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First Principles: To Preserve the Republican Form and Principles of Our Constitution and Cleave To the Salutary Distribution of Powers… Are the Two Sheet Anchors of Our Union
“To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established … are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Greatest Happiness of Life Is the Conviction That We Are Loved – Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather, Loved In Spite of Ourselves
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Tagged Conviction, Great, Happiness, Life, Love, Ourselves, Spite, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo
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Minding God’s Own Business
Minding God’s Own Businessby Michael DoyleIt’s how it is that we should liveWe find that God has work to giveIn an echo of principles, we need clarityOf what is necessary to enable us to seeTo lack in clarity is an … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Approach, Ark, Bible, Biblical Verbs, Blessings, Blindness, Boundaries, Burden, Business, Carry, Christ, Christianity, Clarity, Complication, Creation, Dancer, Depth, Discern, Dysfunction, Earn, Easy Path, Echo of Principles, Egypt, Enable, Ethics, Exaggerate, Exhausted People, Faith, Fallen Humanity, Fate, Forgiven, Free, Function, Give, Given, Given By Grace, God, Godly Freedom, Godly Ways, Grave, Heart, Heavy Lifting, Hurt, Impulse, Jesus, Kingdom, Least Resistance, Lifetime, Live, Living Start, Love, Marathon, March, Margins, Mark, Meet and Exceed, Mind, Necessary, Need, Onset, Pace, Path, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Reach Out, Relationship, Rely On, Rest, Rhythm, Righteous Worship, Rules, Safety, Salvation, See, Sight, Snail, Society, Solution, Sprint, Strife, Sustainable, Sustainable Path, Ten Commandments, Test, Toxicity, Trap, Unkind, Weight, Work, Yoke of Evil
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Thought For the Day: The Pain Passes But the Beauty Remains
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.” -Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist [responding to Matisse on why he painted in spite of his painful arthritis] (25 Feb 1841-1919)
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Tagged Beauty, Pain, Pass, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Remain, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Strive To Be the Greatest Man In Your Country, and You May Be Disappointed. Strive To Be the Best and You May Succeed
“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.” – Benjamin Franklin (1747)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Best, Country, Disappointed, First Principles, Greatest Man, Himself, Race, Run, Strive, Succeed, Win
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Free From the Inside
Free From the Insideby Michael DoyleRemembering when I was lostThankful for how you paid the costGetting me across the great divideSetting me free from the insideYou took away my wretched prideSetting me free from the insideThree days blind until that … Continue reading
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Tagged Across, Blood, Cost, Darkness, Free, God, Good, Great Divide, Hardness, Inside, Life, Lost, Loving Light, Night, No Limit, Paid, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Remember, Right, Rolled, Shine, Sight, Sky, Son, Stone, Stumble, Sve, Taught, Thankful, Thanks, Three Days Blind, Understood, Walking Me Back, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Christian Does Not Think God Will Love Us Because We Are Good, But That God Will Make Us Good Because He Loves Us
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” – C.S. Lewis
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First Principles: Take My Yoke Upon You and Learn From Me, For I Am Gentle and Humble In Heart, and You Will Find Rest For Your Souls
“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Matthew 11:29-30
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First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)
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Tagged Care, Destruction, First and Only, First Principles, Good Government, Happiness, Human Life, Legitimate, Objecct, Thomas Jeffereson
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