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To be near unto God - pagina 221
sure confidence that he will supply all our needs, but slaving for the sake of providing the means oneself. It is for money and not for God. And along this line the third sin io easily committed, even the yet worse abitse of one's talents in the face of God and of his sacred claims. O, who can co ...
To be near unto God - pagina 222
life awaj- as long as you do not know that craving after the fullness of love for the Eternal which can not rest until it loves God also withyourall itsstrength. 42"HE THAT LOVETH NOTNOT KnowledgeofGodisKNOWETHGOD." eternal ...
To be near unto God - pagina 223
and overflowing with Divine sweetbe apprehended in the clear consciousness, and be poured over as it were mto the doctrinal standards of the Church of Christ, and ever morefullmustness,of courseinto our personal confession. Unless this is done, mystical corrupti ...
To be near unto God - pagina 225
Does this begin with you, so that you love and that afterwards God loves you? Far from it. Love never begins with you. Back of first,thefirststirringsof lovethat evermovedthewas God who put it there. Neither can you ever forgive from yoursel ...
To be near unto God - pagina 224
forever in the Father-house above, this and this alone is the mighty problem of life which immediately touches our relation to God and our knowledge of the Eternal. Thus the riddle of the world and that of our soul always comes down again to this one inquiry: Is there grace for me also, and forgi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 226
isthat?Whenitsays:Hethat loveth not,itmeans: He who does not Hve by love; he who is not governed by love; he who does not rejoice in love, and has no love that can endure the test of fire. And love is put to this fiery test, not with respect ...
To be near unto God - pagina 228
This does not include experimental knowledge of God, which comes to ii3 personally from spiritual experience, from communion of saints and secret fellowship with God. The knowledge of God which comes to us from without is majestic. Confining ourselves to what Christian creeds.nature brings ...
To be near unto God - pagina 227
ized and endowed with instinct by its Maker, so you should much more love your neighbor as man, because God has created him after his image and has endowed him with wonderful talents and gifts.If all this has been corrupted and spoiled and has become hopelessly satanic, so that there is no ...
To be near unto God - pagina 230
tomanismadeas created after God's Image, and finally perfect in Christ, in so much as He is the express Image of God's Person. And these three do not stand loosely side by side, butform,ifwe may sayso,a climbing pyramid. surface, it a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 229
from nature, not that we might interpret it in a material sense, but rather that we might weave into our spiritual life. In this respect also the erring soul frequently impoverishes itself. It has been learned by heart, and in general it is agreed, that Divine attributes exhibit themselves in the ...
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