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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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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds.

Donald William Bradley Robinson

This Day's Verse

“Do you know this from of old, From the establishment of man on earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless momentary?”

Job 20:4-5
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

Live your human task in the liberating certainty that nothing in the world can separate you from God’s love for you.

Brakkenstein Community of Blessed Sacrament Fathers

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

Jonathan Edwards

This Day's Verse

LORD, You will establish peace for us, For You have also done all our works in us.

Isaiah 26:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

A shrewd deacon, celebrated for his powers as a sermon-tester, went to Boston to hear a noted preacher. The preacher, who softened the points of his discourse, was not acceptable to the old farmer used to sharp preaching. Asked how he liked the city pastor, the farmer exclaimed: “I expect he’s a smart man, right enough, but why does he rake with the teeth upward?”

Philip Cleveland

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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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