CQOD: 11/07/07 -- Tertullian: closer than ever

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 7, 2007

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739

Meditation:
    Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven."
    -- Matthew 22:29,30 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state—destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated.
    ... Tertullian (160?-230?)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I long to live in that better state, according to Your promise.

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