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... light ? That is the faith we all need . There will never anything come into your life which is meaningless and vain . No dark , irrevocable fate has shaped your way . Whatever new forces may come into your life , they may all have part ...
... light ? That is the faith we all need . There will never anything come into your life which is meaningless and vain . No dark , irrevocable fate has shaped your way . Whatever new forces may come into your life , they may all have part ...
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... light in your thought and will before they can reach fulfilment in action . Until a tendency is known , you cannot govern it . Here alone is your control , and your responsibility . Keep thy heart with all diligence , for out of it are ...
... light in your thought and will before they can reach fulfilment in action . Until a tendency is known , you cannot govern it . Here alone is your control , and your responsibility . Keep thy heart with all diligence , for out of it are ...
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... see not his fulness of life all at once . The vision of the divine man is not permitted to blind us with excess of light . Our eyes are holden , that we cannot see . Rather each man sees in Christ that 34 THE TRUE SELF .
... see not his fulness of life all at once . The vision of the divine man is not permitted to blind us with excess of light . Our eyes are holden , that we cannot see . Rather each man sees in Christ that 34 THE TRUE SELF .
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... light enlightening the world ; a sweet reasonableness , such as shall make evil seem to hide itself in shame . So each man loves and sees the Christ he can touch . Each receives the living word to the nourishment of his peculiar ...
... light enlightening the world ; a sweet reasonableness , such as shall make evil seem to hide itself in shame . So each man loves and sees the Christ he can touch . Each receives the living word to the nourishment of his peculiar ...
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... . He knows me as I am now , and what I shall be for- ever . " It is out of this perfect vision , this infinity of light , that all his care of us proceeds . A NEW CREATURE . Y heart of dust was made 36 THE TRUE SELF .
... . He knows me as I am now , and what I shall be for- ever . " It is out of this perfect vision , this infinity of light , that all his care of us proceeds . A NEW CREATURE . Y heart of dust was made 36 THE TRUE SELF .
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Page 107 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole ! " As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry " All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul...
Page 289 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 81 - And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Page 132 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight willed Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
Page 146 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 81 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
Page 81 - And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them : and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Page 210 - Ye blessed creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 53 - And he asked him, What is thy name ? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
Page 176 - He may set himself to earn money for that which is not bread and labor for that which satisfieth not.