September 16, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

C. H. Spurgeon

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God.

Isaiah 50:10
The New International Version

A woman came up to the pastor at the end of the service and said, “That was a wonderful sermon, Pastor, absolutely wonderful.” She gushed on about the brilliance of the sermon. The pastor, a little embarrassed, demurred softly, “Well, it wasn’t me. It was the Lord.” “Oh, it wasn’t that good!” the woman replied.

Stuart Briscoe

September 15, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

I am afraid we modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct. We use the language of power but our deeds are the deeds of weakness. We settle for words in religion because deeds are too costly. It is easier to pray, “Lord, help me to carry my cross daily” than to pick up the cross and carry it; but since the mere request for help to do something we do not actually intend to do has a certain degree of religious comfort, we are content with repetition of the words.

A. W. Tozer

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Acts 26:18
The King James Version

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of himself.

Mother Teresa

September 14, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Thomas a Kempis

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103:2-5
The English Standard Version

Beware you be not swallowed up on books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

September 13, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

We have forgotten that evil is infectious, as infectious as smallpox; and we do not perceive that if we allow whole departments of our life to become purely secular, and to create and maintain moral or immoral standards on their own, in time the whole of life is bound to become corrupt.

G. A. Studdert Kennedy

And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 11:6
The Revised Standard Version

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love—born of God’s care for every separate need.

Unknown

September 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.

John Ruskin

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

1 Peter 2:9
The New King James Version

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Charlie Shedd

September 9, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.

Coventry Patmore

The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.

Proverbs 23:24
The New International Version

God whispers in pleasure and shouts in pain.

Unknown

September 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made it.

Francis de Sales

“No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Jeremiah 31:34
The New King James Version

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and have patience for the small ones. Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

September 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Samuel Rutherford

From the west, people will fear the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory. For he will come like a pent-up flood that the breath of the Lord drives along.

Isaiah 59:19
The New International Version

The secret of a governable tongue is not self-control but Christ-control.

George Sweeting

September 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.

Douglas Rhymes

What good fellowship we once enjoyed as we walked together to the house of God.

Psalm 55:14
The New Living Translation

Many a fellow is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up.

Sam Jones

September 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Give some time, if it is only half an hour in every day, to devotional reading, which is as necessary to the well ordering of the mind as the hand of the gardener is to prevent weeds destroying your favorite flowers.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Job 36:11-12
The King James Version

The little child digs his well in the seashore sand, and the great Atlantic, miles deep, miles wide, is stirred all through and through to fill it for him.

Phillips Brooks

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