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To be near unto God - pagina 531
is of a noble mind, a limit is put upon these differences, a spirit of love prevails, which ofthatAnd where love Lord commands this blessing, that hearts remain united. But next to this, alas, how many families there are in which pains are not spared to measure out the difference as ...
To be near unto God - pagina 532
ward restfulness to lift oneself up from this earthly sphere into the world above, and to enjoy the bliss of nearness unto God. And then in two ways harm is done. First, you fail of one of the most precious means of being near to God; and again you become subject to the dominion of an element tha ...
To be near unto God - pagina 533
age to speak, with being blind to wrong practices. Mere sentimental goodness is no sacred art, but cowardice. But this is sacred art: to stand strong and courageous, in everything, and yet so to take hold of things, deal with them, and settle them, that no unholy spark starts fire in your own min ...
To be near unto God - pagina 534
too busy, too overwhelmed, too much diverted and preoccupied than that at night we could retire with the blissful experience of how good it was "to be near unto God."This is, of course, exclusively a result of the sinful character of our earthly life, for by itself there was no need that a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 535
worshipped. Jesus emphatically declares: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy strength, with all thy soul and with all thy mind. In the same way the one hundred parts of our strength should be operative in created things. But both should proceed so as to enter into and permeate each othe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 536
ments, life with its activities. Thereby you have allowed your heart to be deceived. But it is not the world, nor its activities, but your deceived heart that has turned you aside. It has even turned you aside to this extent, Isaiah adds, that your soul can no longer save itself, i. e. it can no ...
To be near unto God - pagina 537
On versation, etc., arrest the attention to itself. the contrary, in this case lack of attention and neglect of due examination of the interest at stake, No, the idolis a fault; and may even be a sin. atrous turning aside of one's inner self only becomes apparent when this magnet continuously dra ...
To be near unto God - pagina 538
one absorbing subject of thought. One never gets through talking about it. No sacrifice is deemed too great in its behalf. One devotes himself to it with all his soul and mind. Nothing higher is known and respected. With respect to it even brotherhoods are formed, insomuch as one is interested on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 539
occurs, even among Chrisvery opposite, to-wit: That of itselfBut what continually tians, is the allsorts of other things are subjectof thought,and that only by determinate effort the soul is engaged with God. If, now, these are every time the danger is not so not one g ...
To be near unto God - pagina 540
:withhowSt. Paul ''Do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?" (II Cor. 13:5). :"WHATSOEVER YE DO, DO IT HEARTILY, AS TO THE LORD." God, in his word, opposes every tendency and every effort to break up life into two parts; one for ourselves and one fo ...
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