A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. RockefellerRead
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
Interpretation
Rockefeller expresses gratitude for the influence of Sunday School in his life and wishes others the same blessing.
In this quote, John D. Rockefeller reflects on the profound impact that Sunday School has had on his Christian life, asserting its significance as a guiding force. He conveys a hope that others will also experience the same level of spiritual fulfillment and joy that he has gained from this community and its teachings.
In practice
During a church service, to inspire the congregation about the importance of community and learning.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.
Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world
Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.
Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.
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