Category Archives: Faith

ESSENCE

Posted on July 24, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

The almost startling fact of the essential oneness of the human with the Divine, was the realisation and the teaching of Jesus. That the Divine works in and through the human in the degree that we are able in our … Continue reading →

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SIMPLE GIFTS

Posted on June 28, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

Christ’s thinking and teaching … dwelt when He pleased in the loftiest region of truths. … Words fell from Him the infinite depth of whose thought we have not fathomed yet. And yet, dwelling in this inner light and breathing … Continue reading →

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DIVINE NATURE

Posted on May 30, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

Spiritual character building is from within outward. Spiritual character lives in man; it is what God has engraved on man’s soul, ready for development through man’s spiritual efforts. Man builds spiritual character by consciously functioning in God-Mind, where, laying hold … Continue reading →

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DIVINE REALITY

Posted on February 4, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

Faith is no mere passive, receptive state. It is the soul’s grasp of divine reality, and therefore it implies both vision and obedience to it. In a word, it is dynamic–it is the movement of the whole self toward the … Continue reading →

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GOD’S PART

Posted on January 24, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

There are some things which we are to do ourselves, but there are others which God does not expect us to do. (… I speak of ourselves as the conscious part of us.) They are His part, and our greatest … Continue reading →

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EVOLUTION

Posted on January 1, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

“Remember God must win us. We are his vehicles. He cannot lose us. He must overcome creaturely defect and obstinacy. He must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. Divine love is the spirit of evolution effecting … Continue reading →

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MASTER LIGHT

Posted on December 6, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

God is the master light of all our seeing. That is, the light by which we see God and spiritual things is a light which comes from God, just as the light by which we see the star comes from … Continue reading →

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LIVING STILLNESS

Posted on October 19, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

There is a perfect passivity which is not indolence. It is a living stillness born of trust. In this effort of ours to bring into manifestation the good which we know belongs to every child of God, it is when … Continue reading →

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SABBATH

Posted on October 4, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

As we meet with problems of every nature–conflicts, enemies, hatred, persecution, injustice–we no longer try to reach out to remove them either physically or mentally, but we rest in His word. We rest from all power, and God works the … Continue reading →

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PERFECT CREATION – PERFECT PSALM

Posted on August 28, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

There is a short simple Psalm–the twenty-third, written by an ancient Palestine shepherd in shepherd’s pictorial language, which through the centuries has impressed almost all types of minds as a picture of life that belongs in the list of perfect … Continue reading →

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