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struggle against it. In this is gained of the child-likeWhen Godisspokenofway only the victory Abba Father. in a way which showsthat there has been no fear of God, nor love to cast it out; that there has been no struggle and consequently no triumph, there ...
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does not concern himself with us; that he does not apportion or regulate the course of things according to our desire; that there are different motives in his plan, which have nothing to do with our wishes; that if necessary his Might crushes us on the spot; and that in the working of the plan an ...
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andlike Job out of the whirlwind receives the answer from God himself, and now learns to understand that the government of God covers ail suns and stars, all hours and centuries, and causes every creature to revolve itself about him, the Eternal, as the one and only center, for the sake of ...
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maidenfor the elect of her heart, thatwefeela mysterious, inexplicable power at play. This is not always so with those who are Eccentric tension of the mystery of betrothed. love is rather the exception. Neither should this doting, intoxicating love be associated with ...
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God by the acts of the will. Neither knowing God through the analytic studiesnot knowing isitof confessional standards. It is the close approach to God with the warm, tender feeling of the throbbing heart that craves to be cherished; it is to have longed and languished for wh ...
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places the utterance of tenderest pietj^ that seeks after God, and finds him, and is aglow with warmest love for him; can not do without him; of itself thinks of him; is continually busy with him; and directs ever>' utterance of the soul to him and to him alone. And in this love there is a kno ...
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and it is only the sinful character of our earthly existence that unites what does not belong together, makes soul and body part company, and breaks the equilibrium of the inclinacreature,what is best and holiest turns itself Like the snow-flake, into sensuality or frenzy. whicli come'; do ...
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Thus it is ever the God-given love between husband and wife, which in vivid imagery is the standing expression of the love that binds the In the New Testament this is soul to God. applied to Christ. He, the son of God's good pleasure, is called the Bridegroom of his Church, and his church is the ...
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who so love, there is only one of two things thinkable; either they must be loved with equalwarmthmreturn, or they can findnorest untilthe}' find it in death.This should not be taken too ideally. It does not follow by any means that such a young ma ...
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foreground as the first and great commandment. is less complaint in the Bible about lack of brotherly love than about forgetfulness of God. The Apostle shows that this was no Jewish exaggeration, when in his epistle to the Romans he reiterates the bitter complaint of the Psalmist that: ''There is ...
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