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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

I am Christmas.
I commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.
I bring good news and good cheer to millions of people.
I demonstrate how God can incarnate Himself in a human being.
I am the birthday of the Christian faith.
I bring the message of peace on earth made possible by the Prince of Peace.
I honor lowliness of mind and purity of heart.
I put God definitely within the series of historic events.
I show how godliness may be subject to the law of growth and development.
I am celebrated most appropriately as a religious festival.
I call attention to the spiritual capacities of newly-born children.
I bring encouragement to those of lowly birth.
I place the wisdom and the holiness of God within man’s reach.
I identify religion with human experience enriched by God’s self-revelation.
I celebrate the beginning of a life in which God was made real and immediately approachable.

Norman E. Richardson

This Day's Verse

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, are only a small village among all the people of Judah. Yet a ruler of Israel, whose origins are in the distant past, will come from you on my behalf.

Micah 5:2
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.

Dale Evans Rogers

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Duties are ours; events are God’s. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.

Richard Cecil

This Day's Verse

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalm 59:16
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man’s moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God’s unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.

R. J. Campbell

This Day's Verse

One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.”

Luke 8:22-25
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Yiddish proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Learn to live for your own sake and the service of God; and let nothing in the world be of any value with you but that which you can turn into a service to God, and a means of your future happiness.

William Law

This Day's Verse

O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Psalm 136:1
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The evil impulse is at first like a passer-by, then like a lodger, and finally like the master of the house.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

The secret of perpetual revival is the constant offering of thanksgiving in every circumstance.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

“‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’”

Jeremiah 33:3
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

It is not years that make souls grow old, but having nothing to love, nothing to hope for.

George Congreve

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

Phillips Brooks

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:6-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself, there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking…

Augustine

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer

This Day's Verse

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 118:29
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Faith is the ear of the soul.

Clement of Alexandria

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.

Gilbert Burnet

This Day's Verse

Keep your eyes open for spiritual danger; stand true to the Lord; act like men; be strong; and whatever you do, do it with kindness and love.

1 Corinthians 16:13-14
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

God is the silent partner in all great enterprises.

Abraham Lincoln

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, “I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me.” Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.

Ole Hallesby

This Day's Verse

Let your unfailing love surround us, LORD, for our hope is in you alone.

Psalm 33:22
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The Christian faith engages the profoundest problems the human mind can entertain and solves them completely and simply by pointing to the Lamb of God.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.

Psalm 119:76
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Following Jesus starts with the house next door.  A belief in longer tables, not higher fences.

Clement Sprout

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