Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.
Ralph Waldo TrineFaith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.
Ralph Waldo TrineAnd so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
Ralph Waldo TrineRowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.
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