CQOD: 03/19/06 -- Fox: understanding the Scriptures

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 19, 2006

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth

Meditation:
    When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
    -- John 16:13 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets’ and apostles’] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.
    ... The Journal of George Fox (1624-1691)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I may hear and respond the Spirit's prompting in Scripture.

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CQOD: 03/18/06 -- Guinness: success and failure

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 18, 2006Meditation:
    For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
    -- 2 Corinthians 12:10 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    On the one hand, in matters of the spirit, nothing fails like success. On the other hand, in matters of the spirit, nothing succeeds like failure.
    ... Os Guinness (b.1941), Dining with the Devil: the Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity [1993], p.89

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, keep me from glorying in success and despairing in failure, that Your grace and glory may shine through all.

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CQOD: 03/17/06 -- Eckhart: loving God "because"

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 17, 2006

Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460

Meditation:
    [Jesus:] No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
    -- Luke 16:13 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow—for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.
    ... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, break my self-service.

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CQOD: 03/16/06 -- Glover: the testament of suffering

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 16, 2006Meditation:
    Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel...
    -- 2 Timothy 1:8-10 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Belief in immortality for us does not depend on a story, however well attested, in an ancient book... No, here was a sequence of great character and emancipated spirit, all attached to and explained by such a personality as the world never saw; and the central doctrine of the risen Christ squared with the rationality and the goodness of God... The wise said that God and the godlike could have no contact with suffering, but Jesus was no phantom feigning to be crucified; he truly suffered on the cross, he truly rose. Suffering is a language all can understand, and none can quite exhaust; and the suffering Christ, victorious over pain and death, meant for all who grasped his significance a new faith in God, a new freedom of mind in God.
    ... T. R. Glover (1869-1943), The Influence of Christ in the Ancient World [1929]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have paid a far higher price for my liberty than I ever shall.

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CQOD: 03/15/06 -- Glover: the living testament

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 15, 2006Meditation:
    The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
    -- John 7:46 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    The real conviction of the living Christ was not carried to the world by a book nor by a story. Men might allege that they had seen the risen Lord; but that was nothing till they themselves were known. The witness of the resurrection was not the word of Paul (as we see at Athens) nor of the Eleven; it was the new power in life and death that the world saw in changed men... The legend of a reputed resurrection of some unknown person in Palestine nobody needed to consider; but what were you to do with the people who died in the arena, the reborn slaves with their newness of life in your own house? And when you “looked into the story,” it was no mere somebody or other of whom they told it. The conviction of the people you knew, amazing in its power of transforming character and winning first the goodwill and the trust and then the conversion of others, was supported and confirmed by the nature and personality of the Man of whom they spoke, of whom you read in their books. “Never man spake like this man,” you read, nor thought like this man, nor like this man believed in God. I can not but think that the factors that make a man Christian to-day were those that won the world then, our age and that age, in culture, in hopes and fears in loss of nerve, are not unlike. [Continued tomorrow]
    ... T. R. Glover (1869-1943), The Influence of Christ in the Ancient World [1929]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I was dead and You raised me to life.

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CQOD: 03/14/06 -- Owen: a bad proof of rightness

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 14, 2006Meditation:
    Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
    -- Romans 14:1-4 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.
    ... John Owen (1616-1683)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, allow me to see what others tolerate in me and give thanks for Your grace.

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CQOD: 03/13/06 -- Kierkegaard: completing the work

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 13, 2006Meditation:
    And John bore witness: "I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."
    -- John 1:32-34 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.
    ... Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Journals

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Quiet time reflection:
     Lord, I know You stand beside me.

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CQOD: 03/12/06 -- Phillips: the irrefutable evidence

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 12, 2006Meditation:
    For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
    -- 2 Peter 1:16 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter—all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no “cunningly devised fable” but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.
    ... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Ring of Truth [1967]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help my unbelief!

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CQOD: 03/11/06 -- Thomas à Kempis on what we shall be asked

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 11, 2006Meditation:
    And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
    -- Revelation 16:7 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
    ... Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), Of the Imitation of Christ, I.iii. [1418]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You rebuke my idleness.

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CQOD: 03/10/06 -- Underhill: the reality in love

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 10, 2006Meditation:
    Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks : so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
    -- Psalm 42:1-2 (Coverdale)

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Quotation:
    When we look out towards this love that moves the stars and stirs in the child’s heart and claims our total allegiance, and remember that this alone is Reality and we are only real so far as we conform to its demands, we see our human situation from a fresh angle; and we perceive that it is both more humble and dependent, and more splendid, than we had dreamed. We are surrounded and penetrated by great spiritual forces of which we hardly know anything. Yet the outward events of our life cannot be understood, except in their relation to that unseen and intensely living world, the Infinite Charity which penetrates and supports us, the God whom we resist and yet for whom we thirst; who is ever at work, transforming the self-centered desire of the natural creature into the wide spreading, outpouring love of the citizen of Heaven.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), The School of Charity [1934]

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Quiet time reflection:
    I am desperate for You, O Lord.

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CQOD: 03/09/06 -- de Sales: patience

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 9, 2006Meditation:
    Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
    -- Romans 15:2-3 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.
    ... François de Sales (1567-1622)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I fail in patience. Send Your Spirit to instruct me.

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