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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

We are born homesick, every one of us. We who live in this fractured world have eternity written on our hearts; we are longing to be home and are digging the tent pegs of our lives in as deep as we can get them until we arrive on eternity’s shores.

Lore Wilbert

This Day's Verse

“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.”

Matthew 6:1-4
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Have confidence in God’s mercy, for when you think He is a long way from you, He is often quite near.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly.  Is it not publicity rather than charity, which he loves?  Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charity?

Henry Ward Beecher

This Day's Verse

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace.  In the world you will have tribulation.  But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Oh, my dear friends:
You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day;
You who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and kill them;
You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning;
You who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation;
Or letting your friend’s heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him some day;
If you only could know and see and feel, all of a sudden, that “the time is short,” how it would break the spell!  How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do.

Phillips Brooks

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The ordinary influence of the Spirit of God, working the grace of charity in the heart, is a more excellent blessing than any of the extraordinary gifts.

Jonathan Edwards

This Day's Verse

Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

God can do wonders with little noise.

Thomas Boston

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