CQOD: 02/23/08 -- Rutherford: the trial of faith

Christian Quotation of the Day

February 23, 2008

Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155

Meditation:
    For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
    -- 1 Timothy 4:8 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world’s passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?
    ... Samuel Rutherford (1600-1664), letter, Jan. 1, 1637

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, save us from our inclination to sin.

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