“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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First Principles: I Think All the World Would Gain By Setting Commerce At Perfect Liberty
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First Principles: Take Care, Lest You Forget the Lord Your God By Not Keeping His Commandments and His Rules and His Statutes, Which I Command You Today
“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today.” – Deuteronomy 8: 11
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Thought For the Day: All Government – Indeed, Every Human Benefit and Enjoyment, Every Virtue and Every Prudent Act – Is Founded On Compromise and Barter
“All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.” – Edmund Burke
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First Principles: God Governs In the Affairs of Men
“And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?” – Benjamin Franklin (1787)
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Thought For the Day: This Nation Was Conceived In Liberty and Dedicated To the Principle…That Honest Men May Honestly Disagree
“This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle — among others — that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.” – Elmer Davis (1890-1958)
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First Principles: The Most Perfect Freedom Consists In Obeying the Dictates of Right Reason, and Submitting To Natural Law
“The most perfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he becomes the slave of base passions and vile lusts; he introduces confusion and disorder into society, and brings misery and destruction upon himself. This, therefore, cannot be called a state of freedom, but a state of the vilest slavery and the most dreadful bondage.” –Samuel West (1776)
Thought For the Day: I Pray That I Keep My Tongue From Evil and My Lips From Deceitful Speech
“Beautiful One, I am grateful for my life and I want to see good days, so I pray that I keep my tongue from evil and my lips from deceitful speech. Let the words that I use be transparent and honest so that I can be an appropriate reflection of You. I pray against thoughts of lying, malicious talk, or any other negative use of words because speech was not given for me to abuse. Instead let me build up things with words that come from You, Amen.” – 1 Peter 3:10
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Imagine Love, Live Love
Imagine Love, Live Love
by Michael Doyle
Imagine all love if you would
All His Love, if you only could
Imagine if you can Heaven's place
Where God's kingdom, we could embrace
Parables are stories with heavenly meaning
To learn kernels of truth for every human being
Where any and every platform spreads the story
Called out in all of its beautiful glory
With ears of faith given that we might hear
No easy answers given, yet truth made clear
Positioned to explain the path to grow
Spilled out with intention that we might know
Hard truths should are best told in the softest ways
To be loved out in our full until our final days
Speaking without thought is not necessarily speaking true
All things should be said with intention to convey the view
It is up to our good soil to stake seed and understand
To take the space of love and follow God's good commands
Path, rocks, thorns, or potted into the best good soil
We who serve take the words of love and begin to toil
It is best to be sensitive to God's holy inspiration
And then live it out to complete our full transformation
Trampled under foot, step by step, we shape the path
That is, unless, our lives snap unable to do the Lord's math
Hidden words in heart are what act to prevent our sin
When we learn to walk life as if God is our truest friend
Walking through the stages that are too often filled with pain
We are allowed to blossom, triumph, and remove the stain
There will be miseries that all will have to work through
To the final forgiveness and that which we would not do
Walking the false parts, we find it very hard to forget
Life is meant to be loved, not to be lived with regret
In this world that's become little more than a victim's race
It is reach for empathy that we must feel and embrace
On Calvary's fatal cross, it was not something mistaken
To realize God loved us all that we will not end up forsaken
Before and above all things on Earth, it must be known
That the greatest love is that which God has shown
God has seen our travails as we lay under life's trampling
Until He turns this into the bounce of a His trampoline
(c) January 8, 2023 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty, – That Is All
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all. “ – John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn (1819)
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First Principles: Jesus Saith Unto Him, “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; No Man Cometh Unto the Father, But By Me
“Jesus saith unto him, ‘I am the way the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me'”. – John 14:6
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