December 13, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

By one hour’s intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than by a day’s or a week’s converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.

John Newton

“Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.”

Isaiah 56:1
The New International Version

One drop of Christ’s blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

Martin Luther

December 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

We are too Christian really to enjoy sinning, and too fond of sinning really to enjoy Christianity. Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Peter Marshall

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Psalm 32:8
The King James Version

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat than to get to heaven on good works.

Charles H. Spurgeon

December 9, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveller; that the purpose of this world is not “to have and to hold” but “to give and to serve.” There can be no other meaning.

Wilfred T. Grenfell

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Jeremiah 33:3
The English Standard Version

Lord, make me more like Yourself, less like myself.

Unknown

December 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Century follows century—There it stands.
Empires rise and fall and are forgotten—There it stands.
Dynasty succeeds dynasty—There it stands.
Kings are crowned and uncrowned—There it stands.
Emperors decree its extermination—There it stands.
Despised and torn to pieces—There it stands.
Storms of hate swirl about it—There it stands.
Atheists rail against it—There it stands.
Agnostics smile cynically—There it stands.
Profane prayerless punsters caricature it—There it stands.
Unbelief abandons it—There it stands.
Higher critics deny its claim to inspiration—There it stands.
Thunderbolts of wrath smite it—There it stands.
An anvil that has broken a million hammers—There it stands.
The flames are kindled about it—There it stands.
The arrows of hate are discharged against it—There it stands.
Radicalism rants and raves about it—There it stands.
Fogs of sophistry conceal it temporarily—There it stands.
The tooth of time gnaws but dents it not—There it stands.
Infidels predict its abandonment—There it stands.
Modernism tries to explain it away—There it stands.
Devotees of folly denounce it—There it stands.
It is God’s highway to Paradise.
It is the light on the pathway in the darkest night.
It leads business men to integrity and uprightness.
It is the great consoler in bereavement.
It awakens men and women opiated by sin.
It answers every great question of the soul.
It solves every great problem of life.
It is a fortress often attacked but never failing.
Its wisdom is commanding and its logic convincing.
Salvation is its watchword. Eternal life its goal.
It punctures all pretense.
It is forward-looking, outward-looking, and upward-looking.
It outlives, outlifts, outloves, outreaches, outranks, outruns all other books.
Trust it, love it, obey it, and Eternal Life is yours.

A. Z. Conrad…the Bible

Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:29-31
The New King James Version

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Robert Louis Stevenson

December 7, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Next to the might of God, the serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence for good in all the world.

D. L. Moody

The Lord will not abandon his people, because that would dishonor his great name. For it has pleased the Lord to make you his very own people.

1 Samuel 12:22
The New Living Translation

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change, and where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Peter Marshall

December 6, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

When God intended to reveal any future events or high notions to His prophets, He then carried them either to the deserts or the seashore, that having so separated them from amidst the press of people and business, and the cares of the world, He might settle their mind in a quiet repose, and there make them fit for revelation.

Izaak Walton

You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

Deuteronomy 13:4
The English Standard Version

Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

Corrie Ten Boom

December 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

“Thy will be done!”—What a comfort and support those four little words are to my soul. I have repeated them until they are softened to the sweetest harmony.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

The Lord watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Psalm 146:9
The Revised Standard Version

Every morning lean thine arms awhile
Upon the window sill of heaven
And gaze upon thy Lord.
Then, with the vision in thy heart,
Turn strong to meet thy day.

Unknown

December 2, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Put your hand in Jesus’ hand, and walk alone with Him. Walk ahead, because if you look back you will go back.

Drana Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa’s mother)

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

1 John 2:1
The King James Version

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the gift you ask.

D. L. Moody

December 1, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Book is far more than man’s book. It is God’s unchanging Word sent to man, that he may have a chart and compass for his voyage and that he may have a staff upon which to lean in weary hours.

Billy Graham

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 8:14
The Revised Standard Version

It’s not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

A. W. Tozer

November 30, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Only the loving will have any understanding of love—just as only the good will understand goodness. When one has gotten only a little way into loving, one learns that what understanding we do attain, poor and partial as it must be, is not gotten by thinking about it. It comes by receiving and giving love, as a part of the process of living.

Eileen Guder

But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers.

1 Timothy 5:8
The New Living Translation

Lead kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home, lead Thou me on. Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see the distant scene, one step enough for me.

John H. Newman

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