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Thought For the Day: We Usually Give Ourselves the Worse Trouble
“I’ve never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.” – Dwight Moody
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Tagged Accountability, Dwight Moody, Responsibility, Self Deception, Sin, Theology, Thought For the Day, Trouble
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Make Me A Servant
Make Me A Servant by Michael Romani Moving from the ways of the deceiver I want to be God’s go to receiver Use me, Lord, in all of my future days Raise me, Lord, to serve in all of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Bloom, Calvary, Christianity, Disciple, Excellence, Humility, Knight, Peter, Responsibility, Servant, Service, Shine, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Citizens Must Keep Government From Error
“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” —Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) If nothing else this … Continue reading
First Principles: Charitable Assistance Is Best Given Locally
“It is a duty certainly to give our sparings to those who want; but to see also that they are faithfully distributed, and duly apportioned to the respective wants of those receivers. And why give through agents whom we know … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Charity, Distant, Federal, First Principles, Local, Stewardship, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Honor Excellence
“We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Excellence, Honor, Humble, John W Gardner, Philosophy, Shoddiness, Society, Thought For the Day
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The Accountability of Responsibility
Today at Aloha Promises Forever, we will begin reading Paradise Lost by John Milton for those followers who are in Second Life. If you are interested in that work but are not in Second Life, take some heart. It will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Living, Matthew, Paradise Lost, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Responsibility, Stewardship
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First Principles: On the Importance of Accountability
“[M]an is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)
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Tagged Accountability, First Principles, Judiciary, Thomas Jefferson, Trust
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