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A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky; To serve the present age, My calling to fulfil: O may it all my powers engage To do my Master’s will! Arm me with jealous care, As in thy sight to live, And O! thy servant, Lord, prepare A strict account to give: Help me to watch and pray, And on thyself rely,
glorify your Father which is in heaven. The World English Bible translates the passage as: 15: Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house. 16: Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Chrysostom: Or; He bids us in praying beg that God may be glorified in our life; as if we were to say, Make us to live so that all things may glorify Thee through us. For hallowed signifies the same as glorified. It is a petition worthy to be made by man to God, to ask nothing before the glory of the Father, but to postpone all things to His ...
The term was coined by John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God based on Vernard Eller's earlier use of the term hedonism to describe the same concept. [1] Piper summarizes this philosophy of the Christian life as "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
As a city on a hill cannot be hid, so neither can the Apostles, from their exalted position, be concealed from the eyes of men; and, hence, their duty, to live so as to edify men. As no one lights a candle for the purpose of concealing its light, so neither did God constitute the Apostles as the lights of the world, in order to hide their light ...
Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. It has been used by artists like Johann Sebastian Bach , George Frideric Handel , and Christoph Graupner to signify that the work was produced for the sake of praising God .
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Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to describe the manifestation of God's presence as perceived by humans according to the Abrahamic religions.. Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being in existence, and it is considered that human beings are created in the Image of God and can share or participate ...