"Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light."

~Russell Kirk

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“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

~Alan Watts

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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."

Rachel Carson

"The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them."

~Saint Francis de Sales

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“There is no other really human basis upon which to build a social order, unless we return — though the agrarians never suggested or desired this — to some kind of simple pastoral life. But the agrarian life is neither a going nor a going forward. It has nothing to do with the illusion of progress or decadence, it knows nothing of the straight line. Life is a timeless cycle, not a line, and the agrarian life establishes man within that natural cycle, where he belongs. Those who have argued the contrary are now seeing what it costs to support an industrial order, when it becomes the order of life; when indeed it gives orders, as it must, not only in the factory and office, but everywhere.”

~Donald Davidson

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"Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects."

~Alfred North Whitehead

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"Endeavor to unite the simplicity of children with the prudence of adults."

~St. Padre Pio

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"The Earth has music for those who listen."

George Sand

Playing in the rain and mud.
What fun! 🤍😇🤍

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“Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart.”

~Mencius

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"A man becomes a Christian. He is not born one."

~Tertullian

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~Psalm 51~

"1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

4 Against you, you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.

13 Then, I will teach transgressors your ways so that sinners will turn back to you.

14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

15 Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.

16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

18 May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar."

Psalm 51 sung in Aramaic by Father Serafim and choir at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, Mtskheta, Georgia. 🇬🇪

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~Psalm 51~

"1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

4 Against you, you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.

13 Then, I will teach transgressors your ways so that sinners will turn back to you.

14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

15 Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.

16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.

17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

18 May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous, in burnt offerings offered whole; then bulls will be offered on your altar."

Romans 6:5-6

5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

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Happy Easter Sunday, brothers and sisters. Hail Christ! He is risen!

May you all have a blessed day of peace and prayer with your family and frens.

Be kind. Be generous. Be faithful. And confess your love for one another. Show your loved ones the way forward isn't always an easy path by leading them the right way through Christ our Lord.

Stay strong. Stay trve.

Deny the antichrist from your soul.

God bless.

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"If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence."

~Søren Kierkegaard

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“The most portentous general event of our time is the steady obliteration of those distinctions which create society. Rational society is a mirror of the logos, and this means that it has a formal structure that enables apprehension. The preservation of society is, therefore, directly linked with the recovery of true knowledge. For the success of our restoration, it can not be too often said that society and mass are contradictory terms and that those who seek to do things in the name of mass are the destroyers in our midst. If society is something that can be understood, it must have structure; if it has structure, it must have hierarchy; against this metaphysical truth, the declamations of the Jacobins break in vain.”

~Richard M. Weaver

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Holy Saturday procession of the Madonna of Desolation, Canosa di Puglia, Italy. 🙏

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Happy Holy Saturday, everyone. May you all enjoy this weekend in peace and happiness with your family and frens. 🙏

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Ride 'em cowboy. 🤍

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Proverbs 16:24

"Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones."

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"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."

William Wordsworth

Good Friday in Ardeche, France,
1936.

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II

"...It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism, which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry.

"Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Skepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask:.."

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III

"...‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands forever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world."

~G.K. Chesterton

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I

"All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally, indeed, the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness, we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly.

In this story of Good Friday, it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst..."

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Speak the truth and shame the devil.

"If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves."

Steve Irwin

First steps with big brother. 😇🤍

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"The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but — what is worse — the slave of as many masters as he has vices."

~Saint Augustine

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"Humility, humility and always humility. Satan fears and trembles before humble souls."

~Saint Padre Pio

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2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here!”

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Good afternoon. 🙏

Happy Sacred Palm Sunday. I hope you all have a wonderful day and a great week ahead.

Deny the antichrist from your soul.

God bless.

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"For, when everything is said, there could be no civilized society were it not that deep in our hearts, beneath all the turbulences of greed and vanity, abides the instinct of obedience to what is noble and of good repute. It awaits only the clear call from above."

~Paul Elmer More

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@ImperivmRenaissance

Family is forever. 🤍

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"By discovering nature, you discover yourself."

Maxime Lagacé

“Good and evil provide the theme of the drama of our mortal existence. In this sense, they may be compared with the positive and negative points which generate an electric current. Transpose the points and the current fails, the lights go out, darkness falls, and all is confusion. The darkness falling on our civilization is likewise due to a transposition of good and evil. In other words, what we are suffering from is not an energy crisis, nor an overpopulation crisis, nor a monetary crisis, nor a balance of payments crisis, nor an unemployment crisis—from none of these ills that are commonly pointed out—but from the loss of a sense of a moral order in the universe. Without that, no order whatsoever —economical, social, or political— is attainable.”

~Malcolm Muggeridge

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"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."

~St. Thomas Aquinas

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"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March."

Robert Frost

Kids Motor Wheel, 1927.

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“Equality (outside mathematics) is a purely social conception. It applies to man as a political and economic animal. It has no place in the world of the mind. Beauty is not democratic—she reveals herself more to the few than to the many, more to the persistent and disciplined seekers than to the careless. Virtue is not democratic—she is achieved by those who pursue her more highly than most men. Truth is not democratic—she demands special talents and special industry in those to whom she gives her favors. Political democracy is doomed if it tries to extend it's demand for equality into these higher spheres. Ethical, intellectual, or aesthetic democracy is death.”

~C. S. Lewis

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"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man."

~David Hume

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"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."

John Muir

"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."

John Muir