true glory. Live through lowliness of mind instead of going to your death through pretentious pride. — St. Dorotheus of Gaza (Discourses and saytings)

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce

The real weapons of mass destruction are the hardened hearts. — Leonard Cohen

If you are a nationalist, then there is no room for you in Heaven — St. Sophrony of Essex

A good marriage is not a matter of one partner obeying the other, but of both partners obeying each other. — St John Chrysostom

Sometimes it’s to our advantage for people to think you’re crazy. — Thelonious Monk

Everything that doesn't kill me, just kills me not at once. But does it make you stronger or insensitive? — who knows. We need less of what kills. And those who kill are also fewer, cause they are murderers anyway — Killers of other people's gentle souls and good impulses. — Anna Kiryanova.

I suppose this says something about our culture that we are going to try hard to pretend to ignore. (Upon learning of the latest sports mascot, Washington DC Commanders’ pig with a military helmet, being introduced. Jan 2023)

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible. . . except by getting off his back. — Lev Tolstoy (What then Must We Do?)

If you truly want to learn about America, talk to Black women. — Trevor Noah

Orthodoxy: Where else can you have two Christmases, but one Pascha.

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" — Sydney J. Harris

This earth is precious to Him; to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator — Chief Seattle

Art does not reproduce what is visible, rather, it makes it visible — Paul Klee

Today we celebrate the memory of the Holy Prophet Elijah

In the matter of reforming things, there is one plain and simple principle; a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it, and says, “I don’t see the...[more]— GK Chesterton

Meaningless combination of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them two other words “God can”. It remains true that all things are possible with God; the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. — C.S. Lewis

Competition is the law of the jungle; but cooperation is the law of civilization. — Peter Kropotkin

Bones break, hearts don’t Hearts give out (they can’t keep doing this). Hearts murmur (and we don’t listen). Hearts skip beats (and we’ll never get those back). Hearts are a muscle and muscles don’t break. Muscles tear. Muscles rip. Muscles rupture. I just want to be cle...[more] — Kristina Mahr

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy ... .[more] — Sydney J. Harris

Truth is not a thought, not a word, not a relationship between things, not a law. Truth is a Person. — St. Nikolai Velimirovic

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Gottfried Leibniz

Associate with those who have humility, and you will learn their ways. — St. Isaac the Syrian