CQOD: 09/24/05 -- Faber: the whispering of the Lord

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 24, 2005Meditation:
    The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by."
    Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.
    Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
    -- 1 Kings 19:11-13 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.
    ... Frederick W. Faber (1814-1863)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me greater sensitivity to the Spirit's promptings.

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CQOD: 09/23/05 -- Newman: holding up Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 23, 2005Meditation:
    Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
    -- Hebrews 12:1,2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The fashion of the day has been to attempt to convert by insisting on conversion; to exhort men to be converted; to tell them to be sure they look at Christ instead of simply holding up Christ; to tell them to have faith rather than to supply its object; to lead them to work up their minds, instead of impressing upon them the thought of Him who can savingly work in them; to bid them to be sure their faith is justifying, that it is not dead, formal, self-righteous, or merely moral, instead of delineating Him whose image, fully delineated, destroys deadness, formality, self-righteousness; to rely on words, vehemence, eloquence, and the like, rather than to aim at conveying the one great idea, whether in words or not.
    ... John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me not to draw attention to myself but rather to You.

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CQOD: 09/22/05 -- Newman: contemplating self instead of Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 22, 2005Meditation:
    The 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)

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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... The fashion of the day has been to attempt to convert by insisting on conversion; to exhort men to be converted; to tell them to be sure they look at Christ instead of simply holding up Christ; to tell them to have faith rather than to supply its object; to lead them to work up their minds, instead of impressing upon them the thought of Him who can savingly work in them; to bid them to be sure their faith is justifying, that it is not dead, formal, self-righteous, or merely moral, instead of delineating Him whose image, fully delineated, destroys deadness, formality, self-righteousness; to rely on words, vehemence, eloquence, and the like, rather than to aim at conveying the one great idea, whether in words or not.
    ... John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, keep my eyes fixed on You.

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CQOD: 09/21/05 -- Erasmus: the Gospel-bearer

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 21, 2005

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist

Meditation:
    How beautiful on the mountains
        are the feet of those who bring good news,
        who proclaim peace,
        who bring good tidings,
        who proclaim salvation,
        who say to Zion,
        "Your God reigns!"
    -- Isaiah 52:7 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his mouth, and in his heart... A man does not carry it in his heart that does not love it with all his soul; and nobody loves it as he ought, that does not conform to it in his life.
    ... Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1536)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I may show forth the Gospel throughout all my life.

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CQOD: 09/20/05 -- Baillie: giving thanks to God

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 20, 2005

Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871

Meditation:
    And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
    -- Colossians 3:17 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen:
    For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:
    For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:
        I give Thee thanks, O God.
    For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit:
    For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee:
    For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ:
        I give Thee thanks, O God.
    ... John Baillie (1886-1960)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Am I truly thankful for the many blessings I receive?

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CQOD: 09/19/05 -- Jones: made new

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 19, 2005

Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690

Meditation:
    The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.
    -- Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. You are no longer working against the grain of the universe; you’re working with it... You have been forgiven by God and now you can forgive yourself. All self hate, self-despising, self-rejection, drop away, and you accept yourself in God, respect yourself, and love yourself... You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
    ... E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), Conversion [1959]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Thank you, Lord, for a new heart.

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