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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopt, Conform, Constitution, Construction, Debate, First Principles, Invent, Meaning, Passed, Probable, Question, Spirit, Squeeze, Text, Thomas Jefferson
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Preparation and Interpretation
Preparation and Interpretationby Michael DoyleI begin this in prayer and dedicationStanding firm on God’s holy foundationSpeaking the Word of God before meIn supplication, I seek to let this beGod, the three-in-one, formed in trinityIs holy and righteous in His dignityWelcoming … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Book of Daniel, Bound, Broken, Challenges, Confidence, Confusion, Constant, Days, Dream, Esteem, Faith, Faithful, Found, Foundation, God, Going For Broke, Hand of God, Holy Spirit, Identify, Identitty, Illusion, Interpretation, Jesus, Kingdom, Living God, Manipultion, Marketplace, Poetry and Poems, Preparation, Presentation, Reeducation, Relevance, Resistance, Righteous, Separation, Sin, Society, Spoken, Strategy, Strife, Supplication, Tame, The Woke, Translate, Trinity, Trust, Truth, Ways, Wisdom, Word of God, Word View, Worldview
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First Principles: Science Has Liberated the Ideas of Those Who Read and Reflect, and the American Example Has Kindled Feelings of Right In the People
“Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged American Example, Feelings, First Princniples, Ideas, Kindle, Liberate, Read, Reflect, Right, Science, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Ignorance More Frequently Begets Confidence Than Does Knowledge
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” – Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (12 Feb 1809-1882)
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Tagged Beget, Charles Darawin, Confidence, Frequent, Ignorance, Knowledge, Problem, Science, Thought For the Day
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Floodgate
Floodgateby Michael DoyleI know that my place is reservedBy grace, Heaven is now deservedFor a sinner who once did wrongI have changed, and now I belongWhile it is that all aroundThis wicked world is shakingI cling to the grace I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Acquitted, Adversary, All Around, Belong, Change, Contary, Deceived, Deserve, Embrace, Enemy, Faced, Fear, Floodgate, Forgiven, Found, Friend, Given, Grace, Grace of God, Guilt, Heaven, Kingdom, Know, Life's Steps, Lord, Love, Meditate, Mirror, Mistaking, Overcome, Path, Patiently, Place, Poetry and Poems, Present, Received, Repentance, Reserved, Shaking, Shield, Sinner, Strength, Tears of Joy, Tenderly, the Word, Truth, Wait, Wicked World, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: We Are the Bibles the World Is Reading; We Are the Creeds The World Is Needing; We Are the Sermons the World Is Heeding
“We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the creeds the world is needing; we are the sermons the world is heeding.” – Billy Graham
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Tagged Bibles, Billy Graham, Creeds, Heed, Need, Reading, Sermons, Thought For the Day, We, World
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First Principles: Those Who Are Wise Will Shine Like the Brightness of the Heavens, and Those Who Lead Many To Righteousness, Like the Stars For Ever and Ever
“Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.”- Daniel 12:3 (NIV)
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Tagged Bright, Daniel 12:3 (NIV), Ever, First Principles, Heavens, Lead, Righteousness, Shine, Stars, Wise
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Blind Eye Curiosity Collection
Blind Eye Curiosity Collectionby Michael DoyleEvery traveler is a hero in their own storyImperialists and kleptomaniacs after a slice of gloryCulturally misappropriating cultures for the takingCollecting treasures boxed away to the point of breakingContesting the pragmatic bounds of lopsided sentimentsAs … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged All Roads, Atrocity, Blind Eye, Bloodline, Break, Collect, Collection, Consistency, Contest, Cousin, Culture, Curiosity, Deserved, Destruction, Edges, excerpt, Familiarity, Fiction, Fuzzy Math, Hero, Humanity's Throne, Imperialists, Kleptomaniacs, Misapprorpiate, News, Obvious Question, Poem, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pragmatic Bounds, Pth, Purposes, Relvant, Self Correction, Sentiment, Slice of Glory, Steal, Story, Storyline, Theft, Traveler, Underserved, Us Versus Them, Western Tradition, Woven
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