Tag Archives: Wrong

To Walk That Walk

To Walk That Walkby Michael DoyleAs a fractured soul in need of graceI know where I belong; I know my placeI walk my love as best that I canAs my heart keeps God’s commandsGod helps us to reach a better … Continue reading

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A Graduated Conflict of Morality

A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading

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The Freedom Agenda

The Freedom Agendaby Michael DoyleI read the headlines to my great consternationThat Newsome and others would change our constitutionThe thoughts of over my dead body come to mindIt’s time we leave such foolish thoughts behindIt’s not enough to simply win … Continue reading

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Truth Becomes A Life

Truth Becomes A Lifeby Michael DoyleLooking at life in its full-lengthWe find our hold on truth is our strengthWithout truth, life is merely a stumbleWith all around us in a constant crumbleThis is happening throughout our landAs I pray to … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: We Are Social Creatures In the Inmost Centre of Our Being. The Notion That One Can Begin…From Scratch…Could Not…Be More Wrong

“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Limits of Tyrants Are Prescribed By the Endurance of Those Whom They Suppress

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and … Continue reading

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Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023

Thoughts On Palm Sunday 2023by Michael DoyleEvery man’s life is a conversationIt’s in the soul, not the presentationPalm Sunday is it’s own celebrationThat turned from hosanna to devastationOr so perception blinded, yet it gave goodOne day at a time, as … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: When Two Opposite Points of View Are Expressed With Equal Intensity, the Truth Does Not Necessarily Lie Exactly Halfway Between Them

“When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.” – Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 26 Mar … Continue reading

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Called To Freedom

Called To Freedomby Michael DoyleStanding firm on Sunday morningLiving life as if a warningDoing it as I can to my very bestFasting and testifying as I confessIt grew toward a borderline resentmentUntil I discovered what brought contentmentCalled to freedom to … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: We Are Social Creatures To the Inmost Center of Our Being

“We are social creatures to the inmost center of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.” -Karl Popper, philosopher and … Continue reading

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