zealots are usually on about their own ego. . . they just often mistake that for a "righteous cause".
If you imitate God by giving to the poor, you must not discriminate between the deserving & the undeserving, between the wicked & the innocent. For God gives what is necessary with an open hand, though He sees the intention & honors a good person more than the wicked. — St. Maximus the Confessor
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ― Virginia Woolf
A joke that has aged way too well:
Iran bombed the White House (DC) but, no one could tell the difference.
Last night I brewed coffee at 11 pm.
I then slept for 8.5 hours . . .
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard. — Jeremy Goldberg
John Steinbeck, so pardon the multi post...
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertile Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks and ...[more) — John Steinbeck
the sturdy trunks and the ripe fruit. And the children dying must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And the coroners must fill in the certificates — died of malnutrition — because the food must rot. . . and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wr ...[more] — John Steinbeck
Play fuels your creativity, tickles your inner child and nurtures your soul. — Dr. Claudia Black
and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. — John Steinbeck