CQOD: 04/15/06 -- Meynell: all alone

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 15, 2006

Holy Saturday

Meditation:
    ... the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he[a] lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you."
    -- Matthew 28:5-7

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Quotation:
    All night had shouts of men and cry
        Of woeful women filled His way;
    Until that noon of sombre sky
        On Friday, clamor and display
    Smote Him; no solitude had He.
    No silence, since Gethsemane.

    Public was death; but power, but might,
        But life again, but victory,
    Were hushed within the dead of night,
        The shuttered dark, the secrecy.
    And all alone, alone, alone
    He rose again behind the stone.
    ... Alice Meynell (1847-1922)

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Quiet time reflection:
    You rose again, according to the promise of the Father. Because of You, I now have the same promise.

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CQOD: 04/14/06 -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge: Good Friday

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 14, 2006

Good Friday

Meditation:
    When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs." He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep." He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
    -- John 21:15-17 (ESV)

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Quotation:

    Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright!
    My thoughts are the disciples when they fled,
    My words the words that priest and soldier said,
    My deed the spear to desecrate the dead.
    And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night.

    Then Easter in my heart sends up the sun.
    My thoughts are Mary, when she turned to see,
    My words are Peter, answering, ‘Lov’st thou me?’
    My deeds are all Thine own drawn close to Thee.
    And night and day, since thou dost rise, are one.
    ... Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your love to me I return.

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CQOD: 04/13/06 -- Gwatkin: selfishness forgotten

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 13, 2006

Maundy Thursday

Meditation:
    God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
    -- 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    In the whole range of history there is no more striking contrast than that of the Apostolic churches with the heathenism around them. They had shortcomings enough, it is true, and divisions and scandals not a few, for even apostolic times were no golden age of purity and primitive simplicity. Yet we can see that their fullness of life, and hope, and promise for the future, were a new sort of power in the world. Within their own limits they had solved almost by the way the social problem which baffled Rome, and baffles Europe still. They had lifted woman to her rightful place, restored the dignity of labor, abolished beggary, and drawn the sting of slavery. The secret of the revolution is that the selfishness of race and class were forgotten in the Supper of the Lord, and a new basis for society found in love of the visible image of God in men for whom Christ died.
    ... Henry M. Gwatkin (1844-1916), Early Church History to A.D. 312 [1909]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You show me Yourself in the poor.

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CQOD: 04/12/06 -- Calvin: literary grace and the Scriptures

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 12, 2006Meditation:
    Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I was no prophet, nor a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
    -- Amos 7:14-15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Since such uncultivated and rude simplicity inspires greater reverence for itself than any eloquence, what ought one to conclude except that the force of Sacred Scripture is manifestly too powerful to need the art of words?
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your word never fails.

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CQOD: 04/11/06 -- Chadwick: apathy and unbelief

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 11, 2006

Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878

Meditation:
    For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
    -- Luke 9:24-25 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy comes not from over-trust but from unbelief, either doubting that sin is present death, or else that holiness is life and that Jesus has a gift to bestow, not in heaven, but promptly, which is better to gain than all the world? Therefore salvation is linked with faith, which earns nothing but elicits all, like the touch that evokes electricity but which no man supposes to have made it.
    ... G. A. Chadwick (1840-1923), The Gospel of St. Mark [1887]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, my belief is so weak. Send Your spirit to strengthen me.

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CQOD: 04/10/06 -- Law: reform or rebirth?

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 10, 2006

Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761
Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347
Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955

Meditation:
    For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.
    -- Romans 6:5-7 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Christianity does not consist in any partial amendment of our lives, any particular moral virtues, but in an entire change of our natural temper, a life wholly devoted to God.
    ... William Law (1686-1761)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have given me freedom.

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CQOD: 04/09/06 -- Bonhoeffer: Scripture and understanding

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 9, 2006

Palm Sunday
Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945

Meditation:
    And we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
    -- 2 Peter 1:19-21 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Not only the young Christian but also the adult Christian will complain that the Scripture reading is often too long for him, and that much therein he does not understand. To this it must be said that, for the mature Christian, every Scripture reading will be “too long,” even the shortest one, [for] the Scripture is a whole, and every word, every sentence, possesses such multiple relationships with the whole that it is impossible always to keep the whole in view when listening to details. It becomes apparent, therefore, that the whole of Scripture, and hence every passage in it as well, far surpasses our understanding. It is good for us to be daily reminded of this fact.
    ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Life Together [1954]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Spirit to open the Scriptures to me.

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