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Monthly Archives: October 2024
First Principles: Measures Are Too Often Decided, Not According To the Rules of Justice and the Rights of the Minor Party, But By the Superior Force of an Interested and Overbearing Majority
“Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” – James Madison
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Tagged Decided, First Principles, Interested, James Madison, Majoirty, Measures, Minor Party, Overbearing, Rights, Rules of Justice, Superior Force
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Thought For the Day: The Most Valuable Possession You Can Own Is An Open Heart. The Most Powerful Weapon You Can Be Is An Instrument of Peace
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.” – Carlos Santana
Sacred Call
Sacred Callby Michael DoyleMy eyes are set aboveFocused on my God’s loveI raise my voice in gratitudeFixing right my attitudeThe Holy Spirit knows us allIn its guidance, as we recallSinging out with our full voiceI live every moment by my … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Attitude, Best Is Done, Christ, Days, Every Moment, Eyes, Focus, Free Choice, Full Voice, God's Alone, God's Love, God's Will, Gratitude, Guidance, Hallelujah, Holy Spirit, My All, Name of the Lord, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Recall, Relationship, Risen, Sacred Call, Savior, Sing, Stone, The Son, Tomb, Top of My Lungs, Trust, Whisper, Worship, Worthy
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Thought For the Day: Live In Each Season As It Passes; Breathe the Air, Drink the Water, Taste the Fruit, and Resign Yourself To the Influence of the Earth
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Air, Breathe, Drink, Each Season, Earth, Fruit, Henry David Thoreau, Influence, Live, Pass, Resign, Self, Taste, Thought For the Day, Water
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First Principles: The Rights of Conscience, of Bearing Arms, of Changing the Government, Are Declared To Be Inherent In the People
“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.” – Fisher Ames
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Tagged Bearing Arms, Changing the Government, Conscience, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Inherent, Rights, The People
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Virtue and Disobedience
Virtue and Disobedienceby Michael DoylePainting away your dayAs old records playEach portrait painted with feelingIs nothing less than soul-revealingThat is to say about the painters’ waysNot of the sitter, despite honoring his daysSpending time on crafting the right impressionThis is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist's Confession, Confident, Control, Dangerous, Deal, Death, Depravity, Disobedience, Drink Away, Duress, Equally Unafraid, Evil, Explanation, Feeling, Genuis, Great Ideas, Heart, History, Holidy, Immoral, Indignity, Innocent, Knife Blade, Lips, Madman, Mask, Mystery, Old Records, Pain, Paint, Painter, Pawns, Phantom Lover, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Portrait, Possibility, Rationalization, Regrets, Rewrite History, Right Impression, Saint, See, Sitter, Skill Set, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Strangeness of Life, Survivors, Truth, Virtue, Wolves, Wonder
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First Principles: Heaven Is Under Our Feet As Well As Over Our Heads
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” —Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Feet, First Principles, Head, Heaven, Henry David Thoreau, Over, Under
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Welcome To Our Church of Glory
Welcome To Our Church of Gloryby Michael DoyleThe rock of agesIs spread across the pagesWe hear it in the harmonyWe see it in the world’s beautyIt’s for this, I singAll the glory to my kingJesus gives us all for our … Continue reading
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Tagged Cause, Church of Glory, Daily Shown, Faithfulness, Focus, Freedom Story, Generation, Glory, God of Jacob, Good, Harmony, Hear, Hearts, His Love, Jesus, King, Known, Love To Live, Needed, Pages, Pleaded, Poetry and Poems, Relationship, Rock of Ages, See, Sing, Smiles, The World's Beauty, Through Prayer, Time, True, Understood, Veneration, Welcome, Worship
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