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Rejoice! You are a good idea—wholly good, because created by God, infinite good. You are also a healthy, intelligent, immortal idea because your Maker is perfect, harmonious Spirit, supreme intelligence, deathless Life.

Truth has always been present, but the promise of the Comforter is the promise of the coming of a deeper and more widespread understanding of Truth than was earlier received. This new effulgence of eternal light comes as the result of the continual activity of the Christ in transforming human thought.

Healing occurs when we feel the ineffably tender relationship that exists between us and our Father-Mother God, who already knows all our needs and who in reality has already satisfied them out of His limitless self-containment and wisdom. Then spiritual healing comes in peace, in a quiet realization of an eternal fact.

The study of the Bible is a joyful work. But often the reader of the Scriptures becomes discouraged when he is confronted by the wealth of information contained in their pages.

To what are termed the material senses, the statement that man is ageless constitutes an absurdity. Man, according to these senses, begins in material birth, continues through infancy and maturity to maximum achievement, and on to the weakness of a second childhood and final oblivion.

We were on the Isle of Patmos, just outside the cave where St. John is said to have lived in exile and to have written his letters to the Asian churches.

Inspiration Inspiration is like a bucket of fireflies. Once you've filled the bucket, just peel off the lid and stand back.

How does Christian Science actually bring reform and healing to disturbed or diseased human lives? This is a question the newcomer often asks, but its answer is just as vital to the more seasoned student of this Science. Many people assume there is a hidden power in the human mind that enables it to put itself right, and that what we need to do is tap this supposed resource.

Perhaps you have agreed to serve as a Christian Science worker in a prison. How can you prepare for the assignment? If you are experienced in branch church work, have had class instruction, and have healed yourself and others, you have actually been preparing for institutional work for some time.

Questioning Peter regarding his dedication to the Christ, Jesus asked, "Lovest thou me?" John 21:16; Within that very month Peter had denied the Master three times, and now Jesus required him to avow his love three times. Peter had earlier perceived Jesus' true, spiritual identity to be the Christ, the promised Messiah.