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THE BIBLE

From The Bible
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. ...

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. ...

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
(Ps. 40:1, 3, 5)

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? ...

For thou hast possessed my reins: ...

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. ...

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: ...

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
(Ps. 139:7, 13 (to :), 14, 17, 18 (to :), 23, 24)

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
(Eccl. 7:29)

... Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? ...

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
(Ex. 4:10 Moses, 11 (to 1st ?), 12)

... Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: ...

And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. ...

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. ...

... ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
(Judg. 7:1–4 Jerubbaal (to :), 7, 16, 17, 19–21)

¶ Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
(Judg. 8:28)

¶ And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. ...

... ¶ Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
(Luke 4:14, 15, 40)

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them. ...

... ¶ And he spake also a parable unto them; ...

... no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
(Luke 5:17, 36 (to 1st ;), 37 no, 38)

¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

... despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. ¶ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. ...

... let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: ...

For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
(Prov. 3:7–10, 11–13 despise, 21 let, 26)

... the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
(Gal. 5:22 the, 23)

... God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
(II Tim. 1:7 God)

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Science & Health w/ Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy

In a world of sin and sensuality hastening to a greater development of power, it is wise earnestly to consider whether it is the human mind or the divine Mind which is influencing one.
(SH 82:31–2)

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force. Man has “sought out many inventions,” but he has not yet found it true that knowledge can save him from the dire effects of knowledge.
(SH 196:1–4)

In a word, human belief is a blind conclusion from material reasoning. ...

The universe, like man, is to be interpreted by Science from its divine Principle, God, and then it can be understood; but when explained on the basis of physical sense and represented as subject to growth, maturity, and decay, the universe, like man, is, and must continue to be, an enigma.
(SH 124:11–12, 14)

Every system of human philosophy, doctrine, and medicine is more or less infected with the pantheistic belief that there is mind in matter; but this belief contradicts alike revelation and right reasoning. A logical and scientific conclusion is reached only through the knowledge that there are not two bases of being, matter and mind, but one alone, — Mind.
(SH 279:22)

In Science, Mind is one, including noumenon and phenomena, God and His thoughts.
(SH 114:10)

God is Mind: all that Mind, God, is, or hath made, is good, and He made all. Hence evil is not made and is not real.
(SH 311:4)

When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible.
(SH 180:25–27)
Question. — What is intelligence?

Answer. — Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle, — Life, Truth, and Love, — named God.
(SH 469:7–11)

Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God’s image and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
(SH 475:13)

Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind.
(SH 200:4)

Eloquence re-echoes the strains of Truth and Love. It is due to inspiration rather than to erudition.
(SH 88:26–27)

Incorrect reasoning leads to practical error. The wrong thought should be arrested before it has a chance to manifest itself.
(SH 452:4)

At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you. The cement of a higher humanity will unite all interests in the one divinity.
(SH 571:15)

The admission to one’s self that man is God’s own likeness sets man free to master the infinite idea. This conviction shuts the door on death, and opens it wide towards immortality.
(SH 90:24–27)

God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.
(SH 258:13–15)

Divine Science does not put new wine into old bottles, Soul into matter, nor the infinite into the finite. Our false views of matter perish as we grasp the facts of Spirit. The old belief must be cast out or the new idea will be spilled, and the inspiration, which is to change our standpoint, will be lost.
(SH 281:27–1)

When will it be understood that matter has neither intelligence, life, nor sensation, and that the opposite belief is the prolific source of all suffering? God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal.
(SH 205:9–13)

That he might liberally pour his dear-bought treasures into empty or sin-filled human storehouses, was the inspiration of Jesus’ intense human sacrifice. In witness of his divine commission, he presented the proof that Life, Truth, and Love heal the sick and the sinning, and triumph over death through Mind, not matter. This was the highest proof he could have offered of divine Love.
(SH 54:10–17)

Human belief has sought out many inventions, but not one of them can solve the problem of being without the divine Principle of divine Science. Deductions from material hypotheses are not scientific. They differ from real Science because they are not based on the divine law.
(SH 273:4)

We must not attribute more and more intelligence to matter, but less and less, if we would be wise and healthy. ...

The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower; if it were, the order of wisdom would be reversed.
(SH 62:20–22, 27–28)

We welcome the increase of knowledge and the end of error, because even human invention must have its day, and we want that day to be succeeded by Christian Science, by divine reality.
(SH 95:19–22)

Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence and Life.
(SH 215:12)