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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To be gone from the kingdom of God, to be an exile from God’s city, to be cut off from the divine life, to be without the manifold sweetness of God—is so mighty a punishment that no torments that we know can be compared with it.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 5:29-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Oswald Chambers

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

By salvation I mean a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity, a recovery of the divine nature.

John Wesley

This Day's Verse

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:9
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

Fred Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Bernard of Clairvaux

This Day's Verse

But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.

Lamentations 5:19
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A farmer whose barns were full of corn was accustomed to pray that the needy be supplied; but when anyone in needy circumstances asked for a little of his corn, he said he had none to spare. One day after hearing father pray for the poor and needy, his little son said to him, “Father, I wish I had your corn.” “What would you do with it?” asked the father. The child replied, “I would answer your prayer.”

Wesleyan Christian Advocate

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no Christian truth so clearly revealed as this, that the spirit of every Christian must be a spirit of sacrifice.

P.  A. Sheehan

This Day's Verse

Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who have pleasure in them. Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever.

Psalm 111:2-3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Blessedness lieth not in much and many, but in one and oneness.

Theologia Germanica, 14th century

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

There is no temper of the soul more antithetic to New Testament religion than that which plays for safety.

A. Victor Murray

This Day's Verse

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

2 Timothy 2:22
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

God’s in His Heaven—All’s right with the world.

Robert Browning

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

This is our highest reward that we should fully enjoy God, and that all who enjoy Him should enjoy one another in Him.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The Jews would not willingly tread upon the smallest scrap of paper in their way, but took it up; for possibly, said they, the name of God may be on it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Repentance, of all things in the world, makes the greatest change; it changes things in heaven and earth; for it changes the whole man from sin to grace.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”

Isaiah 55:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Where reason cannot wade there faith may swim.

Thomas Watson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Grant O Lord, that we may live in Thy fear, die in Thy favor, rest in Thy peace, rise in Thy power, reign in Thy glory.

William Laud

This Day's Verse

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

Henry Smith

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Is anything vital ever accomplished without persistent effort? Farmers plow and sow, and keep on plowing and sowing. Miners dig, and keep on digging, deeper and deeper. Musicians practice and keep on practicing. Scholars study, and keep on studying. And so must we—if we would know how prayer purifies, fortifies, enriches the inner life, we will have to persist.

Charles R. Brown

This Day's Verse

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

Psalm 90:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

It is hard to say what is worse, to injure others by words or to listen to one who does.

Bernard of Clairvaux

This Day's Verse

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

“A still small voice” comes through the wild,
Like a father consoling his fretful child,
Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear,
Saying—Man is distant, but God is near!

Thomas Pringle

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