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Thought For the Day: We Would Often Be Ashamed of Our Finest Actions If the World Understood All the Motives Which Produced Them
“We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.” – Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer (15 Sep 1613-1680)
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Tagged Ashamed, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Finest Actions, Francois, Motives, Produce, Thought For the Day, Understood, We, World
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I Need You To Fight
I Need You To Fightby Michael DoyleI’ve never had great answersTo life’s deeper questionsLike what is the meaning or how to cure cancersBut, I can say without hesitationThat I have meant to do goodTo do the best that I have … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Able, All I know, Brave, Clue, Corner, Cure Cancer, Dancer, Deep Within You, Deeper Questions, Degree, Do Good, Do the Best, Fight, God, Hear, Here I Am Again, Hesitation, I Need You To Fight, Just For You, Know, Life, Like You've Never Fought, Meaning, Meant, More Than Fable, Never, Out of Answers, Paper, Persevere, Please, Poetic, Poetry and Poems, Probably, Rely, Say, Search, Spirit, The Last, Turn This Thing Around, Understood, Where I'll Be Too, Words, Written, You
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All Those Secret Sins
All Those Secret Sinsby Michael DoyleOh my, the hypocrisyHave you no dignityWith all the secret sinsThat pops up now and thenHiding hate behind that smileMeaning yes in our denialIn a matter of time, it revealsItself in vivid detailsRight before the … Continue reading
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Tagged All Our Little Lies, Behind, Best To Change, Denial, Dignity, Does Not Accept, God Knows, Half Expected, Heed, Hiding Hate, Holds Us All Accountable, Hyprocrisy, Insurmountable, Living In Repentance, Matter of Time, Meaning Yes, Now and Then, Our Alibis, Our Own Good, Poetry and Poems, Pops Up, Read, Rest of Our Days, Reveal, Secret Sins, See the Signs, Smile, Surprise, The Lord, Understood, Vivid Details, Warnings, Ways, World's Eyes
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First Principles: If By the Liberty of the Press Were Understood Merely the Liberty of Discussing the Propriety of Public Measures and Political Opinions, Let Us Have As Much of It As You Please
“If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, … Continue reading
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Tagged As Much of It As You Please, Benjamin Franklin, Caluminating, Defaming, Discuss, First Principles, Liberty, Liberty of Affronting, Liberty of the Press, My Share, One Another, Political Opinions, Propriety, Public Measures, Understood, Willing To Part
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Some Times We Can Wait No Longer
Some Times We Can Wait No Longerby Michael DoyleSocrates and Jesus took their last breathsAs each of these were put to their deathsAccused and tried for treason and blasphemyAnd in corrupting the young by truth’s divinityThe noble search and allegiance … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Above, Allegiance, Allow Life, Appreciate, Beauty, Beyond Compare, Beyond Our Control, Blasphemy, Born, Burn, Call, Chain, Commiseration, Complication, Consolation, Corrupt, Curing, Dedication, Derive, Divine Comedy, Divinity, Document, Emperor, Enduring, Evil, Evil Intent, Explanation, Faithful, Fame and Fortune, Fate, Freed Thoughts, Freedoms, Gained Victory, Gifts, Gives and Takes, God's Instruments, Good, Happiness, Harsh, Hatred, Heaven, History, Holy and Good, Humanity, Imprisoned, Instrument, Jesus, Justice, Know, Last Breath, Laughter, Led, Library, Life, Literature, Live, Live On, Lose Charm, Loss, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mind, Misery, Must, No Longer, Noble, Nothing, Others, Outside Agitator, Overome, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power of Belief, Providence, Put to Death, Real Form, Respond, Returning Good for Evil, Reveal, Rhapsody, Search, Second Guess, Segregation, Sermons, Shackled Will, Slander, Socrates, Some Times We Wait No Longer, Sung, Tatter, Theta, Times, Treason, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Understood, Unwise, Venerate, Wait, Wicked Consolation, World, Wrong, Young
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The Rise and Fall of Boethius
