CQOD: 01/26/08 -- Sayers: Christian principles without Christ

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 26, 2008

Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul
Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963

Meditation:
    Then [Jesus] went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath began to teach the people. They were amazed at his teaching, because his message had authority.
    -- Luke 4:31,32 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear [in the world today], because their validity as principles depends on Christ’s authority.
    ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), lecture [1940], in The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays, Macmillan, 1978, p. 38

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, keep me from leaning on my own understanding but to see Christ behind everything.

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CQOD: 01/25/08 -- Wesley: O for a thousand tongues

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 25, 2008

Feast of the Conversion of Paul

Meditation:
    Sing joyfully to the LORD, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him. Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre. Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy. For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.
    -- Psalm 33:1-4 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    O for a thousand tongues to sing
        My great Redeemer’s praise,
    The glories of my God and King,
        The triumphs of his grace!

    My gracious Master and my God,
        Assist me to proclaim,
    To spread through all the earth abroad
        The honors of thy name.

    Jesus! the name that charms our fears,
        That bids our sorrows cease;
    ’Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
        ’Tis life, and health, and peace.

    He breaks the power of cancelled sin,
        He sets the prisoner free;
    His blood can make the foulest clean,
        His blood availed for me.

    He speaks, and, listening to his voice,
        New life the dead receive,
    The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
        The humble poor believe.

    Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb,
        Your loosened tongues employ;
    Ye blind, behold your Savior come,
        And leap, ye lame, for joy.

    Look unto him, ye nations, own
        Your God, ye fallen race;
    Look, and be saved through faith alone,
        Be justified by grace.

    See all your sins on Jesus laid:
        The Lamb of God was slain,
    His soul was once an offering made
        For every soul of man.

    Awake from guilty nature’s sleep,
        And Christ shall give you light,
    Cast all your sins into the deep,
        And wash you purest white.

    With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
        Shall feel your sins forgiven;
    Anticipate your heaven below,
        And own that love is heaven.
    ... Charles Wesley (1707-1788), from Hymns and Sacred Poems [1740]

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, receive my praise.

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CQOD: 01/24/08 -- de Sales: patience

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 24, 2008

Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622

Meditation:
    Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.
    -- James 5:7,8 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.
    ... François de Sales (1567-1622), Introduction to the Devout Life, Rivington's, Oxford, 1876, p. 140

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me a patient heart.

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CQOD: 01/23/08 -- Brooks: trials

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 23, 2008

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893

Meditation:
    As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him -- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
    -- 1 Peter 2:4,5 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple.
    ... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), “The Pillar in God's Temple,” from The Candle of the Lord, E. P Dutton & Co., New York, 1881, p. 72

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, keep me from doubt in times of difficulty.

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CQOD: 01/22/08 -- Schaeffer: an unspoken apostacy

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 22, 2008Meditation:
    Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
    -- Luke 11:34,35 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    If we do not preach these things [i.e., the need of Christians to be human], talk about them to each other, and teach them carefully from the pulpit and in the Christian classroom, we cannot expect Christians so to act. This has always been important, but it is especially so today because we are surrounded by a world in which personality is increasingly eroded. If we, who have become God’s children, do not show Him to be personal in our lives, then in practice we are denying His existence.
    ... Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The God Who is There [1968] in The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer, v. I., Good News Publishers, 1985, p.173

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Light.

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CQOD: 01/21/08 -- Schaeffer: Christians as real people

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 21, 2008

Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304

Meditation:
    [Jesus:] No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.
    -- Luke 11:33 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Christians in their relationships should be the most human people you will ever see. This speaks for God in an age of inhumanity and impersonality and facelessness. When people look at us, their reaction should be, “These are human people”; human, because we know that we differ from the animal, the plant, and the machine; and that personality is native to what has always been [human]. If they cannot look upon us and say, “They are real people,” nothing else is enough. Far too often, young people become Christians and then search among the Church’s ranks for real people, and have a hard task finding them. All too often, evangelicals are paper people. (Continued tomorrow)
    ... Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The God Who is There [1968] in The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer, v. I., Good News Publishers, 1985, p.173

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, remove all masks from my life.

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CQOD: 01/20/08 -- Rolle: prayer

Christian Quotation of the Day

January 20, 2008

Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349

Meditation:
    From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you.
    -- Psalm 71:6 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread distressed, nor by doom tempted.
    ... Richard Rolle (1290?-1349), Fire of Love, 1343, tr. Richard Misyn, cap. XVII

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, set the love of You ablaze in my heart.

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