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I do dimly perceive that while everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying there is, underlying all that change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and recreates.
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That informing power or spirit is God, and since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.
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And is this power benevolent or malevolent?
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I see it as purely benevolent.
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For I can see, that in the midst of death, Life persists, in the midst of untruth, Truth persists, in the midst of darkness, Light persists.
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Hence I gather, that God is Life, Truth, Light, He is Love.
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He is the supreme good.
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But He is no god who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.
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God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.
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He must express Himself in every smallest act of His votary.
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It is proved not by extraneous evidence, but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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To reject this evidence is to deny oneself.
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This realization is preceded by an immovable faith.
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He who would, in his own person, test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith, and since faith itself cannot be proved by extraneous evidence, the safest course is to believe in...; the law of Truth and Love.
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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to Truth and Love.
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I confess that I have no argument to convince through reason, faith transcends reason.
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All that I can advise is not to attempt the impossible.
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Name It's Really Not As Complicated As You're Making It Out to Be
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Artist Being As An Ocean
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Album Dear G-D...
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