Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth. Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must "have her perfect work."
Showing posts with label Motive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motive. Show all posts
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Day 229: Love is the Incentive
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day 228: Mental Malpractice
All mental malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling another from wrong motives, and it is practised either with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.
Show your student that mental malpractice tends to blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct him how to bar the door of his thought against this seeming power,--a task not difficult, when one understands that evil has in reality no power.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Day 190: one good motive
there is more life and immortality in one good motive and act, than in all the blood which ever flowed through mortal veins and simulated a corporeal sense of life
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Day 121:Leaders
Mary Baker Eddy has a few thoughts about leaders. What a wonderful reading to pray about in all kinds of circumstances.
inferior motives induce the infuriated attacks on individuals…
A mother is the strongest educator, either for or against crime.
To prevent the experience of error and its sufferings, keep out of the minds of your [protégés] either sinful or diseased thoughts.
Words to find or describe leaders
- virtue
- progress
- freedom from wrong
- receptiveness of right
- mental height
- wise spiritual guides to health and hope
- should uplift the standard of Truth
- They should so raise their hearers spiritually, that their listeners will love to grapple with a new, right idea and broaden their concepts
- seek dignity of God's laws
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Day 4: My Motive for Prayer
In this reading, Mary Baker Eddy asks what the reader’s motive is for prayer. She gives four options:
- make ourselves better
- benefit those listening
- enlighten infinite mind
- heard of men
The way she phrases this, all four options are incorrect motives for prayer. However, the first one, to make ourselves better, is exactly what I’m aiming for -- to be more spiritual by understanding God.
At the beginning of the chapter, she lays out an interesting equation (or at least that’s the way I thought of it):
absolute faith = spiritual understanding = unselfed love
My desire for personal spiritual progress is currently taking front seat to unselfed love. Probably need to correct that.
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