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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). I am a punny dude.

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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 15h
Man cannot see God because man knows not humility. Man cannot see God because he looks out and beyond, and not within. Man cannot see God because man does not see himself as he is, or see himself in his fellow man. — Manny Cabrera
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 16h
When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure — Viktor Frankl
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 17h
Violence does not spring from a vacuum. It's born out of other men's violence. It gets nurtured and it grows in a soil of prejudice and of hate and of bigotry. — Rod Serling
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 17h
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James Baldwin
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 18h
Love is to listen with pain to the worries of the other. Love is also a concerned, pained glance and a word spoken with pain for and to the other when he is facing hardships. Love is to participate in his sorrow, to comfort him in his trouble. Love is to bear the onero...[more]— St. Paisios of Athos
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 19h
If I say that I’m “so bad” and such a sinner, but I exercise zero accountability for my actions, if everything is everyone else’s fault, if I don’t forgive, and if I don’t accept my cross (sufferings), then I’m a liar. I haven’t admitted I’m a sinner at all. — St. Ignatius Brianchaninov ...[more]
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 21h
“He’s more machine now than man” — Obi-wan Kenobi talking about me
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. — St. John Cassian
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Religion makes good people better, and bad people worse. — H. Richard Niebuhr
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. — Milton H. Erickson
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with decency. — Albert Camus (The Plague)
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you besiege a city for many days, to prevail against it by war, you shall not destroy its trees wielding an axe against them. You shall eat of them, but shall not cut them down. Is the tree that is in the field a man, that you should enter into a siege against them? — Deuteronomy 20:19
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. — Johann von Göthe
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created. — Malcolm X
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Curious person: How many people are working in the Vatican? Pope John XXIII: About half
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart. — St. John Cassian
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They have money for war But can’t feed the poor — Tupac Shakur
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want. — St. Clement of Alexandria
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The world, without knowing it perhaps, needs and wants holiness, for holiness means wholeness, integrity, meaning, real humanity, because humanity is real only when it knows and loves God. — Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. — Thomas Huxley
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You must also learn that no matter where you work, especially if it’s in the Church, there will always be many disappointments and disenchantments, because people are people everywhere, with each one’s “plusses” and “minuses”.— Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Religion thinks it has all the answers” NO, that is not what Religion is. Religion assists in embracing the mystery of that which is beyond comprehension; of the “Holy Ambiguity”. If your religion tells you that it has all the answers, it is a false religion
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. —George Burns
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
...We should turn our attention away from the inclination to evil and concentrate it on the remembrance of God; for good is natural, and more powerful than our inclination to evil. Good has existence; evil does not, except we give it existence by our actions. — St. Diadachus of Photiki
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Evil does not exist by nature, nor is any man naturally evil, for God made nothing that was not good. When in the desire of his heart someone conceives and gives form to what in reality has no existence, then what he desires begins to exist. ...[more]— St. Diadachus of Photiki (from the Philokalia)
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Before Thy Cross we bow down in worship O Master. And Thy Holy Resurrection we glorify. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4e_...
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Krestu Tvoyemu -Goncharov - Live from the VanMan Summit! Illumni Men's Chorale.
YouTube video by Illumni Men's Chorale
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today we celebrate the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Icon of the Exaltation of the CrossIcon of Christ on the Cross
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You make a covenant with God without ink and paper. Your voice proclaims that you love Him. Let's understand singing as a guide. He will give you great comfort. Don't walk away empty-handed. Gather the pearls of singing so that you can always keep these hymns with you,...[more] — St. John Chrysostom
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. — Anne Frank
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is Christ Whom we follow, who led no armies, founded no empires, killed no one, and called peacemakers the ‘blessed children of God’. The Cross is a symbol of self-giving love, not of military conquest. — Jim Forest
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so lovingly. However the wisest thing you can do is be in the present, gratefully. — Maya Angelou
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Success should always call for showing greater kindness, generosity, and justice; only people lost in darkness treat it as an occasion for greater greed — Cyrus the Great.
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I’m fine” — A rehearsed line, Why do we utter this lie, When it scrapes out dry From the depths of our pain, Wishing it could scream, “I am not okay.” — Janine Tamis
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Concerning hypocritical prayer. Did the Pharisees think that they prayed hypocritically? They did not think so; they considered themselves to be right in their hypocrisy itself! It had become their habit; it had become, so to say, their nature; and they thought they...[more] — St. John of Kronstadt
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In the devil’s theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong. — Thomas Merton
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If the kings and rulers of the nations knew the love of God they would never make war. War comes to us for our sins, not because of our love. The Lord created us in His love, and bade us live in love and glorify Him.. — St Silouan the Athonite
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From my childhood I had a great desire to help those suffering, especially those whose souls are in pain.We must rise from the mournful earth to Heaven & rejoice with angels over salvation of a single saved soul, over a single cup of cold water given in the Name of the Lord. — St Elizabeth of Moscow
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“God said it's good to be poor. Good men must not be secure. So if we steal from you, it’s just to help you stay pure" — Bernstein's Mass.
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
God is looking for builders, not destroyers. For the one who creates good — thus destroys evil. And the one who lets himself destroy evil will quickly forget about the creation of good and will become a villain. — St. Nicholas of Zhicha
Photo of St. Nicholai of Zhicha
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What cannot be said will be wept. — Anonymous (attributed by some without evidence to Sappho, fragments, others attribute it to Jim Harrison)
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is Dolly Day
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We should measure the prosperity of a nation, not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books. — W.E.B. Du Bois
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — Mary Ann Evans, aka Marian Evans, aka George Eliot
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. — Schiller
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. — Harper Lee
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The message of the Kingdom has nothing to do with ideology… The culture wars distract & consume the neophyte who is only beginning to learn how to walk the royal path. And what happens is, this young soul abandons the prayer book for a laptop. He pursues blog...[more]— Bishop Gerasim of Fort Worth
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Let none deceive you; that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first, & the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of sheol, who opposes & exalts himself against every "god" or object of worship; so he takes a seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. —2 Thessalonians 2:3–4
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Fr. Steven Clark @frstevenclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Good Samaritan saves the man who fell among thieves, a man who did not choose to be robbed. The Good Samaritan does not give the man a lecture on his life-choices.
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