Weekly Quote 31

Not even in Israel have I found such faith - (Mt 8:10)
Every man and woman is the child of God

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The story of Jesus-Christ contains many accounts of Divine healing and reconciliation involving people who were not Jews, nor even his followers. It was their faith, their trust alone that fulfilled God's Law. Herein is a great lesson in religious tolerance. It places the relationship between man and God above religion.

Truth reaches out to the reasoning faculty in all people, their ability to think as well as feel. It is intense feelings that generally bedevil religious divisions, while reason shows that there is much in common among the great religions of the world and their modern offshoots - One Divine Creator, a human figure or figures who represent or exemplify God's law, the ever present Spirit of God permeating man and all his experience.

Our acceptance of God's presence in all people, and of their ways of realising this, is more than mere tolerance; our acceptance itself fulfils the spiritual law of Oneness - of God's supremacy in all things.

The Path of Truth Vol. 50, No. 3 page 158.

Weekly Quote 30

Each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour - (1 Cor 3:8)
In doing what I can for others, I serve in love

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It is good to study Truth, to listen to lectures or sermons, and to meditate, but we must do more than this - we must also work. By our fruits we shall be known. Of what use is it to study Truth if we do not put the teachings into practice?

Most of us have to work for a living, but we must also work for others, and each must choose in what way he can serve best. Horace Traubel tells us that we can speak out when others are silent. We can say man when others say money. We can stay up when others are asleep. We can keep working when others have stopped to play. We can give life big meanings when others give it little meanings. We can say love when others say hate. We can say every man when others say one man. We can try events by a hard test when others try them by an easy test. And we can give ourselves to life when other men refuse to do so.

Find out how best you can serve, and serve in love.

The Path of Truth Vol. 58, No. 1 page 45.

Weekly Quote 29

The Law of the Lord is perfect - (Ps 19:7)

I will not fear for I am under the divine protection

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Can you imagine what our small world - much less the vast universe - would be like if the Law of the Lord were not "perfect"? The average man dwells in a state of almost perpetual insecurity - and why? Because he does not stop to think that, since God is governing His entire cosmos, he himself has nothing whatever to fear.

The Creator is Order, Love and Power which means that discord does not exist in Him, that love being His overriding attribute, He cares for all that He has made and, Power being one of His other qualities, He has the capability to uphold, maintain and sustain all that He cherishes. This being so, wherefore do we doubt, we of little faith?

If we would look about us we should see that an omniscient, omnipotent Entity is in charge. None of the mighty forces of Nature ever gets completely out of hand; storms may arise, but they subside; volcanoes may erupt, but grass grows again; the seas sometimes engulf the land, but they recede. God sustains what He has brought forth and Progress in All-good is ever maintained.

The Path of Truth Vol. 57, No. 5, page 356.

Weekly Quote 28

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee - (Isa 26:3)
I guard my mind that I may think right thoughts which are acceptable to you, Father

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It is said that our thoughts go out into the air like waves, and attract similar waves to themselves. How necessary it is, therefore, that we should control our minds if we want to live in peace and be happy.

If we send out thoughts of hatred, anger, misery, other similar thoughts are joining ours and increasing them. Let us be sure to keep our minds single to the good that only good can be demonstrated in our lives. If we dwell on goodness, truth, love, beauty, health, happiness, and prosperity, these are the things that we can expect to manifest to us.

As we think, so we are, then let us think positively and constructively about all things. Let us know that we are one with God - one with His mind and intelligence, His wisdom and power. What He is, we potentially are. Let us act on this knowledge at all times that things may go well with us.

The Path of Truth Vol. 56, No. 5 page 284.

Weekly Quote 27

Commune with your own hearts on your beds - (Ps 4:4)
I DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER

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Hand in hand with Joy goes Peace, gentle reverberations of God in our hearts and minds. Many techniques, exercises, are offered to attain inner peace, but we may find it very simply. Say with the Psalmist "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want; He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters; He restores my soul." You may form your own sentiments and visualise your own images.

Peace, Joy, Trust, are the same thing - attunement with God your Father. We need to devote time daily to it, but it should follow us gently throughout our day, in all our activities, light and strenuous. When we become strident or irate we know we have lost touch, and need to refocus.

Learn never to mull over the hardships and frustrations of your day. They have passed, should never have been allowed foothold in your thoughts and emotions. Think now only of your true place as the beloved child of your Father, experience His Peace, Joy and assurance.

The Path of Truth Vol. 52, No. 3 page 180.

Weekly Quote 26

I will not fail you or forsake you - (Josh 1:5)
I honour God's promises with my determination

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Our resolve to follow the path of Truth is best demonstrated when the going is difficult. We do not panic or despair, but carry on with a quiet determination and conviction that the way is being made open in spite of all appearances.

It would be a hopeless mission if God whimsically decided whether to help us or abandon us. But this is impossible because He is Law and cannot but abide by His own terms. There are only a few variables in every true thing that we try to achieve in life - our sincerity and persistence. The Master puts it with a twinkle in his story of a man who goes to his friend at midnight to borrow bread. The friend obliges not because he feels sorry for the man but because of the man's sheer "importunity".

Therefore know that your heavenly Father never lets you down, and proceed with utter determination in all that you need and truly desire.

The Path of Truth Vol. 54, No. 4 page 242.

Weekly Quote 25

The aim...is love that issues from a pure heart - (1 Tim 1:5)
I accept God's love and move on

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Even sincere followers of Truth are vulnerable to feelings of self-satisfaction when they give of themselves to others and forgive. But the aim of Truth is a sort of forgetfulness about ourselves. In everything we do the works of our Father, never our own. Acclaim or failure never enter our minds because in God is everything assured.

The beginner in Truth grapples with self-awareness. It is natural because he or she is trying to cast off the restraining habits of a lifetime. But as we progress we come more and more to trust Love and therefore not to look in and around ourselves for the fruits of our new life. God wants us to accept and press on, not to linger unnecessarily in the moment.

So keep looking forwards, with a pure heart. Do not become anxious about the difficulties that you encounter in life no matter how grave they appear. Do not see yourself as God's soldier, engaged in a struggle with evil. Only God heals and solves. Your part, in love, is to open yourself to Him.

The Path of Truth Vol. 55, No. 2 page 94.