There is no valid reason for fear or discouragement in God’s universe. No element of failure, disappointment, or limitation is ever truly real or eternal. ... We must learn to draw the line between Truth and error, Life and death, Love and hate or fear, so closely that the unreal cannot reach the real...
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Have no will opposed to God. ... Trust in God and leave evil to do its own work of self-destruction. Always overcome evil with good. Never descend to the warfare between evil and human will trying to do God’s will. But forgive all offences and love every enemy you may think you have.
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You must use the abilities you have. Man is God-acting, so think of it as God-acting, not God helping man. No suggestion can stand between you and progress. It may take work because of the beliefs of obstruction, but do not be fooled by them. You can do it because God is the source of opportunity. You can gain all things through Christ.
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In the eternal reality of our being we are all members of God’s household, — His children, constituting one unbroken family, created and sustained by the one Father-Mother, God. Such being the eternal reality, it is the true statement now, and is made manifest in proportion as the real nature of God and man appears.
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A God who is perfect, fashions all things in perfection; a Creator who is good makes all things good; ... How important to the individual, then, that he empty his mind of sick, abnormal, hateful and unwholesome thoughts, and fill it with healthful, normal, kindly, and wholesome thoughts, because as his thoughts are, so is he.
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The spiritual record and authority should never be subservient to humanistic interpretation or intellectual scholasticism — a mere recording of mortal material history. Of this view our Leader has written, “It is well to know, dear reader, that our material, mortal history is but the record of dreams, not of man’s real existence...”
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Father, teach me how to still the clamoring of sense, and fill my place as listener, that I may hear Thy voice and grow to understand Thy Word, and so become Thy messenger. Then teach me how to banish pride and stubborn will, that I may be Thy representative — with no false sense of human zeal, that every word may bless and heal, when I Thy message give.
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A quarrel or a war between two nations may embitter the lives of men for generations. ... Kindness comes as blessing upon the righteous labor of man. Kindness enriches man’s life as the sunshine and the gentle rain persuade the growth and ripening of the seed hidden in the earth, until the fields are golden with harvest wealth.
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All human good and the good that is reality, one and the same good. Our human concept of good approximates the one good in proportion to our comprehension of the spiritual fact, that our human good is the one good. “Enable us to know, as in heaven, so on earth.” (S&H 17:2)
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It is the masculine thought that feels free to run things with justice, and to forget mercy. It fancies that love is a temptation against which it fancies it must harden itself, that it must rule love out of the heart before it can judge righteous judgement. ... The Master combined these two qualities.
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