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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Man is forever enfolded within the perfect consciousness of Good. He cannot get away, for one instant, from the protecting, loving, all-inspiring, all-sustaining, all-seeing, all-controlling purity of Love. He has no care, no responsibility, nothing to arrange, to plan, to accomplish, to get, to long for, because he simply has all possible good.
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We could not hope for salvation if it were not equally available for all. Divine Principle knows no special dispensations. It is because Truth is universal that each of us may come into a knowledge of it. ... What a privilege it is, then, to help all mankind by our right thinking, our earnest prayers, our frequent and silent realizations of the truth!
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Man being the presence and expression of infinite Mind, man has within himself all that constitutes completeness and harmonious being — he does not desire — he is in possession.
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