This Day's Thought

We share a daily Christian quotation, Bible Verse & occasional smile, offering inspiration and encouragement.

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God's promises of guidance are not given to save us the bother of thinking.

-John R. W. Stott

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May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Colossians 1:11-12 The Revised Standard Version

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Moderation is the silken-string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

-Thomas Fuller

#moderation

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And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

John 20:22 The New International Version

#HolySpirit

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If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

-Chinese proverb

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If education can fit youth to face what the world calls failure, it will help them to find what God calls success.

-Ralph W. Sockman

#success

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“And everything you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.”

Matthew 21:22 The New American Standard Bible

#prayer

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A mother was asked: "Which of your children do you love the most?" She replied, "The one who is sick until it gets well, and the one who is away until it gets home."

-Unknown

#love

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Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15:7 The English Standard Version

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The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me.

-Meister Eckhart

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

-Francis de Sales

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Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God! Let thy good spirit lead me on a level path!

Psalm 143:10 The Revised Standard Version

#HolySpirit

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For all that has been—thanks.
For all that will be—yes.

-Dag Hammarskjöld

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You are that which you are seeking.

-Francis of Assisi