As Divine Principle is imperative, so are His demands imperative. There is neither broad highway nor narrow byway affording escape therefrom. And why should mortals seek to escape the beneficent requirements of the Principle that is infinite Love?
Sin can be consigned to eternal punishment (annihilation), but not the individual through whom it manifests itself. The sinner's punishment is eternal (age-abiding) until he repents—ceases sinning.
If darkness is but the absence of light, is darkness a thing? What says there is darkness but the physical sight, which even in the strongest light can see only a short distance?
He who looks for perfection in any mortal is chasing an ignis fatuus. Only as mortality is swallowed up in immortality is perfection attained.
Selfishness is the hardest taskmaster in the world. Mankind are slaves until they rise above its exactions and break the bondage.
Loyalty is a relative word. There are those who are intensely loyal to Truth—on their own terms.
Christian Science has come to save, not to damn (condemn).
Life is the light; death the shadow.
