Eric Butterworth Quotes - Page 3

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things.

Under the sustaining influence of love, the physical body is always at its best. It is probably true that more people are sick from lack of love in their lives than from all other causes put together.

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.

Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming.

We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.

Don't go through life, grow though life

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Affluence = abundant flow.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

The thing I fear comes upon me

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Do not go through life; grow through life.