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Secular Ideal
To hear the communists and socialists tell it the 20th Century must have been the advent of civilization as they and the secularists strove to drive God out of the public square and it was sheer coincidence that it was … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 20th Century, Believers, Chord, Deaf, Deceivers, Dogma, Doom, Doubt, Gloom, God Is Dead, Godless, History, Human Being, Ideal, Ignorance, Illusion, Lovers of Truth, Mankind, Meaning, Misery, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Risk, Rule, Santification, Secular, Self Deception, Self-Inflicted, Unintentional, Victims, Wisdom
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Uncompromising
I don’t mean to be overanalyzing But what made you my true north Was I thought you were uncompromising In always living up to our true worth I believed you would never lie As events have turned I cannot deny … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Analysis, Belief, Daily Prompt, Deliberate, Deny, Events, Hurt, Lie, Misconception, Opened Eyes, Self Deception, Surprise, True North, Truth, Turn, Uncompromising, Wordpress, Worth
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Thought For The Day: Believers In Self Deception End Up Behaving Like Animals
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Animal, Disrespect, Emptiness, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hedonism, Impulses, Lies, Love, Pleasure, Respect, Self Deception, Thought For the Day, Vices
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Thought For the Day: We Usually Give Ourselves the Worse Trouble
“I’ve never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.” – Dwight Moody
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Accountability, Dwight Moody, Responsibility, Self Deception, Sin, Theology, Thought For the Day, Trouble
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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)
Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Awe, Beatitudes, Counsel, Courage, Endurance, Enlightenment, Family of God, Fortitude, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Humility, Kingdom, Knowledge, Photograph, Piety, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Reverence, Sacrament, Self Deception, Seven Swans A Swimming, Tolerance, Treasures, Understanding, Wisdom
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A Warrior’s Unveiling
A Warrior’s Unveiling by Michael Romani From birth, a warrior is taught To do his best in all that he might May trials come in training for the onslaught All in preparation for the battles to be fought All of … Continue reading
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Tagged Battles, Illusory, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Self Deception, Surreal, Survival, Training, Warrior
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Thought For the Day: Always Seek For Truth Or Lose Your Ability To Love
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day, Uncategorized
Tagged Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Lies, Love, Respect, Self Deception, The Brothers Karamazov, Truth
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