We could not hope for salvation if it were not equally available for all. Divine Principle knows no special dispensations. It is because Truth is universal that each of us may come into a knowledge of it. ... What a privilege it is, then, to help all mankind by our right thinking, our earnest prayers, our frequent and silent realizations of the truth!
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Man being the presence and expression of infinite Mind, man has within himself all that constitutes completeness and harmonious being — he does not desire — he is in possession.
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Trust in God and leave evil to do its own work of self-destruction. Always overcome evil with good. Never descend to the warfare between evil and human will trying to do God’s will. But forgive all offences and love every enemy you may think you have.
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The reward is always great if we turn unfalteringly to the one God, divine Mind, for guidance, with perfect confidence in His government. Instead of wasting time in argument over mere differences of opinion, let us unite with our brother in true brotherliness, striving to blot out the common foe, self-will and all evil suggestions, which, if accepted, would seem to separate God’s children.
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If someone were audibly arguing with you, it could not seem more real than the silent argument of malicious mind endeavoring to make you accept its lies as your own mental volition. ... As a Christian Scientist, you must not and cannot yield to such a palpable fraud. To do so would be fatal to your health, harmony and progress.
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When Christian Scientists meet together, they should always wear the robes of demonstration. This will keep divine Mind in the ascendency, rule out the human mind and save the church from falling back into mortal mind ways.
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One need only examine the attitude of Jesus and that of materia medica regarding the cause of disease and suffering, to discover that no similarity whatever exists between them. In his treatment of sickness Jesus rested his case entirely with God; while materia medica ignores God altogether and rests its case with matter, holding the issue as wholly within material law.
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Our home is in Mind, in spiritual consciousness, the eternal harmony of Soul. The builder and maker of this home is Mind. It is built and established in the eternal. Nothing can destroy the harmony of our home. Mind fills it with the glories of the kingdom of God. No fear of sin, sickness, or death can enter this home; no sense of poverty or want.
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Body and mind are parts of mentality. This is why a change in thought inevitably results in a change in the body. Since God is Mind or Spirit, man and the world are mental and spiritual. Obstructions and dangers, therefore, have only a spectral existence. Hence safety is the unchanging condition.
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Righteousness is a great power. Every true thought leads towards the possession of good. True spiritual thinking, the knowledge of all that is true about God, man, and the universe, is the complete and final remedy for all human woe.
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Mrs. Eddy once said to a group of us that we should never permit ourselves to react with intensity to every unpleasant thing. She meant that we should so discipline our individual thought with the truth of being, until we could stand in the presence of seeming error, mentally unmoved and steadfast in our faith in divine Intelligence.
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