Category: Christian Quotes

By micoots
01/08/2016 0

Bonhoeffer: the sufferings of God

Monday, August 1, 2016
Meditation:
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
—John 17:15-18 (KJV)
Quotation:
During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the “worldliness” of Christianity as never before. The Christian is not a h..

By micoots
31/07/2016 0

Ignatius of Loyola: personal evangelism

Sunday, July 31, 2016
Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556
Meditation:
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
—Ephesians 6:11,12 (KJV)
Quotation:
As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition, equal skill o..

By micoots
30/07/2016 0

Wilberforce: a false economy

Saturday, July 30, 2016
Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which bui..

By micoots
29/07/2016 0

Allen: following the Spirit

Friday, July 29, 2016
Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
—Acts 1:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit…

By micoots
28/07/2016 0

Bergman: art and worship

Thursday, July 28, 2016
Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750
Meditation:
All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
and all your saints shall bless you!
They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom
and tell of your power…
—Psalm 145:10-11 (ESV)
Quotation:
It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord… In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God…
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By micoots
27/07/2016 0

Stott: a two-footed stance

Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901
Commemoration of John R. W. Stott, spiritual writer and teacher, 2011
Meditation:
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’..

By micoots
26/07/2016 0

Dodd: Paul on baptism

Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Meditation:
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
—Romans 6:1-3 (ESV)
Quotation:
[Paul] makes use of the symbolism of baptism, which in the East was performed by the complete immersion of the believer in water. “We were buried with Christ through our baptism (and so entered) in..

By micoots
25/07/2016 0

Owen: faith from need

Monday, July 25, 2016
Feast of James the Apostle
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.”
—John 6:44-45 (NIV)
Quotation:
That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the [need for] Him.
… John Owen (1616-1683), Nature and ..

By micoots
24/07/2016 0

Thomas a Kempis: reading the Scriptures

Sunday, July 24, 2016
Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471
Meditation:
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures…
—Luke 24:44-45 (ESV)
Quotation:
Truth, not eloquence, is to be sought for in Holy Scripture. Each part of the Scripture is to be read with the ..

By micoots
23/07/2016 0

Donne: simplicity and truth

Saturday, July 23, 2016
Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373
Meditation:
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
—Genesis 2:1-2 (KJV)
Quotation:
That earth and that heaven, which spent God himself, Almighty God, six days in furnishing, Moses sets up in a few syllables, in one line: In the beginning God crea..