July 22

Faith is not true faith if love is not in harmony with it.

 

The door to heaven is opened to you to the same extent you want it. Get rid of your troubles and problems, and direct your soul to spiritual things. Be attentive, and fulfill your duty without thinking about the consequences. You should not guide events, but be guided by events.

— Indian Wisdom

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone . . . Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only . . . For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

— James 2:14-18; 24; 26

A person who knows the law but does not fulfill it reminds me of one who ploughs the land but does not put seed in it.

— Eastern Wisdom

If a person is not in a hurry to fulfill the things which he understands as the law of God, then he believes neither in the law, nor in God.