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To be near unto God - pagina 221
believing circles, especially by entire and partly emancipated women, the high ideal of love is used as a weapon with which to oppose the faithful confession of the Gospel. Love is then said to be "the whole of religion."There is no need of anything more. The Old Testament is by far too un ...
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him with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength. And as though this does not state the case sufficiently sharply and definitelj', and as though to make the last misunderstanding and misconception impossible, Jesus adds a fourth claim and binds that you loveupon the c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 223
Jesus demands the exhibition of our strength. that all the powers that are entrusted to us, on the condition of responsibility to him who gave them, shall be exercised in such a way that in their working the love for God shall show itself as the dominant element. Do not take this in a sickly-spir ...
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or as a woman missionary in the foreign field. False dualism which relegates the mother or the servant to common life and pronounces the nurse sacred, does not feed the love for God, but poisons it. Three forms of §in in this connection lower human life: Neglect, misuse and abuse of our powers. I ...
To be near unto God - pagina 225
sure confidence that he will supply all our needs, but slaving for the sake of providing the means It is for money and not for God. along this line the third sin io easily committed, even the yet worse abuse of one's talents in the face of God and of his sacred claims. O, who can count the men wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 226
life away as long as you do not know that craving after the fullness of love for the Eternal which can not rest until it loves God also withyourallitsstrength. 42'HE THAT LOVETH NOTNOT KnowledgeofGodisKNOWETHGOD." eterna ...
To be near unto God - pagina 227
ever moreand overflowing with Divine sweetbe apprehended in the clear consciousness, and be poured over as it were into the doctrinal standards of the Church of Christ, and ness,mustfullof courseinto our personal confession.Unless this is done, mystical c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 228
;forever in the Father-house above, this and this alone is the mighty problem of life which immediately touches our relation to God and our knowledge of the Eternal. Thus the riddle of the world and that of our soul always comes down again to this one inquiry: Is there grace for me also, a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 229
Does this begin with you, so that you love and that afterwards God loves you? Far from it. Love never begins with you. Back offirst,thefirststirringsoflove that evermovedthewas God who put it there. Neither can you ever forgive from y ...
To be near unto God - pagina 230
:isthat?Whenitsays:Hethat loveth not,itmeans: He who does not hve by love; he who is not governed by love; he who does not rejoice in love, and has no love that can endure the test of fire. And love is put to this fiery test, not with ...
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