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To be near unto God - pagina 191
who so love, there is only one of two things thinkable; either they must be loved with equalwarmthmreturn, or they can findnorest untilthe}' find it in death.This should not be taken too ideally. It does not follow by any means that such a young ma ...
To be near unto God - pagina 192
Thus it is ever the God-given love between husband and wife, which in vivid imagery is the standing expression of the love that binds the In the New Testament this is soul to God. applied to Christ. He, the son of God's good pleasure, is called the Bridegroom of his Church, and his church is the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 193
and it is only the sinful character of our earthly existence that unites what does not belong together, makes soul and body part company, and breaks the equilibrium of the inclinacreature,what is best and holiest turns itself Like the snow-flake, into sensuality or frenzy. whicli come'; do ...
To be near unto God - pagina 194
God by the acts of the will. Neither knowing God through the analytic studiesnot knowing isitof confessional standards. It is the close approach to God with the warm, tender feeling of the throbbing heart that craves to be cherished; it is to have longed and languished for wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 195
places the utterance of tenderest pietj^ that seeks after God, and finds him, and is aglow with warmest love for him; can not do without him; of itself thinks of him; is continually busy with him; and directs ever>' utterance of the soul to him and to him alone. And in this love there is a kno ...
To be near unto God - pagina 196
foreground as the first and great commandment. is less complaint in the Bible about lack of brotherly love than about forgetfulness of God. The Apostle shows that this was no Jewish exaggeration, when in his epistle to the Romans he reiterates the bitter complaint of the Psalmist that: ''There is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 197
protest? Not at all. On the contrary, in the course of an ordinary lifetime the faith has been abandoned in ever widening circles, and there is almost no more shame now in being credited with atheism. Even this is nothing new. The selfsame condition prevailed in Israel in the days of its spiritua ...
To be near unto God - pagina 198
never inspire us when it concerns the ever Blessed One. Here another kind of love is required. A love which springs from the perception that we belong with God by reason of our origin and manner of existence; that we are his creatures; and that therefore we can have no reason for being, no object ...
To be near unto God - pagina 199
You feel this yourself when you want to pray, and cannot, because of the things that stand between you and God. Your thoughts, inclinations and feelings must first be detached from them all. They must be driven out from the mind. And then God comes back to you, and you can pray again. And what ha ...
To be near unto God - pagina 200
Then it becomes the shamefacedness of the thief, who returns what he had stolen and makes no boast of merit; but prays to be forgiven. This is what the prophet calls "to lay God upon the heart." Love is a tender, touching emotion, which needs symbols. This gave rise in olden times to the custom a ...
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