CQOD: 01/02/06 -- St. Basil on the uses of hope

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 2, 2006

Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833

Meditation:
    For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love that you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
    -- Hebrews 6:10-12 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The labors of the farm do not seem strange to the farmer; the storm at sea is not unexpected by the sailor; sweat causes no wonder to the hired laborer; and so to those who have chosen to live the life of piety the afflictions of this world are not unforeseen. Nay, to each of the aforesaid is joined a labor that is appropriate and well known to those who share it—a labor that is not chosen for its own sake, but for the enjoyment of expected blessings. For hopes, which hold and weld together man’s entire life, give consolation for the hardships which fall to the lot of each of these.
    ... St. Basil the Great (330?-379)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, let that hope bloom ever greater in my heart.

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