Wisdom & Truth

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I once picked up a small girl who was wandering the streets, lost. Hunger was written all over her face. Who knows how long it had been since she had eaten anything! I offered her a piece of bread. The little one started eating, crumb by crumb. I told her, “Eat, eat the bread! Aren’t you hungry?” She looked at me and said, “I am just afraid that when I run out of bread, I’ll still be hungry.”

Mother Teresa

This Day's Verse

In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

Proverbs 13:16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

An honest, unaffected desire of doing right is the test of God’s true servant.

John Henry Newman

This Day's Verse

The way of life winds upward for the wise, That he may turn away from hell below.

Proverbs 15:24
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Take a one-day break of semi-silence, with a good walk, followed by a nap, concluding with a time of praise!

Keith Briggs

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There are only two kinds of folk: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

Ephesians 1:17-19
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God be in my head,
And in my understanding;
God be in my eyes,
And in my looking;
God be in my mouth,
And in my speaking;
God be in my heart,
And in my thinking;
God be at my end,
And in my departing.

The Sarum Missal

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because you never know when the world will need you.

Hillel the Elder

This Day's Verse

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Proverbs 9:10
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

Anne Lamott

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone—which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart.

George MacDonald

This Day's Verse

Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,

Proverbs 2:11
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

The leisure of the monks is not the privilege of those who can afford to take the time; it is the virtue of those who give to everything they do the time it deserves to take.

David Steindl-Rast

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

A Jesus-over-everything lifestyle is a Jesus-take-over-me-and-my-lifestyle so I don’t ruin my one precious life. But even more than that, it’s the understanding that the priority of Jesus brings order to the chaos of our lives, a job only God is big enough to do.

Lisa Whittle

This Day's Verse

And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

Mark 9:35
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Truth is the seal of God.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

God takes men’s hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, when they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

Richard Baxter

This Day's Verse

Who is like a wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, And the sternness of his face is changed.

Ecclesiastes 8:1
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The London Times asked various writers for essays on the topic “What’s Wrong with the World?” G. K. Chesterton replied (in perhaps the shortest essay in history),

Dear Sirs:
I am.
Sincerely yours, G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste. In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.

Proverbs 24:13-14
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Rabbi Eleazar said: “Repent one day before your death.” Said his pupils: “Does man know when he would die?” He answered: “Then he surely must repent today, lest he die tomorrow.”

Eliezer ben Hyrcanus

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn

This Day's Verse

“‘These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace; Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”

Zechariah 8:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Gregory of Nazianzus

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Duties are ours; events are God’s. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.

Richard Cecil

This Day's Verse

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalm 59:16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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