There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.
There is no love without sacrifices.
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
Life is continuous, and is Infinite.
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults.
We grow to heaven. We don’t go to heaven.
You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
The way of the Cross is not easy, yet it is the tuneful, the rhythmic, the beautiful, the lovely way.
Smile always – and live the smile!
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.
It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden...
The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.
You get to heaven on the arms of people you have helped.
Then, to be able to remember the sunset, to be able to remember a beautiful conversation, a beautiful deed done where hope and faith were created, to remember the smile of a babe, the blush of a rose, the harmony of a song – a bird’s call; these are creative. For if they are a part of thyself, they bring you closer and closer to God.
It doesn’t matter, because it just doesn’t matter.
For, none may tell another how to be beautiful. It must be the reflection of that entertained in the heart and mind of the individual. And as He is beauty, He is friendship, He is love, the more and the nearer individuals reflect that in their conversation, in their dealings with their fellow man, the greater the glory to Him.
This may be set as a criterion to any-yes, ’to all: When such an experiment, such a trial, draws or tires, or makes the mind foggy or dull or become as a drain upon the physical energies, know you are attuning wrong-and static has entered, from some source! For the universal consciousness is constructive, not destructive in any manner-but ever constructive in its activity with the elements that make up an entity’s experience in the physical consciousness. 792-2.
We are all prone to think first of ourselves and when we find an individual interested in us we are interested in him, but if he is interested in himself first, seldom do we find him interesting. Then, how it must come home to us, “know ye not that I must be about my Fathers business?” if we would have Him interested in us.
Did you ever try to pray for somebody? That their lives might be changed?
For, thoughts are things! and they have their effect upon individuals, especially those that become supersensitive to outside influences! These are just as physical as sticking a pin in the hand!