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Joseph, in speaking of the action of his brethren in selling him into slavery, “Even though you intended to harm me, God intended it for good.” (Genesis 50:20)

Truth is that which is so.

However humble your place in life, however unknown to the world you may be, however small your capabilities may seem at present to you, you are just as much a necessity to God in His efforts to get Himself into visibility as is the most brilliant intellect, the most thoroughly cultured person in the world. Remember this always, and act from the highest within you.

[K]now once and forever that you are not seeking God, but God is seeking you.

“I AM” is God’s name. Every time you say, “I am sick,” “I am weak,” “I am discouraged,” you are speaking God’s name in vain. I AM cannot be sick; I AM cannot be weary or faint or powerless, for I AM is all-life, all-power, All-Good. “I AM,” spoken with a downward tendency, is always false, always ‘in vain.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — anything less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.”

[Jesus] said, “I thank you Father … because you had hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants.” (Matthew 11:25)

To pardon means simply to remit or wipe out the penalty and let the offender go free, but to forgive means much more than this. It means to give “for”; that is, to give some definite positive good in return for the evil received.

The divine Father of us all is forever trying to manifest Himself in what the dear Scottish minister, George MacDonald, called “a reckless extravagance of abundance.”