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.
Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.
Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ
To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship.
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