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To be near unto God - pagina 245
seated as he is at the right hand of God, he exercises over lands and nations, generations, famihes and individuals. The course of the world's history and the final destiny of every individual life decides for him or against him. In loyal subjection to him, the world will rejoice in peace, turned ...
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fellowship with all the saints of God; in brief, of an inheritance that w411 provide what no ear has heard, no eye has seen, and has not entered the heart of man. But all this is yet nothing else than the glory of the palace and of those who may enter therein. But the glory of salvation is found ...
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us in the written Word. Atfer his ascension also Christ Hves in the "\Vord. With it the portrait of God's Image has gone out into the world. Its presence lives among us. Thanks to the Word we are so familiar with the person and appearance of Christ, that he walks with us by the w'ay. As he moved ...
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of God's unfathomable mercies glisten ever gloriously.moreThus there is a knowledge of God which we learn and derive from Christ. But there is a far greater knowledge of God which He himself inlparts,whichHebrings,and makesto us in the hidden parts ...
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our fathers steadily held this in insisted on the fact that God had implanted the sence of himself in man (sensus divinitatis), and that this was the seed of all religion (semen religionis). But when persecution ceased, this real spiritual background of all true knowledge of God was wantonly fors ...
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Things are only right when the workings of the emotions and of the intellect unite in proper equipoise and in pure harmony. But sin can not tolerate this.It continuallybreaks the equipoiseand banishes harmony, so thatfirst, there is a the feeling, and then there is a p ...
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Lord calls us out from the flood of emotions to The feeling higher and clearer consciousness. is a gift of God. but the gift of consciousness as a feature of the image of God in us far excels Feeling can do no more than furnish the it. material which the consciousness thinks upon, classifies and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 253
and learn to know with whom we have to do. provided always that we do not allow this Name to run dead in empty sound. Sin also accounts for The "Our Father" is said without any this. thought of him, or of what the Father name imIt is the plies, as though it were a dead term. curse of custom.w^hic ...
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Mydear Father, percalls him: once, that by this name a world of thought passes through his heart, and that from the high and holy places God comes nearer to the soul. The name is what I call someone, andand attention ceivesatname him whom I know. The name immediately c ...
To be near unto God - pagina 255
Another differenceis,thatamong women, evenwith children, the personal, baptismal name is used, and almost never the famil}" name, while among men as a rule the family name is in vogue, and the use of the pei-sonal name indicates a far higher degree of intimacj'. While ...
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