CQOD: 03/31/07 -- Donne: separation from God

Christian Quotation of the Day

March 31, 2007

Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631

Meditation:
    It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
    -- Hebrews 10:31 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God’s hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.
    ... John Donne (1573-1631), LXXX Sermons [1640]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I know that You will never leave me.

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See Believer's Desktop Companion 2007
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