Pain, Suffering & Grief

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

For John, belief means the conviction of the mind that Jesus is the Son of God, the trust of the heart that everything he says is true and the basing of every action on the unshakable assurance that we must take him at his word. When we do that we stop existing and begin living.

William Barclay

This Day's Verse

Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart have enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses! Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.

Psalm 25:16-18
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

D. L. Moody

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Why is it that when there is ice on the streets, everyone walks slowly and carefully out of fear of slipping physically, while in their daily lives, people are not afraid of slipping spiritually?

Isser Zalman Meltzer

This Day's Verse

Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

1 Peter 4:16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

There are three stages in Bible reading: (1) the cod liver oil stage, when you take it like medicine; (2) the shredded wheat stage when it’s nourishing but dry; (3) the peaches and cream stage when it is consumed with passion and pleasure.

Byron Jackson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

What I feared to be parted from, was now a joy to surrender.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears.

2 Samuel 22:7
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Rabbi Preida had a student whom he would teach each idea four hundred times, and then the student would learn it. One day the student was distracted and did not learn. Rabbi Preida said to him, “Pay attention and I will teach you,” and he taught him the same lesson another four hundred times.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The essence of true holiness consists in conformity to the nature and will of God.

Samuel Lucas

This Day's Verse

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:21
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
Not a word, said she;
But oh the things I learned
When Sorrow walked with me.

Robert Browning Hamilton

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Samuel Johnson

This Day's Verse

that no one might boast in the presence of God.

1 Corinthians 1:29
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God’s economy, the way up is down.

Nancy Leigh De Moss

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Neither power nor wealth, neither education nor ability, neither gifts of creativity nor stores of human energy can insure against the reality that suffering will be our companion at some time during our journey. It is a presence as inseparable from the human condition as food and oxygen are from human life. It is part of our legacy.

Paula Ripple

This Day's Verse

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun. For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Ecclesiastes 7:11-12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A good man finds every place he treads upon holy ground; to him the world is God’s temple.

John Smith

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Many Christians are Christians in their actions—they don’t lie, steal, commit adultery, or get drunk; but they react badly to what happens to them: they react in anger, bad temper, self-pity, jealousy, and envy. When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

E. Stanley Jones

This Day's Verse

O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take delight in following my ways.

Proverbs 23:26
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

God has not promised skies always blue,
flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God has not promised sun without rain,
joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
But God has promised strength for the day,
rest for the labor, light for the way,
grace for the trials, help from above,
unfailing sympathy, undying love.

Annie Johnson Flint

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

None knows the weight of another’s burden.

George Herbert

This Day's Verse

“This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,”

Isaiah 44:24
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The elements of prayer…
Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.
Its use: to turn our will to His will.
Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

Julian of Norwich

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Things have in fact just that value which God sees in them, and no other. To Him, the All Holy and All Wise, the pomps and successes of men and what are sometimes called the “substantial rewards of life” are simply of no worth whatever.

Edward F. Garesché

This Day's Verse

Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us.

Ecclesiastes 7:3
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Thomas Browne

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

There is no remembrance more blessed, and nothing more blessed to remember, than suffering overcome in solidarity with God; this is the mystery of suffering.

Søren Kierkegaard

This Day's Verse

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Psalm 28:7
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

We cannot meet needs by repeating creeds.

Religious Telescope

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