CQOD: 07/08/06 -- Miller on the unforgivable sin

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 8, 2006Meditation:
    Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
    -- Matthew 12:31-32 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth—what can God Himself do with or for the man who will not acknowledge the truth he knows, or follow the light he sees?
    ... Alexander Miller (1908-1960), The Renewal of Man [1956]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I acknowledge Your Spirit within me and ask for help in submitting myself to Him.

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CQOD: 07/07/06 -- Bernard of Clairvaux: love

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 7, 2006Meditation:
    Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
    -- 1 John 5:1-3 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Honor and glory are indeed due to God and to Him alone, but He will accept neither of them if they be not preserved in the honey of love. Love is sufficient of itself; it pleases by itself and on its own account. Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit. It is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love that I may love. Love is a great thing provided it recurs to its beginning, returns to its origin, and draws always from that Fountain which is perpetually in flood. Of all the feelings and affections of the soul, love is the only one by which the creature, though not on equal terms, is able to respond to the Creator and to repay what it has received from Him. For when God loves us He desires nothing but to be loved. He loves for no other reason, indeed, than that He may be loved, knowing that by their love itself those who love Him are blessed.
    ... St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, quicken love within me, that I may love You above everything.

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CQOD: 07/06/06 -- Davidman: praying whose will be done?

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 6, 2006

Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, &John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535

Meditation:
    "Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,"
        declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
    "that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,
        I will punish the altars of Bethel,
    and the horns of the altar shall be cut off
        and fall to the ground.
    I will strike the winter house along with the summer house,
        and the houses of ivory shall perish,
    and the great houses shall come to an end,"
        declares the LORD.
    -- Amos 3:13-15 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    We sometimes come to God, not because we love Him best, but because we love our possessions best; we ask Christ to “save Western civilization,” without asking ourselves whether it is entirely a civilization that Christ could want to save. We pray, too often, not to do God’s will, but to enlist God’s assistance in maintaining our “continually increasing consumption.” And yet, though Christ promised that God would feed us, he never promised that God would stuff us to bursting.
    ... Joy Davidman (1915-1960), Smoke on the Mountain [1955]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may I not take Your bounty for granted. Lead me to understand my stewardship more thoroughly.

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CQOD: 07/05/06 -- Studdert Kennedy: the reality behind strength

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 5, 2006Meditation:
    There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
    -- 1 John 4:18 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Force is always, and everywhere, a sign of fear—that is, a sign of weakness. Behind the vast armies and navies which we call the great powers of the world, there is fear. Fear it is that drives us out to war. Fear is the father of ferocity, and the forger of the sword. From the Creative point of view, which is God’s point of view, force is weakness, and only Love is power.
    ... G. A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), The Wicket Gate [1923]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, correct my understanding of love and power to conform to Your own.

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CQOD: 07/04/06 -- Trueblood: democracy

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 4, 2006Meditation:
    What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin...
    -- Romans 3:9 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
    ... Elton Trueblood (1900-1994)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, never allow us to forget our sinfulness.

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CQOD: 07/03/06 -- Sayers: down to earth indeed

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 3, 2006

Feast of Thomas the Apostle

Meditation:
    That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
    -- 1 John 1:1-3 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new morality and invented no new kind of Deity could not be more laughably wide of the mark. What it did was to guarantee that the old morality was actually valid, and the old beliefs literally true. “Ye worship ye know not what, but we know what we worship,” “that which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have handled”—“He suffered under Pontius Pilate.” God died—not in a legend, not in a symbol, not in a distant past nor in a realm unknown, but here, [in the crucifiction of Christ]; the whole great cloudy castle of natural religion and poetic prophecy is brought down to earth and firmly cemented upon that angular and solid cornerstone.
    ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), The Man Born to be King [1943]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are my foundation and my hope.

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