CQOD: 10/27/05 -- Tillotson: disinclined

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 27, 2005Meditation:
    This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
    -- 1 John 4:2-3 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The true ground of most men’s prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
    ... John Tillotson (1630-1694)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Praise God for the discernment He grants!

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CQOD: 10/26/05 -- Coleridge: Sunshine let it be, or frost

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 26, 2005

Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664

Meditation:
    He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?"
    -- Mark 4:40 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Sunshine let it be, or frost,
        Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose;
    Though Thine every gift were lost,
        Thee Thyself we cannot lose.
        ... Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Your faithfulness drives out my fear.

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CQOD: 10/25/05 -- Hanson: the nature of service

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 25, 2005

Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285

Meditation:
    Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
    -- 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    In the last analysis, the service the Christian does is not his, but Christ’s. Therefore he must not feel too keenly the burden of responsibility, because at the end of the day all he can say is, “We are unprofitable servants.” This knowledge, far from inhibiting action, actually releases the Christian from that appalling feeling of responsibility that has driven so many high-minded humanists to despair, even to suicide... Work done conscientiously by the Christian is his share in Christ’s service; but it is Christ’s service, and therefore the Christian need neither be proud because it has succeeded or overwhelmed because it has failed. The service of Christ is supremely expressed in the apparent failure of the Cross.
    ... Anthony T. Hanson (1916-1991), The Church of the Servant [1962]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, implant in me a heart for Christian service, to Your glory.

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CQOD: 10/24/05 -- Lawrence: every aspect of life

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 24, 2005Meditation:
    May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    -- 1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extending to every aspect of human life. In a secular society, religion cannot remain a department of life. It must be the expression of a faith that extends over the whole of life, or it will be nothing.
    ... John Lawrence (1873-1968)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, ignore my resistance and leave no part of my life untouched.

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CQOD: 10/23/05 -- Stevens: behind it all

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 23, 2005Meditation:
    If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
    -- Matthew 21:22 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct, ... no blind outreach. If it met no response, no answer, it would soon be weeded out of the race. Prayer has stood the test of experience. In fact, the very desire to pray is in itself prophetic of a heavenly Friend. So this native need of the soul rose out of the divine origin of the soul, and it has steadily verified itself as a safe guide to reality. In the first instance it is not asking for anything, it is not petition; all it seeks is God Himself: Let me find Thee, let me know Thee, then I will ask of Thee.
    ... George B. Stevens

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I seek to know You in prayer.

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CQOD: 10/22/05 -- Powell: the fountainhead

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 22, 2005Meditation:
    We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
    -- 1 Corinthians 2:12-14

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Quotation:
    I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in Tennyson the ugliness of hypocrisy, in George Eliot the supremacy of duty, in Dickens the divinity of kindness, and in Ruskin the dignity of service. Irving teaches me the lesson of cheerfulness, Hawthorne shows me the hatefulness of sin, Longfellow gives me the soft, tranquil music of hope. Lowell makes us feel that we must give ourselves to our fellow men. Whittier sings to me of divine Fatherhood and human brotherhood. These are Christian lessons: who inspired them? Who put it into the heart of Martin Luther to nail those theses on the church door of Wittenberg? Who stirred and fired the soul of Savonarola? Who thrilled and electrified the soul of John Wesley? Jesus Christ is back of these all.
    ... Lyman Pierson Powell (1866-1946)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I know you to be the Lord of all goodness. Strengthen my faith, and open my eyes to Your presence around me.

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CQOD: 10/21/05 -- Tozer: a disturbing adoration

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 21, 2005Meditation:
    I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.
    -- Acts 9:16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), That Incredible Christian [1964]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send me comfort where I need it and discomfort where I need that, too.

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CQOD: 10/20/05 -- Lewis: in need of forgiveness

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 20, 2005Meditation:
    Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
    -- James 2:12,13 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    It is hard enough, even with the best will in the world, to be just. It is hard, under the pressure of haste, uneasiness, ill-temper, self-complacency, and conceit, to continue intending justice. Power corrupts; the “insolence of office” will creep in. We see it so clearly in our superiors; is it unlikely that our inferiors see it in us? How many of those who have been over us did not sometimes (perhaps often) need our forgiveness? Be sure that we likewise need the forgiveness of those that are under us.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), “The Psalms”

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, don't let me cover up my need for forgiveness.

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