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Your Word is Your Wand, by Florence Scovel Shinn, [1928], at sacred-texts.com
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"Faith without nerve is dead."
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There is never a slip ’twixt the right cup and the right lip.
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Never look or you'd never leap.
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God works in unexpected places, through unexpected people, at unexpected times, His wonders to perform.
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Power moves but is never moved.
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Loving your neighbor means not to limit your neighbor in word, thought or deed.
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"Never argue with a hunch."
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Christopher Columbus followed a hunch.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is the realm of perfect ideas.
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It is dark before the dawn but the dawn never fails. Trust in the dawn.
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When in doubt play trumps, do the fearless thing.
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It is the fearless things that count.
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Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.
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It's a great life if you don't reason.
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Regard your neighbor as yourself.
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Never hinder another's hunch.
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Selfishness binds and blocks. Every loving and unselfish thought has in it the germ of success.
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Be not weary of make-believing. When you least expect it you shall reap.
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Faith is elastic. Stretch it to the end of your demonstration.
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Before you call you are answered, for the supply precedes the demand.
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What you do for others you are doing for yourself.
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Every act committed while angry or resentful brings unhappy reaction.
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Sorrow and disappointment follow in the wake of deceit and subterfuge. The way of the transgressor is hard. "No good thing will be withheld from him who walks uprightly."
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There is no power in evil. It is nothing; therefore can only come to nothing.
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Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.
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Drown the reasoning mind with your affirmation. Jehoshaphat clapped his cymbals so that he wouldn't hear himself think.
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All bondage is an illusion of the race consciousness. There is always a way out of every situation, under grace. Every man is free to do the will of God.
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Sure-ism is stronger than Optimism.
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"Divine ideas never conflict."
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It is dangerous to stop in the middle of a hunch.
Infinite Spirit is never too late.