Just
as if you eat the wrong food, you will kill your bodies; so if you
think the wrong thoughts, and feel the wrong feelings, and therefore
do the wrong things, you will kill your own souls. God will not kill
you; you will kill yourselves. God grudges you nothing. God does
not wish to hurt you, wish to punish you. He wishes you to live and
be happy; to live for ever, and be happy for ever. But as your body
cannot live unless it be healthy, so your soul cannot live unless it
be healthy. And it cannot be healthy unless it live the right life.
And it cannot live the right life without the right spirit. And the
only right spirit is the Spirit of God himself the Spirit of your
Father in heaven, who will make you, as children should be, like your
Father.
But that Spirit is not far from any of you. In him you live, and
move, and have your being already. Were he to leave you for a moment
you would die, and be turned again to your dust. From him comes all
the good of body and soul which you have already.
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