CQOD: 05/10/06 -- Fénelon: shrinking from health

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 10, 2006Meditation:
    "Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" --he said to the paralytic-- "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home."
    -- Mark 2:9-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument of our wretchedness and of God’s mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure.
    ... François Fénelon (1651-1715)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord Jesus, You are the Messiah, the great Physician.

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