June 16, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

One of the keys to real religious experience is the shattering realization that no matter how hateful we are to ourselves, we are not hateful to God. This realization helps us to understand the difference between our love and his. Our love is a need, his a gift. We need to see good in ourselves to in order to love ourselves. He does not. He loves us not because we are good, but because He is.

Thomas Merton

I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 34:4
The Revised Standard Version

June 15, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

If a person is seeking God, his Beloved is seeking him much more…and the desire for God is the preparation for union with Him.

John of the Cross

“This is what the Lord says— Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.”

Isaiah 44:6
The New International Version

The finite mind does not require us to gasp the infinitude of truth, but only to go forward from light to light.

Peter Bayne

June 12, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Whatever sort of tribulation we suffer, we should always remember that its purpose is to make us spurn the present and reach out to the future.

John Calvin

Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord evil is avoided.

Proverbs 16:6
The New International Version

Philosophers, then, are children, unless they have been made men by Christ.

Clement of Alexandria

June 11, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We all take different roads home. Each of us is heading for the same destination, but we face our own variety of twists and turns and narrow places, as well as a few stretches that are all downhill.

Janet Paschal

Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:4
The New King James Version

June 10, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

We demand God’s gifts to satisfy our cravings. Yet, only His presence can do the trick.

Leslie Williams

“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Deuteronomy 31:6
The English Standard Version

Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.

Unknown

June 9, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Many have taken the Christian faith to be a simple and easy matter, and have even numbered it among the virtues. This is because they have not really experienced it, nor have they tested the great strength of faith.

Martin Luther

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16
The King James Version

June 8, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Jesus Christ is always unyielding to my claim to my right to myself. The one essential element in all our Lord’s teaching about discipleship is abandon, no calculation, no trace of self-interest.

Oswald Chambers

Come near to God and he will come near to you.

James 4:8
The New International Version

Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an ever bigger blessing.

Janette Oke

June 5, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.

John Newton, shortly before he died

His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. His brightness was like the light, rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.

Habakkuk 3:3-4
The Revised Standard Version

I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I have a foot. I’ll fight it as long as I have a fist. I’ll butt it as long as I have a head. I’ll bite it as long as I have a tooth. And when I’m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.

Billy Sunday

June 4, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

When we speak about wisdom we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.

Ambrose of Milan

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go. Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48:17-18
The New King James Version

June 3, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Charles Spurgeon

For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:11-12
The New King James Version

I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause, and cannot plead yours.

Charles Finney, to one of his law clients

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