CQOD: 05/21/06 -- Grou: the peace God gives

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 21, 2006

Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330

Meditation:
    For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
    -- Romans 8:5-6 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest—there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.
    ... Jean N. Grou (1731-1803), The Hidden Life of the Soul

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I seek Your peace for my heart.

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CQOD: 05/20/06 -- Shoemaker: God at work in all things

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 20, 2006Meditation:
    For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
    -- 1 Timothy 6:10-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Anybody with any maturity knows that an experienced Christian is more eager to have God use him than he is to use God for his own ends; but this does not mean that God is absent from the processes of business and livelihood, nor unconcerned about them, nor unable to reveal Himself through them. When we begin to look upon work, business, money, as potential sacraments through which God can work, we shall make better use of them.
    ... Samuel M. Shoemaker (1893-1963), The Experiment of Faith [1957]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, sanctify the things in my life, so that they may serve You.

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CQOD: 05/19/06 -- Patmore: seeing my sin

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 19, 2006

Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988

Meditation:
    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
    -- 1 John 1:9-10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!
    ... Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me, for I cannot bear to look at my sin.

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CQOD: 05/18/06 -- Bell: human depravity

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 18, 2006Meditation:
    You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
    -- 1 Corinthians 7:23-24 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined “optimists” as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.
    ... Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), God is Not Dead [1945]

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CQOD: 05/17/06 -- MacDonald: time management

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 17, 2006Meditation:
    Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." So the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work."
    -- John 4:31-34 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have shown me more resources than I know how to employ in my life.

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CQOD: 05/16/06 -- Gossip: expectations

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 16, 2006

Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877

Meditation:
    He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
    -- Matthew 16:15-18 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no expectation. But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may happen any hour. And thus to Him any smallest incident was a magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities. A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women being saved.
    ... A. J. Gossip (1873-1954), The Galilean Accent [1926]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me greater faith through Jesus as my Example.

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CQOD: 05/15/06 -- Lewis: our glorious neighbors

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 15, 2006

Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945

Meditation:
    For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
    -- 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It may be possible for each of us to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden, of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship—or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), “The Weight of Glory” [1949]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, purge all contempt for others from my mind and heart.

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CQOD: 05/14/06 -- Newton: preparation for joy

Christian Quotation of the Day

May 14, 2006

Feast of Matthias the Apostle

Meditation:
    So to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated.
    -- 2 Corinthians 12:7 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.
    ... John Newton (1725-1807)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I rest in the hope of joy.

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