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This Day’s Thought-Monday & Note

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Favorite Thoughts for Your Christian Walk
2500 Christian Quotations from This Day’s Thought: Celebrating 25 Years

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This Day's Thought

God delights in our temptations, and yet hates them; He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; He hates them when they drive us to despair.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

2 Peter 3:18
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon 

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Fire tries iron, and temptation tries a just man.

Thomas à Kempis

This Day's Verse

“Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”

Mark 11:25
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

Woodrow Wilson

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

William Penn

This Day's Verse

“‘These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace; Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”

Zechariah 8:16-17
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

Gregory of Nazianzus

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

John Quincy Adams

This Day's Verse

I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people.

Philemon 1:4-7
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

This world is God’s world, after all.

Charles Kingsley

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

Do today’s duty, fight today’s temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Charles Kingsley

This Day's Verse

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You. Let my prayer come before You; Incline Your ear to my cry.

Psalm 88:1-2
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do.

A. W. Tozer

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Temptations, when we first meet them, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

John Bunyan

This Day's Verse

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:7
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

A father who teaches his children responsibility provides them with a fortune.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If your father and mother, your sister and brother, if the very cat and dog in the house, are not happier for your being Christian, it is a question whether you really are.

James Hudson Taylor

This Day's Verse

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:25-26
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

My temptations have been my masters in divinity.

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Temptation succeeds best in corrupting the over-zealous Christian or the underachieving Christian. It has far less success with the Christian who maintains a simple, practical, and even-tempered faith.

Harvey F. Egan

This Day's Verse

Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins.

Proverbs 10:12
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Each of us is a mixture of dust and deity.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Frederick William Faber

This Day's Verse

Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

James 1:27
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

You and I do not see things as they are.  We see things as we are.

Henry Ward Beecher

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