This page offers you a daily dose of James Allen. Here you’ll find today’s entries from James Allen’s book of meditations for every day in the year and Morning and evening thoughts:
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A man cannot cling to anything unless he believes in it ; belief always precedes action, therefore a man’s deeds and life are the fruits of his belief.
HE who believes in all those things that
are good will love them, and live in
them , he who believes in those things
that are impure and selfish will love
them, and cling to them. The tree is known by
its fruits.
A man’s beliefs about God, Jesus, and the Bible are one thing , his life, as bound up in his actions, is another , therefore a man’s theological belief is of no consequence , but the thoughts which he harbours, his attitude of mind towards others, and his actions—these, and these only, determine and demonstrate whether the belief of a man’s heart is fixed in the false or the true.
There are only two beliefs which vitally affect the life, and they are : belief in good and belief in evil.
In aiming at the life of blessedness, one
of the simplest beginnings to be considered,
and rightly made, is that which we all
make every day-namely, the beginning
of each day’s life.
There is a sense in which every day
may be regarded as the beginning of a new
life, in which one can think, act, and live
newly, and in a wiser and better spirit.
The right beginning of the day will
be followed by a cheerfulness permeating
the household with a sunny influence,
and the tasks and duties of the day will
be undertaken in a strong and confident
spirit, and the whole day will be well lived.
There can be no progress, no achievement,
without sacrifice, and a man’s worldly
success will be in the measure that he
sacrifices his confused animal thoughts,
and fixes his mind on the development
of his plans, and the strengthening of his
resolution and self-reliance.
And the higher he lifts his thoughts,
the more manly, upright, and righteous
he becomes, the greater will be his success,
the more blessed and enduring will be his
achievements.
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