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First Principles: We Have But A Slender Hold of Our Virtues; They Ought, Therefore, To Be Cherished With Care, and Practiced With Diligence
“We have but a slender hold of our virtues; they ought, therefore, to be cherished with care, and practised with diligence.” – Fisher Ames
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Tagged Burn, Care, Cherish, Diligence, Dishonor, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Half Corrupted, Heart, Indignation, Parley, Practiced, Seduce, Slave and Victim, Slender Hold, Slightest Attempt, Vice, Virtues
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In the Face of Your Holiness
In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Acknowledge, Bad Jokes, Burden, Carry, Commands, Condition, Contrition, Depend, Depending, Devotion, Dropped Balls, Face, Faithfulness, Friend, Generations, Godly Advice, Heart, Heavenly Host, Holiness, Light, Love, Mask, Matters, Matters Most, Most, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pure, Reliance, Roll, Seriousness, Sin, Soul, Stone, Task, Tomb, Vary, Walk Instead, Ways of Love
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Thought For the Day: Love Is Never Lost. If Not Reciprocated, It Will Flow Back and Soften and Purify the Heart
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)
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Tagged Flow Back, Heart, Love, Never Lost, Purify, Reciprocated, Soften, Thought For the Day, Washington Iriving
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Beginning and Ending With the Heart
Beginning and Ending With the Heartby Michael DoyleThere are more thingsWe agree onThan we disagree onThere are more common groundsThan causes for pugilistic roundsIf we only address these simplyCatholic or Protestant in IrelandTwo rooms in God’s good mansionThat need to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Agree, Beginning, Common Grounds, Compassion, Compromise, Disagreement, Ending, Eyes of a Child, Golden Rule, Heart, Learning, Live Better, Loving Ways, Manger, Mercy Mild, Poetry and Poems, Simple, Strangers, Understand, War
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Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heart
Torn As A Teenage Girl’s Heartby Michael DoyleThis one has me in tears before I even startWatching torn as a teenage girl’s heartThe princess who loved me like her biggest heroYells at me and treats me as less than zeroOnly … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arms, Asleep, Beautiful, Bed, Best Friend, Blessing, Bolder, Climb, Close, Crime, Daddy, Dead, Destroy My Will, Doubt, Fall, Feelings, Forgiving, Give Them My All, Good Night, Grow Out of This, Heart, Heart Hurts, Helping Her Out, Hero, Hormones, Hour Has Grown Late, Hour Later, Instead, Intensity, Kleenex, Knows, Less Than Zero, Life, Love and Respect, Loved Me, Loving, Miss, Neglect, Nothing Could kill, Older, On Her Side, Pillow, Poetry and Poems, Princess, Quietly Whisper, Rage, Reach Out, Reason For Living, Remember, Rushing Out, Said, Seriously, She Has This Thing, She'll Turn Around Again, Sleeping, Smiles Sweetly, Start, Study, Suddenly, Tears, Teenage Girl, Temper, Tight, Too Sensitive, Torn, Upend, Wise Woman, Years, Yell
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Every Name Has Its Story
Every Name Has Its Storyby Michael DoyleEvery name has its storyIn each way, giving God gloryJesus is the first born priorityGiven to us as our authorityFirst place in everythingOur inspiration for which we singBeloved and holy, putting on our heartPutting … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Action, Align, Beloved, Best Satisfaction, Care, Compassion, Every Name, Explanation, Father and Son, Feel, First Priority, Glory, God, Godly Ways, Habits, Heart, Holy, Hymn, Inheritance, Inspiration, Interaction, Jesus Saves, Joyful Pride, Living Holy, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Recall, Representation, Reveal, Satisfaction, Serenity, Sing, Start, Step, Story, Surrender, Temperance, Will of God, Word of God
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Life For Dummies
Life For Dummiesby Michael DoyleLife for dummiesWould be a fine dealOn in any studyThere are skills to revealBuilding blocks of lifeThat take us from here to thereLessons needed to move past strifeAre to be heeded without fearLiving by the Gospel … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affirm, Building Blocks, Darkness, Deal, Discern, Dummies, Embrace, Faith, Favor, Fear, Forgiven, Gift, Given, God, Gospel, Grace, Head, Heart, Heed, Here To There, Kinship, Lessons, Lessons Learned, Lessons Live, Life, Light, Poetry and Poems, Reject, Rejoice, Reveal, Right, Righteousness, Royal, Said, Skills, Step-By-Step, Strife, Study, Through, Voice, Wisdom, Worship
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Planting Churches
Planting Churchesby Michael DoyleAs we look around on these troubled daysWe’re living through chaosIn a million different waysWe’re wishing for the innocenceWe once knew in times beforeWhen godly people lived as in in His presenceNow it seems life moves in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Answers, Anxious Eyes, Before, Chaos, Church, Concerns, Conversion, End, Faith, Faith of A Mustard Seed, Forget, Fulfilled, Generation, God's Plan, Godly People, Great Comission, Heart, Ill Omen, Innocence, Lend, Minister, Plant, Planting Churches, Poetry and Poems, Presence, Puzzle, Questions, Reconnection, Revitalize, Silent Prayer, Souls, Surive, Times Before, Trials, Troubled Days, Ways, Whole, Wish, Wonder, Wrong Direction
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First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition
“(F)alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Tagged Believe, Depraves, Falsehood, First Principles, Good Dispositions, Habitual, Heart, Lie, Lies, Permit, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tongue, Truths
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