No man can demonstrate peace and cling to unhappiness. - Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

"Thoughts of failure, limitation or poverty are negative and must be counted out of our lives for all time. Somebody will say, "But what of the poor; what are you going to do with them; are they to be left without help?" No, a thousand times no. The same Power is in them that is in all men. They will always be poor
until they awake and realize what life is. All the charity on earth has never done away with poverty, and never will; if it could have done so it would have done so; it could not, therefore it has not. It will do a man a thousand times more.
good to show him how to succeed than it will to tell him he needs charity. We
need not listen to all the calamity howlers. Let them howl if it does them any
good. God has given us a Power and we must use it. We can do more toward
saving the world by proving this law than all that charity has ever given it."

Nature operates according to a law of logical sequence.

[A definite statement] is an active, conscious, aggressive, mental movement and in such degree as it embodies an idea — and there is no longer anything in our minds which denies the idea — it will take form, because it now becomes a part of the low and order of the Universe in which we live.