Friendship

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

God, who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet he seems sometimes to be present, sometimes absent. If we do not know him well, we do not realize that he may be more present to us when he is absent than when he is present.

Thomas Merton

This Day's Verse

For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.

Hebrews 9:14-15
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Surely that preaching which comes from the soul most works on the soul.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob! Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

Psalm 81:1-3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Since Penelope Noakes of Duppas Hill is gone, there is no one who will ever call me Nellie again.

An old lady

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man’s moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God’s unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.

R. J. Campbell

This Day's Verse

One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

Luke 8:22-25
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Yiddish proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Sorrow is divine. Sorrow is reigning on all the thrones of the universe, and the crown of all crowns has been one of thorns. There have been many books that treat of the sympathy of sorrow, but only one that bids us glory in tribulation, and count it all joy when we fall into divers afflictions, that so we may be associated with that great fellowship of suffering of which the incarnate Son of God is the head, and through which He is carrying a redemptive conflict to a glorious victory over evil. If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This Day's Verse

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Proverbs 27:17
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Margaret Willour

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

C. H. Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 22:4
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

I set out to find a friend but couldn’t find one; I set out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Above all knowledge, know Christ.

John Wesley

This Day's Verse

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Psalm 17:6
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead.  Fill their lives with sweetness.  Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.  His happiness, and that of others around him depends upon such a relation to the Maker’s will.

Thomas Carlyle

This Day's Verse

Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

Psalm 57:1
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Come and share a pot of tea,
My home is warm and my friendship’s free.

Emilie Barnes

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

How is it, then, that the voice of God is not more distinctly heard by men?  The answer to this question is: To be heard it must be listened for.

Désiré-Joseph Mercier

This Day's Verse

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

Hebrews 6:10
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

You cannot be my friend unless you desire my good.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.  He who desires not from the bottom of his heart, offers a deceitful prayer.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

Proverbs 4:11
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults.  If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words; but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.  But few have such friends.  Our enemies usually teach us what we are at the point of the sword.

Henry Ward Beecher

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