 | Shirley J. Nicholson, Brenda Rosen - 1992 - 314 pages
...trust you with more secrets about ourselves. Plants are not here just for man's use, but when you learn that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever, then we can be part of that enjoyment and glorification, each in our own way, in your consciousness.... | |
 | C.S. Lewis - 1996 - 262 pages
...the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds. The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us... | |
 | Alex Cheung - 1999 - 348 pages
...on the hearth. My father asks me what is the chief end of man and I reply, with perfect readiness, that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. This is, of course, the first question and answer of the Shorter Catechism which, having been agreed... | |
 | Thomas W. Currie - 2001 - 134 pages
...perception. However, as Newbigin points out, a hundred years ago, Scottish school children learned as a fact that "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever." Today such a datum is not a fact but merely a belief, what John Locke would have called "a persuasion... | |
 | Ron Meyers - 2003 - 313 pages
...know you have the power to change, you can, and if you want to, you will. Most Christians are aware that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Yet, in this chapter, we treat obedience as the ultimate criterion for measuring what is worthy of... | |
 | Ron Meyers - 2003 - 314 pages
...know you have the power to change, you can, and if you want to, you will. Most Christians are aware that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Yet, in this chapter, we treat obedience as the ultimate criterion for measuring what is worthy of... | |
 | Hughes Oliphant Old - 2004 - 642 pages
...along. Having been brought up on the Westmintter Shorter Catechism, here is a preacher who had learned that man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. If that is what life is really about. 68. Boston, Complere Works, 5:17. 69. Boston, Complere Works,... | |
 | James Innell Packer, Carolyn Nystrom - 2006 - 320 pages
...receives is separable from the brightness it sheds. The Scotch [ie, Westminster Shorter] Catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy him forever." But we shall then know that these are the same thing. ... In commanding us to glorify him, God is inviting... | |
 | Steven and Rita Williams - 2007 - 254 pages
...eternity (Philippians 3:13-21), "forgetting what is behind and pressing on," In the end, we must remember that "man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever" (The Westminster Larger Catechism. 1861). One must also remember that, in setting goals, there is a... | |
 | Rory Noland - 2007 - 257 pages
...enamored with his glory and can't help but overflow with joy. As CS Lewis says: The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." But . . . these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him,... | |
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Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever". 
