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To be near unto God - pagina 611
thecaseofthosewhodieunconsciously in aswoon; sometimes very strongly with the sick, whose pulse is almost gone, and whose breath can And of these no one may say scarcely be felt. that, on account of this, their soul passed away Omnipin secret, and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 612
all sorts of persons on earth, and has endowed with powers to appreciate the glories of nature, and has imparted all sorts of inclinations and callings to us, which go out after visible things. The Stylist who withdraws his eyes from all earthly things, so that- with nothing about him but air he ...
To be near unto God - pagina 613
other purport than the better to glorify theGodand Father of all in Christ. This same thing must here be applied to our secret walk with God. We must frequentb^ ask ourselves: If you had nothing, absolutely nothing aside from God, would your soul be perfectly satisfied? When you see ...
To be near unto God - pagina 614
be near unto God", because you have nothing him in heaven, and because you desire nothing beside him on earth, all the days of your pilgrim journey that still remain. besideno"ASTHE HART PANTETH AFTER THE WATER BROOKS."More than twenty centuries have not been able to d ...
To be near unto God - pagina 615
great anxiety, or want in which we almost perished, impelled us to seek aid and comfort with God in his holy nearness. The paths by which the heart comes to *God wind themselves through And however often they all the parts of our life. are abandoned, these paths every time disclose themselves ane ...
To be near unto God - pagina 616
abled cries as in despair, because having at last reached the stream-bed finds that there is no water there, and which now, from the mere impulse of nature, because it is ready to succumb, and is unable longer to go without drink, breaks the air with its desperate cry for water in the dried-up be ...
To be near unto God - pagina 617
has so seldom attained unto this passion, this consuming longing af^er God. It is your holy exaltation, asolemnsealupon your humannobility,that your nature has so been created that such may be the case and can be. It is at the same time a deep humiliation that t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 618
and who in holy manifestations of love reveals himself to you, and in you, as the living God. You realize that here all learning falls away; all dogma, all formularies, everything that is external and abstract; everything that translates itself into words, that in the word it may dry up and withe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 619
intends, is thirst in the heart itself, which the blood of the soul cries after God.fromZion is not 3'oiir prayer cell. Zion is not your church building. Zion is not even your Christian association. What Israel found on Zion symbolically is for us reality in Christ; in ,your Vindica ...
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