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First Principles: The Word of God Must Be Read and Heard With Diligence That So You May Arrive To the Knowledge That Is Needful For You
“The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.” – Cotton Mather
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Tagged Cotton Mather, Diligence, First Principles, Heard, Knowledge, Needful, Read, Word of God
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A Reverence For Hurts Felt
A Reverence For Hurts Feltby Michael DoyleIt’s never easy on the children. Is it?Perfection is not really a standard. Is it?There is so much to be worked out,Between the fears, the tears, and the doubts.It’s too bad about the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Children, Daughter, Difference, Done, Doubt, Earnest, Failure, Faith, Family, Father, Fear, Felt, Forgiving, Hurt, Jesus, Life, Lord, Love, Measure, Omission, Perfection, Poetry and Poems, Power of Animosity, Pray, Rage, Reverence, Son, Starndard, Tears, Thanksgiving, Treasure, Understood, Worked Out, Writing, Wrongs
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First Principles: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Defer, Do, Do It Now, Expect, First Principles, Good, Kindness, Life, Neglect, Once, Pass This Way Again, Show, William Penn
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Thought For the Day: If You Make It A Habit Not To Blame Others, You Will Feel the Growth of the Ability To Love In Your Soul, and You Will See the Growth of Goodness In Your Life
“If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.” – Leo Tolstoy
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Tagged Ability, Blame, Goodness, Growth, Habit, Leo Tolstoy, Life, Love, Others, Soul, Thought For the Day
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In the Complexity of This World
In the Complexity of This Worldby Michael DoyleAnger and other toxic emotionsCan linger with all their commotion.All of these feelings are indwelling,And are in our control. God willing.We grow up as boys in the hood,But the hope is that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Boys In the Hood, Commotion, Complexity, Control, Depth, Feelings, God Williing, Hope, Indwelling, Meaning, Mr. Rogers, Opportunities To Grow, Poetry and Poems, Saint, Snapshot, Step, Talked, The Bible, Toxic Emotions, Understood, Walked, Words
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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Conservation: The Greatest Good To the Greatest Number of People For the Longest Time
“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.” – Gifford Pinchot
First Principles: The Belief In A God All Powerful Wise and Good, Is So Essential To the Moral Order of the World and To the Happiness of Man
“The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted … Continue reading
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Tagged Arguments, First Principles, God, Happiness of Man, James Madison, Moral Order, Soruces, Wise and Good
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Look At What The Shrewd Have Done
Look At What the Shrewd Have Doneby Michael DoyleOh, look with sadness on what the shrewd have done.Didn’t Jesus warn all to never hurt even a single one?Say the words of innocence that we’ve come to despise.Those on Epstein’s Island … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Bible, Children, Christianity, Despise, Done, Epstein's Island, Faith, God, Hurt, Innocence, Jesus, Lies, Look, Poetry and Poems, Precious Gifts, Sadness, Sin, Single One, Triggered Memories, World
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Thought For the Day: Our Dilemma Is That We Hate Change and Love It At the Same Time; What We Really Want Is For Things To Remain the Same But Get Better
“Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” – Sydney J. Harris
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Tagged Better, Change, Dilemma, Hate, Love, Remain the Sam, Same Tme, Sydney J. Harris, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln (Look at the election results in NYC, Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere. We are voting in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, Destruction, First Principles, Freedoms, Ourselves, Outside
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 