God is not confined to the outermost circle of environment, He lives and moves and has His being in the whole. Those who only seek Him in the further zone can only find a part. The Christian who knows not God in Nature, who does not, that is to say, correspond with the whole environment, most certainly is partially dead.
Author: Henry Drummond Source: Natural Law, Death, p. 163.
If created things are seen and handled as gifts of God and as mirrors of His glory, they need not be occasions of idolatry - if our delight in them is always also a delight in their Maker.
Author: John Piper Source: Desiring God, 1996, p. 143
The goal of preaching is the glory of God reflected in the glad submission of his creation.
Author: John Piper Source: The Supremacy of God in Preaching, Baker, p. 27.
The impulse to create the world was not from weakness, as though God were lacking in some perfection which creation could supply.
God is not confined to the outermost circle of environment, He lives and moves and has His being in the whole. Those who only seek Him in the further zone can only find a part. The Christian who knows not God in Nature, who does not, that is to say, correspond with the whole environment, most certainly is partially dead.