A Thought for Today 31-08-2016

Romans 8:35,37 (NJBV)
 
Nothing can come between us and the love of Christ, even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked. These are the trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who loved us.


"There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love."
(Charles Stanley)

 

A Thought for Today 23-08-2016

Romans 13:11, 12-13  (NRSVACE)

Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armour of light; let us live honourably as in the day, not in revelling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy.

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
(Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

 

A Thought for Today 22-08-2016

Acts 17:22-23a (NRSVACE)

Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, ‘Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way. For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship,...

"Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love."
(Dallas Willard)

 

A Thought for Today 27-08-2015

Matthew 7:24-27 (NRSVACE)

‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!’

 

“Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”
(Eric Gill)

 

 

A Thought for Today 14-08-2015

Joshua 2:12 (NRSVACE)

Now then, since I have dealt kindly with you, swear to me by the Lord that you in turn will deal kindly with my family. Give me a sign of good faith 

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
(Desmond Tutu)

 

A Thought for Today 26-01-2015

John 14:14-16 (NRSVACE)

‘If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever.

Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or sinning. Holiness grows with the capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again, and above all with the capacity for reconciliation and forgiveness.
(Pope Benedict XVI)

A Thought for Today 12-01-2015

Matthew 6:27 (NRSVACE)

And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

"Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive."
(Elisabeth Elliot)