CQOD: 11/11/07 -- Schaeffer: doctrine

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 11, 2007

Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397

Meditation:
    Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
    -- Matthew 5:6 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship—and not as ends in themselves.
    ... Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984), letter

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that we are not swept away in intellectual debates but in the fullness of Your Holy Spirit.

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CQOD: 11/10/07 -- Schroy: Lord, forgive

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 10, 2007

Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461

Meditation:
    At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
    "Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."
    Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
    -- John 20:14-16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Lord, forgive—
    That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha,
    My wracked eyes fixed
    On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross,
    And have not seen
    The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend
    To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways
    Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.
    ... Pauline Schroy

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I long to be at Your feet.

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CQOD: 11/09/07 -- Augustine on the will

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 9, 2007

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433

Meditation:
    [Jesus] went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'"
    -- Mark 7:20-23 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    One can say: “I will, but my body does not obey me;” but not: “My will does not obey me.”
    ... St. Augustine (354-430)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I am broken. Make me well, that I may sin no more.

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CQOD: 11/08/07 -- Chapman: growing knowledge

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 8, 2007

Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England

Meditation:
    Praise the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.
    -- Psalms 149:1 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to be forgotten. To Homer, the dawn was “rosy-fingered;” to Shakespeare, it was “in russet mantle clad;” to Housman, “the ship of sunrise burning.” The scientist can explain exactly why the sky looks as it does in the early morning, the physiologist why we perceive as we do. Yet no one suggests that there is no dawn at all, or that its appearance has changed over the centuries, or that any one of these percipients was mad or deceitful. Why should our knowledge of the Creator be less capable of variety and development than our knowledge of any aspect of Creation?
    ... Raymond Chapman (b.1924), The Ruined Tower [1961]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You reveal Yourself to Your people.

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CQOD: 11/07/07 -- Tertullian: closer than ever

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 7, 2007

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739

Meditation:
    Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven."
    -- Matthew 22:29,30 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state—destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated.
    ... Tertullian (160?-230?)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I long to live in that better state, according to Your promise.

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CQOD: 11/06/07 -- Temple: for love

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 6, 2007

Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944

Meditation:
    And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
    -- Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    The principle of sacrifice is that we choose to do or to suffer what apart from our love we should not choose to do or to suffer.
    ... William Temple (1881-1944)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me into true sacrifice.

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CQOD: 11/05/07 -- Calvin: salvation from Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

November 5, 2007Meditation:
    It is because of [God] that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
    -- 1 Corinthians 1:30 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is “of him.” If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects that he might learn to feel our pain. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.
    ... John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion [1559] (II.16.19)

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord Jesus, I see all virtues and powers in You.

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