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First Principles: The Greatest Kindness One Can Render To Any Man Consists In Leading Him From Error To Truth
“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” – Thomas Aquinas
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Tagged Consist, Error, First Principles, Kindness, Lead, Mankind, Thomas Aquinas, Truth
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Thought For the Day: One’s Virtue Is All That One Truly Has, Because It Is Not Imperiled By the Vicissitudes of Fortune
“One’s virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.” – Boethius
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Tagged Boethius, Fortune, Imperiled, Thought For the Day, Virtue, Viscisitudes
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Hard In the Stumble
Hard In the Stumbleby Michael DoyleIt seems we are all morally inarticulate.It was nothing that I thought to anticipate.I’m holding on to constellations that won’t speak,No matter how much stardust begins to leak.American depression has become today’s obsession.Drugs, alcohol, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Age of Cospiracy, Alcohol, American Depression, Anticipate, Circling Back, Constellations, Drugs, Frustration, Grumble, Hard, Health, Leak, Life, Marlon Brando, mental-health, Mind, Morally Inarticulate, Numbing Down, Obsession, Picasso, Poetry and Poems, Polarization, Relationships, Speak, Statdust, Stumble, Sucession, Suicide, Trauma, Writing
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First Principles: All Courses of Action Are Risky, So Prudence Is Not In Avoiding Danger (It’s Impossible), But Calculating Risk and Acting Decisively
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Ambition, Bold, Calculate, Courses of Action, Danger, Decisive, First Principles, Mistake, Niccolo Machiavelli, Prudence, Risk, Sloth, Strength, Suffer
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Thought For the Day: Consider Your Origins: You Were Not Made To Live As Brutes, But To Follow Virtue and Knowledge
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” – Dante Alighieri
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Tagged Brute, Consider, Dante Alighieri, Follow, Knowledge, Live, Origins, Thought For the Day, Virtue
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Stumbling Stones of Salvation
Stumbling Stones of Salvationby Michael DoyleTo deprive the world would be like violence.If preachers were to keep this in their silence,Not allowing the people to hear an explanationAbout God’s grand plan to provide us salvation.With boldness, we speak the word.In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Bold, Christianity, Clarity, Explanation, Faith, God, God's Grand Plan, Gospel, Holy Lecay, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Preachers, Salvation, Silence, Struggle, Stumbling Stones, The World, Transforative, Violence
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Thought For the Day: The Loveliest Masterpiece of the Heart of God Is the Heart Of A Mother
“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” – St. Therese of Lisieux Happy Mothers Day!!
First Principles: It Is With Your Heart That You Believe and Are Justified, and It Is With Your Mouth That You Profess Your Faith and Are Saved
“For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” – Romans 10: 10
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Tagged Faith, First Principles, Justified, Mouth, Profess, Romans 10:10, Saved, Your Heart
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The Promise of Salvation
The Promise of Salvationby Michael DoyleIt took the Lord God Almighty,In all His mercy to save me.I was lost in the wrath of my sin,Losing my way, time and again.I suppose a lesser soul could have tried.I laughed to myself … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Confession, Cost, Cried, Embrace, Evil's Control, Free, Frozen Mud, God, Gratitude, Healing Soul, Heart, Holy, Holy God, Humbly, In Debt, Joke, Lamb's Blood, Laugh, Lesser Soul, Lord God Almighty, Losing My Way, Lost, Mercy, Midnight Hour, Midnight Stars, My Sin, New Man, New Scars, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Promise, Promises, Redemption, Rise, Sacrifice, Salvation, Satan's Power, Soul, Stranger God, Undeserved Grace, Victory, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: Three Grand Essentials To Happiness In This Life Are Something To Do, Something To Love, and Something To Hope For
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” -Joseph Addison, writer (1 May 1672-1719)
