Wisdom & Truth

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

Issac Barrow

This Day's Verse

As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

Psalm 55:16-18
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.

French saying

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If you have done your fellow man a little wrong, let it be a great wrong in your eyes and rectify it. If you have done him much good, let it be little in your eyes. If he has done you a little good, let it be great in your eyes. If he has done you a great wrong, let it be little in your eyes.

Nathan the Babylonian

This Day's Verse

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Philippians 1:21
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

A wise person will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Benjamin Franklin

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

They were services like no others, these times in Barracks 28, within our concentration camp. A single meeting night might include a recital of the Magnificat in Latin by a group of Roman Catholics, a whispered hymn by some Lutherans, and a sotto-voce chant by Eastern Orthodox women. With each moment the crowd around us would swell, packing the nearby platforms, hanging over the edges, until the high structures groaned and swayed. At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the light bulb.

Corrie ten Boom

This Day's Verse

Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold; For wisdom is better than rubies, And all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her.

Proverbs 8:10-11
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

French proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve
I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey…
I asked for health, that I might do greater things
I was given infirmity, that I might do better things…
I asked for riches, that I might be happy
I was given poverty, that I might be wise…
I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men
I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God…
I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life
I was given life that I might enjoy all things…
I got nothing that I asked for—but everything I had hoped for
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am, among all men, most richly blessed.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

Psalm 91:4
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:6-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking…

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Anxiety springs from the desire that things should happen as we wish rather than as God wills.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 4:13
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Francis Quarles

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Temptations, when we first meet them, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

John Bunyan

This Day's Verse

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:7
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

A father who teaches his children responsibility provides them with a fortune.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together.

François de Fénelon

This Day's Verse

Many peoples shall come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.”

Isaiah 2:3
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

There are four ways God answers prayer: No, not yet; No, I love you too much; Yes, I thought you’d never ask; Yes, and here’s more.

Ann Lewis

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

St. Benedict said, “Always, we begin again.” It’s the same in twelve-step work. Every day, you get up and you try again. That’s our relationship with God—you can go way off the rails spiritually and forget about God and not spend enough time with God, and neglect your prayer life, and God is in that chapel waiting for you to come back. Missing you. Loving you. Always wanting to be with you. That’s the kind of love that God has for us. I hadn’t heeded the call when I was younger, and God still loved me. I had lied about my faith, and God still loved me. I had failed to go to church, and God still loved me. And now I was ready to begin again.

Monica Clare

This Day's Verse

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Job 37:14
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God had given me this lesson that I could still be imperfect and be loved. That’s how God loves us. We humans are terrible at loving one another. We’re terrible at keeping peace. We’re terrible at running the world and using our free will but for some reason God loves us all anyway.

Monica Clare

This Day's Verse

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

Amos 5:24
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Augustine

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