CQOD: 10/19/05 -- Law: weakness

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 19, 2005

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812

Meditation:
    When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
    -- Mark 10:14-15 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Weak and imperfect men shall, notwithstanding their frailties and effects, be received as having pleased God, if they have done their utmost to please Him.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Am I constantly trying to prove myself?

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CQOD: 10/18/05 -- Quarles: He is my Altar

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 18, 2005

Feast of Luke the Evangelist

Meditation:
    What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
    -- 2 Corinthians 6:16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    He is my Altar, I His holy place;
    I am His guest, and He my living food;
    I’m His by penitence, He is mine by grace;
    I’m His by purchase, He is mine by blood;
    He’s my supporting elm, and I His vine:
    Thus I my Best-beloved’s am; thus He is mine.
    ... Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

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Quiet time reflection:
    May I never forget that I am part of His Temple.

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CQOD: 10/17/05 -- Brown: pride in humility

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 17, 2005

Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107

Meditation:
    All these [gifts] are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.
    -- 1 Corinthians 12:11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humility—it is petty pride, withholding its simple gifts from the hands of Christ because they are not more pretentious. There are men who would endow colleges, they say, if they were millionaires. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can and be as it has pleased God to make them, in His service—and that is their condemnation.
    ... Charles Reynolds Brown (1862-1950)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, take all false humility away, and lead me to give of myself freely.

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CQOD: 10/16/05 -- Bonhoeffer: Christ stands between

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 16, 2005Meditation:
    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
    -- Galatians 3:28 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology, however frank and open our behavior, we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), The Cost of Discipleship [1964]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to know my neighbor through You.

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CQOD: 10/15/05 -- Knight: withdrawing to pray

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 15, 2005

Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582

Meditation:
    But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
    -- Luke 5:16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself “into the wilderness to pray.” He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.
    ... G. H. Knight (1835-1917), In the Secret of His Presence [1934]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You bless me in prayer.

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CQOD: 10/14/05 -- Underhill: from ethics to love

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 14, 2005Meditation:
    Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, they asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"
    He said to them, "If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."
    Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. Many followed him, and he healed all their sick...
    -- Matthew 12:9-15 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    “Books,” said St. Augustine after his conversion, “could not teach me charity.” We still keep on thinking they can. We do not realize ... the utter distinctness of God and the things of God. Psychology of religion can not teach us prayer, and ethics cannot teach us love. Only Christ can do that, and He teaches by the direct method, in and among the circumstances of life. He does not mind about our being comfortable. He wants us to be strong, able to tackle life and be Christians, be apostles in life, so we must be trained by the ups and downs, the rough-and-tumble of life. Team games are compulsory in the school of Divine Love—there is no getting into a corner with a nice, spiritual book.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Light of Christ [1944]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, too often I reject the lessons You place before me in life. Alert my heart to Your teaching each day.

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CQOD: 10/13/05 -- Brent: call to suffering

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 13, 2005

Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066

Meditation:
    And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
    -- 1 Peter 5:10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally—every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
    ... Charles Brent (1862-1929)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I receive your call to suffering and righteousness.

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CQOD: 10/12/05 -- Newton: thankfulness for trials

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 12, 2005

Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845

Meditation:
    And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:

        "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline,
            and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
        because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
            and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son."

Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?
    -- Hebrews 12:5-7 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
    ... Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make a grateful heart in me for the trials I must endure.

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CQOD: 10/11/05 -- Moody: Jesus is the light

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 11, 2005

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675

Meditation:
    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
    -- Psalm 23:4 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.
    ... Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Jesus, my light!

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