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Thought For the Day: A Successful Marriage Requires Falling In Love Many Times, Always With the Same Person
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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Tagged Falling In Lovve, Marriage, Mignon McLaughlin, Same Person, Success, Thought For the Day, Time
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To Live In the Law
To Live In the Lawby Michael DoyleWalked into the doctrines of controversyThere is a stiff challenge without heresyDown through God’s good agesThere are debates that readily rageThe dialog should be had with all humilityGracefully admitting a bit of grace and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, Ages, Bible, Bonds, Challenge, Christianity, Conscience, Context, Contradictions, Controversy, Debate, Demanding, Dialog, Direction, Discernment, Doctrines, Expectation, Failed Understanding, Faith, Filters and Perceptions, Forgive, Fruit, God, God's Story, Grace and Mercy, Heresy, Humility, Jesus, Law, Live, Marriage, Martin Luther, Poetry and Poems, Rage, Root, Shades of Glory, The Law, Universal, Widow
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Thought For the Day: Love Is What You’ve Been Through With Somebody
“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.;” – James Thurber
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Thought For the Day: A Successful Marriage Requires Falling In Love Many Times, Always With the Same Person
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin
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Tagged Always, Falling In Love, Marriage, Mignon McLaughlin, Same Person, Successful, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Wives, Submit Yourselves To Your Own Husbands As You Do To the Lord…Husbands, Love Your Wives, Just As Christ Loved the Church
“22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christ, Church, Ephesians, Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV), First Principles, Husband, Love, Marriage, One Another, Profound Mystery, Reason, Respect, Reverence, Submission, Submit, Two Will Become One Flesh, Wive
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Thought For the Day: A Happy Marriage Is the Union of Two Good Forgivers
‘A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Robert Quillen, journalist and cartoonist (25 Mar 1887-1948) There appears to be more than one person claiming to be the origin of this quote but Good Reads attributes this … Continue reading
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Tagged Forgivers, Good, Happy, Marriage, Robert Quillen, Thought For the Day, Two, Unioin
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First Principles: Marriage Is In Its Origin A Contract of Natural Law. It Is the Parent, and Not the Child of Society; the Source of Civility, and A Sort of Seminary of the Republic
“Marriage is … in its origin a contract of natural law. … It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.” – Justice Joseph Story (1833)
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Tagged Child, Civility, Contract, First Principles, Joseph Story, Marriage, Natural Law, Origin, Parent, Republic, Seminary, Society, Source
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First Principles: The Most Important Consequence of Marriage Is That the Husband and Wife Become In Law Only One Person
“The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person… Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend. This principle, sublime and refined, deserves to … Continue reading
Righting My Wrong Direction
A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading
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First Principles: As Long As Marriage Exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence Will Accumulate In Families
“As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.” – John Adams, in Letter to Abigail Adams (July 17, 1775)
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Tagged Accumulate, Families, First Principles, Individuals, Influence, John Adams, Knowledge, Letter to Abigail Adams, Long, Marriage, Property
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