Thought for the Day

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
--Baruch Spinoza

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I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers...Unable to say them all or choose between them, I do as a child would do who cannot read--I say just what I want to say to God, quite simply, and He never fails to understand.
--St. Therese of Lisieux

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Without repentance those who have created peace through their power imagine that they have created pure peace: and suffer from the delusion that the enemies of their peace are God's enemies.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

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Economic oppression cannot exist without its religious justifications.
--M. Douglas Meeks

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Silly people think that money commands the bodily goods most worth having.
--St. Thomas Aquinas

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sunday's Prayer

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving­kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
--Frederick Buechner

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Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.
--Nicholas Wolterstorff

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I have become aware, not by my own wish, almost against my will, of an existence of another life of far, far greater importance and beauty than this physical one.
--Hugh Walpole

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Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
--Martin Luther

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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
--Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
--Madeleine L'Engle

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Sunday's Prayer

Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
--Josiah Holland

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Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.
--Teilhard de Chardin

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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

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Trust in God's power and grace can never be overdone, since no situation is too complex, too complicated or too convoluted for God. It is never too late for a miracle, because divine power can write straight with crooked lines.
--Albert Haase

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We step back and trust God to do with our prayers whatever, however, and whenever he chooses...All now is in our Father's hands.
--Eugene Peterson

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Praising God isn't something we do, an activity we engage in among other activities. It is a fundamental way of being toward God...Praise of the psalmist is an expression of delight, and so is our own praise. Of course God wants it. It is the recognition, both conscious and unconscious, that God's name is hallowed in all things.
--Roberta C. Bondi

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Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see you in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God."
--R. C. Sproul

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To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid "big" sins--is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
--Francois Fenelon

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There is an odd tendency in human beings to think we can worm or charm our way out of the consequences of our actions.
--John Ortberg

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

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God appears far less threatened by doubt than does his church.
--Philip Yancey

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