Category: Christian Quotes

By micoots
11/08/2016 0

Newman: knowing ourselves

Thursday, August 11, 2016
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253
Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890
Meditation:
… keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
—1 Peter 3:16-17 (NIV)
Quotation:
Never… think we have a due knowledge of ourselves ti..

By micoots
10/08/2016 0

Allshorn: the importance of pride

Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258
Meditation:
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”
—1 Corinthians 3:18-20 (ESV)
Quotation:
As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not ta..

By micoots
09/08/2016 0

Tozer: sin as a misdirection

Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers’ Union, 1921
Meditation:
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
—Hebrews 3:12 (ESV)
Quotation:
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the self-sufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the s..

By micoots
08/08/2016 0

Brunner: eternal life

Monday, August 8, 2016
Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221
Meditation:
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
—Romans 6:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
Eternal life is not an unending continuance of this life—that would, perhaps, be Hell—but Eternal Life is quite a different life, divine, not mundane; perfect, not earthly; true life, not corrupt half-life. We cannot form a conception of Eternal Life. What we imagine is ever simply of the eart..

By micoots
07/08/2016 0

Davidman: the withering of morality

Sunday, August 7, 2016
Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866
Meditation:
How long will you simple ones love your simple ways?
How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?
—Proverbs 1:22 (NIV)
Quotation:
The essential amorality of all atheist doctrines is often hidden from us by an irrelevant personal argument. We see that many articulate secularists are well-meaning and law-abiding men; we see them go into righteous indignation over injustice and often..

By micoots
06/08/2016 0

Ramsay: Christianity & servitude

Saturday, August 6, 2016
Meditation:
I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.) I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel…
—Philemon 1:10-13 (ESV)
Quotation:
Undoubtedly, messengers had often to be sent with letters round the congregati..

By micoots
05/08/2016 0

Hay: the search

Friday, August 5, 2016
Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642
Meditation:
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
—Galatians 4:6-7 (ESV)
Quotation:
I sought Him where my logic led.
“This friend is always sure and right;
His lantern is sufficient light.
I need no Star,” I said.I sought Him in the city square.
Logic and I went up and down
The..

By micoots
04/08/2016 0

Baillie: giving thanks for blessings

Thursday, August 4, 2016
Feast of John Vianney, Curè d’Ars, 1859
Meditation:
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
—2 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)
Quotation:
I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:
Making home sweeter and friends dearer:
Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul’s victory:
Robbing death of its sting..

By micoots
03/08/2016 0

Traherne: love alone is necessary

Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Meditation:
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.
—1 Peter 1:22-23 (ESV)
Quotation:
God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and feeleth in other persons. By Love alone He enjoyeth all the creatures, by..

By micoots
02/08/2016 0

Shoemaker: consciousness of the chasm

Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Meditation:
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.”
—John 9:1-3 (ESV)
Quotation:
The situation in which we find ourselves in this world seems to be a condition of estrangement from God, with little feeling of contact with Him, yet a curious nosta..