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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one’s own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power.  As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will do right and entrust their souls to a faithful Creator.

1 Peter 4:19
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The ideal life is in our blood, and never will be still.  We feel the thing we ought to be beating through the thing we are.

Phillips Brooks

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

Brother Lawrence

This Day's Verse

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God appeared to him and told him, “I am the Almighty; obey me and live as you should.”

Genesis 17:1
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

If you think you’ve arrived, then you probably haven’t even started.

Charles Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If the anointing which we bear come not from the Lord of Hosts, we are deceivers, since only in prayer can we obtain it.  Let us continue instant, constant, fervent in supplication.  Let your fleece lie on the thrashing-floor of supplication till it is wet with the dew of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:

Psalm 90:17
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please God.

Brother Lawrence

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Søren Kierkegaard

This Day's Verse

And the people said to Joshua, “The LORD our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.”

Joshua 24:24
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Could we with ink the oceans fill and were the skies of parchment made and every stalk on earth a quill and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry, nor could that scroll contain the whole though stretched from sky to sky.

Scribbled on an asylum wall

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Not only have vast numbers of Americans lost all sense of the sacred, the moral, and the ethical, but the spiritual leaders from both the laity and the priesthood are often found in the forefront of this irreligious pursuit of comfort rather than conviction-of accommodation rather than truth-of the pleasant life rather than the meaningful life.

Frank Carlson

This Day's Verse

For we are the temple of the living God.

2 Corinthians 6:16
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We can all get to heaven without health, without wealth, without fame, without learning, without culture, without beauty, without friends, without ten thousand things.  But we can never get to heaven without Christ.

Corrie ten Boom

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

It is a terrible mistake to understand Jesus as having been crucified by some especially bad people in the first century.  Jesus was crucified by the highest reach of human religiosity, morality, and political justice.

Albert T. Mollegen

This Day's Verse

that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

1 Timothy 2:2
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.  There lies the land of song; there lies the poet’s native land.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is not difficult to see one vital significance of Jesus Christ: He has given us the most glorious interpretation of life’s meaning that the sons of men have ever had.  The fatherhood of God, the friendship of the Spirit, the sovereignty of righteousness, the law of love, and glory of service, the coming of the kingdom, the eternal hope—there never was an interpretation of life to compare with that.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Day's Verse

How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow?  For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog—now you see it; soon it is gone.

James 4:14
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

My advice to you is, take a house next door to the Physician, for it will be very singular if you should prove to be the very first He ever turned away unhealed.

Samuel Rutherford

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If Christ had paid 99.9% of the debt of sin, not one of us would have a chance at heaven.

Charles Swindoll

This Day's Verse

The world ignores us, but we are known to God; we live close to death, but here we are, still very much alive.  We have been injured but kept from death.  Our hearts ache, but at the same time we have the joy of the Lord.  We are poor, but we give rich spiritual gifts to others.  We own nothing, and yet we enjoy everything.

2 Corinthians 6:9-10
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Once I sought a time and place for solitude and prayer; but now where’er I find thy face I find a closet there.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Frederick W. Robertson

This Day's Verse

If I ride the morning winds to the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, your strength will support me.

Psalm 139:9-10
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.

Lyell Rader

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