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Thought For the Day: When You Leave This Earth, You Can Take With You Nothing That You Have Received – Only What You Have Given: A Full Heart, Enriched By Honest Service, Love, Sacrifice and Courage
“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received – only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.“– St. Francis of Assisi
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Tagged Courage, Earth, Enriched, Full Heart, Given, Leave, Love, Nothing, Received, Remember, Sacrifice, St. Francis of Assisi, Take, Thought For the Day
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Unity In God’s Family
Unity In God’s Familyby Michael DoyleLife proves the truth of God’s reliabilityAs God gets us through our adversitiesWe stand grateful as we become more wiseLearning to love the world through His eyesWe were once living in transgression and sinCraving the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Adversities, Battles, Bits and Pieces, Blessings, Blindness, Brilliance, Brokenness, Christ, Craziness, Definition, Degrees, Dependent, Deserve, Embrace, Eternity, Faith, Freedom and Liberty, Gentle Traces, Gift, God, God's Family, Godly Ways, Grace, Grateful, Guide, His Eyes, Hope, Humanity, Influence, Justice, Kindness, Knees, Knnes, Learn, Life, Living, Living Grace, Lord's Cross, Loss, Lost Sight, Love, Loving Grace, Media, Mercy, Paths, Penitent Souls, Played, Poetry and Poems, Power, Pray, Punches, Reliability, Repentance, Sacrifice, Saved, Serve, Sin, Spiral, Sway, The World, Truth, Unity, Wise, Words, Wounded Souls, Wrath, Wrath of God
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Thought For the Day: A University’s Essential Character Is That of Being A Center of Free Inquiry and Criticism – A Thing Not Be Sacrificed For Anything Else
“A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.” – Richard Hofstadter So then, if this former member of the Communist Party, USA, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Center, Character, Criticism, Essential, Free Inquiry, Richard Hofstadter, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Unversity
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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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Tagged Beauty, Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroyed, Discipline, Ernest Hemingway, Feeling, Ironic, Possess, Risks, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtues, Vulnerable, Wounded
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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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Tagged Battle, Cause, Children, Choose, Cost, Die, Dignity, Fight, Firm, Freedom, Full Cost, Future, Goodness, Hold, Honor, Knights of Old, Know, Law, Liberty, Light, Lost, Measure, Nobility, Own, Place of Respect, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Reasons, Sacrifice, Scargiver, Seasons, Sin, Sustain, Tales of Old, Told, Treason, Truth, Way of Warriors, Win, Win Or Die, Wlling
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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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Tagged All My Days, Breath, Darkest Night, Days, Door, Everywhere, Extol, Faith, Fear, Flow, Follow, Follower, Go, God, God's Purposes, Good, Guiding Light, Hands, Hear, Heaven, His Services, I Surrender, Know, Learn, Lift, Lifting My Hands, Live, Lord Jesus, Love, My Very Life, Open, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promise, Sacrifice, Song, Soul, Stands Beside, Surrender, Sweet and Tender, Theology, Understood
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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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Tagged Adore, Beauty, Birth, Blind, Courage, Cover, Even By, Even By the Blind, Eyes, False Accusation, Forlorn, Gain, Golden Rule, Hands of Others, Healing Hands, Heart, Hell, Humble, Kind, Lane, Lesson, Life's Path, Live Life, Lose, Love, Multitude, New Lifee, One Another, Paradise, Pearls, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prosecution, Purity, Sacred, Sacrifice, School, Search, Seen, Separation, Sing, Sins, Swine, True Love, Wounded Hearts
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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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Tagged Abigail Adams, Benevolence, Country, Defense, Duties, Ease, First Principles, Humanity, Incumbent, Justice, Life, Obligation, Pleasure, Sacrifice, Security, Society, Wealth
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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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Tagged Amount, First Principles, Good, Honor, Justice, Memorialize, Music, Number, Ronald Reagan, Sacrifice, Wreaths
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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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Tagged Accept, Atonement, Blessing, Bow, Bread, Bread and Cup, Broken, Burden of the Cross, Cause To Pause, Celebrate, Christ, Come Together, Commitment, Communion, Confident, Correction, Destruction, Faithfulness, Fellowship, Forgiven, Forgiveness, Future, Gain, Gentle, Given, God, God's Family, Grape, Hell, His Ways, Hope, Inspection, Juice, Last, Life, Lord's Supper, Love, New Covenant, Now, Offered, Other Believers, Passover, Past, Plate, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Present, Recognize, Reflection, Remembrance, Remind Us, Resurrection, Reunion, Sacrifice, Satan, Seen, Shared, Sin of Man, Sinners, Slavation, Spiritual Eyes, Spiritual Lanscape, Spread, Story, Table, Three Days, Three Directions, Unity, Yoke
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