Category: Christian Quotes

By micoots
22/07/2016 0

Fenelon: goodness

Friday, July 22, 2016
Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles
Meditation:
Let all that you do be done in love.
—1 Corinthians 16:14 (ESV)
Quotation:
The more vigor you need, the more gentleness and kindness you must combine with it… All stiff, harsh goodness is contrary to Jesus.
… François Fénelon (1651-1715), Selections from Fénelon, ed. Mary Wilder Tileston, Boston: Roberts Bros., 1879, p. 79,47 (see the book)
See also 1 Cor. 16:14; Gal. 5:22-23; Phil. 4:5; Col. 3:12; 1 Tim..

By micoots
21/07/2016 0

Hastings: behind it all

Thursday, July 21, 2016
Meditation:
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
—Matthew 21:22 (NIV)
Quotation:
True prayer is something more than desire. It is no mere subjective instinct—no blind outreach. If it met no response, no answer, it would soon be weeded out of the race… Prayer has stood the test of experience. In fact the very desire to pray is in itself prophetic of a Heavenly Friend. So this native need of the soul rose out of the divine origin of the soul..

By micoots
20/07/2016 0

Inge: the source of joy

Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566
Meditation:
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
—2 Corinthians 8:1-2 (ESV)
Quotation:
Joy was a characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating ..

By micoots
19/07/2016 0

Drummond: Christ changes men

Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379
Meditation:
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…
—Philippians 2:5 (KJV)
Quotation:
Souls are made sweet not by taking [ill tempers] out, but by putting something in—a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This only can eradicate what is wrong, … renovate and regenerate..

By micoots
18/07/2016 0

Emrich: giving

Monday, July 18, 2016
Meditation:
For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”
—2 Corinthi..

By micoots
17/07/2016 0

Bullock: the mystery in suffering

Sunday, July 17, 2016
Meditation:
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang toge..

By micoots
16/07/2016 0

Calvin: to God be the glory

Saturday, July 16, 2016
Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099
Meditation:
At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.
—2 Timothy 4:16-17 (NIV)
Quotation:
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the..

By micoots
15/07/2016 0

Lewis: Was Palestine the right choice?

Friday, July 15, 2016
Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862
Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274
Meditation:
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
—Galatians 4:4-5 (ESV)
Quotation:
If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance ..

By micoots
14/07/2016 0

MacDonald: the unforgivable sin?

Thursday, July 14, 2016
Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”
—Luke 12:10 (NIV)
Quotation:
Some misapprehension, I say, some obliquity, or some slavish adherence to old prejudices, may thus cause us to refuse the true interpretation, but we are none the less bound to refuse and wait for more light. To accept that ..

By micoots
13/07/2016 0

Robertson: the rewards of virtue

Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Meditation:
[Paul:] “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
—Acts 20:35 (ESV)
Quotation:
Do right, and God’s recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God’s reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness..