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Monthly Archives: November 2023
Living In Gentleness
Living In Gentlenessby Michael DoyleOpen-armed and opened-handed to receiveI live by that which I believeLooking with godly eyes is part of worshipLived within our loving relationshipsGentleness takes intention to live outBut it is harder still to live withoutWe must not … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow, Believe, Carved, Compassionate, Cost, Dignity, Display, Gentleness, Godly Eyes, Heal, Humility, Hurt, Intention, Kill, Kind, Live, Live Out, Live Without, Living, Loving Relationships, Open Armed, Poetry and Poems, Power, Receive, Say, Unthinking, Words Spoken, Worship
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Thought For the Day: Perhaps the Earth Can Teach Us, As When Everything Seems Dead and Later Proves To Be Alive
“Perhaps the earth can teach us, as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.” – Pablo Neruda
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Tagged Alive, Dead, Eath, Everything, Later, Pablo Neruda, Prove, Thought For the Day, Us
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First Principles: Do Not Conform To the Pattern of This World, But Be Transformed By the Renewing of Your Mind. Then You Will Be Able To Test and Approve What God’s Will Is
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” – Romans 12:2 (NIV)
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Tagged Approve, Conform, First Principles, God's Will, Pattern, Renew, Romans 12:2 (NIV), Test, This World, Transform, Your Mind
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New Life Reborn
New Life Rebornby Michael DoyleThe new life rebornKnows its miseryCommon sense would mournThis loss of such historyAs a life lived in painThere are questions that strainA thousand cuts into our moralityAre the price of approaching immortalityLike pawns on chessboard gamesWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Sense, History, Immortality, Loss, Misery, Morality, Mourn, New Life, Pain, Poetry and Poem, Price, Reborn, Strain, Thousand Cuts
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Like Souls Rising From the Dead
Like Souls Rising From the Deadby Michael DoyleHidden symbols press the conscienceAnd then denies the separation of scienceFrom the spirituality of all things trueThis is independent of a fearful point of viewMorals only tend to get in the wayOf moments … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Asp, Blasphemous Prayers, Block, Born, Clasp, Company, Conscience, Consequence, Cosmic Strife, Craven World, Cursed, Damned, Darkness, Dead, Divine, Engrave, Eternal Fire, Evil, Fallen Angels, Fear, Godless, Greed, Hand, Harness, Hellish Choir, Hidden Symbols, Hidden Truth, Knowledge, Life, Lightning, Majesty, Mire, Mirror, Morals, Mother Nature, Names, New Day, New Life, New Meaning, Night, Outshine, Pain, Palmistry, Past Light, Phoenix Rises, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Price, Rise, Sacred Veil, Satan, Science, Separation, Souls, Spirituality, Stranger, Sun Rise, Sympathy, True, Undone, Winter Storm, Wish, Womb
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First Principles: Heaven Forming Each On Other To Depend, Bids Each On Other For Assistance Call, ‘Till One Man’s Weakness Grows the Strength of All
“Heaven, forming each on other to depend, Bids each on other for assistance call, ‘Till one man’s weakness grows the strength of all. Wants, frailties, passions closer still ally The common interest, or endear the tie: To these we owe … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Ally, Assistance, Bid, Common Interest, Depend, First Principles, Grow, Heaven, James Wilson, Joy, Lectures On Law (1791), Life, Love Sincere, Of Man As A Member of Society, Strength, Tie, True Friendship, Weakness
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Thought For the Day: A Man Said to the Universe: “Sir, I Exist!” “However,” Replied the Universe, “the Fact Has Not Created In Me A Sense of Obligation”
“A man said to the universe: ‘Sir, I exist!’ “However,” replied the universe, ‘The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.‘” -Stephen Crane, writer (1 Nov 1871-1900)
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Tagged Create, Exist, Fact, Man, Obligation, Reply, Sense, Stephen Crane, Thought For the Day, Universe
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First Principles: If Ever A Time Should Come, When Vain and Aspiring Men Shall Possess the Highest Seats In Government, Our Country Will Stand In Need of Its Experienced Patriots To Prevent Its Ruin
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” – Samuel Adams
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Tagged Aspiring, Country, Experienced, First Principles, Government, Highest Seats, Need, Patriots, Ruin, Samuel Adams, Time, Vain
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Thought For the Day: The Attempt To Force Human Beings To Despise Themselves Is What I Call Hell
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.” – Andre Malraux
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Attempt, Despise, Force, Hell, Human Beings, Self, Thought For the Day
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