CQOD: 04/25/06 -- Patmore: all that God can give

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 25, 2006

Feast of Mark the Evangelist

Meditation:
    Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
    -- John 15:13 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The “greater love than this” of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one’s friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for “us” seems too selfish—and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.
    ... Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I might know the reality of sacrifice for the Body.

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