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Thought For the Day: Who Makes Quick Use of the Moment Is A Genius of Prudence
“Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.” – Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Tagged Genius, Johann Kaspar Lavatar, Moment, Prudence, Quick, Thought For the Day, Use
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Two Brothers Fight
Two Brothers Fightby Michael DoyleTwo brothers are engaged in a fightOver their father’s founding legacyEach side as if as lost within vanityAs the day that divides the ends of nightDown through the centuriesEach side believes itself the betterRepeating cycles of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, Allow, Believe, Better, Better Fate, Better Way, Brutality, Caught Up, Centuries, Chains of Yesterday, Claim, Cling, Coexistence, Construction, Crazy, Darkness, Day, Desert To the Sea, Difference, Disobedience, Divide, Each Side, Endless Cycles, Ends of Night, Every Day, Fallen Stakes, False Histories, Father, Fight, Gaslighting, God's Commands, Hate, Holy Lands, Humanity, Indignity, Land, Legacy, Love, Mercy, Miunderstood, Mutually Caused Destruction, One Side, Other Side, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Proclaim, Recognize, Repeating Cycles, Result, Sanity, Strength, Truth, Two Brothers, Vanity, Victimhood, Work Toward
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First Principles: No Number of Wreaths, No Amount of Music and Memorializing Will Ever Do Them Justice, But It Is Good For Us That We Honor Them and Their Sacrifice
“No number of wreaths, no amount of music and memorializing will ever do them justice, but it is good for us that we honor them and their sacrifice.”- Ronald Reagan, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication (1982)
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Tagged Amount, First Principles, Good, Honor, Justice, Memorialize, Music, Number, Ronald Reagan, Sacrifice, Wreaths
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Thought For the Day: Without Peace, All Other Dreams Vanish and Are Reduced To Ashes
“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister
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Tagged Ash, Dreams, Jawaharlal Nehru, Peace, Reduce, Thought For the Day, Vanish
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Fairness of Trials Had
Fairness of Trials Hadby Michael DoyleIn this free land of dignity and rightThe Bill of Rights shines into the nightAmended to our Constitution, our governmentHolds these rights as something self-evidentThe fairness of trials in the Sixth AmendmentMay not seem as … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abuse of Authority, Bill of Rights, Chains of Tyranny, Confrontation, Constitution, Cower, Dignity, Equitable Sense, Fairness, Fairness of Trials, Feedoms, Founding Principle, Free Land, Government, Impartiality, Inspire, Legality, Love of Power, Mistreated, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Processes, Protected, Public Trial, Respected, Right, Right to Trial, Rights and Freedoms, Secure, Self-Evident, Shield, Sixth Amendment, The People, Trials, Unequal, Witnesses
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First Principles: Of All the Enemies To Public Liberty War Is, Perhaps, the Most To Be Dreaded, Because It Comprises and Develops the Germ of Every Other
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Comprise, Continual Warfare, Develop, Dread, Enemies, First Principles, Freedom, Germs, James Madison, No Nation, Public Liberty, War
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Thought For the Day: Everybody, Soon Or Late, Sits Down To A Banquet of Consequences
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)
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Tagged Banquet, Consquences, Everybody, Late, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sit, Soon, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Fruit of the Spirit Is Fundamentally Relational. Rather Than Originating With Us, It Flows To Us From Our Union With Christ
“The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow – … Continue reading
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Tagged Fellowship, Flow, Flows, Fruit of the Spirit, Fundamental, Humility, Jerry Bridges, Origin, Others, Relational, Thought For the Day, Union With Christ, Us
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First Principles: For the Entire Law Is Fulfilled In Keeping This One Command: ‘Love Your Neighbor As Yourself’
“For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.‘” – Galatians 5:14 (NIV)
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