Mortal man will be less mortal, when he learns that matter never sustained existence and can never destroy God, who is man's Life. When this is understood, mankind will be more spiritual and know that there is nothing to consume, since Spirit, God, is All-in-all. What if the belief is consumption? God is more to a man than his belief, and the less we acknowledge matter or its laws, the more immortality we possess. Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquered. Correct material belief by spiritual understanding, and Spirit will form you anew. You will never fear again except to offend God, and you will never believe that heart or any portion of the body can destroy you.
Showing posts with label Faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Faith. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Day 215: God is more than Belief
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Day 207: Faith & Love
Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Day 178: Faith Healing (Faith + Healing)
When we lose faith in God's power to heal, we distrust the divine Principle which demonstrates Christian Science, and then we cannot heal the sick. Neither can we heal through the help of Spirit, if we plant ourselves on a material basis.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Day 168: Faith by Demonstration
In Science we can use only what we understand. We must prove our faith by demonstration.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Day 152: Death of Material Sense
The death of a false material sense and of sin, not the death of organic matter, is what reveals man and Life, harmonious, real, and eternal.
An improved belief is one step out of error, and aids in taking the next step and in understanding the situation in Christian Science.
Until belief becomes faith, and faith becomes spiritual understanding, human thought has little relation to the actual or divine.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Day 70: Faith
Today’s reading is about faith in God as opposed to faith in established theology, or material beliefs.I think the word faith muddles the discussion because, these days, it has taken on a different theological flavor in some ways. A better word might be trust. Do we trust God? How much? All the way?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Day 11: Enlightened Faith
This is one of my favorite sections of the entire book. It isn’t radical or controversial. It’s just an easy “yeah, I agree with that” kind of reading. I don’t have to learn any new words, or try to decipher some awkward grammar usage.
The thought that will stay with me all day is:
Trustworthiness is the foundation of enlightened faith.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Day 217: Great Quotes
Some days, I underline most of the reading. Today is one of those days but for this blog, I’ll just pick out a few:
Man’s privilege at this supreme moment is to prove the words of our Master: “If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.”
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.
eternal building
everlasting Father
We must realize the ability of mental might to offset human misconceptions and to replace them with the life which is spiritual, not material.
We must hold forever the consciousness of existence
We must being, however, with the more simple demonstrations of control, and the soon we begin the better.
if we are wise, we look beyond a single step in the line of spiritual advancement
Faith should enlarge its borders and strengthen its base by resting upon Spirit instead of matter.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Day 178: The life-link connection
I marked several things in this reading but I’m only going to cover two. Please read this section for yourself several times. There are lots of grains of thought here.
…that life-link forming the connection through which the real reaches the unreal, Soul rebukes sense, and Truth destroys error.
Jesus was the life-link or the original demonstration. There were lots of demonstrations, but this was God’s demonstration to us. I never thought of Jesus that way before, as a CS demonstration.
When we lose faith in God’s power to heal, we distrust the divine Principle which demonstrates Christian Science, and then we cannot heal the sick.
I take this as a guide to check my own thinking and examine the results of my demonstration – to weigh my faith.
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