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Living Mystery
Living Mysteryby Michael DoyleI’ve led a life of scarsEarned under the summer’s stars.All around me, I’ve seen God move,And I’ve struggled to improve.I was just another long-haired boyLifting my voice with anger and joy.Overwhelmed by the moving score,I fought for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bold, Crash, Days, God, Improvement, Living Mystery, Long-Haired Boy, Older, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Scar, Seen, Summer's Stars, Voice
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Thought For the Day: We Need Men With Moral Courage To Speak and Write Their Real Thoughts, and To Stand By Their Convictions, Even To the Very Death
“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
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Tagged Conviction, Death, Mankind, Moral Courage, Real Thoughts, Robert Green Ingersoll, Speak, Thought For the Day, Write
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First Principles: But Stephen, Full of the Holy Spirit, Looked Up To Heaven and Saw the Glory of God, and Jesus Standing At the Right Hand of God
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. – Acts 7:55 NIV
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Tagged God, Jesus, Heaven, Glory of God, First Pinciples, Right Hand, Holly Spirit, Stephen, Acts 7:55 NIV
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Thought For the Day: God Is A Specialist At Making Something Useful and Beautiful Out of Something Broken and Confused
“God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.’ – Charles R. Swindoll
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Tagged God, Beautiful, Thought For the Day, Useful, Broken, Confused, Charles R. Swindoll, Specialist
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First Principles: Well, There Doesn’t Seem Anything Else For An Ex-President To Do But To Go Into the Country and Raise Big Pumpkins
“Well, there doesn’t seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.” – Cheater A. Arthur
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Tagged Chester A. Arthur, Country, Ex-President, First Priiciples, Pumpkins, Raise
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A Fill of Years
A Fill of Yearsby Michael DoyleWe filled our lives with all of these years,Faking smiles through too many tears.Those that come after have their game.We each had one, but who is there to blame?The last thing we need is endless … Continue reading
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Tagged Soul, Poetry and Poems, Smile, Lives, Game, Blame, Tears, Score, Years, Fill, Bone, Cleaved Meat
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Thought For the Day: The Master of the Art In Living…Pursues His Vision of Excellence At Whatever He Does, Leaving Others To Decide Whether He Is Working Or Playing
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Both, Distinction, Labor, Leisure, Living, Master, Mind, Play, Thought For the Day, Vision of Excellence, William A. Michener, Work
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First Principles: Every Civil Government Is Based Upon Some Religion Or Philosophy of Life. Education In A Nation Will Propagate the Religion of that Nation. In America, the Foundational Religion Was Christianity
“Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Christianity, Civil Government, Education, First Principles, Freedom, Liberty, Life, Nation, Noah Webster, Philosophy, Religion
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Thought For the Day: Tears Are the Noble Language of Eyes, and When True Love of Words Is Destitute.The Eye By Tears Speak, While the Tongue Is Mute
“Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.” – Robert Harrick
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Tagged Destitution, Eyes, Noble Language, Robert Harrick, Speak, Tears, Thought For the Day, Tongue, True Love, Words
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First Principles: Virtue Is the Only Just Reason For Respecting Anyone; Lack of Virtue the Only Reason For Holding Anyone In Low Regard
“Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in … Continue reading
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Tagged Esteem, First Principles, Money, Reason, Regard, Virtue, William Penn
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