"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
"And so one may be without connection with any church, and even without connection with any established religion, and yet be in spirit, hence in reality, a much truer Christian than hosts of those who profess to be His most ardent followers, as indeed Jesus Himself so many times says. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said He. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.""
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Source: Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
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