"[...]Believe in punishment and punishment is what you will get. Believe in killing and destruction as being the right way to reach God, and that is what you will experience` - killing and destruction.



'If you are hungry and thirsty, it is because you are turning away from the 'Father' within you.



'By indulging your fearful thoughts, anxieties and feelings of hopelessness, you are creating the very conditions you want to rectify. You are doing all these bad things to yourselves.



'Therefore, even more blest are you when you hunger and thirst for goodness and for contact with the 'Father' within you, because then you will surely be filled up a hundred times over.



'Blessed are you when you are attacked and robbed because you will see 'God-in-action' when you stand still in perfect trust and see deliverance taking place.



'Blessed are you when you are caught up in conflict, yet you can still care about your fellow man and be the peace maker. You carry the love in your heart which is of the 'Father' and you are truly a child of the 'Father'.



'Blessed are you when you have been deeply wronged by another yet can forgive and can show mercy, abstaining from seeking justice or the means to persecute him. You put yourself directly in harmony with the love which is 'God-active-within you' and even so will you be spared in times of trouble.



'Most blessed of all are the pure in heart, for such as these have rid themselves of all anger, hatred, vindictiveness, unkindness, envy, hardness of heart - and stand before the world as Love -made- visible. They will know the Reality called 'God' and they will know the Reality is the 'Father' within them."





- Christ Returns, Letter 2