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Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

Emmet Fox

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Emmet Fox
Age: 65 †
Born: 1886
Born: July 30
Died: 1951
Died: August 13
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To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.
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You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
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There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.
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If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.
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Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.
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The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.
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If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.
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Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.
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It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.
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. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.
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You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy
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Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.
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Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.
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Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.
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Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.
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When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.
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You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.
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Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
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Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.
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I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction.
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