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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Teresa of Avila

This Day's Verse

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:9
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A man hoping to find wisdom traveled to Poland to see the renowned Rabbi Hafez Hayyim. When he arrived at the celebrated rabbi’s house, he was surprised to see that it was nothing more than a room. There, the rabbi sat on a bench at a small table surrounded only by the numerous volumes of books he continually pored over in study. The seeker asked, “Good Rabbi, where are all your belongings? Where are your furnishings?” Hafez answered, “Tell me, where are yours?” “Where are mine?” said the startled man. “But I only came here for a short visit.” “So did I,” the rabbi said.

Traditional Hasidic Story

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Christ exists in all things that are.

Gregory of Nazianzus

This Day's Verse

Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the LORD is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 100:1-3
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

As the sun makes ice melt; kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Meister Eckhart

This Day's Verse

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:1-4
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Every blade of grass has its share of the dews of heaven.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

Billy Graham

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.

Blaise Pascal

This Day's Verse

Yes, all have sinned; all fall short of God’s glorious ideal; yet now God declares us “not guilty” of offending him if we trust in Jesus Christ, who in his kindness freely takes away our sins.

Romans 3:23-24
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

It is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelet in the pan for the love of God.

Brother Lawrence

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

John Chrysostom

This Day's Verse

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me.”

Galatians 2:20
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Smile

A church is God between four walls.

Victor Hugo

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

In the morning, when you awake, accustom yourself to think first upon God, or something in order to his service; and at night also, let him close thine eyes: and let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time, beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation which the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers of the east.

Jeremy Taylor 

This Day's Verse

And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic—“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And he rose and went home. When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew 9:1-8
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God’s goal is not to make you happy. It is to make you his.

Max Lucado

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Because God is the living God, he can hear; because he is a loving God, he will hear; because he is our covenant God, he has bound himself to hear.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This Day's Verse

From the rising of the sun to its going down The LORD’s name is to be praised.

Psalm 113:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs moving.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone, and the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

This Day's Verse

Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

John 8:28-29
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Vance Havner

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you.

Stella Terrill Mann

This Day's Verse

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

I sought to hear the voice of God
And climbed the topmost steeple,
But God declared: “Go down again—
I dwell among the people.”

John Henry Newman

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