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To be near unto God - pagina 415
purity of heart is the means of seeing God. For the others it is rather the way by which not to And these two can fail of high moral character. not be mentioned in the same breath. "Blessed are the pure in heart" is a word of Jesus, which was purposely spoken to the children of God, as Matt. 5:8 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 416
fessed "childship"fromisnot "stolen goods". But apartthis, it is certain,that the most faithful chil-dren of God are continually engaged in bitter combat, because there is still so much impurity in their hearts, which every time again is a stain upon thei ...
To be near unto God - pagina 417
tainlygross sinis should first of all be But he who is free from these extherefore, by no means yet pure in heart.theseabandoned. cessesis,Purity of heart embraces the entire I'fe of the soul. Pride, arrogance, dishonest practice, anger, hate, falsehood, and so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 418
the soul becomes in the discovery of sin, and for this reason the more we shake ourselves free from sin, the sense of guilt does not diminish, but rather increases. The world does not understand this, when it hears an angel of love and mercy touchingly plead for forgiveness of guilt. But by They ...
To be near unto God - pagina 419
the point. In the heart self in battle array against the impurities that proceed from the heart. the distinction is ignored between the self that believes, and the inequalities that prevail in the heart, youThis aloneismust stand pureWhenFor then you identify yo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 420
one who prays seeks strength in retirement.Thisexpressed in what Jesus told his disciples "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and shut the door behind thee"(Matth. 6:6). And he set us the example, as often as he withdrew himself for prayer into the solitude of the wi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 421
hand was stretched out in the night to my Grod in prayer. Thou, Lord, held mine eyes watching. In the night I communed with mine own heart; and my spirit made diligent search." When we close our eyes for sleep, or for prayer, we go out from light, by excluding the same, into desired darkness. We ...
To be near unto God - pagina 422
of old age. The same happens night. Sleep is the passing of the light of our consciousness into the twilight of slumber, and finally into deep, sound sleep. At night the light of day without, and the light of self-consciousness within, set in darkness and unconsciousness. It may even be said that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 423
holds back the passionately longed-for sleep from our eyes. Sleeplessness is a part of human misery, which is foreign to younger years, but which in later years few escape. As in good prayer the mind excludes itself from the world, but is the more clearly awake to the higher world of thought, so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 424
ferent from what it is, but purifying our imagination and cleansing our thoughts will in time transport our dreams into sinless domains. Our responsibility for what our mind does in sleepless hours of night is of necessity far greater. For in the darkness of night our spirit can invite the world, ...
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