CQOD: 06/23/07 -- Spurgeon: caring for the lost

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 23, 2007

Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678

Meditation:
    Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear--hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
    -- Jude 22,23 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
    ... C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, let me not forget a single one you have sent me to.

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CQOD: 06/22/07 -- Pascal: not peace but deliverance

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 22, 2007

Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209

Meditation:
    Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you."
    -- Isaiah 35:3,4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
    ... Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensées [1660]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I call upon Your name for salvation.

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CQOD: 06/21/07 -- Luther: law for the spirit

Christian Quotation of the Day

June 21, 2007Meditation:
    We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
    -- Romans 7:14 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    In Romans 7, St. Paul says, “The law is spiritual.” What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.
    ... Martin Luther (1483-1546), “Preface to the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans”

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to know what You desire from me, and grant a cheerful heart to do it.

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