CQOD: 01/04/08 -- Butterfield: the hand of God in history

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 4, 2008Meditation:
    And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
    -- Ezekiel 36:27,28 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has first found an assurance of it in his personal experience.
    ... Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979), Christianity and History, Scribner's, New York, 1950, p. 107

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your hand has guided all the circumstances of my life.

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