Inspiration to action

Prayer has been the ancestor of much peace of mind, cheerfulness, calmness, courage, self-mastery, and fair-mindedness in the men and women of the evolving races. If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing some friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Deity and to revere truth, beauty, and goodness without form and ritual Prayer has turned many an irritable and complaining invalid into a paragon of patience and made him an inspiration to all other human sufferers Do not be so slothful as to ask God to solve your difficulties, but never hesitate to ask him for wisdom and spiritual strength to guide and sustain you while you yourself resolutely and courageously attack the problems at hand Pray as Jesus taught his disciples--honestly, unselfishly, with fairness, and without doubting God answers the soul's attitude, not the words Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict To each of you and to all of us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind!

Inspiration to action
Prayer has been the ancestor of much peace of mind, cheerfulness, calmness, courage, self-mastery, and fair-mindedness in the men and women of the evolving races. If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing some friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Deity and to revere truth, beauty, and goodness without form and ritual Prayer has turned many an irritable and complaining invalid into a paragon of patience and made him an inspiration to all other human sufferers Do not be so slothful as to ask God to solve your difficulties, but never hesitate to ask him for wisdom and spiritual strength to guide and sustain you while you yourself resolutely and courageously attack the problems at hand Pray as Jesus taught his disciples--honestly, unselfishly, with fairness, and without doubting God answers the soul's attitude, not the words Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict To each of you and to all of us, God is approachable, the Father is attainable, the way is What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind!

The religions of revelation allure men to seek for a God of love because they crave to become like him After all, to mortals the most important thing about eternal Paradise is the fact that this perfect abode of the Universal Father is the real and far-distant destiny of the immortal souls of the mortal and material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space God loves each individual as an individual child in the heavenly family The love of the Father absolutely individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal Father, a child without duplicate in infinity, a will creature irreplaceable in all eternity Do not allow the magnitude of the infinity, the immensity of the eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the matchless character of God to overawe, stagger, or discourage you; for the Father is not very far from any one of you; he dwells within you, and in him do we all literally move, actually live, and veritably have our being To assume that the universe can be known, that it is intelligible, is to assume that the universe is mind made and personality managed If man's personality can experience the universe, there is a divine mind and an actual personality somewhere concealed in that universe The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him. Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love

The religions of revelation allure men to seek for a God of love because they crave to become like him After all, to mortals the most important thing about eternal Paradise is the fact that this perfect abode of the Universal Father is the real and far-distant destiny of the immortal souls of the mortal and material sons of God, the ascending creatures of the evolutionary worlds of time and space God loves each individual as an individual child in the heavenly family The love of the Father absolutely individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal Father, a child without duplicate in infinity, a will creature irreplaceable in all eternity Do not allow the magnitude of the infinity, the immensity of the eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the matchless character of God to overawe, stagger, or discourage you; for the Father is not very far from any one of you; he dwells within you, and in him do we all literally move, actually live, and veritably have our being To assume that the universe can be known, that it is intelligible, is to assume that the universe is mind made and personality managed If man's personality can experience the universe, there is a divine mind and an actual personality somewhere concealed in that universe The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him. Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love

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