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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk observed a villager praying most fervently during Yom Kippur services. Knowing that this man was uneducated and could barely read Hebrew, the Rabbi’s curiosity was aroused. After services, he questioned the villager. The man confessed: “Rabbi, since I can’t read too well, I recited the letters of the alphabet over and over, and beseeched the Almighty to arrange them into the appropriate words of the prayers.” Rabbi Mendel said: “Your prayer was more acceptable than mine because you uttered it with the entire devotion of your heart.”

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

This Day's Verse

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.

Proverbs 25:28
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Nothing great ought to be ventured on without preparation; but, above all, how sottish is it to engage extempore where the concern is eternity!

Robert South

This Day's Verse

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Psalm 126:3
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Since you are tempted without ceasing, pray without ceasing.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled; tomorrow cannot be assured; today only is thine, which, if thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

1 Peter 2:24
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’”

Isaiah 58:9
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

Abraham Isaac Kook

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The best way to influence people for God is to intercede with God for people.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Here thou art but a stranger traveling to thy country; it is therefore a huge folly to be afflicted because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in by the way.

Jeremy Taylor

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Think how completely all the griefs of this mortal life will be compensated by one age, for instance, of the felicities beyond the grave, and then think that one age multiplied ten thousand times is not so much to eternity as one grain of sand is to the whole material universe. Think what a state it will be to be growing happier and happier still as ages pass away, and yet leave something still happier to come!

John Foster

This Day's Verse

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them; for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

Proverbs 24:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of Omnipotence.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

His eye is upon every hour of my existence. His spirit is intimately present with every thought of my heart. His inspiration gives birth to every purpose within me. His hand impresses a direction on every footstep of my goings. Every breath I inhale is drawn by an energy which God deals out to me.

Thomas Chalmers

This Day's Verse

I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!

Psalm 116:1-2
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Honest good-humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Hope can be ignited by a spark of encouragement.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve…You don’t have to know the second theory of thermo-dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This Day's Verse

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

Ephesians 6:10-11
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

To walk with God, we must make it a practice to talk with God.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Teresa of Avila

This Day's Verse

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Psalm 46:10
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

For the early Christians, koinonia was not the frilly “fellowship” of church-sponsored, biweekly bowling parties. It was not tea, cookies, and sophisticated small talk in Fellowship Hall after the sermon. It was an almost unconditional sharing of their lives with the other members of Christ’s body.

Ronald J. Sider

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