Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.
It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety.
It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 50. 3:1-3.
You are only love, but when you deny this, you make what you are something you must learn to remember.
Text-6. III. 2:3.
Remember that in every attack you call upon your own weakness, while each time you forgive you call upon the strength of Christ in you.
Do you not then begin to understand what forgiveness will do for you?
It will remove all sense of weakness, strain and fatigue from your mind.
It will take away all fear and guilt and pain.
It will restore the invulnerability and power God gave His Son to your awareness.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 62. 3:1-5.
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
Here is the answer to your search for peace.
Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense.
Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace.
Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 121. 1:1-4.
God is not partial. All His children have His total love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike.
Text-1. V. 3:2-3.
You are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creator with God, and are therefore depriving yourself of joy.
Text-7. VI. 13:1.
Only you can deprive yourself of anything.
Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light.
Remember also that the denial of this simple fact takes many forms, and these you must learn to recognize and to oppose steadfastly, without exception.
This is a crucial step in the reawakening.
Text-11. IV. 4:1-4.
Love created me like itself.
You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccupied with false self-images.
Four or five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself.
Hear the truth about yourself in this.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 67. 5:2-4.
You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self.
To hold a grievance is to forget who you are.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 68. 1:1-2.
Salvation is our only need.
There is no other purpose here, and no other function to fulfill.
Learning salvation is our only goal.
Let us end the ancient search today by finding the light in us, and holding it up for everyone who searches with us to look upon and rejoice.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 69. 3:2-5.
Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you.
So, too, does the source of guilt.
You see neither guilt nor salvation as in your own mind and nowhere else.
When you realize that all guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place.
In understanding this you are saved.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 70. 1:2-6.
[Ask] God to reveal His plan to us. Ask Him very specifically:
What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?
Workbook-p I. Lesson 71. 9:1-5.
The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God.
It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern.
To be without a body is to be in our natural state.
To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are.
To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead.
And wherever His plan is accepted, it is accomplished already.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 72. 9:1-6.
Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within.
The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without.
Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world.
Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 73. 5:1-4.
There is no will but God’s. I seek His peace today.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 74. 7:2-3.
The light has come. You are healed and you can heal.
The light has come. You are saved and you can save.
You are at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared.
The light has come. Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no dark dreams now.
The light has come. Today the time of light begins for you and everyone. It is a new era, in which a new world is born.
The old one has left no trace upon it in its passing. Today we see a different world, because the light has come.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 75. 1:1-7 & 2:1-7.
The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 199. 2:1.
You are entitled to miracles because of what you are.
You will receive miracles because of what God is.
And you will offer miracles because you are one with God.
Again, how simple is salvation!
It is merely a statement of your true Identity.
It is this that we will celebrate today.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 77. 1:1-6.
Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle.
Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal.
And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond.
Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 78. 1:1-4.
A problem cannot be solved if you do not know what it is.
Even if it is really solved already you will still have the problem, because you will not recognize that it has been solved.
This is the situation of the world.
The problem of separation, which is really the only problem, has already been solved.
Yet the solution is not recognized because the problem is not recognized.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 79. 1:1-5.
A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct.
This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking.
Text-1. VI. 2:1-2.
I am the light of the world.
Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 81. 1:1 & 3:1.
My forgiveness is the means by which the light of the world finds expression through me.
My forgiveness is the means by which I become aware of the light of the world in me.
My forgiveness is the means by which the world is healed, together with myself.
Let me, then, forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 82. 1:2-5.
I have no function but the one God gave me.
This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals.
With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think.
All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 83. 1:2-5.
I am in the likeness of my Creator.
I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die.
I am not a body.
I would recognize my reality today.
I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self.
I am in the likeness of my Creator.
Love created me like itself.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 84. 1:2-8.
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as it is certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him.
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace.
It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 68. 3:1-3.
The emphasis of this course always remains the same;—it is at this moment that complete salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept it.
This is still your one responsibility. Atonement might be equated with total escape from the past and total lack of interest in the future.
Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time.
Manual for Teachers. 24. 6:1-7.
There is no statement that the world is more afraid to hear than this:
I do not know the thing I am, and therefore do not know what I am doing, where I am, or how to look upon the world or on myself.
Yet in this learning is salvation born. And What you are will tell you of Itself.
Text-31. V. 17:6-9.
You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself, or reduce your creativity almost to nothing.
But you cannot abolish it.
Text-1. V. 1:5-6.
How willing are you to forgive your brother?
How much do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain?
These questions are the same, in different form.
Forgiveness is your peace, for herein lies the end of separation and the dream of danger and destruction, sin and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss.
This is the “sacrifice” salvation asks, and gladly offers peace instead of this.
Text-29. VI. 1:1-5.
This world is full of miracles.
They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering, of sin and guilt.
They are the dream’s alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream.
Text-28. II. 12:1-3.