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To be near unto God - pagina 66
munion goes forth from Nature to God. There is power in it everywhere, but there is no fellowship of love init.this is the Divine desire. God must needs address his creation and obtain a response from it in return. He must needs establish close, personal fellowship and mutual commun ...
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Asiatic countries, and upon their return imitate in Europe or America what they have seen in Asia, and in which they took part while there. This is but a little flaw on the surface of things and has no significance in the great movement of spirits.The modern pagan movement, on the other ha ...
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The higher forms of Hfe are loved and for art. appreciated. Multitudes engage in the chase after pleasure and wealth, and obey the dictates of passion. By way ot reaction this has resulted in the fact that they who in other respects are faithful Christians have abandoned far too greatly the perso ...
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vety person. It was a heart-to-heart love that conquered the world in that early age. Love, and attachment to the Mediator between God and man, worked the downfall of ancient paganism. When St. Thomas puts his hand on the woundprint in Jesus' side, sinks to his knees and exclaims: "My Lord and my ...
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People will enjoy our belongings and take pleas^ ure with our goods. They will honor our ideas and adorn themselves with flowers from our garden. They will praise our deeds without stint, but they hold themselves aloof from every personal touch. No trace of affection for us can be discovered in t ...
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state of ecstacy, what must the sun be of which the Psalmist sang: "His going forth is from the end of the heaven * * * and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof" (19:6). If any idolatry ever was intelligible, it was not the worship of images or of spirits, but the calm and reverent adoratio ...
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personal wrong which springs from an overestimate of self, from too much self-sufficiency, from lack of dependence and fidelity. It is also an evil of the times, a general, contagious disease whereby one poisons another. It is apostacy on the part of the world of spirits which diverts the heart f ...
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Wepeople of Western lands should be more familiar with the tender and passionate language of the poetry of Scripture. The music of the Psalter is uplifting: For the Lord God is a sun and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprigh ...
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The sun is high above us in the heavens, eyes. and close at hand as well, and around us on every feel his presence and seek protection side. exclude him from our from it in the shade. chambers bv closing blinds. He is a power far oftWeandWeclose by.hidden from i ...
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cold would chill the inner existence. No more flowers would bloom in the garden of the heart. No more sacred motion would stir the hidden waters of the soul. Everything within would wither and die. The heart would cease to be human, andwhetheritisfountain ofsaid ...
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