The Christian Quotation of the Day

Blake: the glory of Christianity

2012-05-17T02:00:00.001-05:00

Thursday, May 17, 2012
    Ascension
Meditation:
    A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.
    —Proverbs 19:11 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
    ... William Blake (1757-1827), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, University of California Press, 2008, p. 201 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, implant a forgiving heart in me. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Bloesch: the whole Gospel, but only the Gospel

2012-05-16T02:00:00.001-05:00

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
    Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877
Meditation:
    Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
    —Acts 20:26-27
Quotation:
    I speak as a socially concerned evangelical, one who sees that the Gospel is a stick of dynamite in the social structure. We need to proclaim the whole Gospel to the whole man, and this includes relating Christian faith to the whole man, and this includes relating Christian faith to the economic and political areas of life as well as the so-called religious area. At the same time we must beware of combining the Gospel with any social ideology.
    ... Donald G. Bloesch (1928-2010), Essentials of Evangelical Theology, Harper & Row, 1978, p. xi (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, awaken Your people to Your whole counsel. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Schaeffer: the serious business of sin

2012-05-15T02:00:00.001-05:00

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
    Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945
Meditation:
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
    —Isaiah 6:5 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Sin is sin, and we must not call it less than sin. It is not an act of love to explain sin away as a psychological determinism or sociological conditioning, for it is real and must be dealt with. Men need a Savior. Therefore, Christians in our generation must resist relativistic and deterministic thinking. If men are going to find a real solution to the problem of who they are, they must come to terms with the fact that they need a Savior because they are sinners in the presence of a holy God. Sin is serious business.
    ... Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), No Little People, Downer Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1974, reprint, Crossway, 2003, p. 45 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, I confess that I do not hate my sins as much as I ought to. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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MacDonald: the burden of today

2012-05-14T02:00:00.001-05:00

Monday, May 14, 2012
    Feast of Matthias the Apostle
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
    —Matthew 6:34 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God’s. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.
    ... George MacDonald (1824-1905), Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, v. I [1867], London: Strahan & Co., 1873, p. 203 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me to cast my anxieties on You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Flavel: from God, to us

2012-05-13T02:00:00.001-05:00

Sunday, May 13, 2012
Meditation:
    For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
    —Romans 5:6 (KJV)
Quotation:
    O what a melting consideration is this! That out of His agony comes our victory; out of His condemnation, our justification; out of His pain, our ease; out of His stripes, our healing; out of His gall and vinegar, our honey; out of His curse, our blessing; out of His crown of thorns, our crown of glory; out of His death, our life: if He could not be released, it was that you might. If Pilate gave sentence against Him, it was that the great God might never give sentence against you. If he yielded that it should be with Christ as they required, it was that it might be with our souls as well as we can desire. And therefore, thanks be to God for His unspeakable gifts.
    ... John Flavel (1628-1691), Serm. XXIV from The Fountain of Life [1671], in The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel, v. I, Paisley: A. Weir and A. McLean, 1770, p. 331 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have saved me from my sins. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Tozer: eyes on God

2012-05-12T02:00:00.001-05:00

Saturday, May 12, 2012
    Commemoration of Aiden Wilson Tozer, Spiritual Writer, 1963
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
    —Matthew 6:24 (NIV)
Quotation:
    We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.
    ... A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God [1948], Christian Publications, 1982, p. 95 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may the eyes of my heart continually gaze on you. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Newbigin: atomization

