Speak tenderly. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile, but give your heart as well.
Mother Teresa
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:2
The Revised Standard Version
Some people talk about finding God—as if He could get lost.
Unknown
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Dear Friends in Christ,
As we enter this season of thanksgiving, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude for you—our readers—who share with us in daily worship of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
We continue to prayerfully offer our best in Christian thought through these brief “seeds for the day,” meant to inspire and encourage you in your walk with God.
This coming January marks our 27th year together. As we have traditionally done each November, we invite those who feel led to support this ministry financially. Your gifts and pledges are a true blessing, enabling us to plan for another year of sharing God’s truth and encouragement around the world.
Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and faithful support. It is a joy and privilege to serve you.
In His Love,
Greg for This Day’s Thought
Have you wept for your sin so that you were indeed sorrowful in your spirit? Are you so sorrowful that you hate it? Do you so hate it that you have left it?
Jeremy Taylor
The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:17
The New Revised Standard Version
God doesn’t call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies them.
Richard Parker
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God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
Oswald Chambers
A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
The New Revised Standard Version
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.
Edmund Spenser
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Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste. In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.
Proverbs 24:13-14
The New Living Translation
Rabbi Eleazar said: “Repent one day before your death.” Said his pupils: “Does man know when he would die?” He answered: “Then he surely must repent today, lest he die tomorrow.”
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
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Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.
Charles H. Spurgeon
“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.”
Luke 8:11-15
The New International Version
A wise man should have money in his head; but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
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Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk observed a villager praying most fervently during Yom Kippur services. Knowing that this man was uneducated and could barely read Hebrew, the Rabbi’s curiosity was aroused. After services, he questioned the villager. The man confessed: “Rabbi, since I can’t read too well, I recited the letters of the alphabet over and over, and beseeched the Almighty to arrange them into the appropriate words of the prayers.” Rabbi Mendel said: “Your prayer was more acceptable than mine because you uttered it with the entire devotion of your heart.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.
Proverbs 25:28
The New Living Translation
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
Unknown
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That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth.
Richard Mant
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 16:31
The Revised Standard Version
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.
Francis Quarles
“You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.”
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
The New King James Version
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
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Learn to live for your own sake and the service of God; and let nothing in the world be of any value with you but that which you can turn into a service to God, and a means of your future happiness.
William Law
O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
Psalm 136:1
The New Revised Standard Version
The evil impulse is at first like a passer-by, then like a lodger, and finally like the master of the house.
The Talmud
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Let us not deceive ourselves by pretending to this excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, if we do not frame our lives according to it.
John Tillotson
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes 11:1
The King James Version
Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself.
Yiddish proverb
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