We get the feeling that if we could lose our preconceived influences altogether and start over by facing reality in purity and simplicity, we would get to the point where we would feel comfortable deep inside our spirits.

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I pin my worship on the most inarguable premise – that there is a Creator that creates for a reason and I'm best served when I dedicate myself to Him.

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What would I have to gain by deceiving others in His word, knowing I would lose the only thing I really value if I did so? There is a point where we must venture beyond our trust in God and on into trust in those through whom God has entrusted His vision.

We instinctively feel a certain revulsion at the notion that God creates us and then denies us the culmination of His creation. This very revulsion teaches us the lessons of spirituality that God offers to those who refuse to be blinded by religion.

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There's no longer any need to draw inside yourself for self's sake. The peace and joy will come from having forgotten the needs of the ego – naturally, as a preordained result of a life lived for God.

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We should not judge what another is, but only what he does, and then only first allowing that much of what he does is planned by God as well.

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We may have a lot more in common than the ten o'clock news might imply. We are not as diverse as we think because in God's eyes we are all the same -- everything!

That's what's missing – our ability to recognize the immensity of God's love for us, and our ability to expand the scope of our intellect enough to desire to experience God more than we have.

If you do not see beyond this world, you cannot reasonably test someone who does; you will not recognize the promise of the resurrection unless you yourself experience it.