Thoughts for the week:

February 27  Consistent Building

During prayer, many people build up the new mental structure, but as soon as their time of prayer is over, instead of faithfully preserving that structure intact they promptly knock it down again by negative thinking. Obviously, a bricklayer could work hard in this fashion year after year without ever accomplishing anything.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox (Excerpt)

February 28

No work is of value without preparation. Every spiritual work must have behind it much spiritual preparation. Cut short times of prayer and times of spiritual preparation and many hours of work may be profitless. From the point of view of God, one poor tool working all the time, but doing bad work because of lack of preparation, is of small value compared with the sharp, keen, perfect instrument working for only a short time, but that turns out perfect work because of long hours of spiritual preparation. 

24 Hours a Day

March 2  CONFUSION OF DUTIES 

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. 

It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development. 

It cannot be right to be hurried, or sad, or discouraged, or angry, or resentful, or antagonistic, under any circumstances.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox  (Excerpt)

March 4

We start out with a spark of the Divine Spirit but a large amount of selfishness. As we grow and come in contact with other people, we can take one of two paths. We can become more and more selfish and practically extinguish the Divine Spark within us, or we can become more unselfish and develop our spirituality until it becomes the most important thing in our lives.

24 Hours a Day

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