Nobody
will gainsay that there is room for improvement in everyone, though they may differ in their opinion as to what constitutes development and how to attain it.
The
linking together of the words "science" and "art," which so commonly occurs in secular literature, has its analogy in the study and practice of Christian Science.
"Wait
on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord," are the words of the twenty-seventh psalm; and they are very similar in meaning to many others that occur throughout the Bible.
True
fasting, in other words, abstention from false thinking, coupled with the activity of good works, is thus spoken of by Isaiah: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
It
is written in Proverbs that "understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it;" and a psalm says that "with thee [God] is the fountain of life.
Few
passages, if any, in all the Gospels make stronger appeal as expressive of the transcendent love which Jesus bore for the disciples who had shared with him the hardship and dangers, the joys and triumphs, of his marvelous ministry, than are found in the seventeenth chapter of John's Gospel.
On
the road to Emmaus Jesus overtook two of his disciples and said to them, "What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?