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To be near unto God - pagina 197
protest? Not at all. On the contrary, in the course of an ordinary lifetime the faith has been abandoned in ever widening circles, and there is almost no more shame now in being credited with atheism. Even this is nothing new. The selfsame condition prevailed in Israel in the days of its spiritua ...
To be near unto God - pagina 199
You feel this yourself when you want to pray, and cannot, because of the things that stand between you and God. Your thoughts, inclinations and feelings must first be detached from them all. They must be driven out from the mind. And then God comes back to you, and you can pray again. And what ha ...
To be near unto God - pagina 198
never inspire us when it concerns the ever Blessed One. Here another kind of love is required. A love which springs from the perception that we belong with God by reason of our origin and manner of existence; that we are his creatures; and that therefore we can have no reason for being, no object ...
To be near unto God - pagina 201
— 3?"WITHALL."The commandment bor as ourselvesisthat ^.e shall love our neighso strongly emphasized in these the rank and file of people thedays, that among first and great commandment is more and more forgotten. That it is everyone's calling first of all ...
To be near unto God - pagina 202
would bind this love for God upon the conscience of his hearers, with such warmth and eloquence, that the whole congregation would be impressed with his tender devotion to God, and would be inspired by his zeal to such a degree as to be itself revived in its love for God, with the board of offici ...
To be near unto God - pagina 200
Then it becomes the shamefacedness of the thief, who returns what he had stolen and makes no boast of merit; but prays to be forgiven. This is what the prophet calls "to lay God upon the heart." Love is a tender, touching emotion, which needs symbols. This gave rise in olden times to the custom a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 204
than one: even Christ. Jesus alone has fulfilled the second commandment of love to fellowmen, and with respect to this, be it at a far distance, many saints have pressed his footsteps. But in the fulfilment of the first and great commandment Jesus stands incomparably alone. He alone has loved God ...
To be near unto God - pagina 203
then was the degree of tenderness in the love, and how long did this exaltation of soul continue? More 3'et, how often did it become in us And suppose we ha\'e a thirsting after God? come thus far, not every day, but most days, how far distant are we even then from loving God with all the heart, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 205
the love of God has come first, and that with all our imperfections and shortcomings it has been our deepest desire and will to have God's love be our supremest inspiration, and that it has prepared us for what is highest and best. And this is the mystery of being a Christian, that as we hide our ...
To be near unto God - pagina 206
outwardappearanceinterestsus.Itismorestrongly attractive when we admire a man's courage and energy, devotion and self-sacrifice. But do not assimilate it into all this passes away. our life. As a rule, the emotions of the heart, which do not touch ...
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