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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men’s evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

John Calvin

This Day's Verse

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.

Proverbs 21:30
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

Leon Jaworski

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

“Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’”

Isaiah 58:9
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

Abraham Isaac Kook

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If you have done your fellow man a little wrong, let it be a great wrong in your eyes and rectify it. If you have done him much good, let it be little in your eyes. If he has done you a little good, let it be great in your eyes. If he has done you a great wrong, let it be little in your eyes.

Nathan the Babylonian

This Day's Verse

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Philippians 1:21
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

A wise person will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Benjamin Franklin

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Let us not deceive ourselves by pretending to this excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, if we do not frame our lives according to it.

John Tillotson

This Day's Verse

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Ecclesiastes 11:1
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself.

Yiddish proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The best way to influence people for God is to intercede with God for people.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Here thou art but a stranger traveling to thy country; it is therefore a huge folly to be afflicted because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in by the way.

Jeremy Taylor

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God’s removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace—the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

Charles H. Brent

This Day's Verse

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23-24
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Ramona Carroll

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If you don’t crown Jesus Lord of all, you really don’t crown Him Lord at all.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any more, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 30:20-21
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace.

John Ruskin

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Think how completely all the griefs of this mortal life will be compensated by one age, for instance, of the felicities beyond the grave, and then think that one age multiplied ten thousand times is not so much to eternity as one grain of sand is to the whole material universe. Think what a state it will be to be growing happier and happier still as ages pass away, and yet leave something still happier to come!

John Foster

This Day's Verse

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them; for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief.

Proverbs 24:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of Omnipotence.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There can be no surer way to success than by disclaiming all confidence in ourselves, and referring the events of things to God with an implicit affiance.

Francis Atterbury

This Day's Verse

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Lamentations 5:21
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Thou hast touched me and I have been translated into thy peace.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

His eye is upon every hour of my existence. His spirit is intimately present with every thought of my heart. His inspiration gives birth to every purpose within me. His hand impresses a direction on every footstep of my goings. Every breath I inhale is drawn by an energy which God deals out to me.

Thomas Chalmers

This Day's Verse

I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!

Psalm 116:1-2
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Honest good-humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

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