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Wholly Holistic
Wholly Holisticby Michael DoyleLifting up the name of Jesus aboveLiving as we do, all His ways of loveIt’s apparent that we are blessedLiving as we do among the very bestFound in the notes and narrative of songAre the words that … Continue reading
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Tagged Anticipation, Appreciation, Arena, Aspects, Belong, Best, Blame, Blessed, Broken, Celebrated, Challenge, Commandments, Compete, Concepts, Core Elements, Done, Faith, Father, Finish, Foolishness, Found, Glory, God's Holy Power, Grace, Grow, Hear, Heaven Knows, Hesitation, His Story, Holistic, Hour, Insight, Inspiration, Integrity, Jesus, Justified, Life Grows, Lifting Up, Light, Matters, Maturity, Meaningful, Measure, Opened Eyes, Opportunity, Overrated, Pain, Past, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Pray, Pressence, Questions, Recognize, Resolution, Sermon, Shame, Shatters, Sin, Son, Song, Spirit, Stages, Storms, Through, Transformation, Treasure, Truth, Truth Needed, Understood, Vain, Ways of Love, Whole, Winning, Wisdom, Word Life, Written Pages
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged A People, Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, Eats, First Principles, Heart, Laws, manners, Notes On the State of Virginia (1785), Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jeffereson, Vigor
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First Principles: God Gave Us A Spirit Not of Fear But of Power and Love and Self-Control
” For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
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Tagged 2 Timothy 1:7, Fear, First Principles, God, Love, Power, Self-Control, Spirit
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First Principles: For My Part, Whatever Anguish of Spirit It Might Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst, and To Provide For It
“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.” – Patrick Henry (1775)
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Tagged Anguish, Cost, First Principles, My Part, Patrick Henry, Provide For It, Spirit, Whole Truth, Worst
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Thought For the Day: I Am In the Habit of Looking Not So Much To the Nature of A Gift As To the Spirit Which It Is Offered
“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)
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Tagged Gift, Habit, Look, Nature, Offered, Robert Luis Stevenson, Spirit, Thought For the Day
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Pretender or Contender
Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth
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First Principles: For My Part, Whatever Anguish of Spirit It Might Cost, I Am Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To Know the Worst, and To Provide For It
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth — and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anguish, Cost, First Principles, Know, My Part, Patrick Henry, Provide, Spirit, Whole Truth, Willing, Worst
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, First Principles, Heart, Laws, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson, Vigor
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, Eats, First Principles, Heart, Law, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson
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A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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