A Course in Miracles

by Helen Schucman

true. As God’s messengers, His teachers are the symbols of salvation. They ask the patient

inadequacy. Perhaps there is a guilty embarrassment stemming from false humility. The form

by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan. It is most unlikely that changes in attitudes

change their life situation almost immediately, but these are generally special cases. By far the

personally insulting. The world’s training is directed toward achieving a goal in direct opposition

impossible. This is not an opinion but a fact. In order to judge anything rightly, one would

because a Thought of God has entered. What else but a Thought of God turns hell to Heaven

function

as a substitute for everything?

made, for now it has no purpose and is gone. The father of illusions is the belief that

transcended limitation. Would the greatest teacher be unavailable to those

peace. C-3.3. And so they need an illusion of help because they are helpless; a Thought

Son of God. God knows it is His Own, as it is his. And here They join, for here the face

God. True prayer must avoid the pitfall of asking to entreat. Ask, rather, to receive what is

illusions or not. You cannot be asked to accept answers which are beyond

its formless state, and fuses into total communication with God. In its

stood against the world. Humility brings peace because it does not claim

hears. S-2.III.6. And what is it He speaks to you about? About salvation and the gift of peace.

prayer rest on the earth an instant, as the world is shined away. This instant is the goal of

never left My Son. Listen, My child, your Father calls to you. Do not refuse to hear the Call for

God. How lovely are you, child of Holiness! How like to Me! How lovingly I hold you in My