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Inspiration is spiritual energy
There's a popular saying that genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. Adam, who, according to the Bible story, was doomed to spend his life toiling in the soil and whose major talent appeared to be blame-fixing, would no doubt have agreed.
Think of the spiritual genius of Christ Jesus, whose deep, constant, ascending prayers enabled him to heal multitudes! And think of his followers. John was inspired, even in exile on the stony Isle of Patmos, to the point of beholding a new heaven and new earth and painting a panorama of the struggle, and of the victory in human consciousness that comes with the understanding of God, divine Mind, and His idea. And Paul, through his danger-laden ministry and his letters, aroused the people to more firmly and widely establish the early Christian Church.
What is this thing called inspiration, which material sense fails to find in corporeal pleasures and spiritual sense can cultivate in the most barren circumstances?
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January 29, 1979 issue
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Academic excellence is attainable
JAMES RICHARD BARTELS-KEITH
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Is it a trial or an opportunity?
RITA HAYES HORNBEAK
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"I have called you friends"
Robert Simon Marcus
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A scientific view of territory
KENNY L. BAKER
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What does God know of you?
BETTY L. BOUTILIER
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Escape from addiction
BRYAN G. POPE
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Inspiration is spiritual energy
NAOMI RUTH WHEELER
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"How does your garden grow?"
MARION J. HUKILL
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More than "millionaires"
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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About crying
Nathan A. Talbot
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Imaging
Shirley Selby
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No monsters allowed
Lesley Ann Mascall
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What's good about God
Judith Ann Hardy
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I am a retired schoolteacher
R. Sheldon Hunt
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When I was eight, we attended a cookout during vacation
Georgine Marie Maxwell
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Since my testimony published in 1960 describing my healing...
Edward E. Gygax
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My first physical healing took place a month after I began...
Adelaide L. Espeland
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After only a few days' study of Christian Science, my mother...
Madelene F. Neill
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About ten years ago I woke one morning with my face distorted
Dorothy V. Crump