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never befrom sight. It is so wide that possibly explain the connection be-lostwe can nottween our time and God's eternity, though we know that there must be such a relation, andWhenwe die in Christ we there is. shall enter upon an eternity of everlasting ...
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and destiny be understood.Whatever the year never understood from itself. Before God, all of human life, with all its years, forms one plan, one end, one whole. This plan, of our life did not begin at birth but traces its lines back to the life of parents and grandparents. In the forward d ...
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Before the days of the Bethlehem birth God spoke to us in the human word, but in Christ God He reveals himself is manifest in human nature. to us as the son of Man. A human heart speaks here in human language and in human ways. As the Apostle John asserts: In Jesus they have not only seen and hea ...
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abstract ideas about the immensities of God in the place of this heart-to-heart intimacy which can not be cultivated with God except in a human ^way? Let us leave this to philosophers who do not pray, and to theologians dry-as-dust who are not children of their Father in heaven. But as for us, le ...
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will-power can be of use to us only when we can apply them to good and noble ends. Satan is the 'most strongly developed personality conceivable. Any one can train himself in sin. Hence the question remains: Have we developed the traits ofand powersof personality, which are in of et ...
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from God, and we imagine that God's part in our prayer only begins when he hears and answers it, then indeed we face an insoluble riddle. But if we take it in the other, truer way, and make it clear to our mind that God has quickened our prayer-life and that he directs and carries it, the matter ...