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To be near unto God - pagina 587
thinks of him, goes out to him, and seeks his holy fellowship. On the other hand God's love is wounded when his child can forget him, and not think of him, and be engaged in mind with everything save him; when, as far as it depends on us, he is the forsaken one. For, in order deeply and strongly ...
To be near unto God - pagina 589
and no hypocrisy. His all-penetrating glance puts every cover aside. And these two taken together account for the fact, that sensitiveness in Divine love is far more strongly ftioved to jealousy, than strongest human passion can ever arouse brooding envy. When we are not remembered by our friends ...
To be near unto God - pagina 588
you pawn away your love amanspirits,yourtoyour ownself,or tothe world, or to demoniac the Scripture always and unconditionallyasidol, tocondemnsthis as a drawing away of self from God, as a violation of faithfulne ...
To be near unto God - pagina 591
enjoyment. But when you consider nearness unto God, thinking of God, being engaged with God, from the side of God who loves you, an entirely different note mingles itself in this love-song. Then you can not and will not grieve the Holy spirit. Then it is not your soul alone which seeks God, but f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 593
In our twentieth century, however, the table turns again. There is once more a reveille, but It is far more a not in the Christian domain. reveille of mystic, religious feeling, entirely independent of Christianity, for the most part rejecting the way of truth and seeking ways of its own, and thu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 594
what criticism this demands at and what duty this lays upon them. selvesThey maintaintheir stand.their hands,They dothisbythe grace that is within, and by the spiritual impulse that operates in them. Though they should have to die for Jesus, they c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 590
highness and your glory?Andis itno violationof your God when you discard this holy urgency of love, and play with it, and for the sake of religious recreation spasmodically return to it, only to withdraw yourself presently from it again, that in your innermost soul you ...
To be near unto God - pagina 592
phenomena appear, and consequently in mutual relation. Whether in the evening the sky shows itself bright or dull red, depends upon the greater or lesser density with which mists or vapours place themselves between our eye and the red glow of the setting sun. And so in the world of spirits, an en ...
To be near unto God - pagina 595
behalf of these wanderers, involuntarily, ascends their troubled hearts. Even in the deepest parts of their inward life they undergo the noticeable influence of this change in the signs of the times. To be near unto God and to continue there is far easier when everything around you warmly calls f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 596
than he who has drifted with weather and wind and tide. But it brings weariness. It wears on the mind. And the aftermath of this exhaustion involves the danger that the spirit of the world outwits you, and makes you dread still more a new course, which is attended with danger, perhaps of death. I ...
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