CQOD: 06/05/06 -- Law on the limits of the flesh

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 5, 2006

Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754

Meditation:
    I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
    -- John 6:51 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The separate creaturely life, as opposed to life in union with God, is only a life of various appetites, hungers, and wants, and cannot possibly be anything else. God Himself cannot make a creature to be in itself, or in its own nature, anything else but a state of emptiness. The highest life that is natural and creaturely can go no higher than this: it can only be a bare capacity for goodness and cannot possibly be a good and happy life but by the life of God dwelling in it and in union with it. And this is the two-fold life that, of all necessity, must be united in every good and happy and perfect creature.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, implant Your life in me.

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