“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7) Many times I have preached that one’s attitude determines his altitude.  How much a person achieves in life will be based on his ability to kep a positive, productive attitude.  … Did you know that faith comes from attitude?  Attitude can be either positive or negative.  Positive attitudes attract faith to us.  [...]

You have not only lost the knowledge of God, you have also lost faith in yourselves.  Infinite are the powers that lie in man, but he makes no use of them, he lets them wither.  Before he begins some work he introduces his thinking, and lets himself be governed by it.  And in its limitation the memory of man, which is lawfully subordinate to this earth, cannot grasp that the spirit should be superior [...]

To bear peace within, to mediate peace to men, requires such purity of soul that only a few men on earth will already be called children of God.  The man who really bears peace, God’s peace, within him will be comfort and balm to his fellow-men, will heal their wounds through his mere existence. – from From Past Millenia

If your neighbor’s actions seem wrong to you, you are not to set yourselves up as his judge, for each passes judgment upon himself!  Pay attention to yourselves, lest in the end you lack what is best; personal recognition! – from From Past Millennia

Devotion directs the use of power.  Devotion inspires love of a cause, belief in it, willingness to sacrifice for it.  The devoted man has faith in the truth of his labor and in its ultimate conquest.  Do you love anything so well that life itself seems desirable?  Then you are devoted to it.  Do you love that something so well that you are willing to set aside ordinary pursuits and labor for [...]

Image via Wikipedia God is not visible to human eyes.  He who wishes to worship Him must see Him beyond this World of Matter.  It is within his own soul that he must commune, for only in spirit can he rise upwards and faintly perceive something of God.  This you must first learn again, you human beings.  (from Past Eras Awaken, Volume III)