CQOD: 10/21/07 -- Shepherd: magic

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 21, 2007Meditation:
    When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
    -- Deuteronomy 18:9-13 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    [Magic] is not mere superstition. It can corrupt people who otherwise carry on their daily duties with apparent reasonableness and common sense... It exploits man’s urgent desire for all the material good things of life—health, prosperity, success, “good luck”—and at times, it may even descend to aggressive acts against one’s competitors and supposed enemies and rivals. It rests upon an assumption, not always explicit, that divine power can be manipulated and used for human ends. And it is the more dangerous among people who assume that since God is love, He will do whatever they ask, provided they use the right formula in asking. Magic mocks God’s freedom no less than His purpose. For it binds men more and more in a prison of fear and selfishness. Far from liberating divine power, it shuts out the free and creative forces of love and self-sacrifice that alone ennoble life and remove the alienation of men one from another. Love, not compulsion, casts out fear.
    ... Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. (b.1913), Far and Near

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make my heart to fear nothing but You.

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CQOD: 10/20/07 -- Laubach: like Jesus

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 20, 2007Meditation:
    Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
    -- 1 John 2:6 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.
    ... Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970)

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CQOD: 10/19/07 -- Calvin: silence gives consent

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 19, 2007

Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812

Meditation:
    I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, as you know, O LORD. I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.
    -- Psalm 40:9,10 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the words to refute Your adversaries.

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CQOD: 10/18/07 -- Maxwell: the divine equation

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 18, 2007

Feast of Luke the Evangelist

Meditation:
    Receive [Wisdom's] instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
    -- Proverbs 8:10,11 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls that they may seek you and rule your creation, teach us so to investigate the works of your hand that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen our intelligence for your service. And grant that we may so receive your Word as to believe in him whom you sent to give us the science of salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. All this we ask in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
    ... James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, keep me from vanity, and lead me to seek Your truth.

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CQOD: 10/17/07 -- Studdert Kennedy: the bread of life

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 17, 2007

Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107

Meditation:
    The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone.'"
    -- Luke 4:3,4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Variety may be the spice of life, but it is not life itself. It is that bread of life, that peace of God which is the very staff of life itself, for which men’s souls are starving in these days.
    ... G. A. Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929), The Wicket Gate [1923]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have fed me full.

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CQOD: 10/16/07 -- Henry: the Lord shall have them in derision

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 16, 2007Meditation:
    Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One. "Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."
    The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, "I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill."
    -- Psalm 2:1-6 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Sinners’ follies are the just sport of God’s infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.
    ... Matthew Henry (1662-1714)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, beef up my faith.

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CQOD: 10/15/07 -- Teresa of Avila: memories of grace

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 15, 2007

Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582

Meditation:
    "Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
    "The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
    "But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.
    "His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'
    "But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
    "Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
    "This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
    -- Matthew 18:23-35 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
    ... Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, show me Your way of forgiving.

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