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First Principles: The Less Government Interferes With Private Pursuits, the Better For General Prosperity
“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.” – Martin Van Buren
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Tagged Better, First Principles, General Prosperity, Government, Interfere, Less, Martin Van Buren, Private Pursuits
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An Illustration of Faithfulness
An Illustration of Faithfulnessby Michael RomaniIn this space of human realityWe live an eternity of our moralityWhile We approach this with humilityIt can easily seem that life is brutalityGrace plus anything is grace deficientNo plus or minus can be sufficientWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Cross, David, Faithfulness, Gift, Grace, Humility, Illustration, Justification, Morality, Poetry and Poems, Rift, Salvation, The Law
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Thought For the Day: Faith Is To Believe What You Do Not See; the Reward of This Faith Is To See What You Believe
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” – Saint Augustine
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Tagged Believe, Do Not See, Faith, Reward, Saint Augustine, See, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Was Not Through the Law That Abraham and His Offspring Received the Promise That He Would Be Heir of the World, But Through the Righteousness That Comes By Faith
It was not through the law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.” – Book of Romans 4: 13 (NIV)
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Tagged Abraham, Book of Romans 4:13, Faith, First Principles, Heir, Offspring, Righteousness, The Law, The Promise, The World
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Hard To Fix
Hard To Fixby Michael DoyleHitchhiking without a direction knownIt’s not on the map and is seldom shownLooking for God and if He’s in chargeIt’s as close as I come to living largeSome things are like bags of tricksImpossible to handle … Continue reading
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Tagged Bags of Tricks, Best of Life, Bounce, Busy Looking, Charge, Crowded, Dead, Dear Life, Direction, Family, Forgot, God, Handle, Hard To Fix, Harder To Fix, Head, Here By Mistake, Hide, Hitchhiking, Impossible, Living Large, Map, Memory, Nothing, Poetry and Poems, Possibilities, Pride, Scars, Shown, Smile, Something, Specificty, Stars, Traveling Fast
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First Principles: The Storm of Frenzy and Faction Must Inevitably Dash Itself Against the Unshaken Rock of the Constitution
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.” – James Buchanan
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Tagged Constitution, Dash, Faction, First Principles, Frenzy, James Buchanan, Rock, Storm
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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Measure of A Man Is Not Where He Stands In Moments of Convenience and Comfort, But Where He Stands AT Times of Challenge and Controversy
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Wrist Cutter Blues
Wrist Cutter Bluesby Michael DoyleShe was born hard to impressHe was maybe overly dressedFor a boy deep in his thoughtsBut she could never be boughtThey were standing in the deep endSomehow waiting for a friendNeither of them was from anywhereThat … Continue reading
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Tagged Afterlife, Anywhere, Blues, Born, Bought, Boy, Capable, Care, Cold Brew, Deep End, Deep In Thought, Doom, Empty People, Everyone else, False Punchlines, Fell, Forget, Friend, Happy, Hard To Impress, Hard To Tell, Heartbreaks, Hell, Invisibile, John, Jokes, Laugh, Life, Meaning of Life, Missed, Mistakes, Muddling Through, Overly Dressed, Path, Patterns, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Repeat, Slice, Small Regrets, Steeple, Steven, Suspect, Sylvia Plath, Warm Slice, Wonder, Wrist
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Thought For the Day: Never, No, Never, Did Nature Say One Thing, and Wisdom Say Another Thing
“Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing, and Wisdom say another.” – Edmund Burke, in his Third Letter on Regicide Peace, 1797
First Principles: A Nation That Destroys Its Soils Destroys Itself. Forests Are the Lungs of Our Land, Purifying the Air and Giving Fresh Strength To Our People
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tagged Air, Destroy, First Principles, Forests, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lungs, Nation, Our Land, Our People, Soil, Strength
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