Those doctrines which relate to the essence, attributes, and subsistencies of
God, concern all, as it is of infinite importance to common people, as well as
to ministers, to know what kind of being God is. For he is a Being who has made
us all, 'in whom we live, and move, and have our being;' who is the Lord of all,
the Being to whom we are all accountable, who is the last end of our being, and
the only fountain of our happiness. - Jonathan Edwards
Conforming to the world in fashion, you show that you do not hold yourself
accountable to God for the manner in which you lay out money. You practically
disown your stewardship of the wealth that is in your possession. By laying out
money to gratify your own vanity and lust, you take off the keen edge of that
truth, which ought to cut that sinner in two, who is living to himself. It is
practically denying that the earth is the Lord's, with the cattle on a thousand
hills, and all to be employed for his glory. - Charles Finney
It is remarkable how God accomplishes His purposes through men who only think of
working their own wild way. Their sin is not diminished or condoned because they
are executing the designs of heaven, it still stands out in all its malignant
deformity. And yet, though they are held accountable for the evil, it is
nonetheless evident that they do whatsoever God's hand and God's counsel
determined before to be done. - F. B. Meyer
Those doctrines which relate to the essence, attributes, and subsistencies of
God, concern all, as it is of infinite importance to common people, as well as
to ministers, to know what kind of being God is. For he is a Being who has made
us all, 'in whom we live, and move, and have our being;' who is the Lord of all,
the Being to whom we are all accountable, who is the last end of our being, and
the only fountain of our happiness. - Jonathan Edwards
Conforming to the world in fashion, you show that you do not hold yourself
accountable to God for the manner in which you lay out money. You practically
disown your stewardship of the wealth that is in your possession. By laying out
money to gratify your own vanity and lust, you take off the keen edge of that
truth, which ought to cut that sinner in two, who is living to himself. It is
practically denying that the earth is the Lord's, with the cattle on a thousand
hills, and all to be employed for his glory. - Charles Finney
It is remarkable how God accomplishes His purposes through men who only think of
working their own wild way. Their sin is not diminished or condoned because they
are executing the designs of heaven, it still stands out in all its malignant
deformity. And yet, though they are held accountable for the evil, it is
nonetheless evident that they do whatsoever God's hand and God's counsel
determined before to be done. - F. B. Meyer