Daily Inspirational Quotes

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve…You don’t have to know the second theory of thermo-dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This Day's Verse

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

Ephesians 6:10-11
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

To walk with God, we must make it a practice to talk with God.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Teresa of Avila

This Day's Verse

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Psalm 46:10
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

For the early Christians, koinonia was not the frilly “fellowship” of church-sponsored, biweekly bowling parties. It was not tea, cookies, and sophisticated small talk in Fellowship Hall after the sermon. It was an almost unconditional sharing of their lives with the other members of Christ’s body.

Ronald J. Sider

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Slow me down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations…of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Remind me each day of the fable of the hare and the tortoise, that I may know that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than measuring its speed. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

This Day's Verse

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

Frederick W. Faber

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

It is God’s will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

We master fear through faith—faith in the worthwhileness of life and the trustworthiness of God; faith in the meaning of our pain and our striving, and confidence that God will not cast us aside but will use each one of us as a piece of priceless mosaic in the design of his universe.

Joshua Loth Liebman

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens.
Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others.
Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

John Baillie

This Day's Verse

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 Peter 5:8
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Some days, it is enough encouragement just to watch the clouds break up and disappear, leaving behind a blue patch of sky and bright sunshine that is so warm upon my face. It’s a glimpse of divinity; a kiss from heaven.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey…
I asked for health, that I might do greater things
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things…
I asked for riches, that I might be happy
I was given poverty, that I might be wise…
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God…
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life
I was given life that I might enjoy all things…
I got nothing that I asked for—but everything I had hoped for
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Psalm 91:4
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

Fulton J. Sheen

This Day's Verse

But they delight in doing everything God wants them to, and day and night are always meditating on his laws and thinking about ways to follow him more closely.

Psalm 1:2
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God’s never missed the runway through all the centuries of fearful fog.

Charles R. Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

Samuel Rutherford

This Day's Verse

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I did not go through the Book, The Book went through me.

A. W. Tozer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Fear. His modus operandi is to manipulate you with the mysterious, to taunt you with the unknown. Fear of death, fear of failure, fear of God, fear of tomorrow—his arsenal is vast. His goal? To create cowardly, joyless souls. He doesn’t want you to make the journey to the mountain. He figures if he can rattle you enough, you will take your eyes off the peaks and settle for a dull existence in the flatlands.

Max Lucado

This Day's Verse

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your answers.

William Culbertson III

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The Christian has a deep, silent, hidden peace, which the world sees not, like some well in a retired and shady place. What he is when left to himself and to his God, that is his true life.

John Henry Newman

This Day's Verse

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 11:28
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Authentic religion is not a theology test.  It’s a love test.

Oliver Thomas

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