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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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 534
one absorbing subject of thought. One never get5 through talking about it. No sacrifice is deemed too great in its behalf. One devotes himself to it with all his soul and mind. Nothing higher is known and respected. With respect to it even brotherhoods are formed, insomuch as one is interested on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 537
be led and carried in everything by faith. He who divides and makes distinctions robs God of a part that is God's. If you would love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength, every subterfuge is closed off, and the all-claiming and all-demanding c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 536
"Do yewithSt.howthat Jesus ChristPaul:not isinknow your own you?"selves, (II Cor, 13:5).''WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO IT HEARTILY, AS TO THE LORD." God, in his word, opposes every tendency and every effort to break up life into two pa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 538
resentation of the matter has worked to piety and to vital godliness.muchinjuryIt goes without saying that he Who ministers in the sanctuary is of itself more closely engaged with holy things, and enjoys an uncommon privilege, of which he shall give an account beforeGo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 539
Moreover, it must be granted that in our extremely defective condition certain definite and special consecration of a part of our life, of our strength and of our money to religious activities and interests is necessary. You can not serve God all the days of your life in such a way but that the d ...
To be near unto God - pagina 541
whateveranythingwithreferencetothis,isunbelief.When, therefore, the Apostle says: "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord," he says nothing but what immediately flows from your confession that you believe in God the Father Almighty ...
To be near unto God - pagina 540
but to be true and genuine, it must be a golden thread that maintains its glistening brightness throughout all of life. life,depends on whether you truly believe is almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth. Whether you believe and consider that ever}'- material you handle is his creature; ...
To be near unto God - pagina 542
positionoflifewhatsoever,from God, but alwaysneverlaborin his creationandapart iiihisservice.Then to be near unto God, the fellowship with the Eternal, the secret walk with him who knoweth the heart, is no sweet-s ...
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