"The Light of God Shines in and the Glory of God Is Risen upon Us."

"The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Light."

FATHER DIVINE Excerpts

1931

 

The Mount of the House of the Lord

The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

The seas cease to roll and the billows are calmed and the light of GOD shines in and the Glory of GOD is risen upon us. Did not say maybe, or it will, but it is. It is Wonderful! This great peace and great calm.

6/1/38

But as in the experience of all other civilizations for the last one million and five hundred thousand years, even so would it be with this civilization if they do not recognize the Fundamentals for which I stand. If they fail to recognize the Light that is given them, they will eventually go back into darkness from whence they came, and the government, yea, the government universally for the people, by the people and through the people will perish from the earth.

7/12/39

Why live in lacks, wants and limitations? Why live in the dark and gloomy day of your ancestors? Why live in such a state of consciousness when the state of consciousness in which I AM living is ever at the door? Let the sunlight of MY Love shine in! Speak comforting words to the children of men and think good thoughts for others as well as for yourself, especially think good thoughts for them, and automatically the good thoughts will turn your darkness into bright noonday.

"The darker the night, the brighter the light."

On the public highways when the highway is very dark, your automobile lights are more bright. Aren't you glad! They express more of the brightness of themselves where the darkness fills the road on dark nights, more than they would and more than they do on bright or light nights.

9/4/39

Now is not this a glorious atmosphere? Would you not rather have a world of PEACE than to have a world of war? And GOD from this angle of expression and from this light of understanding, from this Principle that I have lifted, of Whom you say I AM, shall have been established in the hearts and the lives of the children of men. There and then Americanism shall be turned into true Evangelism and shall go from land to land and from shore to shore and we shall have a universal UTOPIA. I thank you!

10/26/40

I AM leaning to Righteousness, Justice and Truth! And if either one of these parties desire ME to lean to them, let them enact the Bill of Rights in every community and bring an end to the discriminatory practices in every activity! Then and only then will I consider such a person has been found that should be endorsed by the real American citizens that have been born of this light of understanding.

These MY followers are born as much into true Americanism by the preaching of the Constitution and its Amendments and by preaching the Declaration of Independence as they are born into Christendom and into the Christian movement. I have preached the Constitution and its Amendments and the Declaration of Independence as vividly and as stressfully as I have the gospel of Jesus. To make law-abiding citizens, self-respecting and meek and obedient citizens I have preached these two great documents until millions and millions are converted into true Americanism by the Life and the Teaching of CHRIST your SAVIOR in this PEACE MISSION; knowing definitely the preaching and the Teaching of a true Democracy will protect your civil liberties and will also protect your home, your land and your country--will protect your soul as well as your body and will give you the privilege as American citizens to serve GOD according to the dictates of your own conscience.

8/31/42

"The Truth is the Light!"
And one recorded in reference to the Truth,
'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life."

You can plainly see these desirable expressions of God put forth into expression; they lead you step by step from imperfection and destruction to perfection, where you gain victory over every undesirable condition as depicted in those Messages, the Sermons just proofread. It is written:

'In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men . . . that lighteth every man that cometh into the world.'

All men have this Light, or this Life whichever, if they will submit themselves to the fundamentals of it as put forth into expression and be susceptive to the Spirit of the leading of the Light and the information the Life in itself giveth.

The Light Of Inspiration

At times it moves intuitively. It quickens and awakens in the hearts and lives of the children of men, new thoughts of beauty by inspiration to lead them and to guide them and protect them. It lights up the dark path of misunderstanding to show you the way to go where you may be led accurately and directly in the path that will give you the victory over every undesirable condition and lead you into green pastures.

 

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