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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, movement, and understanding.

Thomas Aquinas

This Day's Verse

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Francois Mauriac

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let grace be the beginning, grace the consummation, grace the crown.

Bede

This Day's Verse

Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help! Please listen and answer me, for I am overwhelmed by my troubles. My enemies shout at me, making loud and wicked threats. They bring trouble on me and angrily hunt me down.

Psalm 55:1-3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.

Johannes Anker Larsen

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To be gone from the kingdom of God, to be an exile from God’s city, to be cut off from the divine life, to be without the manifold sweetness of God—is so mighty a punishment that no torments that we know can be compared with it.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 5:29-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Oswald Chambers

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. The righteous cry and the Lord hears, And delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:15-18
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

To pray is nothing more involved than to lie in the sunshine of God’s grace.

Ole Hallesby

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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-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Nothing is more dangerous than associating with the ungodly.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.

Romans 1:12
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!

Henry Martyn

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Michel de Montaigne

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 came before Him, even to His ears.

Psalm 18:6
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

Gracie Allen

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

No one can live wrong and pray right; no man who prays right can live wrong.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs.

Mark 16:20
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Kind hearts are quietly kind.

Max Lucado

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Is anything vital ever accomplished without persistent effort? Farmers plow and sow, and keep on plowing and sowing. Miners dig, and keep on digging, deeper and deeper. Musicians practice and keep on practicing. Scholars study, and keep on studying. And so must we—if we would know how prayer purifies, fortifies, enriches the inner life, we will have to persist.

Charles R. Brown

This Day's Verse

LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.

Psalm 90:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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