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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

God, who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet he seems sometimes to be present, sometimes absent. If we do not know him well, we do not realize that he may be more present to us when he is absent than when he is present.

Thomas Merton

This Day's Verse

For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them. For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.

Hebrews 9:14-15
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

God does not belong to the class of existing things…not that he has no existence, but that he is above all existing things, nay even above existence itself.

John of Damascus

This Day's Verse

For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

1 Corinthians 11:26
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The Lord’s goodness surrounds us at every moment. I walk through it almost with difficulty, as through thick grass and flowers.

R. W. Barbour

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Christ showed His love in deed, not in word, and you will be touched by the thought of His cross far more by bearing it after Him, than by glowing accounts of it.

John Henry Newman

This Day's Verse

Then he said to the disciples, “Anyone who accepts your message is also accepting me. And anyone who rejects you is rejecting me. And anyone who rejects me is rejecting God, who sent me.”

Luke 10:16
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life: faith is oil.

E. Stanley Jones

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

I once picked up a small girl who was wandering the streets, lost. Hunger was written all over her face. Who knows how long it had been since she had eaten anything! I offered her a piece of bread. The little one started eating, crumb by crumb. I told her, “Eat, eat the bread! Aren’t you hungry?” She looked at me and said, “I am just afraid that when I run out of bread, I’ll still be hungry.”

Mother Teresa

This Day's Verse

In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

Proverbs 13:16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

“In you alone do I have all.” Such words are dear indeed unto the soul, and very close to the will and goodness of God. For he himself is eternity, and has made us for himself alone, has restored us by his blessed passion and keeps us in his blessed love. And all because he is goodness.

Julian of Norwich

This Day's Verse

Let no one seek his own good, but that of his neighbor.

1 Corinthians 10:24
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

Mystery is beyond human reason but it is not against reason.

Os Guinness

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Religion consists not in knowing many things but in practicing the few plain things we know.

Joseph Glanvill

This Day's Verse

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Church member to minister after the service: “You were really good this morning!”
Modestly, the minister replies, “Oh, it wasn’t me; it was the Lord.”
Church member: “You weren’t that good!”

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

“Tis very hard to behold our own gifts without pride, and the gifts of others without envy.

Vavasor Powell

This Day's Verse

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Acts 22:16
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

God’s fingers can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

George MacDonald

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Forgive me, most gracious Lord and Father, if this day I have done or said anything to increase the pain of the world. Pardon the unkind word, the impatient gesture, the hard and selfish deed, the failure to show sympathy and kindly help where I had the opportunity, but missed it; and enable me so to live that I may daily do something to lessen the tide of human sorrow, and add to the sum of human happiness.

F. B. Meyer

This Day's Verse

“This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s. Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.’”

2 Chronicles 20:15-17
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

For every step you take toward God, God takes two steps toward you; and if you come to God walking, God comes to you running.

James Martin

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Thomas Manton

This Day's Verse

“You are my flock, the sheep of my pasture. You are my people, and I am your God. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 34:31
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.

Mother Teresa

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