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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

What do we mean by “success” anyway? Success by whose standards? The Bible teaches that God is the final Judge before whom we shall all stand one day. God will then proclaim us successful or unsuccessful.

Bill Krisher

This Day's Verse

People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

Proverbs 28:13
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Duty and today are ours; results and the future belong to God.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

François de Fénelon

This Day's Verse

“Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 17:20
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Not until each loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Will God unroll the pattern
And explain the reason why
The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
For the pattern which He planned.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God had given me this lesson that I could still be imperfect and be loved. That’s how God loves us. We humans are terrible at loving one another. We’re terrible at keeping peace. We’re terrible at running the world and using our free will but for some reason God loves us all anyway.

Monica Clare

This Day's Verse

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

Amos 5:24
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 118:29
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Faith is the ear of the soul.

Clement of Alexandria

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Temptation succeeds best in corrupting the over-zealous Christian or the underachieving Christian. It has far less success with the Christian who maintains a simple, practical, and even-tempered faith.

Harvey F. Egan

This Day's Verse

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.

Proverbs 10:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Each of us is a mixture of dust and deity.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

There is no hiding place from that which the hand of God presents to us.

Dolores Hart

This Day's Verse

Let the trees of the forest sing, let them sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.

1 Chronicles 16:33
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone…How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Everybody finds out, sooner or later, that all success worth having is founded on Christian rules of conduct.

Henry Martyn Field

This Day's Verse

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Psalm 103:1-5
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The mother is indeed a gardener of God doing a veritable priestly work in the Christian care of her children.

Virgil Michel

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Suffering accepted and vanquished, will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

Désiré-Joseph Mercier

This Day's Verse

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

James 1:19-20
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear.
And the best of all preachers are the men who live their creeds,
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true,
But I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do.
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give,
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.

Edgar Guest

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God’s; there is no portion of money that is our money, and the rest God’s money. It is all His; He made it all, gives it all, and He has simply trusted it to us for His service. A servant has two purses, the master’s and his own, but we have only one.

Adolphe Monod

This Day's Verse

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without uncertainty or insincerity.

James 3:17
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

I’ve been able to recognize the space between someone who is offering the best he can and someone who is in need is Holy ground.

Fred Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Thomas Brooks

This Day's Verse

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Never walk away from prayer without asking God to join you for the rest of the day.

DiAnn Mills

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