CQOD: 06/23/06 -- Grou: true path to peace

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 23, 2006

Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678

Meditation:
    Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
    -- James 4:7-8 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.
    ... Jean N. Grou (1731-1803), The Hidden Life of the Soul

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, show me what I may be in You. Grant this also to ____ and to ____, that they may have renewed peace.

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CQOD: 06/22/06 -- Francois de Sales: confession

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 22, 2006

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209

Meditation:
    Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
    -- James 5:16 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.
    ... François de Sales (1567-1622), Introduction to the Devout Life

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, my confessions are so often false. Grant me new strength to amend my faults.

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CQOD: 06/21/06 -- Barth: sin as universal enmity

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 21, 2006Meditation:
    But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
    -- Romans 5:8-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    We may all be inclined to think of man’s countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and deeds. From all these, sin can be known, as a tree can be known from its fruits. Yet these outward signs are not sin itself, the wages of which are death. Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. Shall we call it our pride or our laziness, or shall we call it the deceit of our life? Let us call it for once the great defiance which turns us again and again into the enemies of God and of our fellowmen, even of our own selves.
    ... Karl Barth (1886-1968)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, stay with me, for I stray when you leave me to myself.

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CQOD: 06/20/06 -- Brunner: is man's place in nature?

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 20, 2006Meditation:
    Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness," and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile."
    -- 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    In quite recent times we seem to have entered a particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration, namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification. Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a highly developed cerebrum. At the same time, it is believed of this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of achieving whatever he wants. The deification which might have been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed. After mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a technocratical pseudo-religion. There is no room for human personality, freedom and justice in either of these new religions of divine man. But the most dangerous of all must be the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.
    ... Emil Brunner (1889-1966), The Scandal of Christianity [1951]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You truly show man's wisdom to be foolishness.

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CQOD: 06/19/06 -- Lamb: the many forms of grace

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 19, 2006

Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929

Meditation:
    For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
    -- Romans 8:13 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts—a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?
    ... Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may my whole life be as a prayer to You.

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CQOD: 06/18/06 -- Luccock: the Gospel vs. good advice

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 18, 2006Meditation:
    ... but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."
    -- Romans 9:31-33 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The Christian message is not an exhortation—“try hard to be good.” Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.
    ... Halford E. Luccock (1885-1960), Marching Off the Map [1952]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I judge by works fifty rimes a day. Holy Spirit, speak grace into my heart and mind.

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CQOD: 06/17/06 -- Phillips: Christ and mysticism

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 17, 2006

Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936

Meditation:
    There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
    -- Galatians 3:28-29 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    It should be noted, at least by those who accept Christ’s claim to be God, that he by no means fits into the picture of the “mystic saint.” Those who are fascinated by the supposed superiority of the mystic soul might profitably compile a list of its characteristics and place them side by side with those of Christ. The results would probably expose a surprising conclusion. There is, in fact, no provision for a “privileged class” in genuine Christianity.
    ... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Your God is Too Small [1953]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, extinguish all scorn and pride of position from my heart.

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