The Religion of the soul

Anderson, Louis Francis

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Persistent identifier:: 1759778729

Author:: Anderson, Louis Francis

Title:: The Religion of the soul

Scope:: 203 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1922

Place of publication:: Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Publisher of the original:: Published by Society for Religious Education

Identifier (digital):: 1759778729

Signature of the source:: a 2006

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Erscheinungsjahr des Originals aus Copyright ermittelt

Usage licence:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2021

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Religion

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Title:: VIRTUES THE ETERNAL VOICE OF GOD IN CONSCIENCE AND THE SUBSTANCE OF RELIGION

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Title:: VIRTUES OF THE WILL

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VIRTUES OF THE WILL 61 To whom are we bound with such profound gratitude if not to God, the eternal Bestower of immortal gifts of life? [s participation in God not worthy of supreme faith in God? [s cooperation with God not worthy of supreme devotion to God? And is the affirmation of God in our inwardness and of our life in God not worthy of profoundest and most vivid gratitude? It is precisely the littleness of our faith in God, the littleness of our devotion to God and the little- ness of our gratitude to God that make our souls so miserably little, with no power for great deeds and no sense for the sublimity of truth and sacrificial sentiments. Without humility there is no bond with God, and, consequently, no true religion of the soul. Humility 1s the sacrament above all sacraments, the most solemn act of the soul directly sacrated by God. The negation of humility is pride, our greatest and most insidious enemy. Pride is the soul’s ten- dency to make itself independent of God. Through pride the soul becomes egocentric and is filled with vain and ruthless ambitions, with per- verted mentality and with sentiments of contempt,

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