I Believe

All things work together for good to they that love God. This is one of God’s most difficult promises to believe in in times of affliction and loss.

America is experiencing an awful scourge of moral decay among our children and young people because their parents and grandparents have largely “forgotten the laws of God.”

Everything that we see, hear, feel, or think influences how we perceive what is right and what is wrong. Since all of us have learned wrong things, we need to learn to unlearn and relearn. We can do this by filtering everything through God’s truth word.

God considers the honoring of parents by their children to be of great importance; it is vital if our children are to come also to honor their Heavenly Father.

Godless people are more inclined to be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about.

If someone were to pay you two cents for every kind word you have spoken about people and five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

In the near future certain people are going to begin asking themselves, “Whatever possessed me to get tattooed?”

It is a known fact that most children will follow in their parents’ footsteps and so will the generations that follow.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.

No nation can remain free very long when immoral practices become widely accepted by a majority of its citizens.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

We often hear it said, “If God existed, there would be no wars.” It would be truer to say, “If God’s laws were observed, there would be no wars.”

Self-reflection is always a good exercise. What I believe is a work in progress, not limited to these statements and subject to change. What do YOU believe?

Daniel Taddeo

Longtime Parma Hts. resident and educator in the Parma School district.

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Volume 8, Issue 9, Posted 9:12 AM, 09.02.2016