The Christian Quotation of the Day: 2006-02-05

CQOD: 02/09/06 -- Kierkegaard: love without works

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 9, 2006Meditation:
Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii[a] and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.' Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed him mercy." And Jesus said to him, "You go, and do likewise."
-- Luke 10:30-37 (ESV)

Quotation:
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is really an un-Christian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian, love is the works of love. Christ’s love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what-not: it was the work of love which was his life.
... Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Journals

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, You are teaching me love through humble service.

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CQOD: 02/08/06 -- Underhill: obstacle to grace

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 8, 2006Meditation:
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.' As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"
-- Hebrews 3:7-11 (ESV)

Quotation:
If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ’s Body, be set aside, because—because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.
... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Abba [1940]

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, melt the stone of my heart in the blast-furnace of Your love.

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CQOD: 02/07/06 -- MacDonald: the Lord's day

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 7, 2006Meditation:
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
-- Titus 1:15-16 (ESV)

Quotation:
Where every day is not the Lord’s, the Sunday is his least of all... There may be a sickening unreality even where there is no conscious hypocrisy.
... George MacDonald (1824-1905), Donal Grant [1905]

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, I give all days to You.

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CQOD: 02/06/06 -- Kelly: the one true poverty

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 6, 2006

Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597

Meditation:
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.
-- Proverbs 16:8 (ESV)

Quotation:
The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God’s recreating, loving peace. Peer into poverty and see if we are really getting down to the deepest needs, in our economic salvation schemes. These are important. But they lie farther along the road, secondary steps toward world reconstruction. The primary step is a holy life, transformed and radiant in the glory of God.
... Thomas R. Kelly (1893-1941), A Testament of Devotion [1941]

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, lead me to see first in others their need for You.

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CQOD: 02/05/06 -- Edwards: worth seeing

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 5, 2006Meditation:
Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
-- Leviticus 19:2 (ESV)

Quotation:
He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.
... Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), Treatise concerning Religious Affections [1746]

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, I am blinded by the vision of your goodness.

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