item: #1 of 19
          id: 10395
      author: Van Dyke, Henry
       title: Joy and Power: Three Messages with One Meaning
        date: None
       words: 12006
      flesch: 79
     summary: But in doing this we must put the emphasis of our preaching to-day where it belongs, where Christ puts it, on the doctrines that are most important to human life and happiness. It is nothing new,--the meaning of this threefold message,--but it is the best that I have learned in life.
    keywords: christ; evil; god; good; happiness; heart; joy; life; man; men; power; spirit; things; way; world
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: 11304
      author: Moore, George
       title: The Lake
        date: None
       words: 77110
      flesch: 79
     summary: Father Oliver knew that the time for speaking of her was passing by, but he could not bring himself to speak, and instead he tried to persuade Father O'Grady to stay to dinner, but he could not be persuaded; and they walked to and fro, talking about their different parishes, Father O'Grady asking Father Oliver questions about his school and his church. But there was an impulse in the gentle day, and, turning from the sandy spit, Father Oliver walked to and fro along the disused cart-track about the edge of the wood, asking himself if he were going home, knowing very well that he could not bring himself to interview his parishioners that morning.
    keywords: church; country; day; doubt; eliza; end; eyes; father; father gogarty; father moran; father o'grady; father oliver; father peter; glynn; god; gogarty; going; good; home; house; ireland; island; lake; letter; life; man; mind; miss; moment; moran; nora; parish; poole; priest; road; saying; story; things; thinking; thought; time; tinnick; trees; way; woman; wood; writing; years
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        item: #3 of 19
          id: 13871
      author: Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
       title: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
        date: None
       words: 11042
      flesch: 75
     summary: and I have endeavored to act only for Him; whatever becomes of me, whether I be lost or saved, I will always continue to act purely for the love of_ GOD. He told me that the _foundation of the spiritual life_ in _him_, had been a high notion and esteem of GOD in faith; which when he had once well conceived, he had no other care at first, but faithfully to reject every other thought, _that he might perform all his actions for the love of_ GOD.
    keywords: faith; god; life; love; presence; soul; things; time
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        item: #4 of 19
          id: 14026
      author: Swedenborg, Emanuel
       title: Spiritual Life and the Word of God
        date: None
       words: 45169
      flesch: 65
     summary: True marriage love is a source of power and protection against the hells, as it is against the evils and falsities that ascend from the hells, and for the reason that through marriage love man has conjunction with the Lord, and the Lord alone has power over all the hells; also because through marriage love man has heaven and the church; consequently as the Lord unceasingly protects heaven and the church from the evils and falsities that rise up from the hells, so He protects all who are in true marriage love, because such and no others have heaven and the church. And this is why through marriage love man has peace, which is inmost joy of heart from a complete safety from the hells and a protection from infestations of the evil and falsity therefrom.
    keywords: a.e; divine; evils; god; good; heaven; hell; life; lord; love; man; marriage love; sense; spiritual; things; truth; word
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        item: #5 of 19
          id: 15082
      author: Underhill, Evelyn
       title: The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day
        date: None
       words: 78958
      flesch: 59
     summary: But the extent in which we find and feel it is the measure of the fullness of spiritual life that we enjoy. Yet we have been given the secret, the law of spiritual life; and psychologists would agree that it represents too the most favourable of conditions for a full psychic life, the state in which we have access to all our sources of power.
    keywords: cap; character; consciousness; divine; education; eternal; experience; fact; feeling; footnote; form; god; good; group; heart; history; human; instinctive; levels; life; living; london; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; order; past; power; prayer; psychology; real; reality; religion; self; sense; seq; soul; spiritual; suggestion; things; thought; time; type; use; way; work; world
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: 15964
      author: Benson, Arthur Christopher
       title: The Child of the Dawn
        date: None
       words: 69068
      flesch: 78
     summary: Were those grievous things still growing, seeding, flowering in other lives left behind? We must advance from what is merely brilliant to what is true; and though in the single life many a man seems to halt at a certain point, to have tied up his little packet of admirations once and for all, there are other lives where he will pass on to further loves, his passion growing more intense and pure.
