Category Archives: Thought For the Day

Thought For the Day: And the Word Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us, and We Have Seen His Glory, Glory As of the Only Son From the Father, Full of Grace and Truth

Posted on April 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” – (John 1:14)

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Thought For the Day: Blessed Are the Pure In Heart, For They Shall See God

Posted on April 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” – Matthew 5:8

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Thought For the Day: A Book, Once It Is Printed and Published, Becomes Individual

Posted on April 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book “means” thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Extremism In Defense of Liberty Is No Vice. Tolerance In the Face of Tyranny Is No Virtue

Posted on April 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.” – Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)

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Thought For the Day: Language Is the Amber In Which A Thousand Precious and Subtle Thoughts Have Been Safely Embedded and Preserved

Posted on April 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.” -Richard C. Trench, poet (1807-1886

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Thought For the Day: Schools Are Quick To Blame Everyone and Everything But Themselves For the Failures of American Education. To Them, Every Bad Teacher Is the Exception and Every Bad Parent the Rule

Posted on April 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Schools are quick to blame everyone and everything but themselves for the failures of American education. To them, every bad teacher is the exception and every bad parent is the rule.” – Thomas Sowell

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Thought For the Day: The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy At All…It Is To Matter, To Have It Make Some Difference That You Lived.

Posted on April 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.” – Leo Rosten

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Thought For the Day: If Just As We Are, We Would Lay Ourselves On the Altar of Service of Jesus Christ, There Is No Saying What Christ Could Do With Us and Through Us

Posted on April 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.” – William Barclay

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Thought For the Day: The Easter Egg Symbolizes Our Ability To Break Out of the Hardened, Protective Shell We’ve Surrounded Ourselves With

Posted on April 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.”– Siobhan Shaw

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Thought For the Day: Good Fiction Creates Empathy

Posted on April 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.” – Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955)

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