Rutherford: repentance

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
    Feast of All Souls
Meditation:
    “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.
    —Ephesians 4:26-27 (NIV)
Quotation:
    A repenting man is more angry at his own heart that consented to sin than he is at the devil who did tempt him to sin.
    ... Samuel Rutherford (1600-1664), Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: hitherto unpublished, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1885, p. 123 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I cannot defeat sin in my own power. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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