I call “piety” that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their every good, that they […]
True humility gives God alone the honor A saying of Chrysostom’s has always pleased me very much, that the foundation of our philosophy is humility. But that of Augustine pleases me even more: “When a certain rhetorician was asked what was the chief rule in eloquence, […]
The Christian life receives its strongest motive to God’s work through the person and redemptive act of Christ For we have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give […]
The apostle denies that any have rightly learned Christ, who have not been taught that they must put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and put on Christ (Eph 4:20ff). Their knowledge of Christ, then, is proved to be a […]
Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. The Glorifying of God The first in the consideration of our chief end is the glorifying of God: ‘That God in all things may be glorified’ (1 Peter 4:11). The glory of God […]