2012-05-11T02:00:00.001-05:00

Friday, May 11, 2012
Meditation:
    Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
    —Colossians 4:6 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Western European civilization has witnessed a sort of atomizing process, in which the individual is more and more set free from his natural setting in family and neighborhood, and becomes a sort of replaceable unit in the social machine, His nearest neighbors may not even know his name. He is free to move from place to place, from job to job, from acquaintance to acquaintance, and—if he has attained a high degree of emancipation—from wife to wife. He is in every context a more and more anonymous and replaceable part, the perfect incarnation of the rationalist conception of man. Wherever western civilization has spread in the past one hundred years, it has carried this atomizing process with it. Its characteristic product in Calcutta, Shanghai, or Johannesburg, is the modern city into which myriads of human beings, loosened from their old ties in village or tribe or caste, like grains of sand fretted by water from an ancient block of sa! ndstone, are ceaselessly churned around in the whirlpool of the city—anonymous, identical, replaceable units.
    In such a situation, it is natural that men should long for some sort of real community, for men cannot be human without it. It is especially natural that Christians should reach out after that part of Christian doctrine which speaks of the true, God-given community, the Church of Jesus Christ. We have witnessed the appalling results of trying to go back to some sort of primitive collectivity based on the total control of the individual, down to the depths of his spirit, by an all-powerful group. Yet we know that we cannot condemn this solution to the problem of man’s loneliness if we have no other to offer. It is natural that men should ask with a greater eagerness than ever before, such questions as these: “Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If s! o, where is it to be found, what are its marks, and how is it ! related to, and distinguished from, the known communities of family, nation, and culture? What are its boundaries, its structure, its terms of membership? And how comes it that those who claim to be the spokesmen of that one holy fellowship are themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature, and unable to agree to live together in unity and concord?” The breakdown of Christendom has forced such questions as these to the front. I think that there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give them plain and credible answers.
    ... Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God, London, SCM Press, 1953, New York: Friendship Press, 1954, p. 13 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, relieve the Gospel of our divisions. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Machen: the fruits of indolence

2012-05-10T02:00:00.001-05:00

Thursday, May 10, 2012
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?”
    —Matthew 7:16 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel. For making it subservient, religious emotion is not enough, intellectual labor is also necessary. And that labor is being neglected. The Church has turned to easier tasks. And now she is reaping the fruits of her indolence. Now she must battle for her life.
    ... J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937), The Princeton Theological Review, v. 11, 1911, p. 13 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Strengthen Your church, Lord, for the battle ahead. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Montague: the worst news of all

2012-05-09T02:00:00.001-05:00

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Meditation:
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
    or the birds of the air, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
    or let the fish of the sea inform you.
Which of all these does not know
    that the hand of the LORD has done this?”
    —Job 12:7-9 (NIV)
Quotation:
    If God is not, then the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good, is but the accidental and ineffective by-product of blindly swirling atoms, or of the equally unpurposeful, though more conceptually complicated, mechanisms of present-day physics. A man may well believe that this dreadful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true. For to wish there should be no God is to wish that the things which we love and strive to realize and make permanent, should be only temporary and doomed to frustration and destruction. If life and its fulfilments are good, why should one rejoice at the news that God is dead and that there is nothing in the whole world except our frail and perishable selves that is concerned with anything that matters?
    ... William Pepperell Montague (1873-1953), Belief Unbound, Yale University Press, 1931, p. 66-67 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may ____ and ____ come to see the truth about You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Juliana of Norwich: Pray inwardly

2012-05-08T02:00:00.001-05:00

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
    Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417
Meditation:
My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while men say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
    among the festive throng.
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.
    —Psalm 42:3-6 (NIV)
Quotation:
    [Our Lord] saith thus: Pray inwardly, though thou thinkest it savour thee not: for it is profitable, though thou feel not, though thou see nought; yea, though thou think thou canst not. For in dryness and in barrenness, in sickness and in feebleness, then is thy prayer well-pleasant to me, though thou thinkest it savour thee nought but little. And so is all thy believing prayer in my sight.
    ... Juliana of Norwich (1342?-1417), Revelations of Divine Love, Grace Harriet Warrack, ed., Methuen, 1901, p. 85-86 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have sent Your interceding Spirit to pray for Your people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Clarkson: the titles of God

2012-05-07T02:00:00.001-05:00

Monday, May 7, 2012
Meditation:
    When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
    —John 8:12 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The titles of God are virtually promises. When he is called a sun, a shield, a strong tower, a hiding-place, a portion. The titles of Christ, light of the world, bread of life, the way, truth, and life; the titles of the Spirit, the Spirit of truth, of holiness, of glory, of grace, and supplication, the sealing, witnessing Spirit; faith may conclude as much out of these as out of promises. Is the Lord a sun? Then he will influence me, &c. Is Christ life? Then he will enliven me.
    ... David Clarkson (1622-1686), The Practical Works of David Clarkson, v. 1, Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1864, p. 187-188 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, in You we receive repeated renewal. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Housman: O Christ, our joy, to whom is given

2012-05-06T02:00:00.001-05:00

Sunday, May 6, 2012
Meditation:
[Jesus:] “At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.”
—Luke 21:27 (NIV)
Quotation:
O Christ, our joy, to Whom is giv’n
A throne o’er all the thrones of Heav’n,
In Thee, Whose hand all things obey,
The world’s vain pleasures pass away.

