CQOD: 10/08/07 -- Palau: failure

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 8, 2007Meditation:
    Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
    -- 2 Corinthians 7:10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    It’s bad when you fail morally. It’s worse when you don’t repent.
    ... Luis Palau (b.1934)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a true spirit of repentance for all my faults.

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CQOD: 10/07/07 -- Osiander: morality and righteousness

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 7, 2007Meditation:
    Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
    -- 2 Timothy 4:2-4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like to be considered as Christians, and listen willingly to the hypocrites who preach that our righteousness is only that God holds us to be righteous, even if we are bad people, and that our righteousness is without us and not in us, for, according to such teaching, they can be counted as holy people. Woe to those who preach that men of sinful walk can not be considered pious; most are furious when they hear this, as we see and experience, and would like all such preachers to be driven away or even killed; but where that cannot be done, they strengthen their hypocrite preachers with praise, comfort, presents and protection, so that they may go on happily and give no place to the truth, however clear it may be.
    ... Andreas Osiander (1498-1552)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, release us from the tyranny that holds Your word to be false.

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CQOD: 10/06/07 -- Allen: following the Spirit

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 6, 2007

Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536

Meditation:
    But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
    -- Acts 1:8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
    ... Roland Allen (1869-1947), Pentecost and the World [1917]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your Spirit hovers over all that is done for Your sake.

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CQOD: 10/05/07 -- Glanvill: the love of a sect

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 5, 2007Meditation:
    But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
    -- 2 Peter 2:1 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it’s no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love for their own sakes, not their Lord’s.
    ... Joseph Glanvill (1636-1680)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, heal Your people of their divisions.

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CQOD: 10/04/07 -- Sabatier: the value of simplicity

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 4, 2007

Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226

Meditation:
    Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace.
    -- 2 Corinthians 1:12 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The gaps in his education were of marvelous service to him. More learned, the formal logic of the schools would have robbed him of that flower of simplicity which is the great charm of his life; he would have seen the whole extent of the sore of the Church, and would no doubt have despaired of healing it. If he had known ecclesiastical discipline, he would have felt obliged to observe it; but, thanks to his ignorance, he could often violate it without knowing it, and be a heretic quite unawares.
    ... Paul Sabatier (1858-1928), Francis of Assisi [1901]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to simplicity in Christ.

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CQOD: 10/03/07 -- Law: Take up your cross

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 3, 2007

Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896
Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958

Meditation:
    Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. Not even those who are circumcised obey the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your flesh. May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
    -- Galatians 6:12-14 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul’s day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honors, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.
    ... William Law (1686-1761), A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life [1728]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to follow only the way of the Cross.

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CQOD: 10/02/07 -- Holland: untouched

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 2, 2007Meditation:
    ... We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God.
    -- 1 Corinthians 8:1-3 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
    ... J. G. Holland (1819-1881)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the humility and wisdom to seek first the knowledge of You.

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CQOD: 10/01/07 -- MacDonald: part-time helper?

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 1, 2007

Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533
Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897

Meditation:
    The LORD watches over you--the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all harm--he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
    -- Psalm 121:5-8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a moment.
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your care for me is constant.

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