Faith, Trust & Belief

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God does not reserve such a lofty vocation, as that of contemplation, to certain souls only; on the contrary, He is willing that all should embrace it. But He finds few who permit such divine things in them. Most shrink from the labor instead of submitting, as they must, with endless patience.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”

Luke 17:5-6
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Thomas Brooks

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To admit that it is a world to which God seems not to be speaking is not a renunciation of faith: it is a simple acceptance of an existential religious fact. It should not disconcert anyone who knows…that the silences of God are also messages with a definite import of their own.

Thomas Merton

This Day's Verse

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind—just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you—so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:4-9
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

In our pursuit of righteousness, we cannot be unrighteous. Being on our way home is no justification for tramping through a flower bed.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To be active in works and unfaithful in heart is like raising a beautiful and lofty building on an unsound foundation. The higher the building, the greater the fall. Without the support of faith, good works cannot stand.

Ambrose

This Day's Verse

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

Proverbs 22:24-25
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Josh Billings

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The Gospel is accessible to all. One can hear it any day at any hour of the day, and it seems childishly clear and simple. But which of us is child enough to understand it? It shines out like a lighted candle, but only those who have eyes to see can see. And however much of it is read and preached, its meaning, like the meaning of every living thing, guards itself from those who have no ears to hear.

Lanza del Vasto

This Day's Verse

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

John 20:29
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sin is poison poured into the stream of time.

George A. Buttrick

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest—there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld…All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.

Jean Nicolas Grou

This Day's Verse

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3:4-7
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

No roadway of life is too dark to travel if the star of faith lights the way.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Nothing is more dangerous than associating with the ungodly.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.

Romans 1:12
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!

Henry Martyn

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Nothing is small or great in God’s sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.

Jean Nicolas Grou

This Day's Verse

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

2 Timothy 4:7
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Searching for true happiness in the context of a godless life is like looking for a needle in a haystack that doesn’t have any.

W. T. Purkiser

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no peace but in the will of God. God’s will is our peace and there is no other peace. God’s service is perfect freedom and there is no other freedom.

Father Andrew

This Day's Verse

Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

Acts 26:8
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Faith is your spiritual optic.

Elisha Coles

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 13:6
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

You say that you believe the Gospel: you live as if you were sure not one word of it is true.

Thomas Wilson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Your faith may be just a little thread. It may be small and weak, but act on that faith.

Billy Graham

This Day's Verse

The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Proverbs 10:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

If your church isn’t telling you to love your enemies, but keeps telling you who your enemies are, you’re not really in a church.

John Fugelsang

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