To be near unto God - pagina 609
other purport than the better to glorify theGodand Father of all in Christ. This same thing must here be applied to our secret walk with God. We must frequently ask ourselves: If you had nothing, absolutely nothing aside from God, would your soul be perfectly satisfied? When you see ...
To be near unto God - pagina 611
great anxiety, or want in which we almost perished, impelled us to seek aid and comfort with God in his holy nearness. The paths by which the heart comes to God wind themselves through And however often they all the parts of our life. are abandoned, these paths every time disclose themselves anew ...
To be near unto God - pagina 613
has so seldom attained unto this passion, this consuming longing after God. It is your holy exaltation, asolemnsealupon your humannobility,that your nature has so been created that such may be the case and can be. It is at the same time a deep humiliation that t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 614
and whoin holy manifestations of love reveals himself to you, and in you, as the living God. You realize that here all learning falls away; all dogma, all formularies, everything that is external and abstract; everything that translates itself into words, that in the word it may dry up and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 615
intends, is thirst in the heart itself, which the blood of the soul cries after God,fromZion is not your prayer cell. Zion is not your church building. Zion is not even your Christian association. What Israel found on Zion symbolically is for us reality in Christ; in your Vindicator ...
To be near unto God - pagina 616
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