The Christian Scientist is actively about his Father’s business. He is wide awake to the fact that evil ever keeps pace with good and he acts accordingly. He is not hurried, but to him each hour is valuable. Because God is constantly unfolding to His own idea the infinity of good, the wise man does not miss this wondrous unfoldment.
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Let us refuse to allow error to attach itself to us in any way, shape, or manner. Its claim that it once had activity, presence, power, cause, intelligence, or law is a false and spurious claim, and should be seen and handled only as its last, desperate effort, since all else has failed, to get itself perpetuated as a belief of memory. Let us refuse to give it life, even to that extent.
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Divine Love increases and blesses our supply. Whatever is mine, is mine now; nothing can come between me and my perfect supply — neither time nor space. Supply is therefore here and now. There is nothing that can take it away from me, for there is but one power, all harmonious, beautiful. It is possible for us to do everything that it is right to do.
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Prayer that is right makes over the mind of him who prays. It is evil giving up its boast. Its logical result is increased selflessness. And thought so purified cannot fail to receive an answer to prayer. Such prayer is righteous power, for it defeats everything that would obstruct spiritual progress.
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...insist that the Lord God omnipotent reigns, which is another way of saying that Principle governs the world, governs the nations, governs business and industry, governs man and his affairs; making of none effect unprincipled forces which would seek to upset society, precipitate nations in strife, wreck businesses and economy, or otherwise interfere with man’s well-being.
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Everything in the universe belongs to God, to Mind; everything is in His hands; everything of which we are conscious has its being, its substance, and all its activities, in the one divine Principle. Likewise, everything in the universe belongs to us. Each one of us is an individual expression of Infinity, and consequently each one of us possesses all the glories of heaven and earth.
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True courage can proceed only from spiritual understanding. Sense-testimony does not furnish good and sufficient reasons for courage. Mere optimism is skin deep, and in the presence of danger reveals itself as insufficient. Only the understanding of the truth of being, of reality, can save humanity from the pretense to power claimed by error and unreality.
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The Christian Scientist keeps straight to the course. His whole inquiry and demonstration lie in the line of Truth; hence he suffers no shipwreck in a starless night on the shoals of vainglory. His medicine is Mind — the omnipotent and ever-present good.
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Man’s feelings can act only in accord with their Source and Principle, God, and they are not affected by that which is not their Source or Principle of being.
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