Thursday, June 15, 2006

CQOD: 06/16/06 -- Schaeffer: bringing healing

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 16, 2006
Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752
Meditation:
    We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
    -- Romans 15:1 (ESV)

Quotation:
    Only the one who has been hurt can bring healing. The other person cannot. It is the one who has been hurt who has to be willing to be hurt again to show love, if there is to be hope that healing will come.
    ... Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984)

Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You were wounded for my sake.


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CQOD: 06/15/06 -- Underhill: the talent of love

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 15, 2006
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941
Meditation:
    For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.
    Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'
    And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'
    He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
    For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
    -- Matthew 25:14-29 (ESV)

Quotation:
    If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Charity in our dealings with life, whether by action, thought, or prayer, and do it at our own cost—if we roll up the talent of love in the nice white napkin of piety and put it safely out of the way, sorry that the world is so hungry and thirsty, so sick and so fettered, and leave it at that: then, even that little talent may be taken from us. We may discover at the crucial moment that we are spiritually bankrupt.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), The School of Charity [1934]

Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, love cost You so much. May I never begrudge the small price of love in my life.


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CQOD: 06/14/06 -- Earle: the task of the Church

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 14, 2006
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691
Meditation:
    For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
    -- Romans 14:17-18 (ESV)

Quotation:
    It is sometimes said that even if no rules were laid down for the conduct of its affairs, the Church, being created by Jesus to “further the work of the Kingdom of God,” can be judged by the extent to which it is successful in continuing his work. This supposition rests upon a misunderstanding of what is meant by “the Kingdom of God.”.. The Kingdom itself is not something to be “furthered” or “built” by men’s efforts. It is something which we are invited to recognize as already present, after a manner, in the life and work of Jesus. It is something to be inherited or entered into by those who believe. The task of the Church, in other words, is not to set the stage for a better world than this one but to draw the curtain from it, to reveal something that is already there.
    ... Nick Earle (b.1926), What’s Wrong with the Church? [1961]

Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, reveal the Kingdom within my life.


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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

CQOD: 06/13/06 -- Jowett: right listening

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 13, 2006
Meditation:
    If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
    -- Mark 4:23 (ESV)

Quotation:
    When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to resist when temptation seems great. But when he looks into the laws of God, and hears the words of Christ, his natural sense of right and wrong is restored to him, and he becomes elevated, purified, and sanctified.
    ... Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)

Quiet time reflection:
    Speak Your law into my heart, Lord.


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Monday, June 12, 2006

CQOD: 06/12/06 -- Pascal: two wrong directions

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 12, 2006
Meditation:
    If anyone teaches a different doctrine [than submission to masters and faithful service] and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
    -- 1 Timothy 6:3-5 (ESV)

Quotation:
    It is in vain, O men, that you seek within yourselves the cure for your miseries. All your insight only leads you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good. The philosophers promised them to you, and have not been able to keep their promises... Your principal maladies are pride, which cuts you off from God, and sensuality, which binds you to the earth; and they have done nothing but foster at least one of these maladies. If they have given you God for your object, it has only been to pander to your pride; they have made you think that you were like Him and resembled Him by your nature. And those who have grasped the vanity of such a pretension have cast you down into the other abyss by making you believe that your nature was like that of the beasts of the field, and have led you to seek your good in lust, which is the lot of animals.
    ... Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Quiet time reflection:
    My only hope, Lord, is in You. Dispose of my pride, and grant me confidence in Your grace.


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