CQOD: 01/28/07 -- Tillotson: plain understanding

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 28, 2007

Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274

Meditation:
    And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
    -- Luke 24:27 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.
    ... John Tillotson (1630-1694)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your truth is plain to see.

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CQOD: 01/27/07 -- Tozer: having God is having all

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 27, 2007Meditation:
    --yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
    -- 1 Corinthians 8:6 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything—we have all the rest.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, convince my pagan mind that in having Christ, I have all.

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CQOD: 01/26/07 -- Weil: social causes

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 26, 2007

Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul
Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963

Meditation:
    If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
    -- Hebrews 11:15-16 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.
    ... Simone Weil (1909-1943), Waiting on God [1951]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Take my eyes off the world's affairs, Lord, so that they might focus on the Kingdom.

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CQOD: 01/25/07 -- Lewis: care for the future

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 25, 2007

Feast of the Conversion of Paul

Meditation:
    Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
    -- Matthew 6:34 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest human life leaves a man, in any branch of learning, a beginner, I shall seem to you to be saying something quite academic and theoretical. You would be surprised if you knew how soon one begins to feel the shortness of the tether: of how many things, even in middle life, we have to say, “No time for that,” “Too late now” and “Not for me.” But Nature herself forbids you [young people] to share that experience. A more Christian attitude, which can be attained at any age, is that of leaving futurity in God’s hands. We may as well, for God will certainly retain it whether we leave it to Him or not.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), “Learning in War-Time”

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You reign supreme, and all that is mine is in Your hands.

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CQOD: 01/24/07 -- François de Sales: the Divine will

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 24, 2007

Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622

Meditation:
    And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother."
    -- Mark 3:34-35 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?
    ... François de Sales (1567-1622)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I may seek Your will in my life.

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CQOD: 01/23/07 -- Brooks: orthodoxy

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 23, 2007

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893

Meditation:
    So for the sake of your tradition you [scribes and Pharisees] have made void the word of God. You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'
    -- Matthew 15:6b-9 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect.
    ... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have sole authority in all things.

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CQOD: 01/22/07 -- Brunner: love

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 22, 2007Meditation:
    Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
    -- Hebrews 13:1-3 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not love him because he is such-and-such a person but because he is there. In all this it is quite the opposite of natural love: it “does not seek its own.” It does not perform the characteristic natural impulse of love and life. Therefore it is basically independent of the conduct of the other person; it is not conditional but absolute. It wants nothing for itself but only for others. Therefore it is also not vulnerable. It never “reacts” but is always “spontaneous,” emerging by its own strength—rather, from the power of God. Love is the real God-likeness of man for which he has been created. In so far as love is in man he really resembles God and shows himself to be the child of God.
    ... Emil Brunner (1889-1966), The Letter to the Romans [1959]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make a reflector of Your love.

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CQOD: 01/21/07 -- Lloyd: the Gospel in plain language

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 21, 2007

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304

Meditation:
    But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'
    -- Matthew 11:16-17 (ESV)

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Quotation:
    At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that every man will hearken to it, charm we never so wisely. The prophets, for all their passionate sincerity, for all their courageous simplifyings of the Gospel, will meet many deaf adders who stop their ears. We must reckon with this certain fact, and refuse to be daunted by it. But also there comes a point where accommodation can go no further. It is the Gospel we have to present, however we do it. We cannot hope to do it unless we walk humbly with the modern man, as well as with God, unless we are much more eager to learn from him and about him, than to instruct him. God help us, it is all very difficult. But was there ever a task better worth trying to do, or one in which, whether we fail or succeed, we more surely find our freedom?
    ... Roger Lloyd (b.1901), The Ferment in the Church [1964]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, do not let me stray from presenting Your Gospel.

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