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To be near unto God - pagina 211
unbounded love. Ever>'thing must go for God even as you have to look for everj'thing to God. But even this broad admission did not satisfy Jesus.Hedid not say:Thoushaltlove theLord thy God in ever>'thing. He has carefully distinguished between the h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 212
would have done otherwise. The soul as the center of our inner life would have been mentioned first, and from this we would have derived love with the heart and mind and all our strength. Jesus, on the other hand, begins with the heart and then points to the soul, the mind and the strength. This ...
To be near unto God - pagina 213
no speaking without voice. But it is the soul which employs the ear as an instrument to hear, and which speaks in the voice, if the saying shall be true. In the same way there is no drinking in of love, and no exhibition of love, without the heart; but it is always the soul that employs the heart ...
To be near unto God - pagina 214
beyond the confines of the heart. When the child that wept, laughs again, everything is over. Because the love for her child does not spring from the depths of her soul, she does not know how to love the soul of her child, hence she does not save but spoil him. So there is a love for God with the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 215
Have you become aware God in your inmost self?of any such lov^e for If so, do you under-stand what it means to love God in your inmost self with all your soul? Not whether there are times when this is so, but whether it has become the fixed habit of your life. Not whether you surren ...
To be near unto God - pagina 216
us, to love God with the heart and with the soul, we understand it at once; for these are disposed to love. But how can we love with themind? The mind has been given us to think, to ponder and to understand. How can it be an organ of love, an instrument on which love can play its holy melo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 217
isalive,itisunconscious.Andtlioughweareaware of some consciousness in the more highly domesticated animals, it is exceedingly weak with the best of them. The glory of conscious life, which is only perfect in God, is found in man alone ...
To be near unto God - pagina 218
whoin his science does not feel himself drawn to God, and with his scientific knowledge, does not before all else seek God and his glory, breaks the great commandment. And this is the curse that rests so heavily on the science of our times that it does not feel in its veins the pulse-beat ...
To be near unto God - pagina 219
and normal, saveas the rank and file of the people take the confessional standards of the Church as the starting point of their views and convictions of life. Hence it is ruinous to love for God with ''all the mind," when Christian confessions are left out from a man's convictions of life, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 220
shall not only lead, direct and rule us in all this, but also that from an inner impulse all this shall form and clothe itself in the way which we knowwell-pleasing unto God. Above that we do this not from a sense of duty, because we must, though of ourselves we would like to do otherwise; ...
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