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To be near unto God - pagina 211
any such love for do you understand what it means to love God in your inmost Not whether there are self with all your soul? times when this is so, but whether it has become the fixed habit of your life. Not whether youHave you become awareGodinyour inmostself? ...
To be near unto God - pagina 212
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 theThe 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 mind?play its hol ...
To be near unto God - pagina 213
And though we are alive, it is unconscious. aware of some consciousness in the more highly domesticated animals, it is exceedingly weak with The glory of conscious life, the best of them. which is only perfect in God, is found in man alone, because with respect to this also he has been created af ...
To be near unto God - pagina 214
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 215
as 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, and when it is falsely ...
To be near unto God - pagina 216
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; ...
To be near unto God - pagina 217
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 unmercif ...
To be near unto God - pagina 218
thatyou love him withall3-our heart, withallyour soul and with all your strength. And as though this does not state the case sufficiently sharply and definitely, and as though to make the last misunderstanding and misconception impossible, Jesus adds a fourth cl ...
To be near unto God - pagina 219
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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 220
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 sin in this connection lower human life: Neglect, misuse and abuse of our powers. I ...
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