July 19, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Think about it: It is easy to see God’s beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

Harold S. Kushner

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.”

Isaiah 41:17
The New International Version

You can never speak to the wrong person about Christ.

Unknown

July 18, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

Mother Teresa

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

Psalm 107:8-9
The King James Version

They travel lightly whom God’s grace carries.

Thomas a Kempis

July 15, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

J. Hudson Taylor

Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3
The New King James Version

Each day of our lives we make despots in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

July 14, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God is manifest everywhere, in everything—in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without God. It’s impossible. It’s simply impossible.

Thomas Merton

My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.

Psalm 145:21
The New International Version

God’s Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

James Dobson

July 13, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny.

C. S. Lewis

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:2
The King James Version

The word “IF” is often highly significant. Think how different it would have been:
If you had only kept silent.
If you had listened to good advice.
If you had been more patient.
If you had frankly apologized.
If you had acted with prudence.
If you had shunned that bad investment.
If you had shown more sympathy.
If you had taken daily exercise.
If you had avoided that accident.
If you had started early.
If you had not run into debt.
If you had always been on time.
If you had promptly declined.
If you had controlled your temper.
If you had put it into writing.
If you had said the right word.
If you had eaten in moderation.
If you had stayed at home.
If you had not blundered.
If you had been industrious.
If you had guarded your health.
If you had recognized your fault.
If you had simply agreed.
If you had daily prayed.
If you had persevered.
If you had given more generously.
If you had not been stubborn.

Alfred A. Montapert

July 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Faith is the one area in our lives where growing up means we must grow to be more like a child, trusting simply in the goodness and complete knowledge of a Father who has our best interests at heart.

Colleen Townsend Evans

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1:3
The Revised Standard Version

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it, you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

D. L. Moody

July 11, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists, but that he is actively present in our lives—healing, teaching, and guiding—we need to set aside a time and space to give him our undivided attention.

Henri Nouwen

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 16:32
The English Standard Version

Perhaps those who say they didn’t get a thing out of the sermon didn’t bring anything in which to take it home.

N. A. Prichard

July 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

If you completely give of yourself physically, you become exhausted. But when you give of yourself spiritually, you get more strength.

Oswald Chambers

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:1-2
The King James Version

It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit.

The Talmud

July 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

We cannot pray and remain the same. We cannot pray and have our homes remain the same. We cannot pray and have the world about us remain the same. God has decreed to act in response to prayer. “Ask,” he commands us. And Satan trembles in fear we will.

Ruth Bell Graham

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1
The English Standard Version

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Thomas Merton

July 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices as the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

Leo Tolstoy

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 16:3
The Revised Standard Version

Fight the good fight with all thy might!
Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right.
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
Thy joy and crown eternally.

John Samuel Bewley Monsell

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