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To be near unto God - pagina 26
are we so far his superior that the thoughts which arise in us were foreign to him? has ever outlined God's omnipresence and omniscience in terms of finer poetic imagery than he? Are not the expressions in which we clothe our prayers for the most part borrowed from his writing? Did notWho ...
To be near unto God - pagina 16
mov^ed with compassion for this 'gilded slavery he called the people that flocked to hear him, from money back to God. This sharp antithesis alone should inspire us to resist the tyranny of money. When we are truly servants of God, money will be a servant to us. When, on the other hand, we seek p ...
To be near unto God - pagina 35
of our imagination and impart more reality than before to our effort to restore the broken connecAnd thus the finds of science become suption. ports to our piety. They help us to hearken unto God, and our prayer, "0 Lord, give heed to me and hear the voice of my supplication," borrows strength fr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 17
youare forgottenby those who once knew you. Inthis utter forsakeness of soul ask yourself: What have I left? What do I now possess? This willbe our state in the hour of death.Wewill go into eternity alone. What will we take with us? must leave money and h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 19
being rich in God, that the more we become detached from the world, the richer we become And when at last the world shall fade from in God. sight, the far more exceeding and eternal weight of these riches will unfold itself to our eyes. For this heavenly wealth will not waste, but ever increase i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 38
higher knowledge of the nobler elements of human hfe? Just as little as a deaf man cares for a "Bach, or a blind man for the works of art by ax^d what apphes to individuals applies to nations. When nations fail of ideals, they degenerate into materialism and sensualism, and shut themselves ...
To be near unto God - pagina 36
we haveignored, until through bitter experihas been taught us by God. This differis at times strikingly evident. For, as a rule, we do not only fail of seeking instruction in matters of conscience, but resist the same when it is offered, and only consent to it when in the providence of God ...
To be near unto God - pagina 37
ordinarily we call the first part of our knowledge By the that which is acquired by observation. side of this there is another part of knowledge which man would never have acquired of himself, and which God has taught him. This characterEverywhere izes human knowledge in general. and in all ages ...
To be near unto God - pagina 39
nomeansexclusively through the conscience. a far broader scale some of it comes from the Divine counsel, and some from the relation which he establishes between himself and us. are born of our parents and we find many things But the in ourselves that remind us of them. formation of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 40
others. And why? This is a mysteiy which we can not grasp. But the fact remains. We have two kinds of knowledge. Aside from that which is acquired by sight and observation, there is that other and higher knowledge which comes to us from God. This knowledge unfolds most beautifully in thean ...
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