CQOD: 09/08/07 -- Owen: the nature of temptation

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 8, 2007Meditation:
    [Jesus:] Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'
    -- Matthew 15:17-20 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
    ... John Owen (1616-1683)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Cleanse me within, O Lord.

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CQOD: 09/07/07 -- Schiller: three words

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 7, 2007

Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957

Meditation:
    And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
    -- 1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    There are three lessons I would write,
        Three words, as with a burning pen,
    In tracings of eternal light,
        Upon the hearts of men.

    Have Hope. Though clouds environ round,
        And gladness hides her face in scorn,
    Put off the shadow from thy brow:
        No night but hath its morn.

    Have Faith. Where’er thy bark is driven—
        The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth—
    Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
        The inhabitants of earth.

    Have Love. Not love alone for one,
        But man, as man, thy brother call;
    And scatter, like a circling sun,
        Thy charities on all.
    ... Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a heart like Jesus.

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CQOD: 09/06/07 -- Whitefield: complete renovation

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 6, 2007

Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851
Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965

Meditation:
    If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
    -- 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.
    ... George Whitefield (1714-1770), letter

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, help me to remove those temples within me that I have built to idols and self.

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CQOD: 09/05/07 -- Wetzel: Be ready for suffering

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 5, 2007Meditation:
    [Jesus:] If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father as well. If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'
    -- John 15:22-25 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Like many of the leaders and teacher [in the church], perhaps I failed to prepare people for the way of suffering. I had not suffered much myself and did not help people to be ready for it. But the fact is: when you follow Jesus, what happened to Him happens to you.
    ... Todd H. Wetzel (b.1946), Steadfast Faith [1997]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You never abandon one who follows You.

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