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Thought For the Day: If Your Faith Has Not Pulled You Away From Your Political Party In Multiple Ways, Your Politics Might Be Shaping Your Faith More Than Your Faith Is Shaping Your Politics
“If your faith has not pulled you away from your political party in multiple ways, your politics might be shaping your faith more than your faith is shaping your politics.” -Erick Erickson
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Tagged Bleed Away, Erick Erickson, Faith, Multiple Ways, Political Party, Politics, Pull, Shape, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Is Not Honorable To Take Mere Legal Advantage When It Happens To Be Contrary To Justice
“It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage when it happens to be contrary to justice.” – Thomas Jefferson (1790)
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Tagged Contrary, First Principles, Happen, Honorable, Justice, Legal Advantage, Thomas Jefferson
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Continually and Helpfully
Continually and Helpfullyby Michael DoyleContinually and helpfully, we must setGod’s word before us studied, not just a peekSeeking to live as Jesus would teachKeeping the things above within our needed reachFocused on what is truly our very bestThat we might … Continue reading
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Tagged Battlefield, Breath, Compel, Continue, Death, Devil, Dwell, Evil, Eyes, Flawed, Focus, Fumble, God, God's Word, Good, Grow, Helpful, Impulse, Jesus, Know, Learn, Light, Live, Minds, Outward, Path, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Push and Pull, Reach, Satan, Season, Soul, Study, Talk, Teach, Tempt, Test, Toward, Treason, Truth, Understood, Victory's Crown, Walk, Word of God, Yield
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Thought For the Day: Courage Without Conscience Is A Wild Beast
“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)
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Tagged Beast, Conscience, Courage, Robert Green Ingersoll, Thought For the Day, Wild
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First Principles: Wherever the Real Power In A Government Lies, There Is A Danger of Oppression
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Danger, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Oppression, Real Power, Wherever
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In My Darkest Times
In My Darkest Timesby Michael DoyleIn my darkest timesWhen I’m all out of rhymesYou hold me in your holy palmKeeping me safe and calmYou pulled the Savior out of His graveWith all you are and do to saveJesus, you’ve always … Continue reading
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Tagged Amaze, Anguish, Connect, Darkest Times, Daze, Dots, Face, Faith, Felt, Grace, Grave, Heart, Hold, Holy, Hope, Jesus, Love, Next, Open, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pull, Recollection, Restore, Rhymes, Safe and Calm, Save, Savior, Share, Time and Space, Trace, Truth, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thyself
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.” -Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer (13 Aug 1851-1933) Why is it so hard for paid journalists to follow these ethical rules?
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Tagged Act, Best, Elicit, Felix Adler, Others, Self, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Though I Walk Through the Darkest Valley, I Will Fear No Evil
“The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort, Darkest Valley, Fear, First Principles, Green Pastures, Guide, Lie Down, Lord, Name's Sake, No Evil, Nothing, Pslams 23:1-4 (NIV), Quiet Pastures, Refresh, Right Paths, Rod, Shepherd, Soul, Staff, Walk
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To Yet Believe
To Yet Believeby Michael DoyleConfused by shadowsWe wonder at what we knowTo the heavens and to belowWe feint at what we might knowPerhaps spoken dreamsAre our best questsThe impossible, so it seemsGives us our best testsTo fight to right the … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Belong, Below, Brave Hearts, Call, Confuse, Courage, Destiny, Down-At-Heart, Dream, Dreamer, Earnest Hearts, End, Feint, Fight, Final Home, Give, Glory, Greatest Gift, Heart, Heaven, Heavens, Home, Impossible, Knight, Know, Lerry, Passing Years, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Quest, Recall, Reval, Right, Seem, Shadow, Start, Story, Tear, Test, Try, Weary, Wonder, Wrongs
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Thought For the Day: As Compared With Impulsive Commitment To the First Idea Which Dawns, That Is, With Intuitive Action, Reasoning Is Patient, Exploratory of Other Possibilities, and Deliberative
“As compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns, that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient, exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative.” – Edwin Arthur Burtt (1892-1989)
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Tagged Commitment, Compare, Deliberative, EA Burtt, Exploratory, First Idea, Impulse, Intuitive Action, Patient, Possibilities, Reason, Thought For the Day
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