God Doesn't Have Any Grandchildren.

A Johns Hopkins Doctor Says That 'we Do Not Know Why It Is That The Worriers Die Sooner Than The Non-worriers, But That Is A Fact.' But I, Who Am Simple Of Mind, Think I Know We Are Inwardly Constructed, In Nerve And Tissue And Brain Cell And Soul, For Faith And Not For Fear. God Made Us That Way. Therefore, The Need Of Faith Is Not Something Imposed On Us Dogmatically, But It Is Written In Us Intrinsically. We Cannot Live Without It. To Live By Worry Is To Live Against Reality.

Prayer Is Surrender--surr Ender To The Will Of God And Cooperation With That Will. If I Throw Out A Boathook From The Boat And Catch Hold Of The Shore And Pull, Do I Pull The Shore To Me, Or Do I Pull Myself To The Shore? Prayer Is Not Pulling God To My Will, But The Aligning Of My Will To The Will Of God.

In Our Ashrams Of East And West, Places Of Spiritual Retreat, We Begin With What We Call "the Morning Of The Open Heart," In Which We Tell Our Needs. . . . We Give Four Or Five Hours To This Catharsis. The Reaction Of One Member, Who Listened To It For The First Time, Was: "good Gracious, Have We All The Disrupted People In The Country Here?" My Reply Was: "no, You Have A Cross Section Of The Church Life Honestly Revealed." In The Ordinary Church, It Is Suppressed By Respectability, By A Desire To A Appear Better Than We Really Are.

Very Often When I Haven't Faith In My Faith, I Have To Have Faith In His Faith. He Makes Me Believe In Myself And My Possibilities, When I Simply Can't. I Have To Rise To His Faith In Me.

I Have Only To Be True To The Highest I Know - Success Or Failure Is In The Hand Of God.