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First Principles: The Propriety of A Law, In A Constitutional Light, Must Always Be Determined By the Nature of the Powers Upon Which It is Founded
“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Examining the Gifts of Love
Examining the Gifts of Loveby Michael DoyleGod’s love brings tears to our eyesOpened wide, we look, and we recognizeThat all we live comes from God’s loveAs we keep our hearts fixed on God aboveAgape love is the primary emphasisThat takes … Continue reading
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Tagged Agape Love, Agree, Ask, Bible, Boldly, Christ's Church, Complete, Corinth, Destiny, Division, Emphasis, Establisment, Exam, Faith, Free Will, Full, Gifts of Love, God, God's Love, Gratitude, Healing, Hearts, Jesus, Love, Means, Necessary Convergence, One Body, Paths, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Precious, Proven Influence, Recognize, Redemptive, Reflection, Straight, Tempest, Temptations, The Father, The Love Verse, Understanding, Wise
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Thought For the Day: A Story Has No Beginning Or End: Arbitrarily One Chooses That Moment of Experience From Which To Look Back Or From Which To Look Ahead
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” – Graham Greene
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First Principles: Those Who Invalidate Reason Ought Seriously To Consider Whether They Argue Against Reason With Or Without Reason
“Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.” – Ethan Allen
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Sweet Victory
Sweet Victoryby Michael DoyleNothing can take God’s placeI’ve felt His glory, face-to-faceI am grateful from my heartHe’s been here from the startSaving me from my transgressionsAnd from all this world’s aggressionsIt’s amazing all that He’s doneIn the trinity of Father, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggressions, Amaze, Attitude, Badness, Blessed, Blessings, Convinced, Daughters, Deity, Enemies, Eternity, Face to Face, Father, God's Place, Good, Grateful, Grtatitude, Happiness, Heart, His Love, Holy Spirit, Madness, Path, Poetry and Poems, Redemption, Reign, Retoration, Saving Me, Silencing, Son, Start, Sweet Victory, Transgressions, Trinity, Understood, Voice, World
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Thought For the Day: Agape’s Object Is Always the Concrete Individual, Not Some Abstraction Called Humanity
“Agape’s object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient demands. You never find humanity on your doorstep, stinking and begging.” – Peter Kreeft, ‘Love’, in ‘Fundamentals of the … Continue reading
First Principles: If I Speak In the Tongues of Men Or of Angels, But Do Not Have Love, I Am Only A Resounding Gong or A Clanging Cymbal
“13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have … Continue reading
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The Original Wild Child
The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Africa, Argumentation, Behind, Best, Brave, Burroughs, Change, Cheer, Circle, Complicated, Contemplation, Contemptuous, Creativity, Details, Director, Drama, Endless, Expression, Father's Deligh, Father's Delight, Fear, Feral Child, Fierce, Filed, Friendless, Glory, Guard, Heard, Lack of Dignity, Laughing Daughters, Leave, Liberty, Memories, Moonbeam, Nickname, No Matter How Right, Notes, Original, Peace of Mind, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Reasoning, Regard, Remake, Rules of Civilization, Saturday Night, Slight, Smile, Society, Society's Lions, Story, Tale, Tarzan, The Wild, Thought, Time, Vine To Vine, Waste, Well, Wild Child, Youngest
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First Principles: The Americans Combine the Notions of Christianity and Liberty So Intimately In Their Minds, That It Is Impossible To Make Them Conceive the One Without the Other
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Thought For the Day: Friendship Multiplies the Good In Life and Divides the Evil
“Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian
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