Trustfulness
"Trust in Truth, and have no other trusts." (My. 171)
"Trust Truth, not error; and Truth will give you all that belongs
to the rights of
freedom. The Hebrew bard wrote, 'Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart; and lean
not unto thine own understanding."
(Mis. 297-298)
"Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God
is our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.'" (S&H
444)
"If we trust matter, we distrust Spirit." (S&H 234)
"Desire
is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires,
that they
may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words
and in deeds." (S&H 1)
"The first spontaneous motion of Truth
and Love, acting through Christian Science on
my roused consciousness,
banished at once and forever the fundamental error of faith
in things
material; for this trust is the unseen sin, the unknown foe, -- the
heart's
untamed desire which breaketh the divine commandments." (Ret.
31)
"The new birth is not the work of a moment. It begins with moments,
and goes on with
years; moments of surrender to God, of childlike
trust and joyful adoption of good;
moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration,
heaven-born hope, and spiritual love."
(Mis. 15)
"When a hungry heart
petitions the divine Father-Mother God for bread, it is not
given
a stone, -- but more grace, obedience, and love. If this heart, humble
and
trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread
of heaven, health,
holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to
receive the answer to its desire; then
will flow into it the 'river
of His pleasure,' the tributary of divine Love, and great
growth in
Christian Science will follow, -- even that joy which finds one's
own in
another's good." (Mis. 127)
"To divest thought of false trusts
and material evidences in order that the spiritual
facts of being
may appear, -- this is the great attainment by means of which we shall
sweep away the false and give place to the true." (S&H 428)
Pride
and Fear
"Pride and fear are unfit to bear the standard of Truth,
and God will never place it in
such hands." (S&H 30)
"At present
mortals progress slowly for fear of being thought ridiculous. They
are
slaves to fashion, pride, and sense." (S&H 68)
"As in Jesus'
time, so to-day, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple,
and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in." (S&H 142)
"The pride of circumstance or power is the prince of this world that
has nothing in
Christ. All power and happiness are spiritual, and
proceed from goodness." (Mis. 155)
"Remember that human pride forfeits
spiritual power, and either vacillating good or
self-assertive error
dies of its own elements." (Mis. 268)
"Instead of relying on the Principle
of all that really exists, -- to govern His own
creation, -- self-conceit,
ignorance, and pride would regulate God's action." (Mis. 354)
"Through
the channels of material sense, of worldly policy, pomp, and pride,
cometh
no success in Truth." (Ret. 79)
"The true understanding of
Christian Science Mind-healing never originated in pride,
rivalry,
or the deification of self." (Rudimental Divine Science 17)
"The feverish
pride of sects and systems is the death's-head at the feast of Love,
but
Christianity is ever storming sin in its citadels, blessing the
poor in spirit and keeping
peace with God." (Message of 1901)
"Jesus
commanded, 'Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead;' in other
words,
Let the world, popularity, pride, and ease concern you less,
and LOVE THOU."
(Message of 1902)
"As in Jesus' time, so to-day, tyranny
and pride need to be whipped out of the temple,
and humility and divine
Science to be welcomed in." (S&H 142)
Ignorance
"The time for
thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored
systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past
and the cold
conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance
of God is no longer
the steppingstone to faith. The only guarantee
of obedience is a right apprehension
of Him whom to know aright is
Life eternal. Though empires fall, 'the Lord shall
reign forever.'"
(S&H vii)
"The opinions of men cannot be substituted for God's
revelation. It must not be
forgotten that in times past, arrogant
ignorance and pride, in attempting to steady the
ark of Truth, have
dimmed the power and glory of the Scriptures, to which this
Christian
Science textbook is the Key." (Mis. 92)
"Ignorance, pride, or prejudice
closes the door to whatever is not stereotyped."
(S&H 144)
"We
may hide spiritual ignorance from the world, but we can never succeed
in the
Science and demonstration of spiritual good through ignorance
or hypocrisy."
(S&H 242)
"Ignorance, like intentional wrong, is
not Science. Ignorance must be seen and
corrected before we can attain
harmony." (S&H 251)
"The only excuse for entertaining human opinions
and rejecting the Science of being
is our mortal ignorance of Spirit,
-- ignorance which yields only to the understanding
of divine Science,
the understanding by which we enter into the kingdom of Truth on
earth
and learn that Spirit is infinite and supreme." (S&H 280)
"It
is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things,
which hide
spiritual beauty and goodness." (S&H 304)
"It is our
ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord,
and the right understanding of Him restores harmony." (S&H 390)
"We cannot spend our days here in ignorance of the Science of Life,
and expect to
find beyond the grave a reward for this ignorance. Death
will not make us harmonious
and immortal as a recompense for ignorance."
(S&H 409)
"The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness
is fear, ignorance, or sin."
(S&H 411)
"Pride is ignorance; those
assume most who have the least wisdom or experience;
and they steal
from their neighbor, because they have so little of their own." (Mis.
2)
"Ignorance was the first condition of sin in the allegory of Adam
and Eve in the
garden of Eden." (Mis. 109)
"Self-ignorance, self-will,
self-righteousness, lust, covetousness, envy, revenge, are
foes to
grace, peace, and progress; they must be met manfully and overcome,
or they
will uproot all happiness. Be of good cheer; the warfare with
one's self is grand; it
gives one plenty of employment, and the divine
Principle worketh with you, -- and
obedience crowns persistent effort
with everlasting victory." (Mis. 118)
"Ignorance of self is the most
stubborn belief to overcome, for apathy, dishonesty,
sin, follow in
its train. One should watch to know what his errors are; and if this
watching destroys his peace in error, should one watch against such
a result? He
should not. Our Master said, 'He that taketh not his
cross, and followeth after me,
is not worthy of me . . . and he that
loseth his life [his false sense of life] for my
sake shall find it.'
(Matthew 10:3,39) (My. 233)
Kingdom of Heaven
"What is the kingdom
of heaven? The abode of Spirit, the realm of the real. No matter
is
there, no night is there -- nothing that maketh or worketh a lie.
Is this kingdom afar
off? No: it is ever-present here." (Miscellaneous
Writings 174)
"The kingdom of heaven is the reign of divine Science:
it is a mental state. Jesus said
it is within you, and taught us to
pray, 'Thy kingdom come;' but he did not teach us to
pray for death
whereby to gain heaven. We do not look into darkness for light. Death
can never usher in the dawn of Science that reveals the spiritual
facts of man's Life
here and now." (Mis. 174)
"
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
The reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of
unerring, eternal,
and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is
supreme."
(S&H 590)
"Let us learn of the real and eternal, and prepare for
the reign of Spirit, the kingdom
of heaven, -- the reign and rule
of universal harmony, which cannot be lost nor
remain forever unseen."
(S&H. 208)
"It is 'easier for a camel to go through the eye of
a needle,' than for sinful beliefs to
enter the kingdom of heaven,
eternal harmony. Through repentance, spiritual baptism,
and regeneration,
mortals put off their material beliefs and false individuality."
(S&H
241)
"Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, health, holiness,
love -- the kingdom of
heaven -- reign within us, and sin, disease,
and death will diminish until they finally
disappear." (S&H 248)
"He who gains self-knowledge, self-control, and the kingdom of heaven
within
himself, within his own consciousness, is saved through Christ,
Truth." (My. 161)
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