CQOD: 02/02/07 -- Law: admirers of piety

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 2, 2007

THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE

Meditation:
    And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
    -- Ezekiel 36:26 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, c. VII [1728]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord of all newness, I was once dead, and now I live.

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See Believer's Desktop Companion 2007
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