CQOD: 09/22/05 -- Newman: contemplating self instead of Christ
Christian Quotation of the Day
September 22, 2005The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
-- John 1:29 (NIV)
Quotation:
A system of doctrine has risen up during the last three centuries, in which faith or spiritual-mindedness is contemplated and rested on as the end of religion, instead of Christ. I do not mean to say that Christ is not mentioned as the author of all good, but that stress is laid on the believing rather than on the object of belief, on the comfort and persuasiveness of the doctrine than on the doctrine itself. And in this way religion is made to consist of contemplating ourselves, instead of Christ; not simply in looking to Christ, but in seeing that we look to Christ; not in His divinity and atonement, but in our conversion and faith in Him...
... John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Quiet time reflection:
Lord, keep my eyes fixed on You.
See Believer's Desktop Companion 2004
http://www.cqod.com/cqoddtcb.html
CQOD Compilation Copyright 2005, Robert McAnally Adams, Curator
CQOD Home Page: http://www.cqod.com/
Subscription info: http://www.cqod.com/cqodlist.htm
Comments and problems: email to curator@gospelcom.net
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home