Know first that no urge, no ...

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.
Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.
 Edgar Cayce

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
 Richard Grenier
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
 Saint Francis de Sales
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

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The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.
 Edgar Cayce
Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine.
 Edgar Cayce
For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.
 Edgar Cayce
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .
 Edgar Cayce
In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He-who entered into materiality.
 Edgar Cayce