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Tag Archives: Afraid
Thought For the Day: Do Not Be Too Quick Too Assume Your Enemy Is A Savage Just Because He Is Your Enemy. Perhaps He Is Your Enemy Because He Thinks You Are A Savage
“Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Assume, Enemy, Feel, Love, Quick, Savage, Thomas Merton, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: I Learned That Courage Was Not the Absence of Fear, But the Triumph Over it. The Brave Man Is Not He Who Does Feel Afraid, But He Who Conquers That Fear
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – former South African President Nelson Mandela
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Tagged Absence of Fear, Afraid, Brave Man, Conquers, Courage, Feel, Learn, Nelson Mandela, Thought For the Day, Triumph
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Thought For the Day: One Day Work Is Hard, and Another Day It Is Easy; But If I Had Waited For Inspiration I Am Afraid I Should Have Done Nothing
“One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Arthur Sullivan, Bubble, Care, Coal, Done, Easy, Go Deep, Hard, Inspiration, Miner, Nothing, Shaft, Surface, Thought For the Day, Top, Vein, Wait, Work, Work Out
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Fold
Foldby Michael DoyleThe gambler’s cards foldedAs variables at last decodedIn this digital age, it’s the human mindThat must last be decoded or left behindIn mankind’s bid at immortalityDespite the babbled towers of immoralityIn the worst of infernal questsTo put living … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Card, Decoded, Digital Age, Discern, Disguise, Fold, Free, Free Will, Freedom, Gambler, Glory, Heir, Human Mind, Illusions The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah, Immorality, Immortality, Lack, Left Behind, Lend, Lesson, Liberty, Life, Living Forever, Mankiind, Misery, Mistake, Narrow Eyes, Old, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Recognize, Story, Suffering, Surmise, Survive, Test, Told, Towers, Transcendence, True Promises, Truth, Twinkle, Variables, Virtuosity, Will, Yore
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Waymaker
Waymakerby Michael DoyleI woke up this morningWith a shake and lurchThe alarm clock’s warningBarely got me up in time for churchBut there are promises madeThat once made, must be keptI walk with God never afraidDespite the tears I have weptKeeping … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Alarm Clock, Church, Darkness, Determined, Edge, Eyes, Glory, God, God's Love, Harshness, Kept, Made, Morning, Path, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Shine, Tears, Transcend, Truth, Walk, Waymaker, Wept, Woke
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Set Apart
Set Apartby Michael DoyleAs a church, we’re set apartBy God, stirred in our heartsLiving life by past precedentWe do our best to live reverentBestowed in the Lord’s good favorIt’s a life we’re meant to savorFearfully and wonderfully madeThere is no … Continue reading
To Simply Believe
To Simply Believeby Michael DoyleThe Square root of the possibleOf all that we can achieveIs to have some gumption And to simply believeThrowing caution to the windTaking chances we defendMore on odds approximatedAnd guaranteed seldom as estimatedThe magic isn’t just … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieve, Afraid, Again, Approximate, Believe, Believing, Best Capability, Calculation, Capable, Choose, Closed Eyes, Dedication, Destination, Dreams, Estimate, Fear, Formulate, Gumption, Hard, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Sends, Imagination, Journey, Know, Magic, Mend, Mind, Mistletoe, No Telling, Odds, Persevere, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Possible, Quite the Cost, Reality, See, Seeing the Way, Shared Smile, Simple, Square Root, Story Ends, Taking Chances, Things In Life, Throw Caution To the Wind, Together, Truth, Unafraid, What's Lost, Worth While
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