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id: 15964
title: The Child of the Dawn
author: Benson, Arthur Christopher
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  "Yes," said Amroth, "all those things have to be made pleasant, or to "Yet you were better then," said Amroth "you thought little of your "Yes," said Amroth, "you are very near a great truth. One day I said to Amroth, "Are there no rules of life here? One thing that the old man said surprised me very not know how much a man like myself is at the mercy of little things! long time lost in pleasant thought and wonder, when I saw a man drawing desirable; there is a great deal to be said for living in the same place "Yes," said Cynthia, musing, "I remember that sort of thing happening "Come, that is a little better," said Amroth, "and I will tell you now I got up and said that I was ready, and Amroth led the way like a boy "Ah," said Amroth, "my time has indeed come.


id: 14026
title: Spiritual Life and the Word of God
author: Swedenborg, Emanuel
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  man shuns evils and hates them so far he wills and loves goods. far as a man shuns evils and hates them, so far he wills and loves goods is a God, a heaven and a hell, and a life after death; with such a man world, so far he loves the holy things of the Word and of the church; man shuns these evils so far the love of truth and good enters from the Lord; and this love causes man to shun these evils, and at length to heavens are in a marriage of good and truth; and hell is adultery form of heaven, which is an image and likeness of God. Man is born into a love of evil and falsity, which love is the love of love, which is a likeness of God, except by a marriage of good and truth


id: 18355
title: Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
author: Ammyeetis
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  forces souls along the way of life. of souls pass on from this sphere of life to the spirit world so human life here up to the absolute ultimate of the immortal soul. Millions of enfranchised souls pass from earth life and find the spirit gift of God. It is held only by the individual soul as the result of Vast numbers of times has the human race marched around this world on love nature, the ego at last senses its need of God. It comes to know time, but finally, the soul, stirred by the eternal law of progress, of higher revelation of God''s purpose in the life of man. All along the individual life, the soul''s development through matter, growth for the soul; for throughout the universe, the Great Law, the the love of our Father, God, for the human-race. inspiration of God will ever come to any soul on earth without


id: 21981
title: The Essentials of Spirituality
author: Adler, Felix
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  spiritual life vagueness is apt to prevail, the outlines of thought are examples of the spiritual quality in human life and conduct. spiritually-minded of the true end of human existence. human life is union with God, the Divine Father, the thought of this Divine Father gives color and complexion to their spiritual life. those who view the supreme end of life as moral perfection, the virtue so painfully resembles vice; the man who puts a moral idol be a sane, strong, morally high-bred man, the effect will be the true values of life from the false, the things that are worth The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from which the moral virtues express themselves in the life of those Shall we say that that man was morally moral parable than a subtle study of man''s dual nature. small occasions of life as great if they involve a moral issue, and


id: 13871
title: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
author: Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
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  world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell that having resolved to make the love of GOD the _end_ of all his everything there for the love of GOD, and with prayer, upon all That as he knew his obligation to love GOD in all things, and as he business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD. When outward business diverted him a little from the thought of GOD, a down his life for the love of GOD, he had no apprehension of danger. That it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with for private prayer in thinking of GOD, so as to convince his mind of, and _continual_ help of GOD: let us then pray to Him for it I must, in a little time, go to GOD.


id: 15082
title: The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day
author: Underhill, Evelyn
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  received "the Spirit of power." "My life," says St. Augustine, "shall be imperishable love, a fully lived spiritual life is no more possible than response are achieved by us do we live the spiritual life. institutional personal and social aspects of the spiritual life. crisis, to mark the beginning of a new life which is to aim only at God. Here too we find one motive of that movement of world-abandonment which that completeness to which has been given the name of union with God. The great man or woman of the Spirit who achieves this perfect spiritual life is a change in the mind and heart of man, working in the at God"--as the prime character of a spiritual life, the secret of human yet ardent love of God which inspires the real spiritual life. realization of man''s true life within a spiritual world-order, his utter


id: 23820
title: The Life Radiant
author: Whiting, Lilian
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  heart in response, to that degree God fills his life with a glory not of infinite reservoir of spiritual energy which God freely opens to man in Psalmist, "goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, divine power, lies the Life Radiant. life is conditioned on so developing our own spiritual powers by faith day, place his entire life, all his heart, mind, and faculties, in God''s As man develops his psychic self and lives the life of the This world of spiritual life, a deeper reality, a profounder realm of moment is but another name for faith in God. The great truth of life--that which we may well hold as its central and Divine life that comes when man gives himself, his soul and body, his Divine life that comes when man gives himself, his soul and body, his


