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Thought For the Day: We Love Those Who Know the Worst of Us and Don’t Turn Their Faces Away
“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.” – Walker Percy, author (28 May 1916-1990)
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First Principles: Religion and Virtue Are the Only Foundations, Not Only of Republicanism and of All Free Government, But of Social Felicity Under All Governments
“Religion and Virtue are the only Foundations, not only of Republicanism and of all free Government, but of Social Felicity under all Governments and in all the Combinations of human Society.” – John Adams (1811)
On Bended Knee
On Bended Kneeby Michael DoyleOn bended knee, I see the memoryOf the day and the costI watched you let it beGiving it your dignityIt’s hard to add the costMaking it worseIs I know that bullet was mineIt had my nameBleeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, American Liberty, Bended Knee, Blame, Bleeding, Blood, Breath, Bullet, Choose, Cost, Cry, Days, Death, Define, Depend, Dignity, End, Expend, Fight and Die, Forgive, Friends, Full Price, Hard, Hope, Indignantly, Integrity, Lives, Measure, Memory, Mine, Mistakes, Moments, My Name, Nation, Obligation, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Pray, Protect and Defend, Refuse, Speak, Taken For Granted, The Cost, Toil, Treasure, Verse, Watch, Why, Worse, Your Death
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First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams
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Thought For the Day: Greater Love Has no One Than This: To Lay Down One’s Life For One’s Friends
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:12-14
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Tagged Greater Love, John 15:12-14, Lay Down, One, One's Friends, One's Life, Thought For the Day
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(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternity
(Walking Christ’s Love) To Eternityby Michael DoyleJesus is distinguished as the otherHoly savior and mankind’s brotherWholly God and man, we worship His nameHe and only He is able to cross out our blameWe stand humbly trusting in His authorityExcited as … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Bible, Broken Road, Christ's Love, Christianity, Control, Criticism, Cross Out Our Blame, Dignity, Discern, Distinguish, Eternity, Faith, Foundation, Grace, His Story, Inner Child, Jesus, Optimsim, Poetry and Poems, Revelations, Salvation, Security, Sould, Sovereignty, Substance, Sufficiency, Supremacy, Thankfulness, The Blble, Walk, Worship
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Thought For the Day: To Love Means Loving the Unlovable. To Forgive Means Pardoning the Unpardonable. Faith Means Believing the Unbelievable.
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton
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Tagged Believe, Faith, Forgive, G.K. Chesterton, Hope, Hopeless, Hoping, Love, Loving, Pardon, Thought For the Day, Unbelievable, Unlovable, Unpardonable
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First Principles: Wives, Submit Yourselves To Your Own Husbands As You Do To the Lord…Husbands, Love Your Wives, Just As Christ Loved the Church
“22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christ, Church, Ephesians, Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV), First Principles, Husband, Love, Marriage, One Another, Profound Mystery, Reason, Respect, Reverence, Submission, Submit, Two Will Become One Flesh, Wive
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A Sultry Obsession
A Sultry Obsessionby Michael DoyleSince an early age, I have had a sultry obsessionWith a kind of magic that cannot be held in possessionCleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderfulBut it was doing my bit to keep our … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Appreciation, Balance, Beauty, Camera, Camera's Eye, Capture, Cleaner, Cleaning Up, College, Country Roads, Crisp Morning Air, Days, Doing My Bit, Early Age, Effot, Feeling, First Touch, Forever, Gaze, God's Creation, Humanity's Ability, Keep Our American Beautiful, Kind of Magic, Knowledge, Lifetime Later, Meaner, Mountains, Nature, Never Truly Alone, Once Again, Please, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Prairies, Real Home, Return the Care, Science, Share, Sultry Obsession, Sunny Days, Sunshine, Trash Bags, Trees, Walk, Water Ways, Wonderful, World, World Kin
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First Principles: We Don’t Inherit the Earth From Our Ancestors, We Borrow It From Our Children
“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb
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Tagged Ancestors, Borrow, Earth, First Principles, Inherit, Native American Proverb, Our Children, We
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