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Lord of My Passing Days
Lord of My Passing Daysby Michael DoyleGod fights my battles first,Giving me a spiritual thirst.Inviting me to pray continually,I make my way to eternity.My battles are begun in prayer,Speaking my challenges to the God who cares.This then is how I … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Care, Challenges, Continually, Days, Eternity, Fight, First, Glory, God, Gratitude, heartbeat, Lord, Morning, Night, Noise, Passing Days, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayer, Speak, Spiritual Thirst, Thousand Joys, Thunder, Wonder
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First Principles: Your First Great Duties, You Are Sensible, Are Those You Owe to Heaven, To Your Creator and Redeemer. Let These Be Ever Present To Your Minds
“Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct.” – William Samuel Johnson, one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Creator, Example, First, First Principles, Great Duty, Heaven, Mind, Mind and Body, Present, Redeemer, Sensible, William Samuel Johnson
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Thought For the Day: Do You Wish To Rise? Begin By Descending. You Plan A Tower That Will Pierce the Clouds? Lay First the Foundation of Humility
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. – Saint Augustine Continue reading
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Tagged Clouds, Descend, First, Foundation, Humilty, Plan, Rise, Thought For the Day, Tower
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Achievement Was At First and For A Time A Dream. The Oak Sleeps in the Acorn, the Bird Waits In the Egg, and In the Highest Vision of the Soul A Waking Angel Stirs
“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings … Continue reading
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Tagged Acorn, Bird, Dream, Dreams, Egg, First, Greatest Achievement, Highest Visiion, James Allen, ngel, Oak, Reality, Seedlings, Soul, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: First Say To Yourself What You Would Be; and Then Do What You Have To Do
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
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Tagged Do, Epictetus, First, Say, Thought For the Day, Would Be, Yourself
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Living Waters Fill My Thirst
Living Waters Fill My Thirstby Michael DoyleLiving waters fill my thirstFreed by the love that I put firstMy King has paid the ransomHe has given me my place in His kingdomHis words are the wind in my sailsHis song is … Continue reading
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Tagged Eternal Love, Every Breath, Fall Down, First, Focus, Freed, Grace, Healing Hand, Heaven Above, His Kingdom, His Song, His Will, His Words, Intention, Learned, Living Waters, Love, My Eyes, My King, My Place, Not Earned, Palm, Poetry and Poems, Prevails, Ransom, Received, Sails, Testify, Thirst, Understand, Understood, Victory, Victory Crown, Wind
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In the Whisper of Time’s Sands
In the Whisper of Time’s Sandsby Michael DoyleWe can’t get a lock on the futureWithout knowing our pastWe can’t know what to nurtureIf we don’t know what was once castThe good hunter seeks to rise to the heightAs he sips … Continue reading
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Tagged Cacophony, Cast, Choices, Darkness, Falsity, First, Fool, Future, Good Hunter, Height, Knows All, Light, Lock, Nurture, Obstacles, One's Own Man, Open Mind, Past, Poetry and Poems, Recall, Right, Sight, Thirst, Time's Sands, Voices, Water of Life, Whisper, World
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First Principles: The First and Governing Maxim In the Interpretation of A Statute Is To Discover the Meaning of Those Who Made It
“The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it.” – James Wilson (1790)
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Tagged Discover, First, First Principles, Governing, Interpretation, James Wilson, Maxim, Meaning, Statute
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Thought For the Day: When the Eyes Say One Thing, and the Tongue Another, A Practiced Man Relies On the Language of the First
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Another, Eyes, First, Language, One Thing, Practiced Man, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rely, Say, Thought For the Day, Tongue
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First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Care, Destruction, First, First Principles, Good Government, Human Life, Legitimate Object, Thomas Jefferson
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