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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Educating people to die meaningful deaths is one way to describe the teaching mission of the church.

John A. Harms

This Day's Verse

Remember what Christ taught, and let his words enrich your lives and make you wise; teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing to the Lord with thankful hearts.

Colossians 3:16
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

You can train yourself to be patient. You can train yourself to open the space between the match and the fuse.

Yechiel Yitzchok Perr

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Grant O Lord, that we may live in Thy fear, die in Thy favor, rest in Thy peace, rise in Thy power, reign in Thy glory.

William Laud

This Day's Verse

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

Henry Smith

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom: Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; Is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age.

George Horne

This Day's Verse

Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 20:1
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look “little” or “big.”

Elisabeth Elliot

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

All men commend patience, although few be willing to practice it.

Thomas à Kempis

This Day's Verse

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Colossians 2:6-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Go Godward: thou wilt find a road.

Russian proverb

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Though the Bible urges us on to perfection it gives no encouragement to suppose that perfection is achieved….A man who thinks he is righteous is not righteous…for the reason, primarily, that he is full of spiritual pride, the most deadly form that sin can take.

D. Elton Trueblood

This Day's Verse

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We will have eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

Amy Carmichael

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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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