Kindness, Compassion & Service

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.  If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear.  Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

Francis de Sales

This Day's Verse

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour.  Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord.  Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.  Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

Romans 12:9-13
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Ask Him to increase your powers of sympathy: to give you more quickness and depth of sympathy, in little things as well as great.  Opportunities of doing a kindness are often lost from mere want of thought.  Half a dozen lines of kindness may bring sunshine into the whole day of some sick person.  Think of the pleasure you might give to someone who is shut in, and has fewer pleasures than you have, by sharing with her some little comfort or enjoyment that you have learnt to look upon as a necessary of life,— the pleasant drive, the new book, flowers from the country, etc.  Try to put yourself in another’s place.  Ask, “What should I like myself, if I were hard-worked, or sick, or lonely?”  Cultivate the habit of sympathy.

George H. Wilkinson

This Day's Verse

And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”

Galatians 4:6
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

This solid faith doth empty the believer of himself.  The native work of faith is to make the soul rest in Christ alone.  True faith lays the burden of all duties and difficulties upon Him.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.  Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

How shall we become lovely?  By loving Him who is ever lovely.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

I would have you, one by one, ask yourselves,
Wherein do I take up the cross daily?

E. B. Pusey

This Day's Verse

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.

Proverbs 14:21
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awful loving-kindness.

George MacDonald

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice.  Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and who permits them.  Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

François Fénelon

This Day's Verse

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6:10
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

If a man wins God’s race, it doesn’t matter where else he loses.  If a man loses God’s race, it matters not where else he may win.

Steven Lawson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If you trusted God with your soul, why would you not trust Him with your worries?

Josh Weidmann

This Day's Verse

Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.  That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

2 Timothy 1:13-14
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Let the weakest, let the humblest remember, that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed around him almost a heaven.  Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness,—these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.  Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness?  From hour to hour, from moment to moment, we are supported, blest, by small kindnesses.

Frederick W. Robertson

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Faith is a living and unshakeable confidence, a belief in the grace of God, so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.  This makes us joyful, high-spirited and eager in our relations with God and with all mankind.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

An American tourist in India stood by in awe as he watched Mother Teresa lovingly clean the infected wounds of a horribly disfigured leper, “Sister,” he commented, “I wouldn’t do that for a million dollars!”  Her response, “Neither would I, brother.  Neither would I.”

Mother Teresa

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