To be near unto God - pagina 234
tomanismadeas created after God's Image, and finally perfect in Christ, in so much as He is the express Image of God's Person, And these three do not stand loosely side by side, but form, if we may say so, a climbing pyramid. Nature forms the broad ground surface, it a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 232
This does not include experimental knowledge of God, which comes to us personally from spiritual experience, from communion of saints and secret fellowship with God. The knowledge of God which comes to us from without is majestic. Confining ourselves to what Christian creeds.nature brings, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 236
vegetable and animal-world, in the splendor of the sea, in the roar of the hurricane, sometimes even in the rolling of his thunder. In all this, is, and lives, the God Whom we worship. In the throbbings of the life of nature throbs his ownDivine life. Whatever moves in creation, flows thro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 237
very life of God, and clearly sees in it all, the Divinity of Omnipotence, understands the glory of the Invisible."AND THE SECONDUNTO God veilofisHeinvisible.nature.ISLIKEIT."hides himself behind theBut the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 235
Eternal Being is not invisible, and we are definitely told that once we shall see God face to shall know him, even as we are known. face. Intellectual knowledge, and even spiritual know-Weledge clear,isnot the highest.immediatesight.The highest is ...
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and endowed with instinct by its Maker, so you should much more lore your neighbor as man, because God has created him after his image and has endowed him with wonderful talents and izedgifts.If all this has been corrupted and spoiled and has become hopelessly satanic, so that there ...
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from nature, not that we might interpret it in a material sense, but rather that we might weave into our spiritual life. In this respect also the erring soul frequently impoverishes itself. It has been learned by heart, and in general it is agreed, that Divine attributes exhibit themselves in the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 216
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 themind? The 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 play its holy melo ...