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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

God’s silence is in no way indicative of His activity or involvement in our lives. He may be silent, but He is not still.

Charles Swindoll

This Day's Verse

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Psalm 127:1-2
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Benjamin West tells how he actually became a successful and important painter. When he was young, his mother went out and left him in charge of his sister Sally. In the meantime, little Benjamin discovered bottles of colored ink and began to do Sally’s portrait. What a mess soon developed. Finally, when Ben’s mother came home and saw the tragic mess, she said nothing. She merely picked up the paper with the portrait and said, “Why it’s Sally!” and she kissed Ben. Ever since that day, West has said, “My mother’s kiss made me a painter.”

Raymond T. Moreland

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

He who hath heard the Word of God can bear His silences.

Ignatius of Loyola

This Day's Verse

But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.  You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

Malachi 4:2
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Charles Caleb Colton

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

There is another kind of silence to be cultivated, besides that of the tongue as regards others.  I mean silence as regards one’s self—restraining the imagination, not permitting it to dwell overmuch on what we have heard or said, not indulging in daydreaming, whether of the past or future.  Be sure that you have made no small progress in the spiritual life, when you can control your imagination, so as to fix it on the duty and occupation actually existing, to the exclusion of the crowd of thoughts which are perpetually sweeping across the mind.  No doubt, you cannot prevent those thoughts from arising, but you can prevent yourself from dwelling on them; you can put them aside, you can check the self-complacency, or irritation, or earthly belongings which feed them, and by the practice of such control of your thoughts you will attain that spirit of inward silence which draws the soul into a close fellowship with God.

Jean N. Grou

This Day's Verse

“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26:41
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

Edwin Conklin

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