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I - GOD

    There is a power greater than ourselves, which manifests itself within us as well as everywhere else in the universe. This I call God.
    God is the cause - everything else is an effect. You are an effect, which has free will, but only over how soon you will be willing to live in harmony with divine purpose.
    God created the universe as a school – learning and growing experience for us. You can say love was the creative force.
    God is Love, and whenever you reach out in loving kindness, you are expressing God.
    God is Truth and whenever you seek truth, you are seeking God.
    God is beauty, and whenever you touch the beauty of a flower or a sunset, you are touching God.
    God is the intelligence that creates all and sustains all and binds all together and gives life to all.
    God is the essence of all, so you are within God and God is within you – you could not be where God is not.
    To know God is to feel peace within – calmness, serenity, an unshakeableness, which enables you to face any situation.
    To know God is to be so filled with joy that it bubbles over and goes forth to bless the world.
    Permeating all is the law of God – physical law and spiritual law. Disobey it and you feel unhappiness – you feel separated from God. Obey it and you feel harmony – you feel close to God.
    Heaven and hell are states of being. Heaven is being in harmony with God’s will – hell is being out of harmony with God’s will. You can be in either state on either side of life. Eventually all will seek harmony.
    Nothing threatens those who do God’s will, and God’s will is love and faith.
    Those who feel hate and fear are out of harmony with God’s will and are likely to have difficulties.
    There are two things that remove fear from your life. One is real love toward your fellow human beings. You cannot fear that which you really love. The other is a constant awareness of the presence of God.
    God’s laws can be known from within, but they can also be learned from without, as they have been spoken of by all great religious teachers.
    God’s guidance can only be known from within. We must remain open to God’s guidance.
    God never guides us to break divine law, and if such a negative guidance comes to us we can be sure it is not from God.
    Knowing God is not reserved for the great ones. It is for little folks like you and me. God is always seeking every one of us.
    It’s my custom to think about God constantly now, but I began by thinking about God last thing at night and first thing in the morning.
    Communicating with God is a deep inner knowing that God is within you and around you. God “speaks” through an awakening of your divine nature.
    You can find God if you will only seek – by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. When you find God it will be in the stillness. You will find God within.
    Your own divine nature is actually a drop from the ocean of divine essence around you, and has access to the ocean.
    From that drop from the ocean of divine essence came all inspired writing in the first place and somebody wrote it down. You yourself can reach out directly into that source.
    I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do – using me as an instrument.

II - PRAYER

    We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.
    I used to walk receptive and silent amid the beauties ness of nature and these wonderful insights would come to me as I prayed the prayer of receptive silence, which is sometimes called meditation.
    When walking in nature, from the beauty around me I got my inspiration, from the silent receptiveness my meditation, and from the walking both my exercise and my breathing.
    Nature speaks a very strong language – luring us all toward God.
    Receptive prayer results in an inner receiving which motivates to right action.
    Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God along with constant projection of positive thoughts.
    All right prayer has good effect, but if you give your whole life to the prayer you multiply its power.
    The most important part of prayer is what we feel, not what we say.
    No one really knows the full power of prayer.
    I have discovered that for some who were in very great trouble, the prayer of visualization was helpful to them. You can visualize God’s light each day and send it to someone who needs help.
    One must be very careful when praying for others to pray for the removal of the cause and not the removal of the symptom.
    If you have a problem, take the matter to God in prayer, and visualize it in God’s hands. Then leave it, knowing it is in the best possible hands.
    I am constantly thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.
    I believe nothing is too big to pray for. All good prayer has good effect whether you see the results or not.
III - RELIGION

    Religion is not an end in itself. One’s union with God is the ultimate goal.
    Difference between faiths lies in creeds and rituals rather that religious principles.
    We should try to understand cultural and religious differences – and realize that always our likenesses are greater that our differences.
    When we attempt to isolate another we only isolate ourselves. We are all God’s children and there are no favorites.
    God is revealed to all who seek; God speaks to all who will listen.
    A truly religious person has religious attitudes : a loving attitude toward fellow human beings, an obedient attitude toward God – toward God’s law and God’s guidance, that you are more than the self – knowing that you are more than the self-centred nature, more than the body, and life is more than the earth life.
    One can become so attached to the outward symbols and structure of religion that one forgets its original intent – to bring one closer to God.
    We have quoted, “Be not overcome of evil, overcome evil with good” and then attempted to overcome evil with more evil, thereby multiplying the evil.
    We worship God, but have no faith in the working of God’s law of love. The world awaits the living of the law of love, which will reach the divine within all human beings and transform them.
    You will note that Jesus says, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not what I say?” Therefore, it seems to me that a real Christian would be living by the laws of God that Jesus taught.
    Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it – almost none.
    On the one hand (people) talk about Christian values, on the other hand they say, “Isn’t force the only deterrent they respect?” This has been our trouble down through the ages – we have given only lip service to Christian values.
    The teaching of divine truth – primarily the law of love – is the religion of the future. It matters not what it is called.

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