CQOD: 10/11/07 -- Allison: heresy's victims

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 11, 2007

Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675

Meditation:
    If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
    -- 1 Corinthians 13:2 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love... The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.
    ... C. FitzSimons Allison (b.1927), The Cruelty of Heresy [1994]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may your grace and mercy be extended to those who are trapped in heresy.

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