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Thought For the Day: Balancing the Budget Is Like Going To Heaven. Everybody Wants To Do It, But Nobody Wants To Do What You Have To Do To Get There
“Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.” – Phil Gramm
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Tagged Balance, Budget, Do It, Everybody, Have To Do, Heaven, Phil Gramm, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: If We Command Our Wealth, We Shall Be Rich and Free. If Our Wealth Commands Us, We Are Poor Indeed
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.” – Edmund Burke
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Tagged Command, Edmund Burke, First Principles, Poor, Rich and Free, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: In Order To Live A Life of Holiness, We Must First Receive New Life From God- We Must Be Born From Above
” In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God – we must be born from above.” – J. Vernon McGee
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Tagged Born, From Above, God, Holinesss, J. Vernon McGee, Life, New Life, Order, Receive, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: We Were Therefore Buried With Him Through Baptism Into Death In Order That, Just As Christ Was Raised From the Dead Through the Glory of the Father, We Too May Live A New Life
“We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” – Romans 6:4
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Tagged Baptism, Buried With Him, Christ, Death, First Principles, Glory of the Father, Live, New Life, Raised From the Dead, Romans 6:4 (NIV), We
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Geyser Dreams and Stone Footsteps
Geyser Dreams and Stone Footstepsby Michael DoyleA chronicle’s story has been revealedAbout sacred ground that has been unveiledHayden’s expedition surveyed the majestyThat they happened on in Yellowstone ValleyThis stretch of land was meant for explorationIt became a crown jewel benefiting … Continue reading
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Tagged 150 Years, Adventure, Canopy, Canyon, Chronicle, Crown Jewel, Exploration, Geyser Dreams, Hayden Expedition, hiking, Humanity, Legacy, Magical Place, Magnificience, Majesty, Mountains, Nation, Poetry and Poems, Significance, Space, Sprawling Forest, Stone Footsteps, Story, Stretch of Land, Sureeal Beauty, Tapestry, Travel, Unveiled, Wooded Strands, yellowstone, Yellowstone Valley
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First Principles: The Preservation of the Sacred Fire of Liberty, and the Destiny of the Republican Model of Government…Staked On the Experiment Entrusted To the Hands of the American People
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” – George Washington (1789)
Thought For the Day: Some People Want It To Happen, Some Wish It Would Happen, Others Make It Happen
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan, from “A Humbled Jordan Learns New Truths (1994), The New York Times
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Living Waters Fill My Thirst
Living Waters Fill My Thirstby Michael DoyleLiving waters fill my thirstFreed by the love that I put firstMy King has paid the ransomHe has given me my place in His kingdomHis words are the wind in my sailsHis song is … Continue reading
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Tagged Eternal Love, Every Breath, Fall Down, First, Focus, Freed, Grace, Healing Hand, Heaven Above, His Kingdom, His Song, His Will, His Words, Intention, Learned, Living Waters, Love, My Eyes, My King, My Place, Not Earned, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ransom, Received, Sails, Testify, Thirst, Understand, Understood, Victory, Victory Crown, Wind
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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice. Ironically, Their Virtues Make Them Vulnerable
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway
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Tagged Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroy, Discimpline, Ernest Hemingway, Felling, Ironic, Possess, Risk, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtue, Vulneraable, Wound
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