The Christian Quotation of the Day: 2007-04-22

CQOD: 04/30/07 -- Newton: three wonders of heaven

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 30, 2007

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922

Meditation:
For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
-- 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 (ESV)

Quotation:
If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third—the greatest wonder of all—to find myself there.
... John Newton (1725-1807)

Quiet time reflection:
Hallelujah!

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CQOD: 04/29/07 -- Catherine of Siena: hunger for God

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 29, 2007

Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380

Meditation:
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
-- John 4:10 (ESV)

Quotation:
You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the more I enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek. The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss, for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity, desiring to see you with the light of your light. As the hart desires the springs of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see you in truth.
... Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, without You, I was starving.

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CQOD: 04/28/07 -- Dodd: mysticism

Christian Quotation of the Day

April 28, 2007

Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841

Meditation:
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
-- Romans 13:14 (ESV)

Quotation:
The Gospel used to be presented as an appeal to believe in the Savior who “did it all for me long ago,” and then retired to a remote heaven where He receives the homage of believers till He comes again to inaugurate the Millennium. The mind of our generation, having little comprehension or taste for such a message, is usually content to try to discover “the Jesus of history,” conceived as a human example and teacher of a distant past. Meanwhile, there exists always alongside all forms of religious belief the great tradition of mystical experience. The mystic knows that, whatever be the truth about an historic act or person, there is a Spirit dwelling in man. In our time, even natural science abates its arrogant denials and admits the possibility of such immanence... The weak point of mysticism, as seen at least by a matter-of-fact person, is that it is apt to be so nebulous ethically. What the Immanent is, those who claim most traffic with It can often least tell us. Is It a power making for righteousness, or is It a higher synthesis of good and evil? Or is It not a moral—that is to say, not a personal Being at all?... The raising of these questions is not intended to throw any doubt upon the validity of mystical experience as such; but we have a right to ask what content is given in the experience. Paul was a mystic, but all his mystical experience had a personal object. It was Jesus Christ, a real, living person—historic, yet not of the past alone; divine, yet not alien from humanity.
... C. Harold Dodd (1884-1973), The Meaning of Paul for Today, pp. 128-129 [1920]

Quiet time reflection:
Lord, You are present within me.

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