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To be near unto God - pagina 126
Heis a God who is our Heavenly Father, who speaks to us, who hears our prayers, in whose breast throbs a heart full of Divine compassion. He is a personal God, who companies with us as a friend, who turns in with us for the night, and who allows us to dwell in his holy tabernacle. The work ...
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be confessed that he, too, is a spirit and that his are spirits. This does not make sin purely spiritual, neither does it exclude sin from the world of matter. But it means that all sin, including voluptuousness and drunkenness, originates in the spirit, and that the Psalmist was correct when he ...
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strength" which tion. It sufficientisalltheir assuranceand salva-can not be insisted upon therefore with urgency that Bible reading be made amore serious business; that we wean ourselves from the false tendency to take everything in Scripture metaphorical ...
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up our arm to protect achild or towardoffanassailant.When whom isthe prophet Isaiah asks (53:1): To the arm of the Lord revealed? and the question in turn is put to you Is the arm of the Lord revealed to you? it does not mean in a vague general way ...
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entrance of the Holy One into our life, not merely to live forever, but to have a life which in its own nature is eternal. When something stirs in a secret place and something proceeds therefrom, there is life. The pregnant mother feels life when she is aware of motion within, and then knows that ...
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the prayers of our Savior had been prewriting, it would have been an inexhaustible treasure. First, the child-hke prayers of his early life, which already at the age of twelve showed such Divine traits that even in its still undeveloped form it breathed perfection and apprehended it. Then the per ...
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only once in a while, in small measures, does not help it. To reach full development it must constantly be fed with food convenient for it. This is "eternal life" for the soul. Not only life hereafter, but an unfolding here of the irmer self, according to its disposition, nature and destiny. In t ...
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of all love and glory Every drop of the water of himself. eternal life is refreshing, but the Fountain from which these waters spring is the loving heart of Throughout the entire Scripture the Eternal. therefore, and throughout the whole Church, and in every saintly soul, the confession of passio ...
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to be different from the nature of everything else. With charming clearness the Scripture defines the nature of the soul in this single phrase: that we are created after the image of God. This includes everything. From this everything explains From this it comes that the soul can never itself. ha ...
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one time.Therefore we come back towill presentlyitnow anddo so again.We have tried to explain what We did not undertake to reduceeternal life is. it to a single definition, neither have we subjected the idea to close analysis. All we essayed to do ...
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