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way, and revealing himself to us in mystical sensations which have a character of their own and bear an original stamp. He knows us and we are known of him, such as is not possible with another person who is differently constituted than ourselves. He is the "One Sun," which glistens differently i ...
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he needs. Not only the most-special Providence, but also the most special self-revelation of his Divine Majesty in the mirror of the life of each And when it comes to this, but also only soul. then, there rises from the heart of itself spontaneously the jubilant exclamation of worship: "O God my ...
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The main point with it all is, that our nature has been so created and disposed, that it prefers immediate sight. And that it carries this even into the spiritual desire to see, rather than to arrive at insight by exercise of thought, is not a defect in us, neither is it a result of sin, but a Di ...
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That nature, andlife itself, is full of imagery, greater significance. The Bible, more than any other book, employs it, by which to show us the spiritual. Apart from picture and print, and aside from the emblem, it is this imagery which does not stand by the side of the Word, but enters in ...
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ing heat such as in the desert of the East can prostrate life. And see, quietly and with majesty, a thick cloud passes over the desert levels, and sunlight no more blinds, and sunheat no more burns, and the traveler breathes again, refreshed and restored by the Divine shadow from above. Shade son ...
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whom you see before you, and whose assault is upon you, you need a shield, and he who in such threatening moments has sought his shield with God, has always found it there. But it is entirely different when heat brings burnings which can not be grasped, which from the mysterious background of our ...
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has a weak voice, or when the distance is too great that separates him from us. The first is impossible with God. How should he, who has planted the ear, not hear; how should he who has created sound, and the hearing of it, not hear all listencreaturely sound? Hence, when it is said of God ...
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prayer must be breathed from the soul. The voice here avails nothing. We can compel a hearing with men by speaking more loudly and boldly;but when we would speak to ''our Father in heaven" the voice loses absolutely all significance. Then the stentorian voice of the orator has no advantage ...
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what the Psalmist suggests, when he sings: "The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand."this isAndthus the Divine tenderness of highest love mingles itself in the comforting. God leaves you not alone. The journey through the wilderness can not be spared you. The heat must burn ...
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strongly in prayer with others. Then the voice is the instrument which brings the prayer of him who prays to the soul of those who pray with him. He who leads in prayer must be like him that plays the keys of the organ. His soul plays. The soul of the others must sound with his. And thus there is ...
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