Eternity & Death

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

“In you alone do I have all.” Such words are dear indeed unto the soul, and very close to the will and goodness of God. For he himself is eternity, and has made us for himself alone, has restored us by his blessed passion and keeps us in his blessed love. And all because he is goodness.

Julian of Norwich

This Day's Verse

Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.

1 Corinthians 10:24
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Mystery is beyond human reason but it is not against reason.

Os Guinness

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Thomas Manton

This Day's Verse

“You are my flock, the sheep of my pasture. You are my people, and I am your God. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 34:31
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but thee.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

For the Lord says, “Because he loves me, I will rescue him; I will make him great because he trusts in my name. When he calls on me, I will answer; I will be with him in trouble and rescue him and honor him. I will satisfy him with a full life and give him my salvation.”

Psalm 91:14-16
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God wants the heart.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Teresa of Avila

This Day's Verse

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:9
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A man hoping to find wisdom traveled to Poland to see the renowned Rabbi Hafez Hayyim. When he arrived at the celebrated rabbi’s house, he was surprised to see that it was nothing more than a room. There, the rabbi sat on a bench at a small table surrounded only by the numerous volumes of books he continually pored over in study. The seeker asked, “Good Rabbi, where are all your belongings? Where are your furnishings?” Hafez answered, “Tell me, where are yours?” “Where are mine?” said the startled man. “But I only came here for a short visit.” “So did I,” the rabbi said.

Traditional Hasidic Story

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We are born homesick, every one of us. We who live in this fractured world have eternity written on our hearts; we are longing to be home and are digging the tent pegs of our lives in as deep as we can get them until we arrive on eternity’s shores.

Lore Wilbert

This Day's Verse

“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.”

Matthew 6:1-4
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Have confidence in God’s mercy, for when you think He is a long way from you, He is often quite near.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men’s evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.

Proverbs 21:30
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

Leon Jaworski

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Think how completely all the griefs of this mortal life will be compensated by one age, for instance, of the felicities beyond the grave, and then think that one age multiplied ten thousand times is not so much to eternity as one grain of sand is to the whole material universe. Think what a state it will be to be growing happier and happier still as ages pass away, and yet leave something still happier to come!

John Foster

This Day's Verse

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them; for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

Proverbs 24:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of Omnipotence.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The problems that vex us here will be fully solved hereafter; eternity will explain this brief life. This is the wondrous music which we wring from the jarring notes of the world’s pain and sin.

Morris Joseph

This Day's Verse

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

Ephesians 6:24
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Remember that no time spent with children is ever wasted.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it.

Richard Cecil

This Day's Verse

Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

None but a theology that came out of eternity can carry you and me safely to and through eternity.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

This Day's Verse

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:1
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

What time is it?
Time to do well,
Time to live better,
Give up that grudge,
Answer that letter,
Speak the kind word to sweeten a sorrow,
Do that kind deed you would leave ‘till tomorrow.

Unknown

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