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Fr. Steven Clark

@frstevenclark.bsky.social

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Musician, Orthodox Priest, Coffee geek (not looking for on-line romance — astonished that some can't figure that out; Observe good boundaries.) Early Internet handle IXØYCtheFISH (A dreaded INFP with a side of T in that F) "Observe good Boundaries"

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 3h

BlueSky has removed the context. . . . could you help me out here?

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 5h

God is not a concept to be grasped but a person to be met. — Protopresbyter John Meyendorff

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 7h

The seduction of minds begins with the abuse of words, and no one, not even philosophers, is immune. — Thomas Fleming

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 8h

Television was wholesome, sterile, and not very informative. Superman jumped out of windows to promote truth, justice, and the American way, then thought to be related. — Fred Reed on the 1950s

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 9h

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. — Ray Cummings (The Girl in the Golden Atom)

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 9h

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 11h

In Greek and in Slavonic, the Symbol of Faith (Creed) begins "I faith in one God". . . not I believe. . . . for some reason Faith does not work that well in English as a verb.

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 11h

In Greek and in Slavonic, the Symbol of Faith (Creed) begins "I faith in one God". . . not I believe. . . . for some reason Faith does not work that well in English as a verb.

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 11h

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. — Arnold J. Toynbee

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 12h

A lie stands on one leg, a truth on two. — Benjamin Franklin

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 13h

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone who does anything about their spirituality is Religious. . . . and if they do nothing about the spirituality, then it isn't spirituality, it's just some self-indulgent thoughts. — Rev. Steven Clark

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 15h

Something Pope Leo did NOT say.

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 15h

Religion is the farthest-reaching readily available concept for looking hard and honestly at our own lives, levelling with ourselves, abandoning our dysfunctional ideas for better, truer, more sustainable ways of negotiating our existence. Life’s too short to pretend we’re not religious.—David Dark

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 16h

This is America. . . this is what we have become.
If you want to disassociate yourself from it, you may proclaim that you are a citizen of The Country Formerly Known As The United States of America.

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 16h

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor. — Victor Hugo

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 17h

Nearly all men can stand adversity; but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 18h

Refrain from busying yourself with charity bazaars, sewing meetings and other such. Busyness over many things is a poison. Look within; examine yourself accurately; you will observe many of these self-giving deeds spring from a need to deafen your conscience. — Tito Colliander

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, the Fathers teach that the ascent to Heaven is connected with the descent into ourselves. The more we sink our attention deep into the soul, the more we find our secret heart; through repentance the Kingdom of Heaven descends into the heart and makes it Paradise —Heaven. — Hierotheos Vlakos

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

No . . . you don't have that right.

Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

Great nations are too strong to be destroyed by their foes, but they can easily be overcome by their pride. — Reinhold Niebuhr

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

God is only asking us to remember Him at all times, in good and bad periods to offer Him this moment of our time — this moment, not the following one. The present is what He asks; not in great gestures of surrender, but in a continual natural stream even as we breathe. — Mother Alexandra

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

My degree is in Music Theory and Composition. Before I became a priest, I was a professioal musician. Played Tympani in Orchstras for 8 years.

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all secondary dominants. — Donald Tovey

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 1d

In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you defend the imaginary self you lose your peace of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, for you trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist. — Thomas Merton

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