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To be near unto God - pagina 158
to train the will, to develop it, to apply it to deeds, and with this strongly trained human will to maintain ourselves in the face of the Universal-will. Hence everything that is, and everything that is called history, and life itself is reduced to one power, and the only thing that is supremely ...
To be near unto God - pagina 157
such an extent that the significance of the other activities of the human spirit has suffered The fundamental position of this serious loss. school is that the will alone determines things, accomplishes things, creates reality, and makes itself known as a power and that the more deeply one studie ...
To be near unto God - pagina 159
another extreme was reached in the effort to reahze the Christian spirit in acts of the will. Not the hearer, but the doer of the law shall be holy. Not every one that sayeth, Lord, Lord, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven shall be saved. If any one doeth His will, he shall ...
To be near unto God - pagina 160
ness to give. It inspired a devotion and an energy of faith such as had not been in evidence among us since the daj^s of the Reformation. In the Salvation Army, which is the most sharply defined exhibition of this tendency and at the same time its crudest expression, there showed itself a manysid ...
To be near unto God - pagina 161
pute these deeds in numbers, and from high figures to infer that God crowned the work with blessing. There were statistics of converts, of moneys raised, of society memberships, of the hungry that had been fed, of the naked that had been clothed, of the sick that had been healed. And flattery on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 164
what we knowis in our hearts to do to our debtors. All this only shows that when in forgiving our enemy we do the will of God, we learn to know what it is to forgive, what it is to receive from God the mind and the will to forgive, and what it is to come to the knowledge of God as regards ...
To be near unto God - pagina 162
If the knowledge of God is eternal life, Divine knowledge can not be something apart from life.Donot forget, eternal life is not life hereafter. It is a life which does not spring from the cistern, but from the fountain. Such knowledge of Godwhichis itself eternal life ...
To be near unto God - pagina 166
Hence knowledge of God's will becomes The one can of itself knowledge of his Being. not be separated from the other. Only this: the will of God can only be truly known in the way of the will. To know the Ten Commandments by heart, and to make a list from the Scriptures of every utterance of God's ...
To be near unto God - pagina 163
to an instinctive knowledge of God such as no Catechism or Confession can impart. do notWesay that this knowledge thus obtained is the only knowledge of God, nor that it is sufficient, nor that it offers satisfactory clearness; all we mean to say is: that doing God's will introduces ...
To be near unto God - pagina 165
No, the doing of God's will covers all of life, the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, and the knowledge of God's will in common life is far finer,moreintricateand moredifficultthanitisextraordinary things. To know what God's will is in ...
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