CQOD: 09/04/05 -- Phelps: prayer supplemented by action

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 4, 2005

Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650

Meditation:
    Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
    -- James 4:8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim’s preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.
    ... Arthur Stevens Phelps (1863-1948)

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Quiet time reflection:
    May I be constantly reminded that the Lord's purposes are behind all my activities.

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CQOD: 09/03/05 -- Gregory: purity of heart

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 3, 2005

Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604

Meditation:
    Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
    -- Matthew 5:8 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Purity of heart and simplicity are of great force with Almighty God, who is in purity most singular, and of nature most simple.
    ... St. Gregory the Great (540?-604)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a pure heart.

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CQOD: 09/02/05 -- Brother Lawrence: practicing the Presence

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 2, 2005

Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942

Meditation:
    Pray without ceasing.
    -- 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God; or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.
    ... Brother Lawrence (c.1605-1691), The Practice of the Presence of God

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me to return to You when my mind wanders.

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CQOD: 09/01/05 -- Paton: God concerned for the wicked

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 1, 2005

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710

Meditation:
    But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?"
    -- Jonah 4:10,11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    To think of the Communists as the executors of God’s judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.
    ... David M. Paton (b.1913), Christian Missions and the Judgment of God [1953]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, have You some task for me in the evangelization of my enemies?

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CQOD: 08/31/05 -- Rupp: the City of God

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 31, 2005

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688

Meditation:
    And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel...
    -- Revelation 21:9-12 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Here in Pilgrim’s Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart’s true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.
    ... Gordon Rupp (1910-1986), "John Bunyan" in Six Makers of English Religion, 1500-1700, p. 101 [1957]

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Quiet time reflection:
    I praise You, Lord, for the glorious future You have planned.

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CQOD: 08/30/05 -- Law: the greatest secret

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 30, 2005Meditation:
    My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
    -- Psalm 5:3 (AV)

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Quotation:
    He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
    ... William Law (1686-1761)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Help me to open my heart to You in prayer.

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CQOD: 08/29/05 -- Scofield: lowering the purpose of the church

Christian Quotation of the Day

August 29, 2005Meditation:
    [Jesus:] Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
    -- Matthew 10:28 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Instead of pursuing her appointed path of separation, persecution, world-hatred, poverty, and non-resistance, [the Church] has used... Scripture to justify her in lowering her purpose to the civilization of the world, the acquisition of wealth, the use of an imposing ritual, the erection of magnificent churches, the invocation of God’s blessing upon the conflicts of armies, and the division of an equal brotherhood into “clergy” and “laity.”
    ... C. I. Scofield (1843-1921), Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth [1930]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to seek Your will for the church and not rely on the world's goals.

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