The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life

give your attention, which is your life, to God rather than to limitation.

Above all is it true that, in freeing others from the weight of your condemnation, you make it possible to absolve yourself from self-condemnation.

The plain fact is that Jesus taught no theology whatever. His teaching is entirely spiritual or metaphysical.

that the Will of God for us is harmony, peace, and joy, and that these things are to be attained by cultivating right thoughts, or “righteousness,”

It is a combination of open-mindedness, faith in God, and the realization that the Will of God for us is always something joyous and interesting and vital, and much better than anything we could think of for ourselves. This state of mind also includes a perfect willingness to allow this Will of God to come about in whatever way Divine Wisdom consid

this text undertakes to tell us how we may possess, or govern, to be masters of our own lives and destinies.

Righteousness means, in the Bible, not merely right conduct, but right thinking on all subjects, in every department of life.

exclusively with the teaching of general principles, and these general principles always had to do with mental states, for he knew that if one’s mental states are right, everything else must be right too, whereas, if these are wrong, nothing else can be right.

To pray scientifically is to keep affirming that God is helping him, that the temptation has no power against him, and constantly to claim that his own real nature is spiritual and perfect.