The Will to Be Well

The Will to Be Well Charles Brodie Patterson Author of:"Seeking the Kingdom," "Beyond the Clouds," "The Library of Health," "New Thought Essays," and "Dominion and Power," and Editor of: The Arena and Mind The age of materialism is passing away; and the pessimism and infidelity of the past, with which it was so closely associated,…

They grow too greatFor narrow creeds of right and wrong, which fadeBefore the unmeasured thirst for good: while peaceRises within them ever more and more.Such men are even now upon the earth.—Browning The truth is never in danger. Whether buried by friends or foes, it always rises again with a mightier vitality, a more resistless…

No human eyes Thy face may see;No human thought Thy form may know;But all creation dwells in Thee,And Thy great life through all doth flow.—T. W. Higginson Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness, His rest.—Mrs. Browning…

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world in their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. From the mountain you see the mountain. Human life is made up of two elements,…

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations,given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.—Sir Humphrey Davy The end of life is to be like unto God: and the soul following God will be like unto Him:He…

The outer is always the shadow and form of the inner; the present is the fullness of the past, and the herald of the future.—Protap Chunder Mozoomdar Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on person and face.—Ruskin Exercise the mind with contemplation and the body with action and so…

The true secret of freedom, then, is to attune our soul sphere until it beats in rhythmic harmony with universal harmony.—The Light of Egypt There are two freedoms—the false, where man is free to do what he likes;the true, where man is free to do what he ought.—Charles Kingsley Who is the true man? He…

Our thoughts are the text; our lives preach the sermon. Let what is natural in you raise itself to the level of the spiritual, and let the spiritual become once more natural.Thus will your development be harmonious, and the peace of heaven will shine upon your brow—always on condition that your peace is made, and…

Worship's deeper meaning liesIn mercy, and not sacrifice.Not proud humilities of senseAnd posturing of penitence,But love's unforced obedience;Christ dwells not afar,But here, amidst the poor and blind,The bound and suffering of our kind;In works we do, in prayers we pray,Life of our life, he lives today.—John Greenlead Whittier On a Sabbath day, nearly nineteen hundred…

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.—Rev 3:16 Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.—Eph 5:14 The reign of dogmatic, theological Christianity is passing away. It has had its day—probably, also, its use—and people are…

Man is permitted muchTo scan and learnIn Nature's frame;Till he well-nigh can tameBrute mischiefs, and can touchInvisible things, and turnAll warring ills to purposes of good.He can controlAnd harmonize what seems amiss to flow.—John Henry Newman (1801) We are surrounded by mystery; yet we pay but little attention either to the mystery of form in…

The glorious creature laughed out even in sleep.But when full roused, each giant-limb awake,Each sinew strung, the great heart pulsing fast,He shall start up and stand on his own earth,—Then shall his long triumphant march begin,—Thence shall his being date,—thus wholly roused,What he achieves shall be set down to him.When all the race is perfected…

When divine faith, divine love, divine will, are united in one human being, this being becomes itself divine, becomes itself a master;his faith enables him to heal the body, his love to minister to the needs of the soul, while will gives him power to harmonize natural conditions.—Van Der Naillen In order for the highest…

Poise the cause in justice' equal scales,Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.—Shakespeare Even handed justice Returns th' ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.—Shakespeare It is a singular psychological fact that the spirit of persecution in a man never learns a lesson from the past. History shows that persecution, instead of…

I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.—Thomas Carlyle Everything worth knowing in this world relates itself in some way to man. Everything in the outer world of visibility corresponds to something in man's inner world of thought; therefore, we apprehend that…

The God of grace and mercy gives to each that which he craves for. If we think that all is well with us, He will leave us to try whether all is well. If we find that there is something that is not well, something that must be set right in us, He will set…

Oh man, know thyself! In thee is hid the treasure of treasures.Seek to converse in purity with your own pure mind and with God. The first and highest purity is that of the soul.—Epictetus The human heart is like heaven: the more angels the more room.—Fredericka Bremer What men have known of God is not…

Shall I not call God the BeautifulWho daily showethHimself to me in His gifts?—Emerson Love, the true love of God, is the love of His truth, of His Holiness, of His whole will.—Stanley Vinet Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or…

It is not what a man gets, but what a man is, that he should think of.—Henry Ward Beecher Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own.—Sir J. Stephen The kingdom that I seekIs Thine, so let the wayThat leads to it be…

It is safe to affirm that there are no new revelations. The same Word that ordained light never ceases so to ordain; the same Spirit that moved and operated upon the waters at the genesis, is potent and active today. The world may vary in form and aspect, but that which gives it life is…