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Mind, Character, and Personality Volume 2
Opens Secrets of Life’s Success—True faith and true prayer—
how strong they are! They are as two arms by which the human
suppliant lays hold upon the power of Infinite Love. Faith is trusting in
God—believing that He loves us and knows what is for our best good.
Thus, instead of our own way, it leads us to choose His way. In place
of our ignorance, it accepts His wisdom; in place of our weakness,
His strength; in place of our sinfulness, His righteousness. Our lives,
ourselves, are already His; faith acknowledges His ownership and
accepts its blessing. Truth, uprightness, purity, are pointed out as
secrets of life’s success. It is faith that puts us in possession of these.
Every good impulse or aspiration is the gift of God; faith receives
from God the life that alone can produce true growth and efficiency.—
Gospel Workers, 259
(1915).
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