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Second Guess the End
Second Guess the Endby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot of rightIn learning through the wrong.There’s a lot of hanging tightIn finding where I belong.It’s been a hard road to living,But that’s what I’ve been given.The movie is never as good as … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: To Acquire the Habit of Reading Is To Construct For Yourself A Refuge From Almost All the Miseries of Life
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham
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Tagged Acquire, Construct, Habit, Liffe, Misery, Reading, Refuge, Thought For the Day, W. Somerset Maugham
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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty It Is Essential That the Whole Body of the People Possess Arms and Be Taught Alike, Especially When You, How To Use Them
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Essential, First Principles, Liberty, Richard Henry Lee, Taught, The Peopole, Use, Whole Body
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One Breath
One Breathby Michael DoyleHeaven has its melody,It plays like a full symphony.It’s calling us all home.We walk together, not alone.There’s a taste like eternityIn all that God has done for me.There is a home before our adoration,As certain as we … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoration, Arrival, Blessed, Certain, Contemplation, Death, Destination, Eternity, Full Symphony, Glory, God, Grave, Happy Story, Heaven, Home, Joy, Lord's Light, Melody, Night, Not Alone, One Breath, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Redemption, Revival, Satan, Stand Together, The Lamb, Theology, Trinity, Us, Walk Together
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In the Stillness of Night
In the Stillness of Nightby Michael DoyleThings don’t always go as plannedSnows have stormed, and we’re undermanned.But the stars still twinkled on a silent night,And somehow, that makes everything alright.God knows how to play accidents out.All of time’s moments are … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident, Appreciation, God, Human Being, Moments, Night, oubt, Panne, Poetry an Poems, Real Meaning, Silence, Silent Night, Snow, Star, Stillness, Storm, Time
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First Principles: Under the Clouds of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross of Iron
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Children, Clothed, Clouds of War, Cold, Cross of Iron, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fed, First Principles, Genius, Hope, Humanity, Hunger, Money, Sweat, Theft, Way of Life
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Thought For the Day: Men Occasionally Stumble Over the Truth, But Most of Them Pick Themselves Up and Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill
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Thought For the Day: In the Inner Stillness Where Meditation Leads, the Spirit Secretly Anoints the Soul and Heals Our Deepest Wounds
“In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.” – John of the Cross
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First Principles: In Repentance and Rest Is Your Salvation, In Quietness and Trust Is Your Strength But You Would Have None of It
“This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:” “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” – Isaiah 30:15 NIV
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Tagged First Principles, Isaiah 30:15 NIV, Israel, Quietness, Repentance, Rest, Salvation, Sovereign Lord, Strength, Trust
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 