Entering the Kingdom

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Cosimo, Inc., 01/04/2007 - 104 páginas
Can unselfish love save the world? How can we accumulate the essential blessings of a happy life? What emotions must we abandon-and which should we embrace-to find joy? Such conundrums were ever on the mind of James Allen, one of the most popular writers in the fields of inspiration and spirituality at the turn of the 20th century. In this crisp, cheerful little book, he explores the possibilities of contentment and comfort the answers bring. A classic of spiritual succor, first published in 1908, this is as vital and as necessary a work as it was a century ago. British author and pop philosopher JAMES ALLEN (1864-1912) retired from the business world to pursue a life of writing and contemplation. Best known for As a Man Thinketh, he authored many other books about the power of thought including The Path to Prosperity, The Mastery of Destiny, and Byways of Blessedness.

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THE SOULS GREAT NEED
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THE FINDING OF A PRINCIPLE
46
AT REST IN THE KINGDOM AND ALL THINGS
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Página 45 - Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek : for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Página 32 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Página 75 - Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing : sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, follow me.
Página 77 - Therefore fear I not. And therefore, Holy Sir ! my life is glad, Nowise forgetting yet those other lives Painful and poor, wicked and miserable, Whereon the gods grant pity ! but for me, What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come) shall come well.
Página 89 - The children of the Kingdom are known by their life. They manifest the fruits of the Spirit — "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance, self-control" — under all circumstances and vicissitudes.
Página 37 - It knows not wrath nor pardon; utter-true Its measures mete, its faultless balance weighs; Times are as nought, to-morrow it will judge, Or after many days.
Página 34 - He who cannot fearlessly face his lower nature cannot climb the rugged heights of renunciation. Each man comes under the laws of his own being, never under the laws of another. When the soul is most tried. its need is greatest DO not despair because of failure. From your particular failure there is a special greatness, a peculiar wisdom, to be gained; and no teacher can lead you to that greatness, that wisdom, more surely and swiftly than your experience...

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