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We have been so persistently taught that prayer consists in asking God for some human need that we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have become a race of praying beggars.

— Charles Fillmore Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

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We need never look for universal peace on this earth until men stop killing animals for food.

No extended definition of good is necessary to those who follow Jesus; even converted savages understand good and do it.

Mysteries Of John (1946)

Therefore, in the light of the Truth that God is love, and that Jesus came to make his love manifest in the world, we cannot believe it is his will for men to eat meat, or to do anything else that would cause suffering to the innocent and helpless.

The universal desire among awakened Christians to love God and man is part of the law constantly operating through man when he finds his right relation to God.

Mysteries Of John (1946)

All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is based upon this law of soul urge. What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm will be yours, if you "faint not."

Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

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