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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There are two things to do about the Gospel—believe it and behave it.

Susanna Wesley

This Day's Verse

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Psalm 130:1-4
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

We should have great peace if we did not busy ourselves with what others say and do.

Thomas à Kempis

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Bernard of Clairvaux

This Day's Verse

But thou, O LORD, dost reign for ever; thy throne endures to all generations.

Lamentations 5:19
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A farmer whose barns were full of corn was accustomed to pray that the needy be supplied; but when anyone in needy circumstances asked for a little of his corn, he said he had none to spare. One day after hearing father pray for the poor and needy, his little son said to him, “Father, I wish I had your corn.” “What would you do with it?” asked the father. The child replied, “I would answer your prayer.”

Wesleyan Christian Advocate

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

When God punishes sinners, He does not inflict His evil on them, but leaves them to their own evil.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

1 John 5:14
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

If the spirit rule and the body be humbled, man will seek nothing beyond the necessary. He will be satisfied with little and will disdain superfluity.

Maimonides

This Day's Verse

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13
The New Living Translation

This Day's Reprise

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.

Thomas Goodwin

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

Issac Barrow

This Day's Verse

As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.

Psalm 55:16-18
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.

French saying

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

BEGIN THE DAY WITH GOD. Kneel down to Him in prayer; lift up your heart to Him. And seek His love to share.

OPEN THE BOOK OF GOD. Read a portion there, that it may clarify all your thoughts and sweeten all your care.

GO THROUGH THE DAY WITH GOD. Even though you may not see Him, wherever you are He is near.

CONVERSE IN YOUR MIND WITH GOD. Raise your spirit heavenward; acknowledge every good He provides, and offer grateful praise.

CONCLUDE YOUR DAY WITH GOD. Confess your sins to Him; trust in the Lord’s atoning blood, and plead His righteousness.

Richard DeHaan

This Day's Verse

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:9
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

There is nothing that can be done with anger that cannot be done better without it.

Dallas Willard

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Slow me down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations…of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Remind me each day of the fable of the hare and the tortoise, that I may know that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than measuring its speed. Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny.

Wilferd Arlan Peterson

This Day's Verse

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.

Frederick W. Faber

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

I have never committed the least matter to God, that I have not had reason for infinite praise.

Anna Shipton

This Day's Verse

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

John 8:36
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

For worship is a thirsty land crying out for rain,
It is a candle in the act of being kindled,
It is a drop in quest of the ocean,
It is a voice in the night calling for help,
It is a soul standing in awe before the mystery of the universe,
It is time flowing into eternity,
A man climbing the altar stairs to God.

Dwight Bradley

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; that man may be made better—that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists.

Hugh Blair

This Day's Verse

A man’s pride will bring him low, But a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 29:23
The New American Standard Bible

This Day's Reprise

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

Arthur Hopkins

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Meditation is like a needle after which comes a thread of gold, composed of affections, prayers and resolutions.

Alphonsus Liguori

This Day's Verse

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:10
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

The stars shine over the mountains, the stars shine over the sea.
The stars look up to the mighty God, the stars look down on me;
The stars shall last for a million years, a million years and a day.
But God and I will live and love when the stars have passed away.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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