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To be near unto God - pagina 69
The higher forms of Hfe are loved and for art. appreciated. Multitudes engage in the chase after pleasure and wealth, and obey the dictates of passion. By way ot reaction this has resulted in the fact that they who in other respects are faithful Christians have abandoned far too greatly the perso ...
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vety person. It was a heart-to-heart love that conquered the world in that early age. Love, and attachment to the Mediator between God and man, worked the downfall of ancient paganism. When St. Thomas puts his hand on the woundprint in Jesus' side, sinks to his knees and exclaims: "My Lord and my ...
To be near unto God - pagina 71
People will enjoy our belongings and take pleas^ ure with our goods. They will honor our ideas and adorn themselves with flowers from our garden. They will praise our deeds without stint, but they hold themselves aloof from every personal touch. No trace of affection for us can be discovered in t ...
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state of ecstacy, what must the sun be of which the Psalmist sang: "His going forth is from the end of the heaven * * * and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof" (19:6). If any idolatry ever was intelligible, it was not the worship of images or of spirits, but the calm and reverent adoratio ...
To be near unto God - pagina 72
personal wrong which springs from an overestimate of self, from too much self-sufficiency, from lack of dependence and fidelity. It is also an evil of the times, a general, contagious disease whereby one poisons another. It is apostacy on the part of the world of spirits which diverts the heart f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 73
Wepeople of Western lands should be more familiar with the tender and passionate language of the poetry of Scripture. The music of the Psalter is uplifting: For the Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprigh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 75
The sun is high above us in the heavens, eyes. and close at hand as well, and around us on every feel his presence and seek protection side. exclude him from our from it in the shade. chambers bv closing blinds. He is a power far oftWeandWeclose by.hidden from i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 76
cold would chill the inner existence. No more flowers would bloom in the garden of the heart. No more sacred motion would stir the hidden waters of the soul. Everything within would wither and die. The heart would cease to be human, andwhetheritisfountain ofsaid ...
To be near unto God - pagina 77
snakes lurk about, and the shriek of the nightbird startles. Until God rolls the clouds away, and the sun rises again in the soul, and when as by the touch of a magic wand everv'thing becomes new, and light dispels inner darkness, and peace with a friendly hand opens wide the door of the troubled ...
To be near unto God - pagina 78
spiritual conditions whereby some years harvests will be far greater than others. Struggles wherebythe soul climbs upward from lower to higher viewpoints trials that bring the soul into depths of darkness whereby for weeks and months the higher life is buried, as it were, underneath heavy ...
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