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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 irmer self, according to its disposition, nature and destiny. In t ...
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of all love and glory Every drop of the water of himself. 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, the confession of passio ...
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to be different from the nature of everything else. With charming clearness the Scripture defines the nature of the soul in this single phrase: that we are created after the image of God. This includes everything. From this everything explains From this it comes that the soul can never itself. ha ...
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one time.Therefore we come back towill presentlyitnow anddo so again.We have tried to explain what We did not undertake to reduceeternal life is. it to a single definition, neither have we subjected the idea to close analysis. All we essayed to do ...
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whenthereisno more fragranceof life percept-anywhere, the reward of this barren, dead knowledge is eternal life. All this falls away when The the saying of Jesus is taken as it reads: knowledge of God is itself eternal life. He who has it. has already, here and ...
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are in part controversial. In the Gospel the distinction occurs between the sermon on the Mount and Jesus' controversy with the scribes. The first period of the Reformation was better than the What rapture marks the language of later one. the Confession and the Office of Holy Communion in distinc ...
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All interests center in God, in the living God, to see him, to behold him, and ardently toreality.When, therefore, Lord, show us the Father, he made Philip asked the right beginning, and it sprang fiom his burning thirst after the living God. rejoice in this life-giving look. : ...
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They thoughtthat theyhad thereby brought Godcloser to the people, while in fact the miserable image had caused all knowledge of God to be lost to them. With every representation of God, Godhimself St.isJohn:gone.Hence the searching warning ...
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— 26HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER. There are sayings of Jesus that make one tremble and stand back unless he believes on him. One of these is: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me (Matth. 10:37). Imagine a man who would dare to say anything like this ...
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Theydid not worship him. As long as their eyes were closed against the Divine majesty of Jesus they could not do otherwise. Their sin was not that they cast out Jesus, but that they did not see God in Him. They talked a good deal about God. But when God appeared to them in Jesus they knew ...
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