Pride & Humility

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Though the Bible urges us on to perfection it gives no encouragement to suppose that perfection is achieved….A man who thinks he is righteous is not righteous…for the reason, primarily, that he is full of spiritual pride, the most deadly form that sin can take.

D. Elton Trueblood

This Day's Verse

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We will have eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

Amy Carmichael

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

No learning is commendable which is not dipped in the love of God.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

This Day's Verse

Behold, we count them happy which endure.

James 5:11
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Almost all of us have received the word about God through faith, without having a secondary training in Greek philosophy, some of us without elementary education.

Clement of Alexandria

This Day's Verse

And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 8:17
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Pope John XXIII

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The humblest Christian is the strongest.

Robert Leighton

This Day's Verse

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Job 22:21
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Fulfillment doesn’t automatically happen as a result of linking up with the “right” person, job, or even ministry.  Fulfillment happens as a result of being in God’s will.

Marilyn Olson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Take sin seriously but take grace just as seriously.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you.

3 John 5
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Be humble, that you may not be humbled.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Humility is the only response we should have towards a God who has given everything for our sake.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

James 4:17
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

J. Hudson Taylor, visiting D. L. Moody in Chicago, was invited to preach at Moody’s church.  At end of service Moody announced they were going to take an offering and Hudson Taylor, who was the guest speaker, came onstage and said. “No, we have a non-solicitation policy.”  Moody thought he was crazy.  Lo and behold the next day a man brings Taylor a check for $5000 and tells him, “If I gave yesterday at church I would have only given you $5.”  We live in a world where we are probably overly dependent on our human efforts to do God’s work, whereas we are called to a simple faith.

James Hudson Taylor IV

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God give me a deep humility, a well guided zeal, a burning love, a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.

George Whitefield

This Day's Verse

Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Psalm 69:16
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Heaven is the presence of God.

Christina Rossetti

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