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To be near unto God - pagina 393
soul, itwhich maintains the glowto burn brightly. The entire contentof faithand makesthe memory must be to the unity of the image of the Son of God. It must all be united and brought together, in order to portray this image in sacred purity to the eye of the sou ...
To be near unto God - pagina 395
a mountainous country. The Psalmists have dwelt and wandered in the mountains. Of itself, theretheir fertile minds would borrow images in the mountains by which to express the antitheses of life. And so the easy walk, with a light step, on a smooth, straight and even road suggested of itself to t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 394
spiritually seeing the son with the eyes of the soul, the child of God knows himself to be onewith the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Hear the petition in the high priestly prayer: "Holy Father, I pray thee, that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 396
whenitbecomes the expressionofthat assur-which with spiritual elasticity, knows how to overcome every difficulty of life on earth, and now proclaims with Habakkuk (3:17): ''Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; and there s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 397
ority and of being a privileged character, until there comes a turn in life, and the sun goes hiding behind the clouds. Then everything collapses at once. Then there is no power of resistance. Then there is no disciplined strength. Then there is nothing to hold him up and to enable him to cope wi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 399
panies us to the grave, and the cross casts its shadow across our path to the end. For this is the glory of faith, that it discloses another, a better way to us, a way on the heights of the mountain of God's holiness, which excels the ways of our earthly life, and dissolves all our sorrow, misery ...
To be near unto God - pagina 398
But there have always been others who have persevered, who would not give up, who did not abandon hope, and who by great pov/er of will reached the point, where they could breathe again, and opposition seemed broken. And thanks to the practice acquired in the struggle, they put forth a final, gia ...
To be near unto God - pagina 400
to life in Paradise, and when sin came in, Paradise was gone, and the curse overtook our earthlyexistence. Not as though deadly monotony prevailed in Paradise, or that in heaven the absence of all change about God's throne would occasion a somber pall to darken the life of the blessed. Without en ...
To be near unto God - pagina 401
Here on earth sin characterizes all of life. It does this by no means merely in the sense, that sin is continuously committed night and day, and that sin occasions ruin, but rather in this sense that sin breaks human life, constantly removes its supports and makes them change, and makes the way o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 403
milling, so that rejuvenated and renewed in strength of life you feel by the grace of God that you have been, as it were, given back to yourself, in order, as though nothing had ever been the matter with you, in full realization of Divine grace, with renewed courage to take up the battle of life ...
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