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Rites and ceremonies come between me and Christ and become an idol unless they point beyond themselves to Christ.
Jesus did not begin with himself as the center of loyalty. He said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God . . . ; and all these things shall be added unto you”
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“In a broken nest there are no whole eggs.”
AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY: The kingdom is my Homeland; therefore I am at home in all lands.
“The most basic problem in community organization and leadership is formulation of the central idea to be achieved.”
“If you seek first the kingdom of God you will have that problem, but if you don’t seek first the kingdom of God then you will have nothing but problems.”
“Harmony of sound is music; harmony of line is sculpture or architecture; harmony of color is art; harmony of truth is poetry; harmony of life and goodness is fellowship with God and man.” And we may add: Harmony of the total life is the kingdom of God.
I belong to an unshakable kingdom; therefore passing events cannot shake me.
It is a kingdom that is in operation, and its operation produces heaven. Where it is not in operation, that is hell.
“You can pass all the laws you want, but what is in the seed will come out in the plant.”
I find ten laws written into our beings, and as we study them, they turn out to be the very laws of the kingdom of God. (1) The universe is a universe of moral consequence. (2) The morally and spiritually fit survive. (3) The Christian way is written in the structure of the universe. (4) Humility and obedience are the secret of knowledge and power. (5) An organism expends as much as it receives and no more; therefore receptivity is the first law of life. (6) The second law of life is that you must lose your life to find it again. (7) Greatness comes through service. (8) Love is the fundamental
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Jesus began with the kingdom of God.
He made “for the sake of the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:29) and “for my sake” synonymous. He made himself and the kingdom synonymous. The Person and the Order were one.
Order and the Person combined into a living whole, then it satisfies the need for the intimate—the Personal—and it also satisfies the need for the ultimate—the Order.
I see that if I am centered in myself, I cannot be centered in you. And I want to be centered in you. For when I am centered in myself, I am off-center, out of adjustment, unhappy. In you, I know adjustment and joy.
“But you have a heavenly Father and therefore the possibility of a new heredity. Surrender to him, and you will have a new heredity with the temper left out.”
I can do nothing this day beneath the dignity of my birth.
many have introduced just enough Christianity into their lives to set up a conflict.
The Way was operative in the minor issues of life, but the way of self was operative in the major issue, the issue as to who makes the decisions.
But you can’t make life sing at the edges until you make it sing at the center.
You are going to be called on to choose. You will have to say yes or no. And heaven or hell—here and now—will be in that yes or no.
Your question marks will never be straightened out into exclamation points of certainty and realization unless you pass from the question to the quest.
Consider your ways.
Change your directions.
Connect with Christ.
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(1) Consider your ways.
(2) Change your directions.
“Give me a willing spirit as my strength”
(3) Connect with Christ.
You may change but toward the wrong ones. Judas changed; he “repented himself,” went to the high priests,
You may connect with an institution and fail to get through to Christ.
You may stop at principles and miss the Person.
(4) Consent to surrender.
‘I am perfect everything, and I give you perfect everything.’
(5) Cease from struggling.
The two laws of life are receptivity and response. But first receptivity. Many reverse this and try to respond, to try, to do. No, first receive, receive by a quiet appropriating faith. Then you will respond naturally and out of the resources that receptivity brings. But if you try to respond before you receive, you will be responding out of emptiness. Your religious life will be strain, hence drain.
(6) Concentrate on acceptance.
Faith is pure receptivity, alert receptivity, aggressive receptivity.
(7) Cleanse your past.
Restitution often comes before restoration.
only small people are afraid to apologize.