The Rise and Fall of Boethiusby Michael DoyleGraven images are made and meant to saveWhen Christianity met Plato’s caveOffering more than shadows on the wallA philosophical bend had come to callChrist was both the Father and the SonJoined with Wisdom … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Beleived, Belief, Blasphemy, Boethius, Brave Hearts, Call, Christ, Christianity, Constantine, Constantinople, Control, Convert, Created, Creator, Cruelty, Decency, Different, Dignity, Diocletian, Dispute, Divinity, Doing Good, East, Enemy, Fabricated, Fall, False Cries, Fatal Suppression, Father, Fight, Forbearance, Good Heart, Good Man, Good Measure, Goths, Grace, Graven Image, Hands, Heritage, Ill Repute, Justice, Legacy, Loss, Miracle, Nation, Patronage, Philosophy, Photograph, Plato's Cave, Poem, Poetry, Propserity, Quest, Reformation, Repression, Rise and Fall, Roman Empire, Romans, Save, Shadow, Sign of the Cross, Sonic Gems, Surrender, Temper, Testimony, Theodoric, Tolerance, Treason, Trinity, Triune, Understood, Victory, Wall, Western Roman Empire, Wisdom, Works
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A Wolf Keeps Watch
A Wolf Keeps Watchby Michael DoyleLike a wolf into a flock of sheepTheir troubled souls, he would keepFor he was a reformed wolf standing guard against the enemyAnd there were questions of one’s dignityPoints of contention still must be proved … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blur, Blush, Breath, Buriedd, Contention, Corruption, Craw, Defile, Determined, Devil, Dignity, Enemy, Evidence, Eyes, Fall, Flock of Sheep, Forgotten, Giving Ground, God, Guard, Guilty, Harder Than Death, Head of Doubt, Holy Man, Hostiles, Hustle, Innocent Child, Keep, Last, Love, Mumbles, Obedience, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Point of View, Pray, Providence, Questions, Random Thought, Recall, Reformed, Rotten, Safe, Shake, Shiver, Side Hustle, Silent, Sold, Solid, Soul, Street, Survivors, Suspicion, Tale, Tears, Told, Touch, Trace, Troubled Souls, True, Truth, Under, Understood, Watch, Wollf, Wounded Heart
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In the Providence of Seneca
In the Providence of Senecaby Michael DoyleIn the age of ancient tyrannyWhen Rome had lost its libertyEven a good man might compromiseFor the partial good seen in his eyesThough at times, it took its tollTo hide his better angels in … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Age, All That Happens, Ancient, Beg For Mercy, Belong, Better Angels, Bind, Blessing, Breath of Life, Code, Complexity, Compromise, Confronted, Correspondence, Creation, Cringe, Death, Destroy, Deviation, Divinity, Done, E, Epistles, Every, Evil, Evil For Evil, Eyes, Face to Face, Facing Adversity, Fast, Felt, Fiddle, Final Analysis, For Good, Full, Garment, God, God Works, Good, Good Man, Good Person, Greater, Grow, Hide, His Creation, Hold True, Just, Kill, Knowing, Liberty, Life, Lost, Mankind, Moral Relativists, Mortal, Name of God, Nation, Natural Law, Nero, No Choice, Nobility, Order, Partial Good, Path, Perfection, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, Regardless, Return, Right and Wrong, Right Way, Righteousness, Role, Rom, Rule, Satisfaction, Seam, Self, Seneca, Sense, Setting Sun, Shade, Shadows, Showing, Situational Ethics, Slavery, Socrates, Sonorous, Soul, Strains, Subjugation, Test of Evil, Testimony, Thoughts, Time, Times, Toll, Traces, Tyranny, Understood, Universe
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Righting My Wrong Direction
A little something from my notes taken during yesterday’s sermon: Righting My Wrong Direction by Michael Doyle No longer living in the wrong direction I’m seeking God’s love and true connection Returning the fullness of love that God has given … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Fruit, Blessed, Bound, Call, Careful, Composite, Contemplation, Deep, Deep Sense, Deeper, Direction, Discipleship, Dwells, Errors, Fall, Family, Follow, Forgiven, Formality, Fullness, Given, God, God Is Good, God's Family, God's Light, God's Love, Good and Pure, Heed, Honor, Humanity, Know, Law, Live, Living, Lord, Marriage, Mindful, Mover, Notes, Opposite, Ourselves, Passionate, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reflection, Relationship, Release, Return, Right, Right and Good, Seek, Sermon, Short, Sin, Sinfulness, Straight and True, Temptation, To Do Good, True, True Connection, Understood, Walk, Want, We, Worship, Wrong, Wrong Direction
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