Pain, Suffering & Grief

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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-Friday

This Day's Thought

To know Him is to know and have everything.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

“Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me.  Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

Luke 22:42
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

They are idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses;
His glory still gleams in their eyes.
Oh those truants from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild,
And I know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.

Charles M. Dickens

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood.  He who faces no calamity will need no courage.  Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Day's Verse

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 6:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If your Christianity doesn’t work at home, then it doesn’t work at all.  So don’t export it.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

A religious man is guided in his activity not by the consequences of his action, but by the consciousness of the destination of his life.

Leo Tolstoy

This Day's Verse

“Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.”

Zechariah 2:13
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

I heard someone once say that grief is love that is homeless.

Anne Lamott

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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-Friday

This Day's Thought

People like to say that time heals all wounds, and I think that is very nice but not entirely true: time does heal most things to some extent, and love gently tends the parts that still hurt.

Anne Lamott

This Day's Verse

The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God.

Revelation 3:12
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If being a team player requires doing what is wrong, you’re on the wrong team.

Charles Swindoll

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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-Friday

This Day's Thought

That was what I tried to bring to the patients and families I met with.  Hope.  Not for a miracle healing, but that they feel God’s presence whatever the outcome.

Adam Ruiz

This Day's Verse

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

Matthew 4:4
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Every contradiction of our will, every little ailment, every petty disappointment, will, if we take it patiently, become a blessing.  So, walking on earth, we may be in heaven.  The ill-tempers of others, the slights and rudeness of the world, ill-health, the daily accidents with which God has mercifully strewed our paths, instead of ruffling or disturbing our peace, may cause His peace to be shed abroad in our hearts abundantly.

E. B. Pusey

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The whole benefit of trial consists in silence, patience, rest, and resignation. In this condition divine strength is found for the hard warfare, because God Himself fights for the soul.

Miguel de Molinos

This Day's Verse

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

2 Corinthians 9:15
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

If someone predicts their own death and resurrection and pulls it off, I go with whatever that person says.

Andy Stanley

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in accepted sorrow!

Jeanne Guyon

This Day's Verse

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Isaiah 57:15
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

To come to God there is a straight line for every man everywhere.

John Donne

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