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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Sin is not exhausted in describing individual acts which aren’t very nice. “Sin” is fundamentally a description of our entire situation, one of separation from God, alienation from him, arising out of our rebellion, our refusal to do his will, our insistence upon following our own wills.

John Stott

This Day's Verse

And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.

2 John 1:6
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Lord, the Scripture says: “There is a time for silence and a time for speech.” Saviour, teach me the silence of humility, the silence of wisdom, the silence of love, the silence of perfection, the silence that speaks without words, the silence of faith. Lord, teach me to silence my own heart that I may listen to the gentle movement of the Holy Spirit within me and sense the depths which are of God.

Frankfurt prayer (Sixteenth century)

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Genuine prayer is an event in which man surpasses himself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

This Day's Verse

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.

Proverbs 25:21-22
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

O God, though our sins be seven, though our sins be seventy times seven, though our sins be more in number than the hairs of our head, yet give us grace in loving penitence to cast ourselves down into the depths of Thy compassion.

Christina Rossetti

This Day's Verse

Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD! Lift up your hands to the holy place, and bless the LORD! May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!

Psalm 134
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Teresa

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Dwight L. Moody

This Day's Verse

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 13:9
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

A sermon is a long talk about sin, with the minister always against it.

Calvin Coolidge

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Your faith may be just a little thread. It may be small and weak, but act on that faith.

Billy Graham

This Day's Verse

The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Proverbs 10:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

If your church isn’t telling you to love your enemies, but keeps telling you who your enemies are, you’re not really in a church.

John Fugelsang

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

To Him who is everywhere, folk come not by travelling but by loving.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Luke 6:45
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

William Barclay

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

If we follow the voice of God, we shall be brought on step by step into a new world, of which before we had no idea.

John Henry Newman

This Day's Verse

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him.’

Lamentations 3:22-24
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The Holy Spirit is our harpist,
And all strings
Which are touched in Love
Must sound.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

O God, grant that each one who has to do with me today is the happier for it. Each hour of this day grant me the wisdom of a loving heart that I may say the right thing rightly. Give me a quick perception of the feelings and needs of others, and make me eager-hearted in helping them. Then shall my day be filled with blessing. Amen.

Hannah Whitall Smith

This Day's Verse

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 3:16
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Your capacity to say No determines your capacity to say Yes to greater things.

E. Stanley Jones

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but thee.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

For the Lord says, “Because he loves me, I will rescue him; I will make him great because he trusts in my name. When he calls on me, I will answer; I will be with him in trouble and rescue him and honor him. I will satisfy him with a full life and give him my salvation.”

Psalm 91:14-16
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God wants the heart.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Henry Ward Beecher

This Day's Verse

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

What do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

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