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Today's Thought Gem—May
31 posts · 1 participants · started May 1, 2015, 2:11 AM
If you truly desire to overcome the habit
of criticizing some friend, the quickest and
surest way of achieving such a change of attitude
is to establish the habit of praying for
that person very day of your life
Those who are God-conscious
without symbolism must not deny
the grace-ministry of the symbol
to those who find it difficult to
worship Deity and revere truth, beauty,
and goodness without form and ritual
Prayer has turned many
an irritable and complaining
invalid into a paragon of patience
and made him an inspiration
to other human sufferers
Do not be slothful as to ask God to solve
your difficulties, but never hesitate to ask
him for wisdom an spiritual strength to
guide and sustain you while you yourself
resolutely and courageously attack
the problems at hand
Pray as Jesus taught
his disciples—honestly,
unselfishly, with fairness,
and without doubting
God answers
the soul’s attitude,
not the words
Prayer is not a
technique of escape
from conflict but rather
a stimulus to growth
in the very face of conflict
Pray only for values,
not things;
for growth,
not for gratification
Civilization, science,
and advanced religions
must deliver mankind
from those fears born of
the dread of natural phenomena
Man’s greatest spiritual jeopardy
consists in partial progress,
the predicament of unfinished growth;
forsaking the evolutionary religions of fear
without immediately grasping
the revelatory religion of love
Any religious belief which is effective
in spiritualising the believer is certain
to have powerful repercussions
in the social life of such a religionist
Religious experience
unfailingly yields
the ‘fruits of the spirit’
in the daily life of the
spirit-led mortal
Religion inspires man
to live courageously and joyfully
on the face of earth;
it joins patience with passion,
insight with zeal,
sympathy with power, and
ideals with energy
…religion ennobles
the commonplace
drudgery of daily living…
Some persons are
too busy to grow
and are therefore
in grave danger of
spiritual fixation
The chief inhibitors
of growth are
prejudice and ignorance
Give every developing child
a chance to grow his own
religious experience;
do not force a ready-made
adult experience upon him
Growth is not truly indicated
by mere products but rather by progress.
Real educational growth is indicated by
enhancement of ideals, increased
appreciation of values, new meanings of values,
and augmented loyalty to supreme values
Children are permanently impressed
only by the loyalties of their adult
associates; precept or even example
is not lastingly influential