So, suppliants here, we seek to win
Thy pardon for Thy people’s sin,
That, by Thine all-prevailing grace,
Uplifted, we may seek Thy face.

And when, all Heav’n beneath Thee bowed,
Thou com’st to judgment throned in cloud,
Then from our guilt wash out the stain
And give us our lost crowns again.

Be Thou our joy and strong defense,
Who art our future recompense:
So shall the light that springs from Thee
Be ours through all eternity.

O risen Christ, ascended Lord,
All praise to Thee let earth accord,
Who art, while endless ages run,
With Father and with Spirit One.
... Laurence Housman (1865-1959), translated from 13th c. Latin verses (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
Thank You, Lord, for Your prophecies.

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Baillie: that the Spirit may rule

2012-05-05T02:00:00.001-05:00

Saturday, May 5, 2012
Meditation:
    Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.
    —Romans 14:13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    O Thou whose tender mercies are over all Thy works, humbly and sorrowfully I crave Thy forgiveness for the sins of this day;
    For every weakening and defiling thought to which my mind has given harbour;
    for every word spoken in hastiness or passion;
    For every failure of self-control;
    For every stumbling-block which by deed or example I have set in another’s way;
    For every opportunity lost;
    For every blessing thanklessly received;
    For loitering feet and procrastinating will;
    For this ...
    And this ...
    And this ...
And grant that, as the days go by, Thy Spirit may more and more rule in my heart, giving me victory over these and all other sinful ways.
    ... John Baillie (1886-1960) & Donald M. Baillie (1887-1954), A Diary of Private Prayer, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939, p. 23 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Amen. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Figgis: the intolerant Lord

2012-05-04T02:00:00.001-05:00

Friday, May 4, 2012
    Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
    “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.”
    —Luke 6:22-23 (NIV)
Quotation:
    If you serve Christ, He will be content with nothing less than the whole of you. The service means taking up the Cross; being hard where others find it easy, being regarded by some as unintelligent, by others as bigoted, by others as uncharitable—for Christ’s lordship is intolerant. We are His sworn men and owe Him “life and limb and earthly worship” and service against all other lords; and we cannot reduce our faith into mere commonplace morals or respectable citizenship.
    ... John Neville Figgis (1866-1919), The Gospel and Human Needs, London: Longman’s, Green & Co., 1911, p. 153 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant that I may hold nothing back that You desire to use. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Tillotson: fact or fiction?

2012-05-03T02:00:00.001-05:00

Thursday, May 3, 2012
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.
    —Matthew 26:56 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It is by no means necessary to salvation to believe that St. Matthew wrote ... the gospel, but only to believe what he wrote.
    ... John Tillotson (1630-1694), Works of Dr. John Tillotson, v. IX, London: J. F. Dove, for R. Priestley, 1820, p. 231 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have made the truth about Jesus available to us all. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Athanasius: the divine body

2012-05-02T02:00:00.001-05:00

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
    Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373
Meditation:
    The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say “and to seeds,” meaning many people, but “and to your seed,” meaning one person, who is Christ.
    —Galatians 3:16 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The Word was not degraded by receiving a body... Rather, he deified what he put on; and, more than that, he bestowed this gift upon the race of men.
    ... St. Athanasius (293?-373), from Contra Arianos, i.42, in The Early Christian Fathers, Henry Scowcroft Bettenson, London: Oxford University Press, 1969, p. 384 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are the heir to all, and by Your grace, we are co-heirs with You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Amiel: his own nothingness

2012-05-01T02:00:00.001-05:00

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
    Feast of Philip & James, Apostles
Meditation:
When you hide your face,
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.
When you send your Spirit,
    they are created,
    and you renew the face of the earth.
    —Psalm 104:29-30 (NIV)
Quotation:
    At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which makes him feel his own littleness; the eternal, the infinite, perfection, therefore scare and terrify him. He wishes to approve himself, to admire and congratulate himself; and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.
    ... Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881), The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, tr. Mrs. Humphry Ward, New York: Macmillan, 1885, p. 169 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, without Your grace, I am nothing at all. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Basil: inspiration

