Articles

There is an island that belongs to the birds. Each evening at sunset flocks of ibis, herons, egrets, and pelicans fly into the embrace of the trees on the island.

Most of us have encountered the human problem of losing something we possessed. We not only lose objects we value, but we are also faced with the sense of losing companionship, our health, employment, or financial security.

A Christian Scientist once told me to wake up from my "daymare. " But a daymare is no more real than a nightmare.

Christ Jesus, in the face of ridicule and disbelief regarding his professed sonship with God, declared a dynamic truth when he stated in no uncertain terms, "I and my Father are one. " John 10:30; This saying upset the traditional, doctrinal beliefs of the Jews and brought upon him the angry resistance of the carnal mind, which was impervious to the spiritual truth Jesus expressed.

Spirit, God, is unconquerable. Our true being is never a despairing mortal.

When I was a little girl, a large urn filled with boiling liquid was accidentally dropped on me. I was severely scalded from my forehead to my waist.

What constitutes genuine prayer—words or thoughts? Words of prayer can fit multiple patterns of speech. There's the prayer of humble petition: "Help me, O Lord my God.

When supply is discovered to be wholly spiritual, it must become self-evident that it is infinite. So there can never be more nor less of it than there now is.

The spiritual dynamic of the Christian Science movement is its youth. Not its young people—but the purity, thrust, and agelessness of its evangelistic purpose.

Since God, good, is the all-knowing Mind, the only true consciousness, all real consciousness must be perfect. What divine Mind knows is harmonious, beneficent, because it is unadulterated good without an element of evil.