Tag Archives: People

Skandalon

Posted on July 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Skandalonby Michael DoyleI won’t take the baitOf living this fateFalling for the offenseOf people speaking through pretenseTriggered into living this trapThinking and feeling the rapHit after hit comes my wayI see it happening day after dayThe pains that are feltIn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Bad, Bait, Being Bitter, Best Life, Better, Bitterness, Breath, Choice, Day After Day, Dealt, Dey, Drip, Escape the Fate, Ever Had, Falling, Fangs of Despair, Fatal Test, Fear and Doubt, Felt, Finger Trap, Flow, Glory, God's Best Truth, God's Plans, Great Signifiance, Happening, Heart, Hit After hit, How I live, Injustices, Kingdom, Learn, Legendary, Lesson To Heed, Let Go, Listening, Living, Living This Fate, Magnificence, My Days, Need, Not Stand Alone, Offense, Offenses, Offenses of the Past, Overlooking, Pains, Patience, People, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Rap, Rip Me Apart, Sad, Satan, Skandalon, Slights, Small Still Voice, Stands Alone, The Story, Trap, Trap of Offense, Triggered, Try As I might, Turn the Page, Ugly, Venom, Way, Wisdom, Yields | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: People Are Like Stained Glass Windows

Posted on July 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (8 Jul … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Darkness Sets in, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Light Within, People, Revealed, Shine, Sparkle, Stained Glass Windows, Sun Is Out, Thought For the Day, True Beauty | Leave a comment

First Principles: If People Are Capable of Understanding, Seeing and Feeling the Differences Between True and False…To What Better Principle Can the Friends of Mankind Apply…?

Posted on June 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” – … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Better Principle, Capable, Difference, Differences, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, John Adams, People, Right and Wrong, Sense, True and False, Understanding, Virtue and Vice | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: America, My Friends, Is the Only Country In the World Actually Founded On Liberty…People Went To America To Be Free

Posted on June 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty — the only one. People went to America to be free.” – Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged America, Founded, Free, Liberty, Margaret Thatcher, My Friends, Only Country, People, Thought For the Day, World | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: For A Time Is Coming When People Will No Longer Listen To Sound and Wholesome Teaching. They Will Follow Their Own Desires….

Posted on May 7, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.” – 2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 2 Timothy 4:3, Coming, Follow, Itching Ears, Look, Own Desires, People, Sound and Wholesome, Teachers, Teaching, Tell, Thought For the Day, Time, Want To Hear | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: People Who Advocate A Racially Based Curriculum Are Not Teaching Peace But A Long Line of Complaints That Can Only Increase Hostility Among the Citizenry

Posted on May 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“People who dwell on grievances are going to dwell on grievances for the rest of their lives. People who advocate a racially based curriculum are not teaching peace but a long line of complaints that can only increase hostility among … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Advocate, Citizenry, Complaints, Dwell, Grievances, Increase Hostility, Not Teaching Peace, People, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Racially Based Curriculum, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: If We Don’t Believe In Freedom of Expression For People We Despise, We Don’t Believe In It At All

Posted on April 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged At All, Believe, Despise, Don't Believe, Expression, Freedom, People, Thought For the Day, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: A Bookstore Is One of the Only Pieces of Evidence We Have That People Are Still Thinking

Posted on April 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” – Jerry Seinfeld, comedian (b. 29 Apr 1954)

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Bookstore, Evidence, Jerry Seinfeld, People, Pieces, Still, Thinking, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Thousands of Tired, Nerve-Shaken, Over-Civilized People Are Beginning To Find Out Going To the Mountains Is Going Home; That Wilderness Is A Necessity

Posted on April 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Beginning, Find, Going Home, Going To the Mountains, John Muir, Necessity, Nerve-Shaken, People, Thought For the Day, Thousands, Tired, Wilderness | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Without Deviation, Without Exception, Without Any Ifs, Buts, or Whereases, Freedom of Speech Means That You Shall Not Do Something To People Either For Views They Express, Or the Words They Speak Or Write

Posted on April 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.” – Justice Hugo L. Black … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Express, Freedom of Speech, Justice Hugo L Black, Means, People, Speak, Thought For the Day, Views, Without Deviation, Words, Write, You Shall Not Do Something | Leave a comment