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To be near unto God - pagina 525
Theringing of bells, the stations of the and so much more, all tended to quicken the thought of Christ. And in the age of the Reformation our fathers tried to reach the same end by putting prayer in between everything, by multiplying church services, and by the Not effort to sanctify every ...
To be near unto God - pagina 526
resisting everything that hinders or prevents ourcommunion with God. Does the church of Christ understand the interest that is here at stake? Can it begreat said,that an effort is in evidence, at least within the church, to pursue this exalted aim? As one means "to be near un ...
To be near unto God - pagina 527
is of a noble mind, a limit is put upon these differences, a spirit of love prevails, which of And where love itself opens a way of escape. dwells, the Lord commands this blessing, thatthathearts remain united. But next to this, alas, how many families there are in which pains are n ...
To be near unto God - pagina 531
worshipped. Jesus emphatically declares: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy strength, with all thy soul and with all thy mind. In the same way the one hundred parts of our strength should be operative in created things. But both should proceed so as to enter into and permeate each othe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 532
ments, life with its activities. Thereby you have allowed your heart to be deceived. But it is not the world, nor its activities, but your deceived heart that has turned you aside. It has even turned you aside to this extent, Isaiah adds, that your soul can no longer save itself, i. e. it can no ...
To be near unto God - pagina 528
ward restfulness to lift oneself up from this earthly sphere into the world above, and to enjoy the bliss of nearness unto God. And then in two ways harm is done. First, you fail of one of the most precious means of being near to God; and again you become subject to the dominion of an element tha ...
To be near unto God - pagina 533
On versation, etc., arrest the attention to itself. the contrary, in this case lack of attention and neglect of due examination of the interest at stake, No, the idolis a fault; and may even be a sin. atrous turning aside of one's inner self only becomes apparent when this magnet continuously dra ...
To be near unto God - pagina 530
too busy, too overwhelmed, too much diverted and preoccupied than that at night we could retire with the blissful experience of how good it was "to be near unto God." This is, of course, exclusively a result of the sinful character of our earthly life, for by itself there was no need that anythin ...
To be near unto God - pagina 529
age to speak, with being blind to wrong practices. Mere sentimental goodness is no sacred art, but cowardice. But this is sacred art: to stand strong and courageous, in everything, and yet so to take hold of things, deal with them, and settle them, that no unholy spark starts fire in your own min ...
To be near unto God - pagina 535
occurs, even among Chrisvery opposite, to-wit: That of itselfBut what continually tians, is the allsorts of other things are subject of thought,and that only by determinate effort the soul is engaged with God. If, now, these are every time the danger is not so not one given t ...
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