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First Principles: Bibles Are Strong Entrenchments. Where They Abound, Men Cannot Pursue Wicked Courses, and At the Same Time Enjoy Quiet Conscience
“Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.” – James McHenry, signer of the Constitution
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Tagged Abudance, Bibles, Courses, Entrenchment, First Principles, James McHenry, Mankind, Pursuit, Quiet Consience, Wickedness
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Thought For the Day: The Belief In A Supernatural Source of Evil Is Not Necessary; Men Alone Are Quite Capable of Every Wickedness
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” – Joseph Conrad
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Tagged Belief, Capability, Evil, Joseph Conrad, Mankind, Necessary, Supernatural Source, Thought For the Day, Wickedness
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Choices In Season
Choices In Seasonby Michael DoyleThe broken wickedness of humanitySomehow becomes highlighted in our history.Like the blessings and curses of Isaac’s birth,Beginning with his declaration on this earth.We serve the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s legacy,And find our way in … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Bible, Blessng, Choice, Christianity, Definitvee, Faith, God, Grace, Grafification, History, Htory, Humanity, Infiinite, Isaac's Birth, Jesus, Legacy, Marriage, Providence, Radical Obedience, Rebekah, Season, Vrtue, Wickedness
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Learning From Dark Times
Learning From Dark Timesby Michael DoyleGod’s creation is entrusted to humanity.At times, this has been to our vanity.Mistake after mistake has been made.This is not to say we should walk afraid.The Nephilim walked with us side by sideWhile evil ways … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Bible, Christianity, Dark Times, Entrusted, ephilim, Faith, God, God's Creation, God's Fvor, God's Ways, Humaity, Jesus, Learn, Mankind, Mistakes, Nine Hundred Years, Noah and His Family, Poetry and Poems, Prie, Reemption, Relent, Tethered, The Ark, The Dark, Vanity, Wickedness
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In the Solitude of Darkness
In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand
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Thought For the Day: We Are Not To Reflect On the Wickedness of Men But To Look To the Image of God In Them
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to … Continue reading
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Tagged Allure, Beauty, Cover, Dignity, Embrace, Fault, Image of God, Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Love, Men, Obliterate, Reflect, Thought For the Day, Wickedness
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First Principles: So Great Is the Wickedness of Some Men, and the Stupid Servility of Others, That One Would Be Almost Inclined To Conclude That Communities Cannot Be Free
“So great is the wickedness of some men, and the stupid servility of others, that one would be almost inclined to conclude that communities cannot be free.” – Samuel Adams (1787)
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Tagged Communities, Conclude, First Principles, Free, Great, Incline, Men, Samuel Adams, Servility, Wickedness
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Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed
Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful
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First Principles: In A State of Nature, Or Where Men Are Under No Civil Government, God Has Given To Everyone Liberty To Pursue His Own Happiness In Whatever Way and By Whatever Means He Pleases
“In a state of nature, or where men are under no civil government, God has given to every one liberty to pursue his own happiness in whatever way, and by whatever means he pleases, without asking the consent or consulting … Continue reading
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Tagged 1773 Election Sermon, Account, Allows No Man To Injure Another, Bounds This Liberty, Destroy His Own Life, Dispose of His Property, Exercise of This Liberty, First Principles, Forbids All Injustice, God, Govern His Actions, Law of Nature, Liberty, Person, Person or Property, Provided, Punish, Pursue His Own Happiness, Right To Restrain, Simeon Howard, State of Licentiousness, State of Nature, Thinks Proper, Under No Civil Government, Whatever Means, Whatever Way, Wickedness, Within the Bounds of the Law of Nature
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The Tales Told
The Tales Toldby Michael DoyleThe seventh son of the seventh sonKnows he has no choice but to be the oneWho in accord with ancient prophecyMust rise above to embrace his legacyThe tales told are things quite legendaryPressing him to greatness … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient, Beauty, Believer, Blood Moon, Call, Castle, Certainty, City, Confide, Courageous, Dangerous, Dark, Darkness, Dazed, Deep Inside, Destiny, Duty, Evil, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fortune, Fully Phase, Ghost, Good, Greatness, Heart, Holy, Journey, Knight, Learn, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons, Light, Met, Mistaken, Needs, No Choice, Offshore, Photograph, Phrases, Poem, Poetry, Press, Prophecy, Put, Return, Rise Above, Road, Safety, Seventh Son, Shadows, Summoner, Tales, Tales Told, The one, Told, Unleashed, Vanquish, Wall, Warmth of Love, Whisper, Wickedness, Wise, World, Wretched
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