CQOD: 11/26/05 -- Baillie: giving thanks to God

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 26, 2005Meditation:
    Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
    -- 2 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:
    Making home sweeter and friends dearer:
    Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul’s victory:
    Robbing death of its sting:
    Robbing sin of its power:
    Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure.
    Amen.
    ... John Baillie (1886-1960), A Diary of Private Prayer [1949]

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CQOD: 11/25/05 -- Tauler: listening and learning

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 25, 2005

Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century

Meditation:
    And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
    -- Matthew 26:40-41 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
    ... Johannes Tauler (ca. 1300-1361)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, keep me listening to You.

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CQOD: 11/24/05 -- Hanson: What more could He do?

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 24, 2005

Thanksgiving (U.S.)

Meditation:
    Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.
    -- 1 Corinthians 4:2 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It seems that Paul is here [I Cor. 4:2] outlining the very ultimate degree of Christ’s self-identification with us, the very lowest point to which he condescended when he took the form of a slave. He allowed himself (God allowed him) to be accounted sin by the Law. He refused to do what orthodox Jews of his day thought God had commanded them to do, (i.e.) seek to gain credit with God by keeping the Law. He lived by faith, not Law, and therefore repudiated the Law and the path of self-justification.... He stripped himself even of that claim to moral goodness which would have distinguished him from sinners. Short of becoming a sinner (and Paul shows that this idea is repudiated), how could God come closer to us sinners?
    ... Anthony T. Hanson (1916-1991), The Church of the Servant [1962]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a spirit of gratitude this day, particularly for the faithfulness of Your Son, our Lord, Jesus.

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CQOD: 11/23/05 -- Tillotson: the Scriptures

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 23, 2005

Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100

Meditation:
    Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures...
    -- 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.
    ... John Tillotson (1630-1694)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Thank You, Lord, for preserving Your word for me.

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CQOD: 11/22/05 -- C. S. Lewis: on religion

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 22, 2005

Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963

Meditation:
    ... you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
    ... Leviticus 19:18b (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one’s attention fixed on God and on one’s neighbor in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn’t the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), “Lilies that Fester,” from The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays, p. 32 [1960]

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Quiet time reflection:
    I reject the world's religious counterfeits. I seek only Your grace, Lord, to do Your will.

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CQOD: 11/21/05 -- Thomas à Kempis: the fear of death

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 21, 2005Meditation:
    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.
    -- Revelation 2:11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.
    ... Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ, I.xxiv. [1418]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Wash me, Lord, and release me from fear of death.

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