To be near unto God - pagina 613
has so seldom attained unto this passion, this consuming longing after God. It is your holy exaltation, asolemnsealupon your humannobility,that your nature has so been created that such may be the case and can be. It is at the same time a deep humiliation that t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 614
and whoin holy manifestations of love reveals himself to you, and in you, as the living God. You realize that here all learning falls away; all dogma, all formularies, everything that is external and abstract; everything that translates itself into words, that in the word it may dry up and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 615
intends, is thirst in the heart itself, which the blood of the soul cries after God,fromZion is not your prayer cell. Zion is not your church building. Zion is not even your Christian association. What Israel found on Zion symbolically is for us reality in Christ; in your Vindicator ...
To be near unto God - pagina 616
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To be near unto God - pagina 331
Godputshiminto the smelting-furnace, or adds diamond of the soul, thoughfiner cuttings to the his eyes ghstenmaywith tears, he will nobly bear for he knows it is it can not be otherwise; and that if it were otherwise, his life would forever be a failure. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 332
by large charities. But nothing of all this can compare with the unsparing compulsion with which the H0I3' Ghost in God's word relentlessly drives us to worship, to seek Divine fellowship, to have the soul appear before God. The Scripture places itself at a standpoint that is even more exalted th ...