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To be near unto God - pagina 162
Being. Hence knowledge of God's will becomes of itself knowledge of his Being. The one can not be separated from the other. Only this: the will of God can only be truly known in the way of the will. To know the Ten Commandments by heart, and to make a list from the Scriptures of every utterance o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 159
God such as no to an instinctive knowledge of not Catechism or Confession can impart. We dois the say that this knowledge thus obtained sufficient, only knowledge of God, nor that it is all we nor that it offers satisfactory clearness; mean to say is: that doing God's will introduces of Go ...
To be near unto God - pagina 161
No, the doing of God's will covers all of life, and the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, far the knowledge of God's will in common life is finer,moreintricateand moredifficultthanitisTo know what extraordinary things. God's will is in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 164
will. How could this be otherdoes not come into action by what is written about it in a book, or preached on it from the pulpit. It is the Lord who inspires the will to act, and in action to direct it for good. It is he "who worketh in you both to will andGodwise?through the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 165
takes no part in this transitionis leftin the rear.The whole church will understand that she loses power when she adheres to the old, without harmonizing her insight into the past with the She then claims of our clarified consciousness. Her preaching does loses her touch upon ...
To be near unto God - pagina 166
to will like this of ourselves, we become conformed to our Father who is in heaven. The words of Jesus: Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, are then realized in us; they are realized in this particular; and consciouscomethat we are of the family of to this kno ...
To be near unto God - pagina 168
the knowledge of God, and thereby to obtain ever larger possessionandfullerenjoyment of eternalprovided we separate this utterance of the will less and less from the will of God and derive life,it more and more from the will of God. every idea of cruelty falls a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 167
that eternal life is a right that belongs to the man of study, and not to the swain who follows sheep? And we know this can Dot be true. Tf the knowledge of God is eternal life, the increase in this knowledge must be for sale for something which is at every one's disposal, the professor in his st ...
To be near unto God - pagina 171
moves him along, so he goes, and so turns the rudder in his inner purpose, and the tiller, and the hand that is upon it, i. e., his will. He This is altogether difis a man without a will. ferent when there is direction in the ship. Then He the man at the helm directs the course. lifeknows ...
To be near unto God - pagina 170
almost every one has some sort of a manuel, illustrated if possible, from which to learn how the body is constructed, nothing is read about By far the larger numbers of people the soul. do not investigate it, but speak at random about the soul, and about the will, and the understanding, and every ...
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