You are the architect of your own life. Henry Thomas Hamblin More Quotes by Henry Thomas Hamblin More Quotes From Henry Thomas Hamblin The abundance of God is like a mighty ocean, so vast you cannot possibly exhaust it or cause a shortage for others. You can go to this inexhaustible ocean with only a small cup and bring away only that small cup of bounty and blessing. Or, if you have faith enough, you can take a bucket and bring away a bucketful. It makes no difference to the ocean. Nor does it matter how often you go. Abundance is always there. Henry Thomas Hamblin differences ocean blessing One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service? Do we work for Life and our fellows? Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living? Henry Thomas Hamblin helping-others self order Supply does not come through prayer. It comes as a result of an attitude of faith, a condition of mind and heart, in which the Invisible is depended upon for all things necessary, instead of upon the visible and earthly. Prayer in the form of begging and beseeching God to kindly answer our requests is not capable of producing supply in itself. Henry Thomas Hamblin prayer heart attitude Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so. Henry Thomas Hamblin always-trying turns life Nothing is too small a subject for prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care. Henry Thomas Hamblin subjects care prayer People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance. Henry Thomas Hamblin pain spiritual reality If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God. Henry Thomas Hamblin achievement evil believe It is the experience of those who have tried it, that working from a sense of duty, working for the work's sake, working as a service, instead of for a living, or to make money, or in order to hoard up wealth, brings blessings into the life. Henry Thomas Hamblin blessing work order Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of love and service, these bring the doer a harvest of blessings. . . . When we serve and when we give, we open ourselves to receive life's richest blessings, its greatest prizes, and its most enduring lessons. Henry Thomas Hamblin offering helping-others blessing There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle. Henry Thomas Hamblin reign principles struggle There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging. Henry Thomas Hamblin being-positive overcoming evil Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost importance, but we should not allow it to blind us to the fact that there is a Power that can make this life perfect also. Henry Thomas Hamblin teaching religious past
