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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God does not reserve such a lofty vocation, as that of contemplation, to certain souls only; on the contrary, He is willing that all should embrace it. But He finds few who permit such divine things in them. Most shrink from the labor instead of submitting, as they must, with endless patience.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”

Luke 17:5-6
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Thomas Brooks

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Lew Wallace

This Day's Verse

He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:9-11
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Wonder is the basis of Worship.

Thomas Carlyle

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

None knows the weight of another’s burden.

George Herbert

This Day's Verse

“This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself,”

Isaiah 44:24
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The elements of prayer…
Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.
Its use: to turn our will to His will.
Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

Julian of Norwich

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.

Charles E. Hummel

This Day's Verse

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

John 15:17
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

That which is infinite is as much above what is great as it is above what is small. Thus God, being infinitely great, He is as much above kings as He is above beggars; He is as much above the highest angel as He is above the meanest worm.

Jonathan Edwards

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.

Søren Kierkegaard

This Day's Verse

The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but man is tested by the praise he receives.

Proverbs 27:21
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Just as a hand held before the eyes conceals the greatest mountain, so does petty earthly life conceal from view the vast lights and mysteries of which the world is full.

Nachman of Breslov

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.

James M. Houston

This Day's Verse

Claiming themselves to be wise without God, they became utter fools instead.

Romans 1:22
The Living Bible

This Day's Reprise

A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully written; but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and action of His people.

Charles H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself “into the wilderness to pray.” He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him..Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.

G. H. Knight

This Day's Verse

Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 128:1-2
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The whole universe is but the footprint of the divine goodness.

Dante Alighieri

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others.

John Wesley

This Day's Verse

And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

Isaiah 6:3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The world is just a scaffolding up which souls climb to the kingdom of Heaven.

Fulton J. Sheen

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If you want to live twice as long, eat half as much, sleep twice as much, drink water three times as much, and laugh four times at much.

John H. Cable

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

All the wisdom in the world and all human cleverness compared with the infinite wisdom of God is sheer and extreme ignorance.

John of the Cross

This Day's Verse

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Psalm 51:1-2
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Worship is a way of living, a way of seeing the world in the light of God. To worship is to rise to a higher level of existence, to see the world from the point of view of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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