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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Serenity comes not alone by removing the outward causes and occasions of fear, but by the discovery of inward reservoirs to draw upon.

Rufus M. Jones

This Day's Verse

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 1:9-11
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Over the triple doorways of Milan Cathedral are three inscriptions spanning the magnificent arches. Above one is carved a wreath of roses, with the words, “All that pleases is but for a moment.” Over the second is a cross, with the words, “All that troubles is but for a moment.” Underneath the great central entrance to the main aisle is inscribed: “That only is important which is eternal.”

Inscription, Milan Cathedral

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There are two things to do about the Gospel—believe it and behave it.

Susanna Wesley

This Day's Verse

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Psalm 130:1-4
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

We should have great peace if we did not busy ourselves with what others say and do.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

There is only one thing evil cannot stand and that is forgiveness.

William F. Orr

This Day's Verse

“He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.”

Matthew 12:30
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

In Scotland there lived an old woman who believed implicitly in the efficacy of prayer. One night two young rogues heard her praying for bread. As a joke, they brought two loaves from the village baker, climbed to the roof of the cottage and dropped them down the chimney. Later, they called at the old woman’s home to hear her tell of what she considered a miraculous answer to her prayer. The scamps then laughed at the old woman, and related how they themselves had dropped the loaves down the chimney. The old woman’s faith was not shaken. “I still say God sent it,” she declared, “though the devil’s imps may have brought it.”

The Toastmaster

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To be gone from the kingdom of God, to be an exile from God’s city, to be cut off from the divine life, to be without the manifold sweetness of God—is so mighty a punishment that no torments that we know can be compared with it.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 5:29-32
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Oswald Chambers

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

By salvation I mean a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity, a recovery of the divine nature.

John Wesley

This Day's Verse

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:9
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

Fred Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When we come to know that our whole environment and everything that happens is God’s hand upon us…every detail of life is a means arranged by Him to lead us to Himself; then we find that our great trouble is self.

John Chapman

This Day's Verse

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Nothing promotes the activity of the devil more than the Christian’s proximity to God.

John Blanchard

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Bernard of Clairvaux

This Day's Verse

But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.

Lamentations 5:19
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A farmer whose barns were full of corn was accustomed to pray that the needy be supplied; but when anyone in needy circumstances asked for a little of his corn, he said he had none to spare. One day after hearing father pray for the poor and needy, his little son said to him, “Father, I wish I had your corn.” “What would you do with it?” asked the father. The child replied, “I would answer your prayer.”

Wesleyan Christian Advocate

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

An overemphasis on temporal security is a compensation for a loss of the sense of eternal security.

Fulton J. Sheen

This Day's Verse

I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

1 Corinthians 7:7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

His thoughts were slow,
His words were few and never formed to glisten.
But he was a joy to all his friends,
You should have heard him listen!

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

When God punishes sinners, He does not inflict His evil on them, but leaves them to their own evil.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 5:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Love God, serve God; everything is in that.

Clare of Assisi

This Day's Verse

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you. And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Salvation is not putting a man into Heaven, but putting Heaven into man.

Maltbie D. Babcock

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