Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Whoever Has Ears, Let Them Hear What the Spirit Says To the Churches. To the One Who Is Victorious, I Will Give the Right To Eat From the Tree of Life

Posted on October 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.” – Revelation … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience

Posted on October 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)

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First Principles: The First Transactions of A Nation, Like Those of an Individual Upon His First Entrance Into Life Make the Deepest Impression, and Are To Form the Leading Traits In Its Character

Posted on October 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.” – George Washington (1788)

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First Principles: It Is In the Interest of Tyrants To Reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice. For They Cannot Live In Any Country Where Virtue and Knowledge Prevail

Posted on October 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.“ – Samuel Adams

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First Principles: There Are More Quarrels Smothered By Just Shutting Your Mouth, and Holding It Shut, Than By All the Wisdom In the World

Posted on October 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As the Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives

Posted on October 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives” – Ulysses S. Grant

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First Principles: Before Any Man Can Be Considered As A Member of Civil Society, He Must Be Considered As Subject of the Governor or the Universe

Posted on October 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage…Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” – James … Continue reading →

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First Principles: In Everything, Do To Others What You Would Have Them Do To You, For This Sums Up the Law and the Prophets

Posted on October 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“(I)n everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.– Matthew 7:12

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First Principles: The Advancement and Diffusion of Knowledge Is the Only Guardian of True Liberty

Posted on October 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” – James Madison

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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Becomes the Christian and Social Duty of Each Individual…Nobly Defend Those Rights Which Heaven Gave

Posted on October 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“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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