Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sight of God is only faith, is only a sight of men's own souls. In the back ground of every soul, behind all its sin, is a reflection of God's image. The sight of the invisible comes from looking inward, from the examination of souls. Christ saw so clear an image of God and modelled his life so truly after that image that his character became godlike. We can see the invisible in the character of Christ, an image of which we all have in our own souls and a sight of this invisible will make us like...
...idea of the last day, he said, is when Christ shall come and judge both the quick and the dead. Christ says that we should consider the spiritual resurrection, that we are dead spiritually, dead in sin. Christ has the power to raise from bodily and spiritual death. The only way Christ could make the multitude understand was by signs. The people whom Christ fed at Galilee came only for earthly bread. The people only saw the signs that Christ gave, and he said himself that they did not appreciate them - even his very disciples could not understand them...
...temptation of the Pope to plunge nations into war that he may regain his temporal power resembles the temptation on the mountain; the temptation of business men to combine and raise the price of grain is the temptation to turn stones into bread. Christ is ever willing to forgive sin so long as we make honest efforts to resist temptation. This willingness is seen in the Lord's Prayer and in His saying: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak...
...feels repentant and ends his Oberammergau journal with the hope that she will "try" to forget him. If the episode is founded on fact one must infer that writer and young lady had more than normal powers of impression and susceptibility. If it is fiction, it commits the sin of improbability. Certain touches of local color are well done...
Always there have been priests in the world and there always will be priests; wherever there is sin, there is need of a priest. Every human being who has revealed to anyone some of the beauty and power of life has acted as a priest. While no man can reveal everything he himself knows, much less can he reveal what is known to God. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Luthers, Calvin, Edwards, Channing, and Morris have written about Christ, and yet but little has been revealed about Jesus. How, then, shall we know the truth? Truth is life...