Kindness, Compassion & Service

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It is one thing to see the land of peace from a wooded ridge…and another to tread the road that leads to it.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Luke 14:12-14
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.

Thomas Fuller

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Sorrow is divine. Sorrow is reigning on all the thrones of the universe, and the crown of all crowns has been one of thorns. There have been many books that treat of the sympathy of sorrow, but only one that bids us glory in tribulation, and count it all joy when we fall into divers afflictions, that so we may be associated with that great fellowship of suffering of which the incarnate Son of God is the head, and through which He is carrying a redemptive conflict to a glorious victory over evil. If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This Day's Verse

As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Proverbs 27:17
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Margaret Willour

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor’s door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

E. M. Bounds

This Day's Verse

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Nahum 1:3
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

In Jesus the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

None but a theology that came out of eternity can carry you and me safely to and through eternity.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

This Day's Verse

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:1
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

What time is it?
Time to do well,
Time to live better,
Give up that grudge,
Answer that letter,
Speak the kind word to sweeten a sorrow,
Do that kind deed you would leave ‘till tomorrow.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 118:29
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Faith is the ear of the soul.

Clement of Alexandria

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God’s; there is no portion of money that is our money, and the rest God’s money. It is all His; He made it all, gives it all, and He has simply trusted it to us for His service. A servant has two purses, the master’s and his own, but we have only one.

Adolphe Monod

This Day's Verse

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

James 3:17
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

I’ve been able to recognize the space between someone who is offering the best he can and someone who is in need is Holy ground.

Fred Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

Gilbert Burnet

This Day's Verse

Keep your eyes open for spiritual danger; stand true to the Lord; act like men; be strong; and whatever you do, do it with kindness and love.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God is the silent partner in all great enterprises.

Abraham Lincoln

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The most difficult thing the good Lord has to deal with in the man of today is his sense of self-sufficiency. He is too prone to think he can get along pretty well without God.

Western Christian Advocate

This Day's Verse

For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.

2 Samuel 22:29
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Feelings are everywhere—be gentle.

J. Masai

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pine

This Day's Verse

“Is not My word like a fire” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”

Jeremiah 23:29
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

An old Danish peasant on his death bed asked of his son only one promise: that he should sit alone for a half-hour each day in the best room in the house. The son did this and became a model for the whole district.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Peter Marshall

This Day's Verse

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angles, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

His visits with the inner man are frequent.

Thomas à Kempis

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