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Today's Thought Gem—September

61 posts · 1 participants · started Sep 1, 2014, 12:42 AM

  1. No man is at any time disturbed

    by his neighbour’s attitude when

    he has perfect confidence in 

    the truth of that which he

    wholeheartedly believes

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  2. Courage is the confidence

    of thoroughgoing honesty

    about those things which

    one professes to believe

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  3. Sincere men are unafraid

    of the critical examination

    of their true convictions

    and noble ideals

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  4. Man should not blame God

    for those afflictions which are

    the natural result of the life

    which he chooses to live

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  5. It is the Father’s will that

    mortal man work persistently

    and consistently toward the 

    betterment of his estate

    on earth

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  6. The animal nature and

    the lower forms of will creatures

    do not progress favourably 

    in environmental ease

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  7. The religion of the spirit

    requires only uniformity of

    insight, not uniformity of

    viewpoint or outlook

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  8. Never forget there is one adventure

    which is more satisfying and thrilling

    than the attempt to discover the will of

    the living God, and that is the supreme

    experience of honestly trying to do that

    divine will

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  9. When you once begin to find

    God in your soul, presently you

    will begin to discover him in 

    other men’s souls

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  10. While the mind is not the seat of

    the spiritual nature, it is indeed

    the gateway thereto

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  11. Vern wrote:  Today, 1 September is “Unselfishness is the badge of human greatness” a suggested match would be:

    The happy and effective person

    is motivated, not by fear of wrongdoing,

    but by love of right doing

     

    [Paper 140:4.6, page 1572:6]

  12. Vern wrote:  Today, 2 September is “The adult is willing to sow seeds of self-denial in order to reap subsequent harvests ofaugmented happiness” a suggested match would be:

    The poor in spirit

    seek for

    goals of spiritual wealth — for God

     

    [Paper 140:5.7, page 1573:9]

  13. Vern wrote:  Today, 3 September is “You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in order spiritually to be alike” a suggested match would be:

    Spiritual unity is derived

    from the consciousness that

    each of you is indwelt,

    and increasingly dominated,

    by the spirit gift of the heavenly Father

     

    [Paper 141:5.1, page 1591:6]

  14. Vern wrote:  Today, 4 September is “Fear is man’s chief enslaver and pride his greatest weakness” a suggested match would be:

    …will you betray yourself

    into bondage to both of these

    destroyers of joy and liberty?

     

    [Paper 142:0.2, page 1596:2]

  15. Vern wrote:  Today, 5 September is “The Father in heaven never fails to accept the sincere worship of his children on earth” a suggested match would be:

    Sincere worship connotes

    the mobilization of all the powers

    of the human personality

    under the dominance of the evolving soul

    and subject to the divine directionization

    of the associated Thought Adjuster

     

    [Paper 5:3.7, page 66:3]

  16. Vern wrote:  Today, 6 September is “the evidence to all the world that you have been born of the spirit is that you sincerely love one another” a suggested match would be:

    …finding yourself born of the spirit

    and happily in the kingdom of God,

    you would begin to bear in your daily life

    the abundant fruits of the spirit

     

    [Paper 142:6.7, page 1602:6]

  17. Vern wrote:  Today, 7 September is “Real families are built upon tolerance, patience and forgiveness” a suggested match would be:

    The father is supremely interested

    in the progressive welfare of his progeny

     

    [Paper 142:7.10, page 1604:5]

  18. Vern wrote:  Today, 8 September is “You must realize that the best method of solving some entangled problems is to forsake them for a time” a suggested match would be:

    …your problem is found to

    have shrunk in size and proportions

    while you have been

    resting your mind and body

     

    [Paper 143:3.3, page 1611:1]

  19. Vern wrote: Today, 9 September is “Work should alternate with play religion should be balanced by humour” a suggested match would be:

    Profound philosophy

    should be relieved by rhythmic poetry.

    The strain of living — the time tension

    of personality — should be relaxed

    by the restfulness of worship

     

    [Paper 143:7.3, page 1616:5]

  20. Vern wrote:  Today, 10 September is “Worship is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect on these new spiritual significances back into the life which now is” a suggested match would be:

    Prayer is spiritually sustaining,

    but worship is divinely creative

     

    [Paper 143:7.5, page 1616:7]

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