id: 2500
title: Siddhartha
author: Hesse, Hermann
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  Siddhartha learned a lot when he was with the Samanas, many ways leading "How do you think, Govinda," Siddhartha spoke one day while begging Quoth Govinda: "You say so, oh friend, and yet you know that Siddhartha teachers, Siddhartha began to speak and said: "What now, oh Govinda, "Oh Siddhartha," Govinda spoke one day to his friend. On the way, Govinda said: "Oh Siddhartha, you have learned more from "Look here!" Siddhartha said quietly to Govinda. But Siddhartha turned him away every time and said: "Be Siddhartha opened his eyes and looked around, a smile filled his face For a long time, Siddhartha had lived the life of the world and of lust, his eyes and looked at him, Siddhartha saw that Govinda did not By this river I want to stay, thought Siddhartha, it is the same which Govinda said: "Still, oh Siddhartha, you love a bit to mock people, as


id: 5657
title: The Practice of the Presence of God
author: Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
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  Brother Lawrence died in 1691, having practiced God''s presence for over sacrifice his life with its pleasures to God. But Brother Lawrence said prayer when God tries our love to Him. This was the time for a complete Brother Lawrence said to arrive at such resignation as God requires, we Brother Lawrence said we ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, the love of God and asking for His grace to do his work well, he had way to go straight to God was by a continual exercise of love and doing of God. Brother Lawrence felt it was a great delusion to think that the times things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquillity I must, in a little time, go to God. What comforts me in this life is


id: 10395
title: Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
author: Van Dyke, Henry
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  This is the divine doctrine of happiness as Christ taught it by His life Christ tells us in the text: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye very heart of His gospel, when He says: If ye know these things, happy What would the life of Christ mean if these deep truths on which He what men call doctrines: the personality of God, the divinity of Christ, unchanging, revealed truth, in regard to God and the world, Christ and of God, preaching in the words of living men,--that is what we need. Christ''s view of life and the world is as full of sweet reasonableness good.</i> The man who knows this text by heart, knows the secret of a life No, my brother-men, the best way to fight against evil is not to meet it Ask for the old paths, what is the good way: that means guidance.


id: 11304
title: The Lake
author: Moore, George
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  long, winding, mere-like lake, wooded to its shores, with hills little indignation Father Oliver began to think that public opinion After reading Father O''Grady''s letter he looked round, fearing lest long day in front of him; and he liked to think it would not end for him letter from Miss Glynn, telling me that a great chance had come her way. his thoughts, and went to his writing-table and began a long letter ''I don''t know what manner of man he is in his body,'' said Father Oliver, Father Oliver continued, like one talking to himself: ''I''m thinking that see her and write me a long letter, telling me what you think of her. The priests walked on again, and Father Oliver fell to thinking now what he was thinking that Nora Glynn had come into his life like a fountain, cart, and at this moment Father Oliver began to think that he would like


id: 35811
title: Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg
author: Mechthild, of Magdeburg
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  the love and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, speaks to us in a German And I said to the Lord, ''O loving God, what canst Thou find in me? that Thy children may so receive them into their hearts, as Thou, O Lord, Thus the revelation of the love of God, which was to the soul the opening became a good steward of the manifold grace of God. It is to be carefully remarked in the writings of Matilda, that she does God and the loving soul in a blessed meeting-place, and they speak The Complaint of the Loving Soul, and the Answer of God. Thy love hast Thou told from the days of old, Between God and the Soul only Love. ''Twixt God and thee but love shall be, Love of God, I thank Thee that Thou hast brought to me so many helpers on 4. The book of love, between God and the soul.


id: 36402
title: On Union with God
author: nan
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  Let nothing remain which could come between thy soul and God, that so heart cleave unto God. Withdraw as much as thou canst from thy acquaintance and from all men, and to unify and tranquillize thy heart and mind in God with loving of God. Strong in the love of Jesus, go forth from thyself, with a heart pure, a powers, be recollected in God and form but one spirit with Him. It is in this that the highest perfection possible to man here below creature, that thou mayest tend to the Lord thy God with thy whole heart soul passes beyond himself, and does in very truth ascend to God. Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn created objects, and the closer thy union with God, the nearer wilt thou please God alone, to love Him only and cling to Him. Concern not thyself with anything except thy Lord Jesus Christ, Who


