Measuring Up

April 27, 2009

The Principia School

Scales

Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable.

Science and Health, 192

Time

The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded.

Science and Health, 584:4

Statistics

The spiritualization of our sense of man ... reveals man infinitely blessed, upright, pure, and free; having no need of statistics by which to learn his origin and age, or to measure his manhood

Miscellaneous Writings, 185

Power

Anciently the followers of Christ, or Truth, measured Christianity by its power over sickness, sin, and death

Science and Health, 142

Intellect and Strength

To measure intellectual capacity by the size of the brain and strength by the exercise of muscle, is to subjugate intelligence, to make mind mortal, and to place this so-called mind at the mercy of material organization and non-intelligent matter.

Science and Health, 165:6

Examples

Railroad Tracks

and

Hickory Trees

Measuring Up

Truth is strong with destiny; it takes life profoundly; it measures the infinite against the finite.

First Church of Christ, Scientist and

Miscellany, 229

Thank You!