You Can Be Sure

You can talk about kindness at every moment, but if you are not kind, it will be useless for your own happiness.

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Your hand can write beautiful pages under spiritual inspirations; however, if you do not stamp the beauty of those pages onto your spirit, you will not be more than a courier without intelligence.

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You can read marvelous books, with emotions and tears; still, if you do not apply what you have read, you will only be a bad recorder.

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You can cultivate sincere convictions in matters of faith; nevertheless, if these convictions do not serve to renew you for the good, your mind will be reduced to a mere hook whereon to hang religious maxims.

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Your capacity to offer guidance can discipline many people, so improving their personalities. Still, if you do not discipline yourself, the Law will face you with the same severity with which it is utilised you so as to perfect others.

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You may know the lessons of the pathway perfectly and may, in the mortal eyes, pass to the gallery of heroes and saints; but if you do not practise the good teachings you know, the Divine Laws will determine that you always have to begin your work over again, each time with greater difficulty.

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You may call Jesus: "Master" and "Lord"...; however, if you do not want to learn to serve with Him, your words will sound hollow, without any meaning.

XAVIER, Francisco Cândido. Christian Agenda. By the Spirit André Luiz. Great Britain: Allan Kardec Publishing Ltd, 1998. Chapter 40.