August 16, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

Ole Hallesby

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:7
The King James Version

The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.

Unknown

August 15, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

God is served only when He is served according to His will.

Padre Pio

Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

Isaiah 59:1
The Revised Standard Version

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

Alphonsus Liguori

August 12, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.

John Calvin

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Colossians 1:10
The King James Version

Find joy in everything that leads to God.

Teresa of Avila

August 11, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons—he is a living Gospel—he comes in the spirit and power of Elias—he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are God-like, and that God’s grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture: and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.

Charles Kingsley

A soft answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 15:1
The New King James Version

Know all and you will pardon all.

Thomas Kempis

August 10, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. “Love and do what you will.” If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

Augustine

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for lo, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you, says the Lord.

Zechariah 2:10
The Revised Standard Version

May your heart sing as you embrace what you were created to be and do.

Bruce Wilkinson

August 9, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem.

Charles Lamb

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:6
The English Standard Version

I have more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other man I ever met.

D. L. Moody

August 8, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

A life devoted unto God, looking wholly unto Him in all our actions, and doing all things suitably to His glory, is so far from being dull and uncomfortable, that it creates new comforts in everything that we do.

William Law

For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Psalm 33:9
The King James Version

It is possible to live for the next life and be merry in this.

Thomas More

August 5, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

No one is safe by his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

Cyprian

“But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.”

Exodus 23:22
The New King James Version

To work is to pray.

Benedictine proverb

August 4, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.

Otto Dibelius

Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:1-2
The New International Version

Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

A. Maude Royden

August 3, 2022 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation—speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Francois Fenelon

“Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Luke 17:3-4
The English Standard Version

Deep peace
of rolling waves to you.
Deep peace
of quiet sands to you.
Deep peace
of refreshing wind to you.
Deep peace
of shinning stars to you.

Gaelic blessing

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