CQOD: 07/17/07 -- Origen: discussing prayer

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 17, 2007Meditation:
    And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.
    -- Romans 8:27 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
    ... Origen (185?-254?)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the mind of Christ so that I might please you in prayer.

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CQOD: 07/16/07 -- Irenaeus: beholding God

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 16, 2007

Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099

Meditation:
    No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.
    -- John 1:18 (RSV)

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Quotation:
    The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.
    ... Irenæus (c.130-c.200)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Father, in Jesus have I known You.

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CQOD: 07/15/07 -- Palau: post-Christian society

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 15, 2007

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274

Meditation:
    [Jesus:] Haven't you read this scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
    -- Mark 12:10,11 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    There is no such thing as a post-Christian society. One generation may reject the Gospel itself, but it cannot reject it for future generations.
    ... Luis Palau (b.1934)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, this unbelieving era is but a eyeblink to You, for You have secured the victory for Your people for all time.

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CQOD: 07/14/07 -- Newton: the function of prophecy

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 14, 2007

Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866

Meditation:
    All the prophets testify about [Jesus] that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
    -- Acts 10:43 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men’s curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter’s, be thereby manifested to the world.
    ... Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your prophets confirm Your providence.

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CQOD: 07/13/07 -- Bell: the true Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 13, 2007Meditation:
    For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
    -- Matthew 16:25 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    We need to forget the imaginary Christ who has been ours too long and to rediscover the real Christ, the Christ of the prophets and the martyrs and the confessors, the Christ who is not only the lover of souls but also master, a monarch with demands to make in industry, in finance, in education, in the arts, in marriage, in the home; the Christ who is teacher of a social ideology which has eternal validity; the Christ who cries aloud with convincing force, “He who would save his life will lose it; only he who is willing to lose his life, can find it.”
    ... Bernard Iddings Bell (1886-1958), Still Shine the Stars [1941]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I have heard Your call to life.

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CQOD: 07/12/07 -- Browne: faith vs. sight

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 12, 2007Meditation:
    Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"
    -- John 20:24-26 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ’s Sepulcher, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ’s patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.
    ... Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), Religio Medici [1643]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I and the whole church bless You for the gift of faith.

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CQOD: 07/11/07 -- MacDonald: what good is fear?

Christian Quotation of the Day

July 11, 2007

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550

Meditation:
    There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
    -- 1 John 4:18 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Naturally, the first emotion of man towards the being he calls God, but of whom he knows so little, is fear. Where it is possible that fear should exist it is well that it should exist, cause continual uneasiness, and be cast out by nothing less than love.... Until love, which is the truth towards God, is able to cast out fear, it is well that fear should hold; it is a bond, however poor, between that which is and that which creates—a bond that must be broken, but a bond that can be broken only by the tightening of an infinitely closer bond. Verily God must be terrible to those that are far from Him: for they fear He will do—yea, is doing—with them what they do not, cannot desire, and can ill endure... While they are such as they are, there is much in Him that cannot but affright them: they ought, they do well, to fear Him... To remove that fear from their hearts, save by letting them know His love with its purifying fire, a love which for ages, it may be, they cannot know, would be to give them up utterly to the power of evil. Persuade men that fear is a vile thing, that it is an insult to God, that He will have none of it—while they are yet in love with their own will, and slaves to every movement of passionate impulse—and what will the consequence be? That they will insult God as a discarded idol, a superstition, a falsehood, as a thing under whose evil influence they have too long groaned, a thing to be cast out and spit upon. After that, how much will they learn of Him?
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905), “The Fear of God,” Unspoken Sermons, Second Series [1885]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, replace all my fear with love.

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