“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” – Mark Twain
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Thought For the Day: There Are Basically Two Types of People. People Who Accomplish Things, and People Who Claim To Have Accomplished Things. The First Group Is Less Crowded.
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Thought For the Day: The False Theory of Progress Maintains That We Alter the Test Instead of Trying To Pass the Test
“The false theory of progress maintains that we alter the test instead of trying to pass the test.” – G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected. No Man Is Safe In His Opinions, His Person, His Faculties, Or His Possessions
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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New Possibility
New Possibility
by Michael Doyle
A new life learned
In the lessons discerned
Taking on all the new days
As we learn to walk in new ways
Our hearts filled with desire
our minds set ablaze with fire
Putting our hopes in a basket
Instead of simply lying in a casket
Honoring God with our devotion
Lives filled with humbled emotion
Seeking to honor God in our days
And keeping that connected in our ways
Seeking out this new direction
With sincere and deep dedication
Opened to this second sight
That we might know new delight
Strange as it always seems
Our hopes are for new dreams
This way is our truest journey
That brings us to our new destiny
Daring to dream this dream
With eyes wide open to see
Rising to the top like cream
We live the abundance of new possibility
(c) July 20, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Abundance, Basket, Casket, Connect, Dare, Dedication, Delight, Desire, Destiny, Devotion, Direction, Discern, Dreams, Emotion, Fire, God, Honor, Journey, Learn, New Days, New Possibility, New Ways, Poetry and Poems, Second Sight, See, Seems, Strange
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Thought For the Day: Politics, As A Practice, Whatever Its Professions, Has Always Been the Systematic Organization of Hatreds
“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” – Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
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First Principles: If Individuals Be Not Influenced By Moral Principles, It Is In Vain To Look For Public Virtue
“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue.” – James Madison (1789)
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First Principles: Among the Natural Rights of the Colonists Are These: First, A Right To Life, Secondly to Liberty, and Thirdly To Property; Together With the Right To Defend Them In the Best Manner They Can
“Among the Natural Rights of the Colonists Are These: First, A Right To Life, Secondly to Liberty, and Thirdly To Property; Together With the Right To Defend Them In the Best Manner They Can.” – Samuel Adams
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Thought For the Day: We Can Survive Lapses Into Hypocrisy, But We Cannot Survive Making Hypocrisy A Ruling Principle
“If we ever allow morality or law to become just a question of whose ox is gored, then we will have taken a fatal step toward national suicide. We can survive lapses into hypocrisy, but we cannot survive making hypocrisy a ruling principle.” – Thomas Sowell
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Staying On the Straight Street
Staying On the Straight Street
by Michael Doyle
No longer timid sure sure
That the gates of Heaven will prevail
So that no longer
Will the gates of Hell prevail
This broken world
Needs a brave church
Our banners unfurled
Victory is seized from the lurch
As Paul met Jesus
Blinded on Damascus' road
Taken from shackles
To the great things foretold
Interventions come with mercy
And can save you from your plans
Walked back from the ways of Pharisees
To fulfill God's commands
Arise from falling down
To be raised up to victory
Share in the Father's crown
That meant for you and me
Every fall that exists
Is an invitation's entrance
In it's chance to begin again
Offered by this God of second chances
God's grace is not
A path of retaliation
Not to be forgot
Is each nudge toward humiliation
Every saint ever known
Has had their own past
Until good fortune is shown
In moments to be recast
This then comes into view
When we dare to surrender
God's grace, is a gift to me and you
Purity of strength often seems tender
For those new to the church and our ways
There are blessings of truth in our days
Things there that are without need to say
Like the grace given when we were once astray
It's hard to give the ask
Of needing help along our day
Seen as peculiar in our tasks
We are called out along our way
Filled with the Holy Spirit
We are filled with the kingdom
If only we are ready to hear it
In the blessing that will come
Stay on the straight street
Listening to fulfilling instruction
So that God can greet
Us and keep us from destruction
In Eden, we chase our own way
Walking from that perfection
Instead of knowing the dragons we should slay
As with humility, we keep our dedication
Turned around in our days
Given from day one, in our sufficiency
Changing all our paths and ways
That led us to need God's resiliency
As children of God
We are born to rise
Proclaiming Jesus
Before the world's eyes
Our future is not our past
Learning each day's answer
To hold onto what needs to last
In the goodness of all that is true
(c) July 18, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Brave Church, Broken World, God's Commands, Heaven, Hell, Jesus, Mercy, Paul, Pharisee, Poetry and Poems, Stay, Straight Street, Victory
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Thought For the Day: Every Man Is An End In Himself, Not A Means To the Ends of Others, Not A Sacrificial Animal Serving Anyone’s Need
“The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; it is the recognition that man — every man — is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others, not a sacrificial animal serving anyone’s need.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
