Learning to be still brings unfoldment of ideas, inspiration, and a reassurance of God’s presence and comfort.

It occurred to me that from a spiritual standpoint there could be only one state of the union, and – Hallelujah! – it is a good one.

This insistence on purity, love, and joy – along with other childlike qualities – restores our, and everyone’s, original selfhood as God’s child.

Do we have to accept that while one day things are looking up, tomorrow could plunge into a downward spiral, taking promise and hope with it?

Being childlike and receptive will move us not toward the elementary or immature idea but to the advanced idea.

The Bible assures us that rightful rest is God’s intention for His beloved sons and daughters.

Is there a way to quickly overcome colds and the flu, or better yet, to prevent them altogether?

Thus we can all benefit by considering which arguments we are holding to that are self-serving, self-willed, and self-justified, and be humble enough to let them go as uninspired, inelegant thinking.

Happiness born of the Truth and Love that is God – that is such a momentous idea, in contrast with happiness born only of material conditions!

In that kind of heart lies the seed of human progress. In a way, I learned more of this by what I felt when I heard his speech.