give your attention, which is your life, to God rather than to limitation.

that the Will of God for us is harmony, peace, and joy, and that these things are to be attained by cultivating right thoughts, or “righteousness,”

As we study the Sermon on the Mount, we shall find every clause in it reiterating the great truth that outside things are but the expression (ex-pressed or pressed out) or out-picturing of our inner thoughts and beliefs; that we have dominion or power over our thoughts to think as we will; and thus, indirectly, we make or mar our lives by the way i

It is a combination of open-mindedness, faith in God, and the realization that the Will of God for us is always something joyous and interesting and vital, and much better than anything we could think of for ourselves. This state of mind also includes a perfect willingness to allow this Will of God to come about in whatever way Divine Wisdom consid

Jesus, we know, consistently refrained from laying down hard-and-fast rules and regulations for the details of our conduct, knowing that if our principles were right, such things would take care of themselves without fail; and we may be sure that, with his supremely practical and common-sense handling of human problems, he would have given the wise

it happens that every time you overcome a difficulty by prayer, you help the whole of the human race, past, present, and future, in a general way; and you help it to overcome that special kind of difficulty in particular.

wisdom is the perfect blending of intelligence and love.

The plain fact is that Jesus taught no theology whatever. His teaching is entirely spiritual or metaphysical.

In other words, your “earth” means the whole of your outer experience, and to “inherit the earth” means to have dominion over that outer experience; that is to say, to have power to bring your conditions of life into harmony and true success.