Spiritual thoughts for the week:

October 16

If your heart is right, your world will be right. The beginning of all reform must be in yourself. It's not what happens to you, it's how you take it. However restricted your circumstances, however little you may be able to remedy financial affairs, you can always turn to your inward self and, seeing something not in order there, seek to right it. And as all reform is from within outward, you will always find that the outward is improved as the inward is improved. As you improve yourself, your outward circumstances will change for the better. The power released from within yourself will change your outward life.

24 Hours a Day

October 18

Not until you have failed can you learn true humility. Humility arises from a deep sense of gratitude to God for giving you the strength to rise above past failures. Humility is not inconsistent with self-respect. The true person has self-respect and the respect of others and yet is humble. The humble person is tolerant of others' failings, and does not have a critical attitude toward the foibles of others. Humble people are hard on themselves and easy on others.

24 Hours a Day


October 18  Mental Drudgery Is Not Prayer

Have enough faith in the love of God to believe that a short prayer is just as good as a long one. Too long a sessio of prayer usually means that in your heart you really doubt the love of God, and think that a great deal of effort and toil will be necessary to move Him. Pray quietly and sincerely for a reasonable time - and then leave the matter, expecting success.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox  (Excerpt)



October 19  Prayer Is Always The Answer

Prayer is always the solution. No matter what kind of difficulty may be facing you, no matter how complicated your problem may seem - prayer can solve it. Of course you will also take whatever practical steps seem to be indicated, and if you do not know what steps to take, prayer will show you. Peayer is constantly brining about the impossible, and there is no conceivable problem that has not at some time been solved by prayer.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox  (Excerpt)