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To be near unto God - pagina 200
than one: even Christ. Jesus alone has fulfilled the second commandment of love to fellowmen, and with respect to this, be it at a far distance, many saints have pressed his footsteps. But in the fulfilment of the first and great commandment Jesus stands incomparably alone. He alone has loved God ...
To be near unto God - pagina 204
strong or weak. And when a great love itself to you, goes out after you, and begins to affect you, you likewise feel the irresistibleness of its drawing. Jesus himself calls this outgoing of love ''drawing." The Father draws his elect. Of himself the Savior said I will draw all men unto me. That ...
To be near unto God - pagina 202
outwardappearanceinterestsus.Itismorestrongly attractive when we admire a man's courage and energy, devotion and self-sacrifice. But all this passes away. do not assimilate it into our life. As a rule, the emotions of the heart, which do not touch ...
To be near unto God - pagina 203
all the heart does this love begin to glow in us with real human feeling. Love of the heart is irresistible, mutual attracThe Scripture speaks of it more than once tion. When as: "a cleaving of the soul unto God." the magnet draws the steel so closely to itselfwiththat there is even ...
To be near unto God - pagina 205
very great, because there is personal response. This is not the case with nature, nor with science or jurisprudence; but it is with a dog that will risk his life for you. All this, however, is but the prelude of higher love, and only with man it begins to speak inand to revealits hi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 207
unbounded love. Everytliing must go for God even as you have to look for everything to God. But even this broad admission did not satisfy Jesus.Hedid not say:Thoushalt lovetheLord thy God in everyi;hing. He has carefully distinguished between the heart, t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 206
descend to thechildotherwisethan by disin-terested kindness.And this is just what God has done for us. He has done it in Christ. In Christ he has come to us as man, to make the inequalitj^ equal, to join himself to our life and in everything to become like unto ...
To be near unto God - pagina 208
.would have done otherwise. The soul as the center of our inner life would have been mentioned first, and from this we would have derived love with the heart and mind and all our strength. Jesus, on the other hand, begins with the heart and then points to the soul, the mind and the strengt ...
To be near unto God - pagina 212
us, to love God with the heart and with the soul, we understand it at once; for these are disposed to love. But how can we love with theThe mind has been given us to think, to ponder and to understand. How can it be an organ of love, an instrument on which love can mind?play its hol ...
To be near unto God - pagina 210
beyond the confines of the heart. When the child that wept, laughs again, everything is over. Because the love for her child does not spring from the depths of her soul, she does not know how to love the soul of her child, hence she does not save but spoil him. So there is a love for God with the ...
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