Tag Archives: Do Good

First Principles: To Be Good, and Do Good, Is the Whole Duty of Man Comprised In A Few Words

Posted on November 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.” – Abigail Adams

Posted in First Principles | Tagged First Principles, Mankind, Abigail Adams, Be Good, Do Good, Whole Duty, Few Words | Leave a comment

First Principles: To Be Good, and To Do Good, Is All We Have To Do

Posted on July 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“You have discovered, in your Childhood, a remarkable Modesty, Discretion, and Reserve; I hope these great and amiable Virtues will rather improve, in your riper Years. You are now I think, far advanced in your twelfth Year—a Time when the … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged All, Be Good, Do Good, First Principles, Have To Do, John Adams | Leave a comment

To Feel Good, Do Good

Posted on July 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

To Feel Good, Do Goodby Michael DoyleUnhappiness Is an affliction on bliss.By Cicero’s severed neck,Duty can make us into wrecksThose who live in their mindAre too often left behind.Such is the way of those in powerWho care only for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advance, Advice, Affliction, Bliss, Cardinal Virtues, Cicero, Correct, Courage, Direct, Do Good, Duty, Everything, Faithful, Family, Feel Good, Glory, Honorable, Hour, Justice, Least Resistance, Life, Memory, Mind, Neck, Nothing, Path, Persistance, Poetry and Poems, Power, Price, Success, Temperance, Test, Unhappiness, Wisdom | Leave a comment

First Principles: Do Not Forget To Do Good and To Share With Others, For With Such Sacrifice God Is Pleased

Posted on May 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” – Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Do Good, First Principles, Forget, God, Hebrews 13:16 (NIV), Others, Pleased, Sacrifices, Share | Leave a comment

First Principles: Therefore, As We Have Opportunity, Let Us Do Good To All People, Especially To Those Who Belong To the Family of Believers

Posted on November 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” – Galatians 6:10

Posted in First Principles | Tagged All People, Believers, Belong, Do Good, Especially, Family, First Principles, Galatians 6:10, Opportunity | Leave a comment

First Principles: Learn To Do Good; Seek Justice, Correct Oppression; Bring Justice To the Fatherless, Plead the Widow’s Cause

Posted on May 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.” – Isaiah 1:17

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Case, Cause, Correct, Defend, Do Good, Do Right, Fatherless, First Principles, Isaiah 1:17, Justice, Learn, Oppressed, Oppression, Plead, Seek, Widow | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Seem To Have Loved You In Numberless Forms, Numberless Distance, In Life After Life, In Age After Age, Forever

Posted on August 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless distance, in life after life, in age after age, forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Age, Distance, Do Good, Door, Forever, Gate, Knock, Life, Love, Loves, Numberless Forms, Open, Rabindranath Tagore, Seem, Thought For the Day, You | Leave a comment

Pushed and Pulled

Posted on September 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Yesterday, September 27, 2021, was the last day of prescribed cardiac rehab. They tell me that I am doing excellently. The only admonishment given was that I should keep in mind not to work out as hard as my spirit … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Admonishment, Allow, Bluff, Brought, Cardiac Rehab, Caught, Change, Do Good, Enough Is Enough, Every Inch of Ground, Every Struggle, Excel, Excellence, Feel, Found, Grown, Habits of A Lifetime, Hard, Heed, Higher Ground, Hope, Less, Life, Little More, Live, Live Another Day, Living, Making of Life, Misunderstood, Moderately, More, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Pull, Push, Range, Reach, Road, Seek, Seldom, Shore, Shown, Spirit, Strain, Strive, Sufficiency, Taught, Teach, Time | Leave a comment

I Need You To Fight

Posted on September 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

I Need You To Fightby Michael DoyleI’ve never had great answersTo life’s deeper questionsLike what is the meaning or how to cure cancersBut, I can say without hesitationThat I have meant to do goodTo do the best that I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Able, All I know, Brave, Clue, Corner, Cure Cancer, Dancer, Deep Within You, Deeper Questions, Degree, Do Good, Do the Best, Fight, God, Hear, Here I Am Again, Hesitation, I Need You To Fight, Just For You, Know, Life, Like You've Never Fought, Meaning, Meant, More Than Fable, Never, Out of Answers, Paper, Persevere, Please, Poetic, Poetry and Poems, Probably, Rely, Say, Search, Spirit, The Last, Turn This Thing Around, Understood, Where I'll Be Too, Words, Written, You | Leave a comment

The Good of the Middle

Posted on June 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Complex isn’t it? Good in the bad; bad in the good. And we swear our allegiance to one or the other while seemingly never getting it completely right. The Good of the Middle by Michael Doyle Is man good Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Become, Before, Born, Born Good, Breath, Burn, Candle, Change, Collective, Do Evil, Do Good, Evil, Good, Grave, Humanity, Know, Learn, Lesson, Little, Long Way, Mankind, Middle, Morality, Most Days, One Size Fits All, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Priority, Slip, Taken, This Way, Time, Try, Twist, Walk, Want To Be | Leave a comment