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To be near unto God - pagina 153
such an extent that the significance of the other activities of the human spirit has suffered The fundamental position of this serious loss. school is that the will alone determines things, accomplishes things, creates reality, and makes itself known as a power and that the more deeply one studie ...
To be near unto God - pagina 152
This forming of images has at last been per"human nature" of Christ. After he had entered into glory, Christ appeared to St. John on Patmos in his human nature and the manner of this appearance has been committed This is the only appearance to writing for us. of Christ, given to the church, that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 151
Wetion. are attacked. And everything real to us that on awakening in fright, itdifficultto believe that the burglarseems sowhowefind threat-ened our life does not stand by our bed. This impression of reality in what is imagined is still stro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 154
to train the will, to develop it, to apply it to deeds, and with this strongly trained human will to maintain ourselves in the face of the Universal- will. Hence everything that is, and everything that is called history, and life itself is reduced to one power, and the only thing that is supremel ...
To be near unto God - pagina 155
extreme was reached in the effort to the Christian spirit in acts of the will. Not the hearer, but the doer of the law shall be holy. Not every one that sayeth, Lord, Lord, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven shall be saved. If any one doeth His will, he shall know of the doc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 156
It inspired a devotion and an energy of faith such as had not been in evidence among us since the daj^s of the Reformation. In theness to give.Salvation Army, which is the most sharply defined exhibition of this tendency and at the same time its crudest expression, there showed itse ...
To be near unto God - pagina 158
If the knowledge of God is eternal life, Divine knowledge can not be something apart from life.Donot forget, eternal life is not life hereafter. It is a life which does not spring from the cistern, but from the fountain. Such knowledge of Godwhichis itself eternal life ...
To be near unto God - pagina 157
pute these deeds in numbers, and from high figures to infer that God crowned the work with blessing. There were statistics of converts, of moneys raised, of society memberships, of the hungry that had been fed, of the naked that had been clothed, of the sick that had been healed. And flattery on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 160
what we knowis in our hearts to do to our debtors. All this only shows that when in forgiving our enemy we do the will of God, we learn to know what it is to forgive, what it is to receive from God the mind and the will to forgive, and what it is to come to the knowledge of God as regards ...
To be near unto God - pagina 163
imagination, does it form one whole. All these together constitute that full knowledge of God,Only do not lose from sight is eternal life. that the daily increase in the knowledge of God is obtained solely and alone in the way of the will. There is a two-fold will of God: the one is over u ...
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