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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway, author and … Continue reading

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Scargiver’s Fight

Scargiver’s Fightby Michael DoyleTo fight and then to live to fightEven while knowing we cannot winTo hold pride in the battleEven though knowing pride is a sinThis is the way of warriorsWilling to bear the costEven while knowing the truthHonor … Continue reading

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I Surrender

I Surrenderby Michael DoyleFaith comes from hearingAnd learning to loveIt’s not from fearingBut following heaven aboveHolding the doors open wideWe know God always stands besideHis followers, as we lift our hands in praiseThis is the faith flowing from our daysIt’s … Continue reading

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Even By the Blind

Even By the Blindby Michael DoyleWe lose ourselves in life’s false accusationsFalling into fear before the wicked prosecutionsThese are the lessons learned in life’s schoolLike pearls before swine in a misapplied golden ruleNo one loses purity at the and hands … Continue reading

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First Principles: Justice, Humanity, and Benevolence Are the Duties You Owe To Society In General. To Your Country the Same Duties Are Incumbent Upon You

 “Justice, humanity and benevolence are the duties you owe to society in general. To your country the same duties are incumbent upon you with the additional obligation of sacrificing ease, pleasure, wealth and life itself for its defense and security.”– … Continue reading

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First Principles: No Number of Wreaths, No Amount of Music and Memorializing Will Ever Do Them Justice, But It Is Good For Us That We Honor Them and Their Sacrifice

“No number of wreaths, no amount of music and memorializing will ever do them justice, but it is good for us that we honor them and their sacrifice.”- Ronald Reagan, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Dedication (1982)

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Seen In Communion

Seen In Communionby Michael DoyleA plate of breadAnd juice of grapeBrings life to be spreadLike its spiritual landscapeWe come together for communionAs part of God’s familyCelebrating in this reunionThe blessing that brings us unityForgiveness in Christ is sharedThrough the burden … Continue reading

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Thoughts On Godly Marriage

Thoughts On Godly Marriageby Michael DoyleHealthy families serve as the best foundationBringing blessings to others and our nationIt is not to put the horse before the carriageTo say that we should focus on the ways of marriageWe need to put … Continue reading

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First Principles: An Unarmed Man May Be Attacked With Greater Confidence Than An Armed Man

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: To Be A Socialist Is To Submit The I To the Thou; Socialism Is Sacrificing the Individual To the Whole

“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.” – Joseph Goebbels

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