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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood.  He who faces no calamity will need no courage.  Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

This Day's Verse

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Hebrews 6:12
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

If your Christianity doesn’t work at home, then it doesn’t work at all.  So don’t export it.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The principal cause of my leanness and unfruitfulness is owing to an unaccountable backwardness to pray.  I can write or read or converse or hear with a ready heart; but prayer is more spiritual and inward than any of these, and the more spiritual any duty is the more my carnal heart is apt to start from it.  Prayer and patience and faith are never disappointed.  When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy.

Richard Newton

This Day's Verse

He gives His beloved sleep.

Psalm 127:2
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Don’t fight with God over who is in control.

Charles Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

This Day's Verse

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.

Hebrews 10:9
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

I am filled with shame and confusion, when I reflect on the one hand upon the great favors which God has done, and incessantly continues to do; and on the other, upon the ill use I have made of them, and my small advancement in the way of perfection.

Brother Lawrence

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The happy life is to rejoice in God and for God.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

By your patience possess your souls.

Luke 21:19
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sometimes you change people’s lives just by saying “good morning.”  I always say to myself, “I’ll never see this person again on the elevator, on the stairwell, in the grocery store.  This is the only chance, the two of us.”

Courtney B. Vance

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Be patient with every one, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall.  I am glad that you make a daily new beginning.  There is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

Francis de Sales

This Day's Verse

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.  Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever!  Amen.

Ephesians 3:20-21
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with prayer.  It is one end of the thread on which the day’s actions are strung, and should be well knotted with devotion.  If we felt more the majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings.  He who rushes from his bed to his business and without worship is as foolish as though he had not put on his clothes, or washed his face, and as unwise as though he dashed into battle without arms or armor.

C. H. Spurgeon

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Where is the foolish person who would think it in his power to commit more than God could forgive.

Francis de Sales

This Day's Verse

“Oh, that we might know the Lord!  Let us press on to know him.  He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”

Hosea 6:3
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

It is rare when injustice, or slights patiently borne, do not leave the heart at the close of the day filled with marvellous joy and peace.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections.  Every time a man finds his heart is troubled, that he is not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

George MacDonald

This Day's Verse

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act.

Psalm 37:7
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn’t be a great moral teacher.  He’d be either a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he’s a poached egg—or else he’d be the devil of hell.  You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.  You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.  But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He hasn’t left that open to us.  He didn’t intend to.

C. S. Lewis

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