CQOD: 01/21/06 -- Luther: servant and free

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 21, 2006

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304

Meditation:
    You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
    -- Romans 6:18 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    A Christian man is most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to everyone.
    ... Martin Luther (1483-1546)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, thank you for my freedom. Grant me a servant's heart.

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CQOD: 01/20/06 -- Mill: If not Jesus, then who?

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 20, 2006

Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349

Meditation:
    And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
    -- Matthew 7:28-29 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It is of no use to say that Christ, as exhibited in the Gospels, is not historical, and that we know not how much of what is admirable has been super-added by the tradition of his followers. Who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings of Jesus or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee; as certainly not St. Paul, whose character and idiosyncrasies were of a totally different sort; still less the early Christian writers, in whom nothing is more evident than that the good which was in them was all derived, as they always professed that it was derived, from the higher source.
    ... John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Three Essays on Religion

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I hear You speaking to me in Scripture.

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CQOD: 01/19/06 -- Bonhoeffer: Jesus, the universal center

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 19, 2006

Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095

Meditation:
    For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
    Romans 5:10,11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    No man can look with undivided vision at God and at the world of reality so long as God and the world are torn asunder. Try as he may, he can only let his eyes wander distractedly from one to the other. But there is a place at which God and the cosmic reality are reconciled, a place at which God and man have become one. That and that alone is what enables man to set his eyes upon God and the world at the same time. This place does not lie somewhere out beyond reality in the realm of ideas. It lies in the midst of history as a divine miracle. It lies in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of the world.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are my only hope of reconciliation.

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CQOD: 01/18/06 -- Pierce: reckless giving

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 18, 2006

Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951

Meditation:
    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
    -- John 3:16,17 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    May the Spirit of God help you to give of yourself as recklessly for the cause of Christ throughout the whole world as God “recklessly” gave His Son, Jesus Christ.
    ... Bob Pierce, founder and president, World Vision

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I ask for the boldness to take greater risks for the Gospel.

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CQOD: 01/17/06 -- Gore: respectable sins?

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 17, 2006

Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932

Meditation:
    There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
    -- Mark 7:15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Any such distinction between disreputable and respectable sins... Jesus Christ absolutely refuses to allow. In His eyes avarice, pride, refusal to forgive, hypocrisy, are at least as bad as fornication or adultery or violence.
    ... Charles Gore (1853-1932), Christ and Society [1928]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I do not know the extent of my wickedness in pride. Forgive me for this and other sins I regard as "better."

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CQOD: 01/16/06 -- Crosby: unifying knowledge

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 16, 2006Meditation:
    ... yes, if you call out for insight
        and raise your voice for understanding,
    if you seek it like silver
        and search for it as for hidden treasures,
    then you will understand the fear of the LORD
        and find the knowledge of God.
    -- Proverbs 2:3-5 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
    ... Howard Crosby (1826-1891)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your grace is the final explanation of all.

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