id: 36162
title: Living for the Best
author: McClure, James G. K. (James Gore King)
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  of Daniel''s life to keep the windows of his soul open to the best, that the needy world of humanity opens its heart to God''s promises can it are before our windows--society, business, pleasure, study--but not God. Our life seems to open in every other direction than toward the holy God''s own heart." Was it because he could fight beast and man well? life''s best victories because they never bow before God and say, "Lord, spirit, are good; but the best victories any life can win are the As a result, victory crowned his life, and he died a man of God. Victory, too, may crown our lives, however weak they are, if like David, best hours set Jacob''s face towards God and character. of his best hours set Esau''s face away from God and character. God asks every man to give to Him his best.


id: 33701
title: Fraternal Charity
author: Valuy, Benôit
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  Religious, called to reproduce the three great virtues of Jesus child of God, the member of Jesus Christ, and the sanctuary of the Thus it is that charity poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, TO love our brethren as ourselves in relation to God, it suffices It is impossible for religious to love their brethren with a true, RELIGIOUS who have the family spirit wish to know everything which Charity, by uniting its good wishes and interest to the deeds of IN order to excite ourselves to fraternal charity, let us try and thoughts inflame my charity in the fire of your Divine love? brethren and myself are children of God and members of Jesus THERE are six sorts of religious who wound fraternal charity more community without great necessity the faults of religious would be good odour of religious houses, which are the family of God. Guard


id: 47747
title: The Incarnate Purpose: Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life
author: Percival, G. H.
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  from doctrine put forth as spiritual truth for thinking men of to-day. Artist of Life, God, through whose works of art men may perceive the life of God be in man, his spirit cannot die. Out of a knowledge of death, consciousness of spiritual life is evolved, Spirit of Life, God; can a like unfolding of the Will of Love be supreme Spirit of Life--Nature being the vesture of God, the cloak of institute symbolic evidence of the spiritual unity of life--a rite Nature--the vesture of God--is the expression of the Spirit of Life? If God be recognised as the supreme Spirit of Life, love must be seen to of God as the supreme Spirit of Life, revealed in form, and present as Communion of the Christian with God." Crown 8vo, cloth. Translated from the new German Edition by Rev. J. =THE SPIRITUAL TEACHING OF CHRIST''S LIFE.= 8vo, cloth.


id: 50916
title: Evening Incense
author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
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  O God, I desire to approach Thy throne of Grace on the evening of this do Thou look down upon me this night in Thy great mercy. Blessed Lord, do Thou bend Thy pitying eye of love and mercy upon me Blessed God, Thou hast in Thy mercy permitted me to see the close of O God Almighty, do Thou draw near to me at this time in Thy great Lord, while I bless Thee for the other proofs and tokens of Thy love, Almighty God, do Thou draw near to me this night in Thy great mercy. say, "Peace be unto thee." Let me know the melting energy of Thy love, Thee to look down upon me at this time in Thy great kindness; let me O God, I bless Thee that Thou hast spared me during another day, and O God, I come to Thee this night through Jesus Christ, the Son of Thy


id: 43611
title: The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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  ''I know little of Joachim of Flora,'' I said, ''except that Dante set him I shall create a world where the whole lives of men He turned and said, looking at me with shining eyes: ''Jonathan Swift to time to turn over the books upon an old bookstall, and thinking, door was opened by an old over-dressed woman, who said, ''O, you are her old men looked at one another and followed her upstairs, passing doors The old woman said: ''Yes they have come at last; now she will be able ''We have been deceived by devils,'' said one of the old men, ''for the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes and the oldest of the old men said: ''Lady, we have come to write down Then the oldest of the old men said in French to the woman who was


id: 60377
title: The Following of Christ, in Four Books Translated from the Original Latin of Thomas a Kempis
author: Thomas, à Kempis
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  If thou hast any thing of good, believe according as thy devotion shall incline thee. thou the things which God has commanded thee. thou turn thyself to God. Why art thou troubled because things do not nor dust thou know what shall befal thee thou mayest also bear thy cross, and love to of thy Lord, crucified for the love of thee. 6. _O Lord my God, thou art all my good; heart with thy grace, thou who wilt not have O Lord God, my holy lover, when thou shalt Thou art truly my Lord, and I am thy poor That thou conform in all things thy desire to see how sweet thou art, O Lord my God. When shall I fully recollect myself in thee, All things are from thee, and therefore thou Blessed be thou, O Lord my God, in all things


