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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought
God is a light that is never darkened; an unwearied life that cannot die; a fountain always flowing; a garden of life; a seminary of wisdom; a radical beginning of all goodness.

Francis Quarles

This Day's Verse

I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sleep on, beloved, sleep, and take thy rest;
Lay down thy head upon thy Saviour’s breast;
We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best—
Good-night! Good-night! Good-night!

Sarah Doudney

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

God does not belong to the class of existing things…not that he has no existence, but that he is above all existing things, nay even above existence itself.

John of Damascus

This Day's Verse

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

1 Corinthians 11:26
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The Lord’s goodness surrounds us at every moment. I walk through it almost with difficulty, as through thick grass and flowers.

R. W. Barbour

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Religion consists not in knowing many things but in practicing the few plain things we know.

Joseph Glanvill

This Day's Verse

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Church member to minister after the service: “You were really good this morning!”
Modestly, the minister replies, “Oh, it wasn’t me; it was the Lord.”
Church member: “You weren’t that good!”

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

“Tis very hard to behold our own gifts without pride, and the gifts of others without envy.

Vavasor Powell

This Day's Verse

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Acts 22:16
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God’s fingers can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

George MacDonald

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

There is never any peace for those who resist God.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.

Proverbs 24:19-20
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

One day Chao-Chou fell down in the snow and called out, “Help me up! Help me up!” A monk came and lay down beside him. Chao-Chou got up and went away.

Zen koan

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshippers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

Brother Lawrence

This Day's Verse

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time on and forevermore.

Psalm 125:1-2
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

He who would fight the devil with his own weapons, must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.

Robert South

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:17
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

God to surround me, God to encompass me;
God in my words, God in my thoughts;
God in my waking, God in my resting;
God in my hoping, God in my doing;
God in my heart, God in my soul;
God in my weakness, God in my strength;
God in my life, God in my eternity;
God in my life, God in my eternity.

W. Mary Calvert

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There are only two kinds of folk: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Ephesians 1:17-19
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God be in my head,
And in my understanding;
God be in my eyes,
And in my looking;
God be in my mouth,
And in my speaking;
God be in my heart,
And in my thinking;
God be at my end,
And in my departing.

The Sarum Missal

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