It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward. (101:1.3)

Hate is the shadow of fear; revenge the mask of cowardice. Man is the son of God, not a child of the devil. (145:3.4)

Having started out on the way of life everlasting, having accepted the assignment and received your orders to advance, do not fear the dangers of human forgetfulness and mortal inconstancy, do not be troubled with doubts of failure or by perplexing confusion, do not falter and question your status and standing, for in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, “This is the way.” (34:7.8)

God speaks within the human heart as a still, small voice, saying, "This is the way; walk therein." (148:6.10)

Your inability or unwillingness to forgive your fellows is the measure of your immaturity, your failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love. You hold grudges and nurse vengefulness in direct proportion to your ignorance of the inner nature and true longings of your children and your fellow beings. Love is the outworking of the divine and inner urge of life. It is founded on understanding, nurtured by unselfish service, and perfected in wisdom.(174:1.5)

What you are becoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are today. (147:5.7)

Everything must await the coming of its time. (130:5.3)

The measure of your human strength of character is your ability to resist the holding of grudges and your capacity to withstand brooding in the face of deep sorrow. Defeat is the true mirror in which you may honestly view your real self. (156:5.17)

Your spiritual destiny is conditioned only by your spiritual longings and purposes. (156:5.9)

But long before reaching Havona, these ascendant children of time have learned to feast upon uncertainty, to fatten upon disappointment, to enthuse over apparent defeat, to invigorate in the presence of difficulties, to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity, and to exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with the challenge of the inexplicable. Long since, the battle cry of these pilgrims became: "In liaison with God, nothing—absolutely nothing—is impossible." (26:5.3)

You must realize that the best method of solving some entangled problems is to forsake them for a time. (143:3.3)

Do not become discouraged by the discovery that you are human. Human nature may tend toward evil, but it is not inherently sinful. Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity. Lighten your burdens of soul by speedily acquiring a long-distance view of your destiny, a universe expansion of your career. (156:5.8)

Set your mind at work to solve its problems; teach your intellect to work for you; refuse longer to be dominated by fear. (130:6.3)

Kingdom builders, the accredited citizens of the heavenly worlds, are not to be disturbed by temporal upheavals or perturbed by terrestrial cataclysms. What does it matter to you who believe this gospel of the kingdom if nations overturn, the age ends, or all things visible crash, since you know that your life is the gift of the Son, and that it is eternally secure in the Father? (176:3.2)

In the time of testing, a man's soul is revealed; trial discloses what really is in the heart. (165:6.2)

Even now you should begin to find deliverance from the bondage of fear and doubt as you enter upon the living of the new life of faith and hope. (157:2.2)