Matthew 23:27-28
"Those among the rich who are not, in the rigorous sense, damned, can understand poverty, because they are poor themselves after a fashion; but they cannot understand destitution. Capable of giving alms, perhaps, but incapable of stripping their own souls bare, they may be moved to the sound of beautiful music, to Jesus’s sufferings, but His Cross, the reality of His Cross, will horrify them."
Léon Bloy
“The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. False greatness is unsociable and remote— conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is.”
Jean de la Bruyere
"All the nations which appear in history are necessarily a mixture, for us inextricable, of City of Good and City of Evil. But what theology, history and common sense have also taught me is that the civilizations which allow the gap to widen between the ideal to which they claim and the realizations which they propose of it, these civilizations are dying of their hypocrisy.“
Henri-Irénée Marrou, France ma patrie
"The Lord has told you, O man, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
Only this: to do what is right, to show mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah 6:8
“We run heedlessly into the abyss, after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.”
Blaise Pascal, Pensées
It started out as a 'risk on' day, but alas, Apple indicated a slowdown in its business with all that entails, and stocks took a turn into the red.
Gold and silver joined the Dollar in giving up some ground.
The wash and rinse consumes all.
The VIX bounced back up again off its lower bound moving average.
There will be a futures options expiration for gold on the Comex this Friday.
Need little, want less, love more. For those who abide in love abide in God, and God in them.
Have a pleasant evening.
