CQOD: 09/19/06 -- Drummond: the most destructive sin

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 19, 2006

Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690

Meditation:
    Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
    -- Ephesians 4:31-32 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or “touchy” disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics... No form of vice—not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself—does more to unChristianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off of childhood—in short, for sheer, gratuitous misery-producing power—this influence stands alone.
    ... Henry Drummond (1851-1897), “The Greatest Thing in the World” [1892]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, cool my temper, particularly with ____ and ____.

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