To be near unto God - pagina 212
us, to love God with the heart and with the soul, we understand it at once; for these are disposed to love. But how can we love with theThe mind has been given us to think, to ponder and to understand. How can it be an organ of love, an instrument on which love can mind?play its hol ...
To be near unto God - pagina 210
beyond the confines of the heart. When the child that wept, laughs again, everything is over. Because the love for her child does not spring from the depths of her soul, she does not know how to love the soul of her child, hence she does not save but spoil him. So there is a love for God with the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 211
any such love for do you understand what it means to love God in your inmost Not whether there are self with all your soul? times when this is so, but whether it has become the fixed habit of your life. Not whether youHave you become awareGodinyour inmostself? ...
To be near unto God - pagina 209
no speaking without voice. But it is the soul which employs the ear as an instrument to hear, and which speaks in the voice, if the saying shall be true. In the same way there is no drinking in of love, and no exhibition of love, without the heart; but it is always the soul that employs the heart ...
To be near unto God - pagina 213
And though we are alive, it is unconscious. aware of some consciousness in the more highly domesticated animals, it is exceedingly weak with The glory of conscious life, the best of them. which is only perfect in God, is found in man alone, because with respect to this also he has been created af ...
To be near unto God - pagina 216
shall not only lead, direct and rule us in all this, but also that from an inner impulse all this shall form and clothe itself in the way which we knowwell-pleasing unto God. Above that we do this not from a sense of duty, because we must, though of ourselves we would like to do otherwise; ...