2012-04-30T02:00:00.001-05:00

Monday, April 30, 2012
    Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922
Meditation:
    [Jesus to the Pharisees and teachers of the law:] “Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
    —Mark 7:13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Every word or matter ought to be accredited by the testimony of inspired Scripture. Nor ought anyone to dare to annul or add anything. For if everything which is not of faith is sin, as the Apostle says, and faith by hearing, and hearing by the word of God: everything outside inspired Scripture not being of faith is sin.
    ... St. Basil the Great (330?-379), Moralia, xxvi. & lxxix. 22
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your people hold fast to Your word. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Catherine of Siena: speaking peace

2012-04-29T02:00:00.001-05:00

Sunday, April 29, 2012
    Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you.”
    —Luke 10:5-6 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The obedient man speaks words of peace all his life, and at his death receives that which was promised him at his death by his superior, that is to say, eternal life, the vision of peace, and of supreme and eternal tranquillity and rest, the inestimable good which no one can value or understand, for, being the infinite good, it cannot be understood by anything smaller than itself.
    ... Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Dialog of Catherine of Siena [1378], Treatise of Obedience, ix. (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You grant Your people true peace. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Rutherford: conscience

2012-04-28T02:00:00.001-05:00

Saturday, April 28, 2012
    Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841
Meditation:
    But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
    —1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
    ... Samuel Rutherford (1600-1664), Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., 1848, p. 166 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You alone hold out new life for Your people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Rossetti: He died for me: what can I offer Him?

2012-04-27T02:00:00.001-05:00

Friday, April 27, 2012
    Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894
Meditation:
    And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
    —Revelation 5:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
“He died for me: what can I offer Him?
    Toward Him swells incense of perpetual prayer:
    His court wear crowns and aureoles round their hair:
His ministers are subtle Cherubim;
Ring within ring, white intense Seraphim
    Leap like immortal lightnings through the air.
    What shall I offer Him? defiled and bare,
My spirit broken and my brightness dim.”—
“Give Me thy youth.”—“I yield it to Thy rod,
    As Thou didst give Thy prime of youth for me.”—
        “Give Me thy life.”—“I give it breath by breath;
    As Thou didst give Thy life so give I Thee.”—
“Give Me thy love.”—“So be it, my God, my God,
    As Thou hast loved me even to bitte! r death.”
    ... Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), Poems of Christina Rossetti, London: Macmillan, 1904, p. 57 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, enable me to offer You all. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Lewis: prosperity

2012-04-26T02:00:00.001-05:00

Thursday, April 26, 2012
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”
    —Matthew 16:26 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it’ while really it is finding its place in him.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Screwtape Letters, Macmillan, 1944, p. 143 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, turn my eyes away from worldly things towards You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Underhill: faith is reality

2012-04-25T02:00:00.001-05:00

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
    Feast of Mark the Evangelist
Meditation:
    You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
    —1 John 4:4 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
    ... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), The School of Charity, New York: Longmans, Green, 1934, reprinted, Morehouse Publishing, 1991, p. 105 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, rebuke my self-centeredness. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Maclaren: Christ dwelling in your heart

2012-04-24T02:00:00.001-05:00

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
    Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.”
    —John 6:56 (NIV)
Quotation:
    To begin with, let me say in the plainest, simplest, strongest way that I can, that that dwelling of Christ in the believing heart is to be regarded as being a plain literal fact... It is not to be weakened down into any notion of participation in His likeness, sympathy with His character, submission to His influence, following His example, listening to His instruction, or the like. A dead Plato may so influence his followers, but that is not how a living Christ influences His disciples... God means and wishes that Christ may continuously dwell in our hearts.
    ... Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910), Christ in the Heart: and other sermons, Macmillan, 1887, p. 16-19 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have opened my heart to receive You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Marshall: the sealed orders

2012-04-23T02:00:00.001-05:00

Monday, April 23, 2012
    Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304
    Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988
Meditation:
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you and watch over you.
    —Psalm 32:8 (NIV)
Quotation:
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period.
You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do.
But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset,
    and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly?
He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs,
He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity.
Let His mighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.
    ... Peter Marshall (1902-1949), John Doe, Disciple: sermons for the young in spirit, McGraw-Hill, 1963, p. 37 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    You will guide me home, Lord. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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