A Thought for Today 03-02-2011

Romans 8:18-21

What we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation still retains the hope of being freed, like us, from its slavery to decadence, to enjoy the same freedom and glory as the children of God.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
(Albert Einstein)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeW1grM7EKI

A Thought for Today 27-01-2011

1 Peter 4:10-11

Each one of you has received a special grace, so, like good stewards responsible for all these different graces of God, put yourselves at the service of others. If you are a speaker, speak in words which seem to come from God; if you are a helper, help as though every action was done at God’s orders; so that in everything God may receive the glory, through Jesus Christ, since to him alone belong all glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
(Maya Angelou)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZayut9i45M

A Thought for Today 26-01-2011

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
(Albert Einstein)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUsLF0305UM

A Thought for Today 24-01-2011

2 Corinthians 13:11

Brethren, be joyful. Try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
(Albert Einstein)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR1ljs8RBdQ

A Thought for Today 19-01-2011

Romans 8:35,37

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.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
(Mother Theresa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAian48rpRA

A Thought for Today 17-01-2011

Jeremiah 15:16

When your words came, I devoured them: your word was my delight and the joy of my heart; for I was called by your name, Lord, God of hosts.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
(Henry David Thoreau)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avo2JpZAu6E&feature=related

A Thought for Today 12-01-2011

1 Peter 1:13-14

Free your minds, then, of encumbrances; control them, and put your trust in nothing but the grace that will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Do not behave in the way that you liked to before you learnt the truth, but make a habit of obedience.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
(Lord Chesterfield)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tA_oJkR6M

A Thought for Today 11-01-2011

Romans 13:11,12-13

You must wake up now: the night is almost over, it will be daylight soon. Let us give up all the things we prefer to do under cover of the dark; let us arm ourselves and appear in the light. Let us live decently as people do in the daytime.

Death is the final wake-up call.
(Douglas Horton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqgaDASr1RY

A Thought for Today 10-01-2011

2 Thessalonians 3:10-13

Do not let anyone have any food if he refuses to do any work. Now we hear that there are some of you who are living in idleness, doing no work themselves but interfering with everyone else’s. In the Lord Jesus Christ, we order and call on people of this kind to go on quietly working and earning the food that they eat. My brothers, never grow tired of doing what is right.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
(Benjamin Franklin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDuM-f36Hs&feature=related

A Thought for Today 07-01-2011

Isaiah 9:5

There is a child born for us, a son given to us and dominion is laid on his shoulders; and this is the name they give him: Wonder-Counsellor, Mighty-God, Eternal-Father, Prince-of-Peace.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5HYznywIg

A Thought for Today 04-01-2011

Isaiah 45:22-23

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God unrivalled. By my own self I swear it, what comes from my mouth is truth, a word irrevocable: before me every knee shall bend, by me every tongue shall swear.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
(Hans Urs von Balthasar)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgGUKWiw7Wk&feature=related