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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is faith’s work to claim and challenge loving kindness out of all the roughest strokes of God.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:12
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God loved us enough to save us from sin’s past penalty.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s present power.
God loves us enough to save us from sin’s future presence.

Josh Weidmann

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

We are never without help.  We have no right to say of any good work, “it is too hard for me to do,” or of any sorrow, “it is too hard for me to bear;” or of any sinful habit, “it is too hard for me to overcome.”

Elizabeth Charles

This Day's Verse

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:7
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Wiser it were to welcome and make ours
What’er of good, though small, the Present brings,—
Kind greetings, sunshine, songs of birds, and flowers,
With a child’s pure delight in little things.

R. C. Trench

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Faith enables us to measure the world at its real value.

H. P. Liddon

This Day's Verse

Do not speak evil against one another, brethren.

James 4:11
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Fulton J. Sheen

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Where is the foolish person who would think it in his power to commit more than God could forgive.

Francis de Sales

This Day's Verse

“Oh, that we might know the Lord!  Let us press on to know him.  He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”

Hosea 6:3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

It is rare when injustice, or slights patiently borne, do not leave the heart at the close of the day filled with marvellous joy and peace.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Frederick W. Robertson

This Day's Verse

If I ride the morning winds to the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, your strength will support me.

Psalm 139:9-10
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.

Lyell Rader

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

This solid faith doth empty the believer of himself.  The native work of faith is to make the soul rest in Christ alone.  True faith lays the burden of all duties and difficulties upon Him.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.  Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

How shall we become lovely?  By loving Him who is ever lovely.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

I would have you, one by one, ask yourselves,
Wherein do I take up the cross daily?

E. B. Pusey

This Day's Verse

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.

Proverbs 14:21
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awful loving-kindness.

George MacDonald

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice.  Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and who permits them.  Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6:10
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

If a man wins God’s race, it doesn’t matter where else he loses.  If a man loses God’s race, it matters not where else he may win.

Steven Lawson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If you trusted God with your soul, why would you not trust Him with your worries?

Josh Weidmann

This Day's Verse

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.  That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

2 Timothy 1:13-14
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Let the weakest, let the humblest remember, that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed around him almost a heaven.  Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness,—these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.  Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness?  From hour to hour, from moment to moment, we are supported, blest, by small kindnesses.

Frederick W. Robertson

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you.  God understands His own plan, and He knows what you need a great deal better than you do.  The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most need.  What you call hindrances, obstacles, or discouragements, are probably God’s opportunities.  Bring down your soul, of, rather, bring it up to receive God’s will and do His work, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations—and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but really consistent with it.

Horace Bushnell

This Day's Verse

I am determined not to sin in what I say.

Psalm 17:3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy.  For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

C. S. Lewis

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