Thursday, October 16, 2008

Pleasing God

The reason you cannot please God in your outward acts is that your governing purpose is not right. When your leading motive is wrong, everything you do is selfish, because it is all done for the single purpose of pleasing yourself. You do nothing for the sake of pleasing God or with the governing purpose of doing His holy will. Therefore, everything you do, even your religious duties, only displeases God.—Charles Finney

3 comments:

Joel and Renée said...

Ahh, that's a good way of looking at it.
-Renee

Kent said...

For more, check this out, from Logos Bible Software:

Charles Finney Collection (6 Vols.)

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James