Daily Inspirational Quotes

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

William Penn

This Day's Verse

At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head.  Then he fell to the ground in worship and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.  The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”  In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Job 1:20-22
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Almost all of us have received the word about God through faith, without having a secondary training in Greek philosophy, some of us without elementary education.

Clement of Alexandria

This Day's Verse

And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 8:17
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Pope John XXIII

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good.  There is no self-confidence to compare with this.

Ulrich Zwingli

This Day's Verse

Then you and the Levites and the foreigners residing among you shall rejoice in all the good things the Lord your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:11
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.

Isaac Watts

This Day's Verse

“The good ground represents the heart of a man who listens to the message and understands it and goes out and brings thirty, sixty, or even a hundred others into the Kingdom.”

Matthew 13:23
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

O Lord, reform the world—beginning with me.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Not only have vast numbers of Americans lost all sense of the sacred, the moral, and the ethical, but the spiritual leaders from both the laity and the priesthood are often found in the forefront of this irreligious pursuit of comfort rather than conviction-of accommodation rather than truth-of the pleasant life rather than the meaningful life.

Frank Carlson

This Day's Verse

For we are the temple of the living God.

2 Corinthians 6:16
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We can all get to heaven without health, without wealth, without fame, without learning, without culture, without beauty, without friends, without ten thousand things.  But we can never get to heaven without Christ.

Corrie ten Boom

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

All the strength and force of a man comes from his faith in things unseen.

James Freeman Clarke

This Day's Verse

“I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”

Psalm 40:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

Charles Swindoll 

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It is a terrible mistake to understand Jesus as having been crucified by some especially bad people in the first century.  Jesus was crucified by the highest reach of human religiosity, morality, and political justice.

Albert T. Mollegen

This Day's Verse

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

1 Timothy 2:2
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.  There lies the land of song; there lies the poet’s native land.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The humblest Christian is the strongest.

Robert Leighton

This Day's Verse

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:21
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Fulfillment doesn’t automatically happen as a result of linking up with the “right” person, job, or even ministry.  Fulfillment happens as a result of being in God’s will.

Marilyn Olson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Zechariah 9:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Not one to monopolize on beer and wine, Luther also enjoyed good water; he prayed, “Dear God, what a noble fluid Thou hast given us in water!  It excels all wines; and yet, when we are well, we consider water, which so pleasantly cools and refreshes us, a mere trifle.”

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The very helplessness of the world today is in itself a repudiation of that self-sufficient and self-confident view of life that the world in its progressive development has outgrown the need of Christ.  It is following Christ that gives the world what it most needs—a standard of right living, a cause to maintain and defend, a Leader to follow, and a law to obey.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

I am not worthy of the least of all your loving kindnesses shown me again and again just as you promised me.

Genesis 32:10
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

People who are in the habit of praying—and they include the mystics of the Christian tradition—know that when a prayer is answered, it is never answered in a way that you expect.

Kathleen Norris

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