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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Thomas Chalmers

This Day's Verse

Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!

Psalm 112:1
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

Francis de Sales

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste. In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.

Proverbs 24:13-14
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Rabbi Eleazar said: “Repent one day before your death.” Said his pupils: “Does man know when he would die?” He answered: “Then he surely must repent today, lest he die tomorrow.”

Eliezer ben Hyrcanus

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Charles H. Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

“This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.”

Luke 8:11-15
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

A wise man should have money in his head; but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

A house without family worship has neither foundation nor covering.

William Gouge

This Day's Verse

Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”

Isaiah 29:15
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.

J. I. Packer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Riches, honors, and pleasures are the sweets which destroy the mind’s appetite for its heavenly food; poverty, disgrace, and pain are the bitters which restore it.

George Horne

This Day's Verse

Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

The first time a thing occurs in nature, it is called a miracle; later it becomes natural, and no attention is paid to it. Let your worship and your service be a fresh miracle every day to you.

Baal Shem Tov

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn

This Day's Verse

“‘These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace; Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”

Zechariah 8:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Gregory of Nazianzus

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Duties are ours; events are God’s. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.

Richard Cecil

This Day's Verse

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalm 59:16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God’s glory and his own salvation.

Thomas Fuller

This Day's Verse

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

2 Chronicles 16:9
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored.

Jean Paul Richter

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk observed a villager praying most fervently during Yom Kippur services. Knowing that this man was uneducated and could barely read Hebrew, the Rabbi’s curiosity was aroused. After services, he questioned the villager. The man confessed: “Rabbi, since I can’t read too well, I recited the letters of the alphabet over and over, and beseeched the Almighty to arrange them into the appropriate words of the prayers.” Rabbi Mendel said: “Your prayer was more acceptable than mine because you uttered it with the entire devotion of your heart.”

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

This Day's Verse

A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.

Proverbs 25:28
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth.

Richard Mant

This Day's Verse

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16:31
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

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