CQOD: 11/12/05 -- Calvin: our stammering in prayer

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 12, 2005Meditation:
    The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.
    -- Isaiah 32:4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us—as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Make me patient in speech. and grant me Your Holy Spirit to guide my tongue.

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CQOD: 11/11/05 -- M. Barth: using Christ's name in vain

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 11, 2005

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397

Meditation:
    But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
    -- Ephesians 2:4-7 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because insiders or outsiders of a certain class or group meet happily among themselves, then the one new thing, peace, and the one new man created by Christ, are missing; then no faith, no church, no Christ, is found or confessed. For if the attribute “Christian” can be given sense from Eph. 2, then it means reconciled and reconciling, triumphant over walls and removing the debris, showing solidarity with the “enemy” and promoting not one’s own peace of mind but “our peace.”.. When this peace is deprived of its social, national, or economic dimensions, when it is distorted or emasculated so much that only “peace of mind” enjoyed by saintly individuals is left—then Jesus Christ is being flatly denied. To propose, in the name of Christianity, neutrality or unconcern on questions of international, racial, or economic peace—this amounts to using Christ’s name in vain.
    ... Markus Barth (1915-1994), The Broken Wall [1959]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I confess to lacking the mercy You desire of me. I pray that You will show me how I am to serve and seek Your peace, rather than my own.

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CQOD: 11/10/05 -- Carmichael: From subtle love of softening things

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 10, 2005

Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461

Meditation:
    We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
    -- Romans 8:22-25 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    From subtle love of softening things,
    From easy choices, weakenings,
    (Not thus are spirits fortified;
    Not this way went the Crucified;)
    From all that dims Thy Calvary,
    O Lamb of God, deliver me.

    Give me the love that leads the way,
    The faith that nothing can dismay,
    The hope no disappointments tire,
    The passion that will burn like fire;
    Let me not sink to be a clod:
    Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!
    ... Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), written in India, 1912

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, implant in me and all those around me a zeal that burns to Your glory.

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CQOD: 11/09/05 -- Savonarola: wonders

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 9, 2005

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433

Meditation:
    What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
    -- James 2:14-17 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    If you believe, where are your works? Your faith is something everyone knows, for everyone knows that Christ was [crucified], and that everywhere men pray to Him. The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen. O wise man, do you think the poor fishermen were not clever enough for this? Where they worked, there they made hearts better; where they could not work, there men remained bad; and therefore was the faith true and from God. The signs which the Lord had promised followed their teaching: in His name they drove out the devil; they spoke in new tongues; if they drank any deadly drink, they received therefrom no harm. Even if these wonders had not occurred, there would have been the wonder of wonders, that poor fishermen without any miracle could accomplish so great a work as the faith. It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
    ... Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, let mine not be a dead faith.

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CQOD: 11/08/05 -- Barclay: belonging to God

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 8, 2005

Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England

Meditation:
    Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
    -- Matthew 20:25-28 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things—clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture—which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God’s.
    ... William Barclay (1907-1978), The Letters of James and Peter [1976]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I belong to you; teach me to be a servant.

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CQOD: 11/07/05 -- Augustine: pride destroys good

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 7, 2005

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739

Meditation:
    You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
    -- Revelation 3:17-18 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
    ... St. Augustine (354-430)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, defeat my pride, I pray, and transform it into compassion.

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