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“The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.” quote by Florence Scovel Shinn — Download Open image

“The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.”

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Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.

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I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.

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What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.

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I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible.

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All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.

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“And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive” (Math. 21:22). “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye…

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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

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The Light of the Christ within now wipes out all fear, doubt, anger and resentment. God's love pours through me, an irresistible magnetic current.…

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All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

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