Kindness, Compassion & Service

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

I wish you could see Camden and see the lovely little children who are trying to grow up here in ugly situations like so many flowers in fields of old tires and broken bottles.

Michael Doyle

This Day's Verse

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Proverbs 31:26
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Daniel A. Poling was once asked by a young man, “What do you know about God?”  Dr. Poling answered, “Mighty little, but what I know has changed my entire life.”

Daniel A. Poling

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If your faith in God is stronger for every humble task in which you need and get His aid, then that humble task is necessary to the fullness of your faith in God.  It will make the music of your life more firm and solid.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the Lord will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 52:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

No matter how good your life is at any moment, there’s always something bad you need to work on.  And no matter how bad your life may appear to be, there is always something to be grateful for.  Behind every public success, you will find some kind of private pain.  There is no such thing as a painless life.  But pain can build and deepen your character if you respond in the right way.

Rick Warren

This Day's Verse

“And don’t be afraid of the people, for I, the Lord, will be with you and see you through.”

Jeremiah 1:8
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

John Ruskin

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The happy life is to rejoice in God and for God.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

By your patience possess your souls.

Luke 21:19
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sometimes you change people’s lives just by saying “good morning.”  I always say to myself, “I’ll never see this person again on the elevator, on the stairwell, in the grocery store.  This is the only chance, the two of us.”

Courtney B. Vance

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Happy is the sadness of the faithful, which has such joy with it, and unhappy is the joy of unbelievers, which has such sadness with it.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

Proverbs 20:24
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Kindness is how I feel the movement of God.

Anne Lamott

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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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