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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

The difference between faith and works is just this: In the case of faith, God does it; in the case of works, we try to do it ourselves; and the difference is measured simply by the distance between the infinite and the finite, the Almighty God and a helpless worm.

Albert Benjamin Simpson

This Day's Verse

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Proverbs 2:11
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

When the Master of earth, sea, and skies calls the shots, things happen.

Charles R. Swindoll

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him. And God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”

Luke 11:33-36
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

I do not seek to understand so that I may believe, but I believe so that I may understand.

Anselm of Canterbury

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the “real” world and the unseen world as the “unreal” world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite. Through faith, the unseen world increasingly takes shape as the real world and sets the course for how we live in the seen world.

Philip Yancey

This Day's Verse

But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

Job 32:8
The New International Version

This Day's Smile

Every house a temple, every heart an altar, every human being a priest.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The greatness of God rouses fear within us, but his goodness encourages us not to be afraid of him. To fear and not be afraid—that is the paradox of faith.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Job 12:12
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

The man who claims to be a self-made man has relieved God of an embarrassing responsibility. He usually is a horrible example of unskilled labor.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

When someone tells me that he has never had a moment of probing religious doubt I find myself wondering whether he had ever known a moment of vital religious conviction.

Harold A. Bosley

This Day's Verse

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

Proverbs 15:32
The King James Version

This Day's Reprise

Knowing the Bible is one thing. Knowing the author another.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When the spirit of prayer began to be lost, then forms of prayer were invented, and, I believe, the same observation will hold good as to preaching.

George Whitefield

This Day's Verse

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”

Isaiah 30:15
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

The best is perhaps what we understand the least.

C. S. Lewis

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

No sin is small.  It is against an infinite God, and may have consequences immeasurable.

Jeremy Taylor

This Day's Verse

Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge!  How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!

Romans 11:33
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

It’s a terrible day.  Thanks be to God!

John Doyle

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Happy is the sadness of the faithful, which has such joy with it, and unhappy is the joy of unbelievers, which has such sadness with it.

Martin Luther

This Day's Verse

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

Proverbs 20:24
The King James Version

This Day's Smile

Kindness is how I feel the movement of God.

Anne Lamott

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