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Thought For the Day: People’s Souls Are Like Gardens. You Can’t Turn Your Back On Someone Because His Garden’s Full of Weeds. You Have to Give Him Water and Lots of Sunshine
“People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.” – Nancy Farmer, author (b. 7 Jul 1941)
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Tagged Back, Gardens, Nancy Farmer, People, Someone, Souls, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Water, Weeds
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Tithemi
Tithemiby Michael DoyleAs citizens of the kingdom and our nationWe live with tension and fascinationWalking tall in our communityWe live the love of God’s good familyBy doing this, we take our Christian cueAs we study and find God’s good cluesStarting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adhere, Align, Anchored, Appeal, Bible, Christ's Ambassaodrs, Christian Cue, Christianity, Citzens, Community, Complexity, Debt, Devil's Schemes, Divine, Earth, Faith, Family, Fascination, Forgiveness, God, Good Conscience, Healing Grace, Hearts and Heads, Humanity, Immorality, Jesus, Kingdom, Love, Meaning, Mirror, Nation, Patient, Plan, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Rebellion, Seal, Shining Light, Study, Tension, Tithemi, Toxciity, Unafraid, Understood, Walking Tall
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Thought For the Day: We Are Not To Reflect On the Wickedness of Men But To Look To the Image of God In Them
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to … Continue reading
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Tagged Allure, Beauty, Cover, Dignity, Embrace, Fault, Image of God, Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Love, Men, Obliterate, Reflect, Thought For the Day, Wickedness
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First Principles: We Are Therefore Christ’s Ambassadors, As Though God Were Making His Appeal Through Us. We Implore You On Christ’s Behalf: Be Reconciled To God
“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” – 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV)
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Tagged 2 Corinthians 5:20 (NIV), Ambassadors, Christ, Christ's Behalf, First Principles, God, His Appeal, Implore, Reconciled, Through Us, We
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Tempted By Our Sins
Tempted By Our Sinsby Michael DoyleWe explore our levels of intimacyHow we want things for our family There’s something to the craveThat will either break or saveThere’s so much to sayOur expectations will stayLet’s keep to our decisions madeAnd not … Continue reading
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Tagged Afradi, Better, Break, Crash and Burn, Crave, Decision, Expectation, Explore, Family, Give In, Hope, Intimacy, Learn, Levels, Poetry and Poems, Save, Say, Sins, Tempted, Together
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Thought For the Day: Many A Book Is Like A Key To Unknown Chambers Within the Castle of One’s Own Self
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” – Franz Kafka
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Tagged Book, Castle, Franz Kafka, Key, Many, Self, Thought For the Day, Unknown Chambers
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First Principles: The Only Foundation For A Useful Education In A Republic Is To Laid In Religion. Without This There Can Be No Virtue
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, First Principles, Foundation, Life, No Liberty, No Virtue, Object, Religion, Republic, Republican Government, Useful Education
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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First Principles: I Am Well Aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, That It Will Cost Us To Maintain This Declaration, and Support and Defend These States
“You will think me transported with Enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all … Continue reading
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Tagged Aware, Cost, Declaration, Enthusiasm, First Principles, John Adams, States, Support and Defend, Toil and Blood, Treasure
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Thought For the Day: The Truth Is, Most of Us Discover Where We Are Headed When We Arrive
“The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” – Bill Watterson
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Tagged Arrive, Bill Watterson, Discover, Headed, Thought For the Day, Truth, Us, Where
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