The Christian Quotation of the Day: 2005-12-04

CQOD: 12/08/05 -- Glanville: the disparaging of reason

Christian Quotation of the Day

December 8, 2005Meditation:
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
-- 1 Corinthians 1:25 (ESV)

Quotation:
There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense of respect and favor to it. For hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. And if Reason must not be beard, the Being of a God, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the Ground like a House that hath no Foundation.
... Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680)

Quiet time reflection:
I seek Your holy reason to match Your gift of faith.

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CQOD: 12/07/05 -- Ambrose on overcoming avarice

Christian Quotation of the Day

December 7, 2005

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397

Meditation:
And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God."
-- Luke 12:16-21 (ESV)

Quotation:
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many—nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.
... St. Ambrose of Milan (339-397)

Quiet time reflection:
Show me, Lord, how to give my life away.

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CQOD: 12/06/05 -- Trench: If we with earnest effort could succeed

Christian Quotation of the Day

December 6, 2005

Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326

Meditation:
Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
-- Exodus 24:9-10 (ESV)

Quotation:
    If we with earnest effort could succeed
    To make our life one long, connected prayer,
    As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are;
    If, never leaving Thee, we have no need
    Our wandering spirits back again to lead
    Into Thy presence, but continued there
    Like angels standing on the highest stair
    Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!
        ... Richard C. Trench (1807-1886)

Quiet time reflection:
I want to pray without ceasing.

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CQOD: 12/05/05 -- Arnold: condensing Christianity

Christian Quotation of the Day

December 5, 2005Meditation:
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
-- John 21:25 (ESV)

Quotation:
Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.
... Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Quiet time reflection:
Lead me, Lord, to appreciate Your whole Word.

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CQOD: 12/04/05 -- Underhill: the tide of worship

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December 4, 2005

Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637

Meditation:
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling...
-- 1 Timothy 2:8 (ESV)

Quotation:
Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends—a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it’s all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.
... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, if You wash me, I shall be clean indeed.

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