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Thought For the Day: No Matter Our Circumstances, No Matter Our Challenges or Trials, There Is Something In Each Day To Embrace and Cherish
“No matter our circumstances, no matter our challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Midnight Reflections
Midnight Reflectionsby Michael DoyleSending I love you echoes across the canyon wallInto the frigid air of this late fallThinking to myself that you were once so nearNow gasping at the thought that you might disappearThe distance is no further than … Continue reading
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Tagged Ache, Beautiful Face, Beside me, Close My Eyes, Disappear, Distance, Echoes, Fantastic Blunder, Hand, Heart, Infinite Grace, Kiss, Late Fall, Midnight Reflections, Miss, Near, Poetry and Poems, Pull Me Under, Soul, Start, Sunrise, Tear Drops, Then, Wait, Wake, Walking Dream, Wish, Without You, Wonder, Words Exchanged
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Thought For the Day: All That We Call Human History…Is the Long Terrible Story of Man Trying To Find Something Other Than God Which Will Make Him Happy
“All that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
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First Principles: If We Move In Mass, Be It Ever So Circuitously, We Shall Attain Our Object
“If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely … Continue reading
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Steadfast Against the Culture
Steadfast Against the Cultureby Michael DoyleThere are two kinds of believersThose committed to the Bible and deceiversSome are guided by the Holy Spirit to aspireAnd then there are the carnally minded led by desireThere are two types of ways to … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Applied, Aspire, Attention, Believers, Bible, Carnally Minded, Christ, Cling, Confident, Conversation, Culture, Daily Bread, Deceivers, Desire, Direction, Disobedience, Eyes, God, Godly Life, Heaven Sent, Holy Spirit, Influence, Joy, Just Compensation, Light, Lived Or Died, Living By the Word, Love, Mangled, Measure, Nurture, Obedience, Peace, Personal Observation, Poetry and Poems, Read, Renew, Retention, Serious Intent, Service, Sin, Steadfast, Talk, Trust, Truth, Two Kinds, Walk
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Thought For the Day: Everyone Discusses My Art and Pretends To Understand, As If It Were Necessary To Understand, When It Is Simply Necessary To Love
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” -Claude Monet, painter (1840-1926)
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Tagged Art, Claude Monet, Discuss, Everyone, Love, Necessary, Pretend, Thought For the Day, Understand
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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None of This Matters
None of This Mattersby Michael DoyleNone of this mattersBecause none of this is realCloaked in our tattersIt’s just another day in HellGod’s given insightInto the battles we must fightScattered in the ashes of the nightWe somehow hold onto the lightThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Battle, Blood, Blood Bruises, Cloaked, Cruel, Demand, Disregard, Fight, God, Good, Hell, Insight, Life, Light, Matters, Mercy, Mud, Night, None, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reasonable, Six Degrees, Soul, Tapestry, Tatters, Travesty, Understanding, Unguarded, Water, Words, Yesterday
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First Principles: The True Key For the Construction of Everything Doubtful In A Law Is the Intention of the Law-Makers
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the … Continue reading
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Tagged Construction, Contradict, Doubtful, Express Words, Extraneous Circumstances, First Principles, Gather, Intention, Law, Law-Makers, Sought, Thomas Jefferson, True Key, Words
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Thought For the Day: Some of the Biggest Cases of Mistaken Identity Are Among Intellectuals Who Have Trouble Remembering That They Are Not God
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” – Thomas Sowell
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