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To be near unto God - pagina 411
observe by the side of sense and love of truth the rise of hatred against falsehood. To become ever more deeply conscious of the sense of justice, to see the seriousness of life increase. 0, it all presents the beautiful image of a going from strength to strength in the inner personality. In body ...
To be near unto God - pagina 412
With old people not infrequently there is shrinking and diminution. With the artist also there is a moment in his life when he has reached his zenith, and the fullness and richness of his expression of art rather decreases than gains. In the intellectual domain there may be a few whose minds at 7 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 413
years, as a rule, stand so much higher? Is the oldest child in the family always farthest advanced in grace? Observe particularly certain defects in character, certain well-known weaknesses and little sins, that showed themselves unpleasantly in a child of God, ten or twenty years ago. Meeting su ...
To be near unto God - pagina 414
that first period of grace. There is considerable increase in knowledge, as well as in spiritual experience and in spiritual wisdom, but there is no acquisition of higher strength. Sometimes even there is a relapse, which is not survived except with much difficulty. And so there is considerable s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 415
purity of heart is the means of seeing God. For the others it is rather the way by which not to And these two can fail of high moral character. not be mentioned in the same breath. "Blessed are the pure in heart" is a word of Jesus, which was purposely spoken to the children of God, as Matt. 5:8 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 416
fessed "childship"fromisnot "stolen goods". But apartthis, it is certain,that the most faithful chil-dren of God are continually engaged in bitter combat, because there is still so much impurity in their hearts, which every time again is a stain upon thei ...
To be near unto God - pagina 417
tainlygross sinis should first of all be But he who is free from these extherefore, by no means yet pure in heart.theseabandoned. cessesis,Purity of heart embraces the entire I'fe of the soul. Pride, arrogance, dishonest practice, anger, hate, falsehood, and so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 418
the soul becomes in the discovery of sin, and for this reason the more we shake ourselves free from sin, the sense of guilt does not diminish, but rather increases. The world does not understand this, when it hears an angel of love and mercy touchingly plead for forgiveness of guilt. But by They ...
To be near unto God - pagina 419
the point. In the heart self in battle array against the impurities that proceed from the heart. the distinction is ignored between the self that believes, and the inequalities that prevail in the heart, youThis aloneismust stand pureWhenFor then you identify yo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 420
one who prays seeks strength in retirement.Thisexpressed in what Jesus told his disciples "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and shut the door behind thee"(Matth. 6:6). And he set us the example, as often as he withdrew himself for prayer into the solitude of the wi ...
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