CQOD: 04/22/06 -- Lubbock: goodness and pleasure

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 22, 2006Meditation:
    Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
    -- Philippians 4:4 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Many worthy people, and many good books, with no doubt the best intentions, ... have represented a life of sin as a life of pleasure; they have pictured virtue as self-sacrifice, austerity as religion. Even in everyday life we meet with worthy people who seem to think that whatever is pleasant must be wrong, that the true spirit of religion is crabbed, sour, and gloomy; that the bright, sunny, radiant nature which surrounds us is an evil and not a blessing,—a temptation devised by the Spirit of Evil and not one of the greatest delights showered on us in such profusion by the Author of all Good.
    ... Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913), The Use of Life [1894]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Grant me a joyful heart, Lord, to give thanks for all the good things You give in life.

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