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To be near unto God - pagina 181
angelsfulfil itin heaven/'itstimulates our energy,and when we overcome sin the heart overflows with the feeling of supreme joy. But when "Thy will be done" means "Let things occur not as I desire, but in keeping with thy plan," there is need of submission and re ...
To be near unto God - pagina 182
could a loving God cruelly cast her down from the heights of her great happiness into the depths In perplexity of grief of bereavement and woe? her language becomes that of despair and of"Speak no more of God to me. There is no God." Cruelty can not be love. And so the break of happiness i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 184
does not concern himself with, lis; that he does not apportion or regulate the course of things according to our desire; that there are different motives in his plan, which have nothing to do with our wishes; that if necessary his Might crushes us on the spot; and that in the working of the plan ...
To be near unto God - pagina 183
heart?Not only has he not saved me my dyinghusband and child, and left me praying without coming to my aid, but he has brought these sorrows upon me. He sent illness into my home, and 0, it is almost too cruel for words, he has torn my husband from my heart and has killed my darling ...
To be near unto God - pagina 186
maidenfor the elect of her heart, that we feel is a mysterious, inexplicable power at play. This is not always so with those who are betrothed. Eccentric tension of the mystery ofthat thereloveis rather the exception. Neither should this doting, intoxicating love be as ...
To be near unto God - pagina 188
Thusever the God-given love between huswife, which in vivid imagery is the standing expression of the love that binds the soul to God. In the New Testament this is applied to Christ. He, the son of God's good pleasure, is called the Bridegroom of his Church, and his church is the Bride, wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 187
whoso love, there is only one of two things thinkable; either they must be loved with equal warmth in return, or they can find no rest until they find it in death. This should not be taken too ideally. It does not follow by any means that such a young maiden stands exceptionally high as a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 185
like Job out of the whirlwind receives the answer from God himself, and now learns to understand that the government of God covers all suns and stars, all hours and centuries, and causes every creature to revolve itself about him, the Eternal, as the one and only center, for the sake of his majes ...
To be near unto God - pagina 189
and it is only the sinful character of our earthly existence that unites what does not belong together, makes soul and body part company, and breaks the equilibrium of the inclinations, so that what is best and holiest turns itself Like the snow-flake, into sensuality or frenzy. which comes down ...
To be near unto God - pagina 190
God by the acts of the will. Neither knowing God through the analytic studiesnot knowing isitIt is the close approach with the warm, tender feeling of the throbbing heart that craves to be cherished; it is to have longed and languished for what can quiet the burning desires o ...
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