Today's Thought Gem—August

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Vern wrote:  Today, 15 August is “Recompense injury with kindness” a suggested match would be:

Every good deed

has its recompense

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 16 August is “If you love people they will draw near you you will have no difficulty in winning them” a suggested match would be:

I am going to do my best

to treat each of my fellow mortals

just as I think God would like to have him treated

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 17 August is “God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is extend help to your fellows without thought of reward” a suggested match would be:

If you abide in the light of the Eternal,

you shall enjoy the enlightenment of the Supreme

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 18 August is “Do good without thought of benefit to the self” a suggested match would be:

I will judge not

that I may not be unfair to my fellows

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 19 August is “We cannot search out God by knowledge, but we can know him in our hearts” a suggested match would be:

While the Father

fills the universe,

he also lives in our hearts

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 20 August is “Personally discovered truth is the supreme delight of the human soul” a suggested match would be:

But truth can never

become man’s possession

without the exercise of faith

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 21 August is “Upon the impartiality fairness and integrity of its courts the endurance of a nation depends” a suggested match would be:

Justice makes a nation great,

and the greater a nation

the more solicitous will it be

to see that injustice shall not befall

even its most humble citizen

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 22 August is “You must first recognise man as your brother” a suggested match would be:

The fairness of trade and the honest

treatment accorded one’s fellows

in the organized business of the world

create many different sorts of profit wealth,

and all these sources of wealth must be judged

by the highest principles of justice, honesty, and fairness

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 23 August is “If we know God our real business is to live as to permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives” a suggested match would be:

…the revelations of God

flash upon earth

in the lives of the men

who reveal God to their fellows

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 24 August is “When man goes in partnership with God great things happen” a suggested match would be:

…new way of salvation,

the revelation of God to man

through, and in, Jesus

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 25 August is “Though humans differ in many ways before God all mortals stand on an equal footing” a suggested match would be:

…before the judgment bar of God,

they stand on an equal footing;

God is truly no respecter of persons

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 26 August is “There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God those who desire to do his will and those who do not” a suggested match would be:

Remember, there are two things

you cannot run away from — God and yourself.

Wherever you may go,

you take with you yourself

and the spirit of the heavenly Father

which lives within your heart

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 27 August is “In your living and loving ministry serve spiritual food in attractive form suited to the capacity of receptivity of each of your inquirers” a suggested match would be:

Give the milk of truth

to those who are

babes in spiritual perception

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 28 August is “The real universe is friendly to every child of the eternal God” a suggested match would be:

The real problem is:

How can the finite mind of man

achieve a logical, true, and

corresponding unity of thought?

This universe-knowing state of mind

can be had only by conceiving

that the quantitative fact and

the qualitative value have a

common causation in the Paradise Father

 

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Vern wrote:  Today, 29 August is “The kingdom of heaven is a spiritual relationship between God and man” a suggested match would be:

The kingdom of heaven,

the divine government,

is founded on the fact of

divine sovereignty — God is spirit.

Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual

 

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