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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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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

It is God’s will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

We master fear through faith—faith in the worthwhileness of life and the trustworthiness of God; faith in the meaning of our pain and our striving, and confidence that God will not cast us aside but will use each one of us as a piece of priceless mosaic in the design of his universe.

Joshua Loth Liebman

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 121:7-8
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

John Wesley

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

So much of our lives is celestial and divine as we spend in the exercise of prayer.

Richard Hooker

This Day's Verse

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:9
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Can you hear the sighing in the wind? Can you feel the heavy silence in the mountains? Can you sense the restless longing in the sea? Can you see it in the woeful eyes of an animal? Something’s coming… something better.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God is to be worshipped by faith, hope, and love.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.

Proverbs 3:27
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Our prayers run along one road and God’s answers by another, and by and by they meet.

Adoniram Judson

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

They that worship God merely from fear,
Would worship the devil too, if he appear.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Isaiah 10:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

T. L. Cuyler

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