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Tag Archives: Foundation
Walking With the Giants
Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking
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Empty Jar
Empty Jarby Michael DoyleIt’s an empty jar that we fillGiven the many choices of our free willIt’s best to live with full intentionLooking back, we’ll see what’s had our attentionThis jar of ours, might just shatterIf we fill it with … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Cannot Steal, Center, Choice, Cold Night, Confessed, Definition, Destination, Don't Matter, Due Consideration, Empty Jar, End, Fact, Faith, Family, Fictions, Fill, Fill It, Filled With Love, Final Test, Foundation, Free Will, Full Intention, God, Greatest Treausre, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Star, Impact, Infancy, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Live, Looking Back, Matter Most, Minds, Mistaken, Over Fact, Overdue Conversation, Past, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Priority, Purpose, Real, Realize, Serve, Service, Shatter, Sisters and Brothers, Situation, Thieves, Time Slips, Toward All, Wish
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From the Perspective of the Rus
From the Perspective of the Rusby Michael DoyleStanding on the shoulders of wisdomBy each step we build separate kingdomsThe Brothers Karamazov built on a grain of wheatThat life comes from death and death is not defeatAll the suffering that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Rule, Authority, Autocracy, Beyond, Brothers Karamazov, Capability, Connection, Constantanople, Culture, Death, Declaration, Decree, Defeat, Despotism, Different, Division, Dreams, Driven, Fallible, Forces, Foundation, Freedom Lovers, God, Grain, Historical, History, Kiev, King, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Liberty, Life, Monarch, Mother Russia, Nation, Ninth Century, No Relief, Nobility, Ordained Choice, Orthodoxy, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Purpose, Reflection, Relationships, Reservation, Reverent, Rule, Russia, Sacred, Shoulders, Solzhenitsyn, Soul, Step, Suffering, Supreme, Talk, Temporal, True Belief, Twin Blades, Undergon, United, Viking, Voice, Western Civilization, Wheat, Wisdom, Withstand
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First Principles: Is It Not That the Declaration of Independence First Organized the Social Compact On the Foundation of the Redeemer’s Mission Upon Earth? – That It Laid the Cornerstone of Human Government On the First Precepts of Christianity
“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? – that it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, Chain, Christanity, Cornerstone, Declaration of Independence, Earth, First Precepts, First Principles, Foundation, Gospel Dispensation, Human Events, Human Government, Indissolubly Linked, John Quincy Adams, Leading Event, Nation, Progress, Redeemer's Mission, Savior, Social Compact
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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families.” – John Adams (1778)
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Tagged Family, First Principles, Foundation, John Adams, Liad, Morality, National, Private
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Thought For the Day: There Can Be No Public Or Private Virtue Unless the Foundation of Action Is the Practice of Truth
“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” – George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906)
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Tagged Action, Foundation, George Jacob Holyoake, No, Practice, Private, Public, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtue
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First Principles: The Only Foundation of A Free Constitution Is Pure Virtue
“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a greater Measure than they have it now, they may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Constitution, First Principles, Forms of Government, Foundation, Free, Inspire, John Adams, Lasting, Liberty, Measure, Pure, Rulers, The People, Virtue, Will Not Obtain
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First Principles: The Foundation On Which All Constitutions Are Build Is the Natural Equality of Man, the Denial of Every Preeminence But That Annexed To Legal Office and Particularly the Denial of A Preeminence By Birth
“The foundation on which all [constitutions] are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every preeminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a preeminence by birth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1784)
First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778) … Continue reading
Depths of Me and You
It’s all about connection. The deeper I dig in, the deeper I want this to go. Every moment is a new revelation to cherish. Depths of Me and You by Michael Doyle Taking our time To build our foundation It … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Better, Can't Help, Cherish, Close, Connection, Crime, Deep, Depth, Dig, Doubt, Feel, Focus, Form, Foundation, Heart, Hearts, Infatuation, Know, Laughter, Living, Love, Me and You, One, Our Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Real, Revelation, Share, Show, Special, Start, Sun, Take, Think, Time, Times, Together, True, Two, Without, World, You, Zone
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