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To be near unto God - pagina 161
pute these deeds in numbers, and from high figures to infer that God crowned the work with blessing. There were statistics of converts, of moneys raised, of society memberships, of the hungry that had been fed, of the naked that had been clothed, of the sick that had been healed. And flattery on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 162
If the knowledge of God is eternal life, Divine knowledge can not be something apart from life.Donot forget, eternal life is not life hereafter. It is a life which does not spring from the cistern, but from the fountain. Such knowledge of Godwhichis itself eternal life ...
To be near unto God - pagina 163
to an instinctive knowledge of God such as no Catechism or Confession can impart. do notWesay that this knowledge thus obtained is the only knowledge of God, nor that it is sufficient, nor that it offers satisfactory clearness; all we mean to say is: that doing God's will introduces ...
To be near unto God - pagina 164
what we knowis in our hearts to do to our debtors. All this only shows that when in forgiving our enemy we do the will of God, we learn to know what it is to forgive, what it is to receive from God the mind and the will to forgive, and what it is to come to the knowledge of God as regards ...
To be near unto God - pagina 165
No, the doing of God's will covers all of life, the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, and the knowledge of God's will in common life is far finer,moreintricateand moredifficultthanitisextraordinary things. To know what God's will is in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 166
Hence knowledge of God's will becomes The one can of itself knowledge of his Being. not be separated from the other. Only this: the will of God can only be truly known in the way of the will. To know the Ten Commandments by heart, and to make a list from the Scriptures of every utterance of God's ...
To be near unto God - pagina 167
imagination, does it form one whole. All these together constitute that full knowledge of God, is eternal life. Only do not lose from sight that the daily increase in the knowledge of God is obtained solely and alone in the way of the will. There is a two-fold will of God: the one is over us, the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 168
How could this be otherwill. does not come into action by what is written about it in a book, or preached on it from the pulpit. It is the Lord who inspires the will to act, and in action to direct it for good. It is he "who worketh in you both to will and God through the The willwise? ...
To be near unto God - pagina 169
takes no part in this transitionis leftin the rear.The whole church will understand that she loses power when she adheres to the old, without harmonizing her insight into the past with the claims of our clarified consciousness. She then Her preaching does loses her touch upon ...
To be near unto God - pagina 170
towilllikethisofourselves,we become con-formed to our Father who is in heaven. The words of Jesus: Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, are then realized in us; they are realized in this particular; and consciouscome ...
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