    keywords: amroth; body; child; course; cynthia; day; desire; earth; god; good; hand; heart; high; kind; left; life; lives; look; love; lucius; man; mind; moment; pain; people; place; right; sense; sort; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; way; work; world
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: 18355
      author: Ammyeetis
       title: Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
        date: None
       words: 39283
      flesch: 63
     summary: In the everlasting rounds of human life, no new souls are being created and sent here to work out their salvation through their experiences incident to the life of this young planet, earth. Everywhere along the way, Nature trails her loose ends, well baited, with which to catch the unwary, and the whitening bones of the lonely emigrant family lost on the plains, and the snowy hair of the dead mountaineer bleaching on high summits or woven in the nests of birds, or the bodies of dead mariners, or the lonely corpse of the treacherously slain, pulsing with the tide on foreign shores, or the miners in their pits, forced by the deadly damps from all visible connection with human life, or the child of a superior race held captive by savages, or the beautiful white girl sold into the harem of a barbarous sultan, or any or all other of such expressions of destiny in the isolated lives of men are but pioneering the way of the race to complete homogeneousness and unquestioned ownership of the whole wide earth.
    keywords: children; death; divine; earth; earthly; evolution; existence; experience; god; good; human; humanity; individual; knowledge; law; life; lives; love; material; men; minds; nature; new; people; planet; power; race; set; soul; spirit; spiritual; things; time; truth; way; world
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: 21981
      author: Adler, Felix
       title: The Essentials of Spirituality
        date: None
       words: 17615
      flesch: 64
     summary: At least, to keep within the bounds of the artistic simile, the members of the Hebrew people were regarded as first-proof copies, and other men as somewhat dim and less perfect duplicates. Shall we say that such men are the outcome of their heredity, their education, their environment?
    keywords: act; attitude; case; day; end; good; human; law; life; man; men; moral; nature; order; principle; self; spirituality; things; view; worth
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: 23820
      author: Whiting, Lilian
       title: The Life Radiant
        date: None
       words: 73722
      flesch: 64
     summary: Within, beyond, the world of ether,--as a still profounder, still more generalized aspect of the Cosmos,--must lie, as I believe, the world of spiritual life. That the world of spiritual life does not depend upon the existence of the material world I hold as now proved by actual evidence.
    keywords: achievement; atmosphere; body; conditions; day; death; degree; divine; doctor; earth; energy; events; experience; fact; faith; forces; future; god; good; hour; human; individual; infinite; joy; lies; life; light; living; love; man; matter; means; meeker; mind; moment; nature; new; physical; power; present; progress; question; realm; self; sense; soul; spiritual; things; thought; time; truth; way; work; world
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        item: #10 of 19
          id: 2500
      author: Hesse, Hermann
       title: Siddhartha
        date: None
       words: 39778
      flesch: 82
     summary: Since young Siddhartha was in the hut, the old men had split the work. For a long time, he stood there, looked at the monks, saw young Siddhartha in their place, saw young Kamala walking among the high trees.
    keywords: eyes; face; friend; good; govinda; heart; kamala; life; love; man; path; people; river; samana; siddhartha; teachings; thought; time; vasudeva; world
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: 33701
      author: Valuy, Benôit
       title: Fraternal Charity
        date: None
       words: 12004
      flesch: 66
     summary: With great charity and affability they bear with the faults and shortcomings of others, careful to fulfil the law of Christ, which tells us to bear one another's burdens. With the exception of extraordinary cases, or when it refers to a bad habit or something otherwise irremediable, there is generally little charity and less prudence in telling the Superior-General of something blameable which has occurred.
    keywords: brethren; characteristic; charity; community; god; good; holy; jesus; life; love; order; preservative; religious; spirit; words
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: 35811
      author: Mechthild, of Magdeburg
       title: Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg
        date: None
       words: 34582
      flesch: 78
     summary: Thus the revelation of the love of God, which was to the soul the opening of heaven, the entrance into the Father's house where was the feast of joy, the music, and the dancing, was to lead to a walk of faithfulness here below, which would bring upon the witness of God persecution and shame and reproach. Thou beloved Lord Jesus Christ, Thou Eternal God, one with the Eternal Father, think upon me.
    keywords: book; christ; church; convent; dante; day; gertrude; god; heart; holy; joy; life; light; lord; love; matilda; place; soul; sweet; thee; things; thou; thy; time; work; years
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        item: #13 of 19
          id: 36162
      author: McClure, James G. K. (James Gore King)
       title: Living for the Best
        date: None
       words: 30161
      flesch: 77
     summary: Yes, though they pay no heed to mere servants and prophets, and though some unappreciative men slay even the Son, other men, the great multitude of men, when they realize that the Son is God's best possession, and realize that in His gift of Christ God exhausts the treasury of His heart, will reverence His Son. Best men are molded out of faults.
