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Thought For the Day: Let Me Not Pray To Be Sheltered From Dangers, But To Be Fearless In Facing Them
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (7 May 1861-1941)
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The Magnificence of Significance
The Magnificence of Significance by Michael DoyleFrom the beginning, we have the visionWe might lack in our precisionBut we know what we’re going forFaith is the kindness that opens the closed doorIn all the paths we are shownWe look back … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Authority, Baton, Beginning, Biblical Verse, Billy Graham, Character, Christ, Christianity, Circumstances, Closed Door, Created, Cross, Details, Done, Ears To Hear, Eden, Embrace, Eyes To See, Face, Faith, First, Generosity, Gnosticism, God, Grown, His Blood, In the Name of, Interwoven, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Know, Lack, Magnificence, Open, Palestine, Paths, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernism, Poverty, Precision, Purpose, Redemption, Reveal, Serpent, Service, Shown, Significance, Spoken, Stay, Steadfast, Sucession, Supremacy, Teach, Temptation, Thirst, Three Days, Universe, Victory, Vision
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First Principles: Give Me the Liberty To Know, To Utter, and To Argue Freely According To Conscience Above All Liberties
“Give me the liberty to know to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties.” – John Milton
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Tagged Argue, Conscience, Feely, First Principles, John Milton, Know, Liberties, Liberty, Utter
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Thought For the Day: In the Small Matters Trust the Mind, In the Large Ones the Heart
“In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.” – Sigmund Freud
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The God of You and Me
The God of You and Meby Michael DoyleWe are joined here in voiceWe are gathered here by choiceCalled together in His nameCalled together by the one without blameWe call out in the Holy SpiritWith a mighty desire to hear itAll … Continue reading
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Tagged All the Things, Call Out, Called Together, Cause, Choice, Control, Cry, Desire, Echo, Fill, Found, Fulfillment, Gather, God, God of Me and You, God's Love, Hear It, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Spirit, In His Name, Joined, Joy, Joy and Sorrow, Know, Manna, Needed To Be Said, One Without Blame, Poetry and Poems, Rejoice, Remind, Share, Show, Soul, Sound, Spiritually Fed, Through Him, Today As Tomrrow, Victory's Crown, Voice, You and Me
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First Principles: Do Not Forget To Do Good and To Share With Others, For With Such Sacrifice God Is Pleased
“And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” – Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)
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Tagged Do Good, First Principles, Forget, God, Hebrews 13:16 (NIV), Others, Pleased, Sacrifices, Share
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Thought of the Day: I Must Confess As A Historian That This Penniless Preacher From Nazareth Is Irrevocably the Very Center of History. Jesus Christ Is Easily the Most Dominant Figure In All History
“I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.” … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Nothing Can Bring You Peace But Yourself. Nothing Can Bring You Peace But the Triumph of Principles
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Becomes the Christian and Social Duty of Each Individual
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Defend, Dependence, First Principles, God, Heaven, Individual, John Hancock, No Man, Proper Sense, Resisstance, Rights, Social Cuty, Steadfast, Tyranny
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