A Thought for Today 29-02-2012

Zechariah 1:3-4

Return to me, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will return to you. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the prophets in the past cried ‘Turn back from your evil ways and evil deeds’ but they would not listen.

 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
(Winston Churchill)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl64-XHE7zo

 

 

A Thought for Today 28-02-2012

Jeremiah 3:25

We have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors from our youth until today, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God.

 

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
(Thomas Aquinas)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1pthSgxTC0

 

 

A Thought for Today 27-02-2012

Ezekiel 18:23

Am I likely to take pleasure in the death of a wicked man – it is the Lord who speaks – and not prefer to see him renounce his wickedness and live?

 

Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
(Alphonsus Liguori)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_Z3ZZYLDc

 

 

A Thought for Today 23-02-2012

Deuteronomy 30:2-3

If you return to the Lord your God, if you obey his voice with all your heart and soul in everything I enjoin on you today, you and your children, then the Lord your God will bring back your captives and will have pity on you.

 

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
(Johannes Tauler)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_5oE0ijhKg

 

 

A Thought for Today 22-02-2012

Zechariah 1:3-4

Return to me, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will return to you. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the prophets in the past cried ‘Turn back from your evil ways and evil deeds’ but they would not listen.

 

Remember that lost time does not return.
(Thomas a Kempis)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtsxdtEN_G4

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 21-02-2012

Deuteronomy 15:7-8

Is there a poor man among you, one of your brothers, in any town of yours in the land that the Lord your God is giving you? Do not harden your heart or close your hand against that poor brother of yours, but be open-handed with him and lend him enough for his needs.

 

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
(Abigail Van Buren)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0041GDsqE&ob=av2e 

 

A Thought for Today 17-02-2012

Baruch 4:28-29 

As by your will you first strayed away from God, so now turn back and search for him ten times as hard; for as he brought down those disasters on you, so will he rescue you and give you eternal joy.

 

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
(Voltaire)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK0x7JXweKI&ob=av2e

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P7s6llMiJFc

A Thought for Today 16-02-2012

Galatians 5:16-17

Let me put it like this: if you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no danger of yielding to self-indulgence, since self-indulgence is the opposite of the Spirit, the Spirit is totally against such a thing, and it is precisely because the two are so opposed that you do not always carry out your good intentions.

 

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
(C. S. Lewis)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_VJi2mGdOw

A Thought for Today 15-02-2012

Ephesians 4:26-27

Even if you are angry, you must not sin: never let the sun set on your anger, or else you will give the devil a foothold.

 

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
(Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9dDrK2a3Os

A Thought for Today 14-02-2012

1 Peter 5:8-9

Be calm and vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a roaring lion, looking for someone to eat. Stand up to him, strong in faith.

 

The scars of others should teach us caution.
(St. Jerome)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOxeyj7itJE 

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 13-02-2012

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10

God chose us to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that, alive or dead, we should still live united to him.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
(Saint Augustine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUYKzKk16A 

A Thought for Today 10-02-2012

Jeremiah 14:9

Lord, you are in our midst, we are called by your name. Do not desert us, O Lord our God!

 

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

(Saint Augustine) 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDXEvkS0iPA

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i8FdSnojzSA

A Thought for Today 09-02-2012

Amos 5:8

He made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the dusk to dawn and day to darkest night. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the land. ‘The Lord’ is his name.

 

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=722zPX1npcA

 

 

A Thought for Today 08-02-2012

1 Peter 1:15-16

Be holy in all you do, since it is the Holy One who has called you, and scripture says: Be holy, for I am holy.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
(Carl Olson)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM6wuVudnP8&ob=av2n

 

A Thought for Today 07-02-2012

Proverbs 3:13-15

Happy the man who discovers wisdom, the man who gains discernment: gaining her is more rewarding than silver, more profitable than gold. She is beyond the price of pearls, nothing you could covet is her equal.

 

 He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
(James Huneker)

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTHuA1qw94E

 

 

A Thought for Today 06-02-2012

James 1:19-20,26

Be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to rouse your temper; God’s righteousness is never served by man’s anger. Nobody must imagine that he is religious while he still goes on deceiving himself and not keeping control over his tongue; anyone who does this has the wrong idea of religion.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
(Ambrose Bierce)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGJJgg65Z6o&feature=related

A Thought for Today 03-02-2012

1 John 3:16

This has taught us love – that he gave up his life for us; and we, too, ought to give up our lives for our brothers.

 

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
(Saint Augustine)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgWOcYpHm0o&ob=av2n 

 

Weekly Blessing:

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i8FdSnojzSA

 

 

 

 

A Thought for Today 02-02-2012

Isaiah 42:13

The Lord advances like a hero,

  his fury is stirred like a warrior’s.

He gives the war shout, raises the hue and cry,

  marches valiantly against his foes.

 

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shi8fPtjFdc 

 

A Thought for Today 01-02-2012

1 Corinthians 10:24,31

Nobody should be looking for his own advantage, but everybody for the other man’s. Whatever you eat, whatever you drink, whatever you do at all, do it for the glory of God.

 

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
(Napoleon Hill)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSE8SZJV7aM