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First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just: That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Firm Basis, First Princples, Forever, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, My Country, Nation, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violated, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Happiness of Life Is the Conviction That We Are Loved – Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather, Loved In Spite of Ourselves
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Tagged Conviction, Great, Happiness, Life, Love, Ourselves, Spite, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo
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Courage To Speak Honestly
Courage To Speak Honestlyby Michael DoyleLost in life’s waves as they come and goWhether trough or crest there is much to knowWe must never be afraid to speak honestlyRailing against injustice and acting efficientlyAs much as we can to rid … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Afraid, Belong, Benevolence, Blindness, Choice, Confidence, Confound, Conviction, Courage, Crest, Efficient, Evidence, Family, Giving, Honestly, Injustice, Kindness, Lies and Greed, Living, Love, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Rail, Recall, Relevance, Rid, Speak, Strong, Trough, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Voice, Wave, World
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty. And Can the Liberties of A Nation Be Thought Secure When We Have Removed Their Only Firm Basis…?
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, Firm Basis, First Principles, Forever, Gift of God, God, Justice, Liberty, Life, Minds, Nation, Remove, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age
Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God
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Thought For the Day: Where Exactly Does It Come From, I’d Like To Know, This Ineradicable Attitude of Superiority Toward the Past?
“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Categorical, Clothes, Conviction, Critical, Exact, Feelings, Future, Hairstyles, Know Bettr, Known, Naive, Oksana Zabuzko, Past, Pedantic, People, Permissive, Same Time, Small Children, Superiority, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Treat
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Thought For the Day: It Is Self-Evident That Language Has Not Bled To Death Through Change
“Prolonged study of the English language leaves me with a conviction that nearly all the linguistic tendencies of the present day have been displayed in earlier centuries, and it is self-evident that the language has not bled to death through … Continue reading
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Tagged Antidote, Bled To Death, Burdensome, Centuries, Change, Conviction, Crudities, Die, Display, Distinctions, English Language, Flourish, Language, Linguistic Tendencies, Present Day, Robert W. Burchfield, Self-Evident, Soften, Study, Thought For the Day, Time, Useful, Vulgarity
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, First Priincples, Forever, Gave, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, Liberty, Life, Nation, Reflect, Remove, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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Bitter Truth Empty
Bitter Truth Emptyby Michael DoyleI come from the tribe of the dead soulSpirits lifted in the game of rock-n-rollThere is living yet to be doneIn the name of the father and the sonAnd yet, in the mirrored reflectionA sprawl spins … Continue reading
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Tagged Banality, Believe, Bitter Truth, Conviction, Creative Force, Dead, Die, Direction, Done, Dribble, Echo, Ego, Empty, Essence, Eviction, Eyes, Father, Game, Gone, History, Human Being, Lay Down, Living, Meaning, Music, Mystry, Name, New Sky, Nothing, Nothing Left To Say, Originality, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Remorse, Reverberations, Rock-n-Roll, Shrivel, Simply, Single Shred, Something, Son, Soul, Spirt, STuck, Surprise, Tomorrow, Tribe, Truth, Urban Decay, Vacuum, Watch
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God’s Holy Power
God’s Holy Powerby Michael DoyleThrough Jesus, everything with breathKnows its salvation from its deathAmazed by what we have foundWe awaken to this holy soundOur words form in praiseAs we proclaim His name through our daysSaid with the correct intentionMiracles have … Continue reading
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Tagged Amaze, Awaken, Breath, Breathlessness, Conviction, Days, Death, Division, Faithfulness, Found, God, Holy Hour, Holy Power, Holy Sound, Intention, Jesus, Kingdom, Living Vision, Miracles, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Proclaim, Reliance, Righteousness, Rock of Ages, Salvation, Shame, Sin, Songs, Strength, True Unity, Turning Pages, Words
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