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of this all-dominating thought too closely, the fact that God is Spirit lifts human life above the whole visible world and exalts the spirit within us to the high spheres of the invisible world where God dwells in light unapproachable. For if God is Spirit, he is altogether independent of this vi ...
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And whenthe "Cultivate the the atmosphere except as Godeged to knowmatter is pressed, and it is said, secret walk with God and drink in of the life above," no one responds, draws him. And if we are privilthis secret fellowship, it but showswhat excellent grace has been ...
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be confessed that he, too, is a spirit and that his demons 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, mcluding voluptuousness and drunkenness, originates in the spirit, and that the Psalmist was correct wh ...
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up our arm to protecta child or towardoffanassailant.When whom isTo the prophet Isaiah asks (53:1): the arm of the Lord revealed? and the Is the arm of the question in turn is put to you Lord revealed to you? it does not mean in a vague general way ...
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If all the prayers of our Savior had been prewriting, it would have been an inexserved haustible treasure. First, the child-like 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 i ...
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Heis a God who is our Heavenl}- 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 wor ...
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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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The burning hearthof all love and glory himself. Every drop of the water of 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, ...
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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 inner self, according to its disposition, nature and destim-. In t ...
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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 ...