Sparks of Truth; Sidelights on Demonstration

By Emmet Fox

The influence of Emmet Fox in the spread of New Thought ideas lies not simply in the large number of his readers, but in the fact that he is so widely read my ministers of all denominations. This collection of lectures contains easily accessible help for daily problems, practical or emotional. The short lectures are intended to instruct the reader in basic spiritual truth, and to furnish material for short meditations. They were published once a week over a number of years. The subjects are usually handled in a light and amusing style, and often deal with familiar incidents in everyday life. Lectures Include: Take it Easy, An All in Policy, Saluting the Christ in Him, Blessing and Cursing, Stand by for Quarantine, The Will of God, Spreading the Truth, The Dove, Satan Gets Away with It, What is Scientific Prayer, The Bible Unveiled, You are a Mental Being, God's Hour, God in Business, Worm Gets Ideas, and others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Braunfell Books
• Release date: Nov 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781839749698

Emmet Fox

Emmet Fox (1886-1951) was one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the twentieth century and a pioneer of the New Thought movement. His bold, dynamic message proclaiming that our thoughts shape our reality has changed the lives of millions across the world and influenced many key contemporary spiritual writers such as Wayne Dyer, Esther Hicks, and Louise Hay, all of whom have tapped into the power of positive thinking. Fox's other key works include Power Through Constructive Thinking and Alter Your Life.

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TAKE IT EASY

DON’T HURRY. You are going to live forever—somewhere. In fact, you are in eternity now; so why rush?

Don’t Worry. What will this thing matter in twenty years’ time? You belong to God, and God is Love; so why fret?

Don’t Condemn. As you cannot get under the other fellow’s skin, you cannot possibly know what difficulties he has had to meet—how much temptation, or misunderstanding, or stupidity within himself he has had to overcome. You are not perfect yourself and might be much worse in his shoes. Judge not!

Don’t Resent. If wrong has been done, the Great Law will surely take care of it. Rise up in consciousness and set both yourself and the delinquent free. Forgiveness is the strongest medicine.

Don’t Grumble. Consume your own smoke. Your own concept is what you see; so treat, and change that.

Don’t Grab. You cannot hold what does not belong to you by right of consciousness anyway. Grabbing postpones your good.

Don’t Shove. You are always in your right place at the moment. If you don’t like it, change it scientifically by rising in consciousness. This will be permanent.

AN ALL IN POLICY

WHAT has your religion done for you? For years probably, you have been attending church, reading spiritual books, studying the Bible, and so forth. Now I suggest that you have a spiritual stock-taking. Ask yourself—what has your religion done for you? What difference has it made in your life, in your home, in your affairs? How much peace of mind has it given you? How much courage? How much understanding? How much opportunity for service? For, make no mistake, real religion does give all these things.

If your spiritual stock-taking does not turn out to be satisfactory, if your religion is not working in this way—if on examining your life you find there are a number of places at which you are not demonstrating, if certain needs are still lacking to you, if there are still negative things that refuse to go—I believe that you will find the explanation to lie in the following law: What you put into your religion, that you get out of it.

If you put five per cent of yourself and your life into your religion, you will receive a five per cent dividend or demonstration. If you put twenty per cent of yourself and your life into your religion, you will receive a twenty per cent demonstration. And until you put one hundred per cent of yourself and your life into your religion you will not receive a one hundred per cent demonstration.

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