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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To admit that it is a world to which God seems not to be speaking is not a renunciation of faith: it is a simple acceptance of an existential religious fact. It should not disconcert anyone who knows…that the silences of God are also messages with a definite import of their own.

Thomas Merton

This Day's Verse

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus, for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind—just as the testimony of Christ has been strengthened among you—so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you may be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:4-9
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

In our pursuit of righteousness, we cannot be unrighteous. Being on our way home is no justification for tramping through a flower bed.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Let each one remember that he will make progress in all spiritual things only insofar as he rids himself of self-love, self-will and self-interest.

Ignatius of Loyola

This Day's Verse

This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me such a resting place? My hands have made both heaven and earth; they and everything in them are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken! I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word.”

Isaiah 66:1-2
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Peggy O’Mara

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, movement, and understanding.

Thomas Aquinas

This Day's Verse

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 8:3
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

Francois Mauriac

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The greatest of all sins is the philosophizing of sin out of existence.

Harold C. Gardiner

This Day's Verse

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold.

Proverbs 3:13-14
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

In so far as man himself, consecrated by God’s name and dedicated to God, dies to the world that he may live for God, he is a sacrifice.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

But thanks be to God! For through what Christ has done, he has triumphed over us so that now wherever we go he uses us to tell others about the Lord and to spread the Gospel like a sweet perfume.

2 Corinthians 2:14
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

Native American saying

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

To be active in works and unfaithful in heart is like raising a beautiful and lofty building on an unsound foundation. The higher the building, the greater the fall. Without the support of faith, good works cannot stand.

Ambrose

This Day's Verse

Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn their ways and get yourself ensnared.

Proverbs 22:24-25
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Josh Billings

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The Gospel is accessible to all. One can hear it any day at any hour of the day, and it seems childishly clear and simple. But which of us is child enough to understand it? It shines out like a lighted candle, but only those who have eyes to see can see. And however much of it is read and preached, its meaning, like the meaning of every living thing, guards itself from those who have no ears to hear.

Lanza del Vasto

This Day's Verse

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

John 20:29
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sin is poison poured into the stream of time.

George A. Buttrick

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

Fred Rogers

This Day's Verse

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2 Corinthians 5:21
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

How often do we need to see God’s face, hear His voice, feel His touch, know His power? The answer to all these questions is the same: Every day!

John Blanchard

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let grace be the beginning, grace the consummation, grace the crown.

Bede

This Day's Verse

Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help! Please listen and answer me, for I am overwhelmed by my troubles. My enemies shout at me, making loud and wicked threats. They bring trouble on me and angrily hunt me down.

Psalm 55:1-3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.

Johannes Anker Larsen

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The fundamental idea of good is thus; that it consists in preserving life, in favoring it, in wanting to bring it to its highest value; and evil consists in destroying life, doing it injury, hindering its development.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.

Romans 5:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

No matter how many new translations of the Bible come out, the people still sin the same way.

Unknown

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