    keywords: character; christ; david; day; duty; father; god; good; heart; hours; jacob; jeremiah; jonathan; king; life; lives; love; man; men; mind; people; place; power; right; son; soul; time; use; victories; world
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: 36402
      author: None
       title: On Union with God
        date: None
       words: 13646
      flesch: 74
     summary: This is, in truth, the end of all thy labours, that thou mayest draw nigh unto God and repose in Him within thy soul, solely by thy understanding and by a fervent love, free from entanglement or earthly image. Let nothing remain which could come between thy soul and God, that so thou mayest be able to pass surely and directly from the wounds of the Sacred Humanity to the brightness of the Divinity.
    keywords: charity; god; good; heart; life; love; man; perfection; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; truth
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: 43611
      author: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
       title: The Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi
        date: None
       words: 7296
      flesch: 63
     summary: Those two chapters tell of men and women who railed upon their parents, remembering that their god was older than the god of their parents; and that which has the sword of Michael for an emblem commends the kings that wrought secret murder and so won for their people a peace that was _amore somnoque gravata et vestibus versicoloribus_, heavy with love and sleep and many-coloured raiment; and that with the pale star at the closing has the lives of the noble youths who loved the wives of others and were transformed into memories, which have transformed many poorer hearts into sweet flames; and that with the winged head is the history of the robbers who lived upon the sea or in the desert, lives which it compares to the twittering of the string of a bow, _nervi stridentis instar_; and those two last, that are fire and gold, are devoted to the satirists who bore false witness against their neighbours and yet illustrated eternal wrath, and to those that have coveted more than other men the house of God, and all things that are His, which no man has seen and handled, except in madness and in dreams. Why do you fly from our torches that were made out of sweet wood, after it had perished from the world and come to us who made it of old times with our breath?'
    keywords: book; eyes; house; life; men; things; time; voice; woman; world
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: 47747
      author: Percival, G. H.
       title: The Incarnate Purpose: Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life
        date: None
       words: 45561
      flesch: 68
     summary: _ Translation edited by Maurice A. Canney, M.A. _See_ Crown Theological Library, p. 13. =Constellations=, Primitive, _Brown_, 56. =Creed=, _Christian_, 16. =Crown Theological Library=, 10. =Cuneiform= Inscriptions, _Schrader_, 9. =Daniel= and his Prophecies, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. and its Critics, _C. H. H. Wright_, 28. =Danish= Dictionary, _Rosing_, 43.
    keywords: 4to; 8vo; book; christ; christian; church; cloth; consciousness; crown 8vo; death; demy; demy 8vo; development; doctrine; edited; edition; evidence; evolution; god; history; human; illustrations; immortality; individual; knowledge; lectures; library; life; liverpool; love; m.a; man; men; nature; net; new; pages; prayer; professor; religion; rev; royal; series; spiritual; suffering; theological; thought; translation; truth; university; vol; vols; work; world
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: 50916
      author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
       title: Evening Incense
        date: None
       words: 19292
      flesch: 81
     summary: May I spend each day as if possibly it were my last, so that should the midnight cry break upon my ears, Prepare to meet Thy God, it might be to me no unexpected summons, but as an angel whispering, The Master is come and calleth for thee. Thou art ever giving me impressive remembrances that at such an hour as I think not, the summons may come, Prepare to meet Thy God.
    keywords: day; evening; god; grace; incense; jesus; lord; love; night; prayer; sacrifice; spirit; thee; thine; thou; thy; world
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: 5657
      author: Lawrence, of the Resurrection, Brother
       title: The Practice of the Presence of God
        date: None
       words: 11062
      flesch: 81
     summary: The following year, in a second publication which he titled, 'The Practice of the Presence of God', de Beaufort included, as introductory material, the content of four conversations he had with Brother Lawrence. In this small book, through letters and conversations, Brother Lawrence simply and beautifully explains how to continually walk with God - not from the head but from the heart.
    keywords: brother; faith; god; lawrence; life; love; presence; time
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: 60377
      author: Thomas, à Kempis
       title: The Following of Christ, in Four Books Translated from the Original Latin of Thomas a Kempis
        date: None
       words: 64325
      flesch: 82
     summary: Some are preserved from great temptations, and are often overcome in daily little ones: that being humbled, they may never presume of themselves in great things, who are weak in such small occurrences. We blame little things in others, and pass over great things in ourselves.
    keywords: chap; christ; comfort; desire; glory; god; good; grace; great; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; peace; soul; thee; things; thou; thou art; thy; time; wilt; world
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