My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: . . . My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.

Christ Jesus

King James Version of the Bible 

John 10:27, 29, 30

Man is tributary to God, Spirit, and to nothing else. God's being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” Like the archpriests of yore, man is free “to enter into the holiest,” — the realm of God.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

by Mary Baker Eddy 

 We are risen, and stand upright.

King James Version of the Bible 

Psalms 20:

Don’t put your trust in those who assume

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

King James Version of the Bible 

Proverbs 30:

Don’t put your trust in those who only assume and do not search for the Truth—-!

Lead me to the rock that higher than I

At the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

King James Version of the Bible 

Psalms 61:1, 2

Goethe 

Ich habe einen Menschen immer nur als ein fuer sich bestehendes Individuum angesehen, dass ich zu erforschen und dass ich in seiner Eigentuemlichkeit kennenzulernen trachtete, wovon ich aber durchaus keine weitere Sympathie verlangte. Dadurch habe ich es nun dahin gebracht, mit jedem  Menschen umgehen zu koennen, und dadurch allein entsteht die Kenntnes mannigfaltiger Charaktere, sowie die noetige Gewandheit im Leben.  Denn gerade bei widerstrebenden Naturen muss man sich zusammennehmen, um mit ihnen durchzukommen, und dadurch werden alle die verschiedenen Seiten in uns angeregt und zur Entwickelung und Ausbildung gebracht, so dass man sich denn bald jedem Vis-a-vis gewachsen fuehlt.

Goethe

I have looked at people always as individuals, so that I could study their uniqueness without making demands on their sympathies.  In that way I’ve learned to get along with different types of temperaments —specifically those with an opposing and argumentative nature.   I found that it strengthened many different sides in me and enabled me to feel confident in order to deal humanely vis-a-vis others.

Translation from the German by EMH

How did the great Master say it? “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures [i.e., noble and productive ideas] in heaven [harmony], where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.”

Should we not be grateful on our journey for the fellowship of all those who are willing to journey with us a certain distance or all the way, until we have reached our destination?  And it would not be their destination, too? 

All along on the journey neither to be burdened by a phony sense of responsibility but by a desire that in whatever manner we succeed, it has to be a blessing for others...

Mary Baker Eddy clarifies it thus: “Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionally to their occupancy of your thoughts.”

Then love and success are intermingled, and are without simulation.  

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

King James Version of the Bible 

Proverbs 30: