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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If Christ had paid 99.9% of the debt of sin, not one of us would have a chance at heaven.

Charles Swindoll

This Day's Verse

The world ignores us, but we are known to God; we live close to death, but here we are, still very much alive.  We have been injured but kept from death.  Our hearts ache, but at the same time we have the joy of the Lord.  We are poor, but we give rich spiritual gifts to others.  We own nothing, and yet we enjoy everything.

2 Corinthians 6:9-10
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Once I sought a time and place for solitude and prayer; but now where’er I find thy face I find a closet there.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they roll a few more upon it.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths.  Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.

Psalm 25:4-5
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

George MacDonald

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.  If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear.  Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

Francis de Sales

This Day's Verse

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honour.  Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord.  Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.  Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

Romans 12:9-13
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

If you examined one hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument?  Do not most people simply drift away?

C. S. Lewis

This Day's Verse

My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him,

2 Chronicles 29:11
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

I do not understand the digestive system, but I eat.  I don’t understand all about our respiratory system, but I continue to breathe.  So it is with faith.

Billy Graham

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The will of God is never defeated, though much is done that is contrary to His will…Even what is done in opposition to His will does not defeat His will.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?  And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.

1 John 4:20-21
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.

John Keble

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Ask Him to increase your powers of sympathy: to give you more quickness and depth of sympathy, in little things as well as great.  Opportunities of doing a kindness are often lost from mere want of thought.  Half a dozen lines of kindness may bring sunshine into the whole day of some sick person.  Think of the pleasure you might give to someone who is shut in, and has fewer pleasures than you have, by sharing with her some little comfort or enjoyment that you have learnt to look upon as a necessary of life,— the pleasant drive, the new book, flowers from the country, etc.  Try to put yourself in another’s place.  Ask, “What should I like myself, if I were hard-worked, or sick, or lonely?”  Cultivate the habit of sympathy.

George H. Wilkinson

This Day's Verse

And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”

Galatians 4:6
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.  It would be like God to make the most vital thing easy and place it within the range of possibility for the weakest and poorest of us.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You.

Psalm 63:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and prayer.  Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Frances Quarles

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

That was what I tried to bring to the patients and families I met with.  Hope.  Not for a miracle healing, but that they feel God’s presence whatever the outcome.

Adam Ruiz

This Day's Verse

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

Matthew 4:4
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Every contradiction of our will, every little ailment, every petty disappointment, will, if we take it patiently, become a blessing.  So, walking on earth, we may be in heaven.  The ill-tempers of others, the slights and rudeness of the world, ill-health, the daily accidents with which God has mercifully strewed our paths, instead of ruffling or disturbing our peace, may cause His peace to be shed abroad in our hearts abundantly.

E. B. Pusey

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love of goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

This Day's Verse

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good?  Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Psalm 4:6
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week.  We must draw upon God’s boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it.

D. L. Moody

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