This Weeks Reading: But what is faith itself? If we are going to construct a fundamental principle of faith, we shall have to accept that it is a positive mental attitude which can be accepted by both the intellect and the emotions. Faith, then, is a belief; but it is a certain kind of belief. It is a mental attitude placed on the affirmative side. If a person has faith in God, he has faith in God about something -- about the welfare of his own soul, the final outcome of truth, healing himself, and so on. It is a certain affirmative way of thinking or mental agreement with the object of his desire, whatever that object might be, and the conviction that through his faith in God’s action it will become manifest. So, when a man has faith, he believes that that which has no objective existence at the present moment will be created and projected into his experience by the invisible Power which he calls God. It is normal to have faith; it is natural to believe in God. It is right to love people and good to praise everything, because hidden in everything is a seed of Perfection. The great experiment is in our own mind. Here in the integrity of our own soul, in the simplicity of our own heart, we can prove what the ages have longed for, lived for, and prayed for; that at last, though we have not known it and the world has not suspected it, Divinity has temporarily clothed Itself in humanity. ~Ernest Holmes, The Spiritual Universe and You
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