Thought for the Day 26 February 2009

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Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Thursday, February 26th, 2009
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Fasting is clearly a Christian duty, as our Saviour implies in His Sermon on the Mount. Now what is fasting but a refraining from what is lawful; not merely from what is sinful, but what is innocent?—from that bread which we might lawfully take and eat with thanksgiving, but which at certain times we do not take, in order to deny ourselves. Such is Christian self-denial,—not merely a mortification of what is sinful, but an abstinence even from God’s blessings.

From the sermon ‘The Duty of Self-denial’ (1830) Click here for the full text (leaves site)