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First Principles: Against the Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence…the Jealousy of A Free People Ought To Be Constantly Awake
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence … the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.” – George Washington (1796)
Thought For the Day: Fight Your Superficiality, Your Shallowness, So As To Try To Come At People Without Unreal Expectations, Without An Overload of Bias or Hope or Arrogance
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastoral, Arrogance, Art, Bias, Books, Fight, Forget, Go Along, Hope, Open Mind, Philip Roth, Poetry, Right or Wrong, Shallowness, Superficiality, The Ride, Thought For the Day, Unreal Expectations, Writing
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Like Saul To Paul
Like Saul To Paulby Michael DoyleTogether, we learn to live outWhat our sermons are aboutDay by day, we learn the talkAnd put it into practice in our walkSpiritual growth brings our skillsLike Saul to Paul, we serve God’s willAll the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bible, Christian, Church, Conversion, Day by Day, Destroy, Divine Light, Divinity, Future, God, God's Will, Heal, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Learn, Legalism, Nurture, Past, Persecute, Poetry and Poems, Practice, Pure, Reveal, Road to Damascus, Salvation, saul, Saul To Paul, Sermon, Skills, Spiritual Growth, Talk, Together, Walk, Zeal
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Thought For the Day: Rain Is Grace; Rain is the Sky Descending To the Earth; Without Rain, There Would Be No Life
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” – John Updike
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Tagged Descend, Earth, Grace, John Updike, Life, Rain, Sky, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: History By Apprising Citizens of the Past Will Enable Them To Judge of the Future
“History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Ambition, Apprise, Assum, Citizens, Defeat, Design, Disguise, Experience, First Principles, Future, History, Judge, Naions, Other Times, Past, Thomas Jefferson, Views
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No Longer Afraid
No Longer Afraidby Michael DoyleIt’s really not so frightening To see Satan fall like lightningCast down from the Heavens aboveAll in the name of God’s sacred loveLiving life as a personal testimonyThe world sometimes crashes down on meAnd I’ll remain … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Afraid, Believe, Birth, Blessing, Cast Down, Conceive, Crash, Crippled, Death, Eyes, Fixed, Fright, God's Care, God's Sacred Love, Heaven, Holiness, Holy Hour, House of Worship, Jesus, Lam, Last Breath, Lightning, Living Life, Met, Miacles, Name, No Longer, Personal Testimony, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Power, Proclaim, Protected, Purpose, Safe, Satan, Satan's Snare, Servant, Spokn, Street, The World, Truth and Love, Victory, Walk
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Thought For the Day: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!
Aloha Promises Forever wishes all its readers a very happy and if a believer, holy Saint Patrick’s Day! The Feast of Saint Patrick (Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is a religious and cultural holiday observed since the 17th century on March 17th … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha Promises Forever, Christianity, Commenorate, Feast of Saint Patrick, Fun, Happy St. Patrick's Day, Ireland, Irish, Irish Diaspora, Lá Fhéile Pádraig, March 17th, Meaning, Patron Saint, Saint Patrick's Day, st-patrick, St. Patrick's Day, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: In A Single Sentence of Idle Chatter We Preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: We Carry A Museum Inside Our Heads
“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestries, Anglo-Saxon, Commenorate, Heads, Heard, Idle Chatter, Know, Latin, Lexicons, Mouth, Museum, Norse, Open, Penelope Lively, Peoples, Single Sentence, Thought For the Day, Walk, Words
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First Principles: Do You Not Know That In A Race All the Runners Run, But Only One Gets the Prize? Run In Such A Way As To Get the Prize
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 9:24-25, Compete, Crown, First Principles, Forever, Games, Know, Last, Prize, Race, Run, Runners, Strict Training, Way
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Thought For the Day: The Pursuit of Truth and Beauty Is A Sphere of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)
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Tagged Activity, Albert Einstein, Beauty, Children, Lives, Permit, Pursuit, Remain, Sphere, Thought For the Day, Truth
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