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			 Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly read more 
	 Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love...   The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy. 
		
 
	
			 Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once read more 
	 Nothing is small or great in God's sight; whatever He wills becomes great to us, however trifling, and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is read more 
	 Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  The fundamental note of the Old Testament, in other words, is revelation. Its seers and prophets are not men of philosophic mind, who have risen from the seen to the unseen and, by dint of much reflection, have gradually attained to elevated conceptions of Him who is the Author of all that is. They are men of God whom God has chosen, that He might speak to them and, through them, to His people. Israel has not, in and by them, created for itself a God: God has, through them, created for Himself a people. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,  When you, you wonder why, love read more 
	 Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,  When you, you wonder why, love none. We love, Fool, for the good we do,  Not that which unto us is done. 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol read more 
	 Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is. 
		
 
	
			 Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  To me there is a much more read more 
	 Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  To me there is a much more frightening ignorance in our modern world than the "ignorance of the heathen". I am referring to the almost total ignorance of the content and implication of the Christian Faith shown by many "clever" people today. Frankly, I find it horrifying to discover that men who are experts in their own line -- in astronomy, genetics, or nuclear physics, for example -- have no adult knowledge of what the Church of Christ stands for, and a complete blank ignorance of what the Church is achieving today. It is the more horrifying because people who rightly respect the expert for his knowledge in his own field have no idea that he has not carefully examined and reluctantly discarded Christianity; but in all probability he has never studied it at all! 
		
 
	
			 Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] read more 
	 Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.  ... The Journal of George Fox  March 20, 1999  Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  It is no longer the fashion to suffer for the sake of God, and to bear the Cross for Him; for the diligence and real earnestness, that perchance were found in man, have been extinguished and have grown cold; and now no one is willing any longer to suffer distress for the sake of God. 
		
 
	
			 Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus read more 
	 Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought. 
		
 
	
			 Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," read more 
	 Now men say, "I am in no wise prepared for this work, and therefore it cannot be wrought in me," and thus they have an excuse, so that they neither are ready nor in the way to be so. And truly there is no one to blame for this but themselves. For if a man were looking and striving after nothing but to find a preparation in all things, and diligently gave his whole mind to see how he might become prepared; verily God would well prepare him, for God giveth as much care and earnestness and love to the preparing of a man, as to the pouring in of His Spirit when the man is prepared.  ... Theologia Germanica April 14, 1996  This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.