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To be near unto God - pagina 218
thatyou love him withall3-our heart, withallyour soul and with all your strength. And as though this does not state the case sufficiently sharply and definitely, and as though to make the last misunderstanding and misconception impossible, Jesus adds a fourth cl ...
To be near unto God - pagina 217
believing circles, especially by entire and partly emancipated women, the high ideal of love is used as a weapon with which to oppose the faithful confession of the Gospel. Love is then said to be "the whole of religion." There is no need of anything more. The Old Testament is by far too unmercif ...
To be near unto God - pagina 220
or as a woman missionary in the foreign field. False dualism which relegates the mother or the servant to common life and pronounces the nurse sacred, does not feed the love for God, but poisons it. Three forms of sin in this connection lower human life: Neglect, misuse and abuse of our powers. I ...
To be near unto God - pagina 219
Jesus demands the exhibition of our strength. that all the powers that are entrusted to us, on the condition of responsibility to him who gave them, shall be exercised in such a way that in their working the love for God shall show itself as the dominant element. Do not take this in a sickly-spir ...
To be near unto God - pagina 221
sure confidence that he will supply all our needs, but slaving for the sake of providing the means oneself. It is for money and not for God. And along this line the third sin io easily committed, even the yet worse abitse of one's talents in the face of God and of his sacred claims. O, who can co ...
To be near unto God - pagina 222
life awaj- as long as you do not know that craving after the fullness of love for the Eternal which can not rest until it loves God also withyourall itsstrength. 42"HE THAT LOVETH NOTNOT KnowledgeofGodisKNOWETHGOD." eternal ...
To be near unto God - pagina 223
and overflowing with Divine sweetbe apprehended in the clear consciousness, and be poured over as it were mto the doctrinal standards of the Church of Christ, and ever morefullmustness,of courseinto our personal confession. Unless this is done, mystical corrupti ...
To be near unto God - pagina 225
Does this begin with you, so that you love and that afterwards God loves you? Far from it. Love never begins with you. Back of first,thefirststirringsof lovethat evermovedthewas God who put it there. Neither can you ever forgive from yoursel ...
To be near unto God - pagina 224
forever in the Father-house above, this and this alone is the mighty problem of life which immediately touches our relation to God and our knowledge of the Eternal. Thus the riddle of the world and that of our soul always comes down again to this one inquiry: Is there grace for me also, and forgi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 226
isthat?Whenitsays:Hethat loveth not,itmeans: He who does not Hve by love; he who is not governed by love; he who does not rejoice in love, and has no love that can endure the test of fire. And love is put to this fiery test, not with respect ...
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