Emmet Fox Universalism

[guest6088]

Emmet Fox is one of my favorite Christian Writers.  :banana:

Emmet Fox (July 30, 1886 – August 13, 1951) was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century.  :URWelcome:

He is particularly noted for his work on understanding the 'hidden things' of the bible (symbolism etc).  :declare:

He is a 'Universalist'. 
He says in one of his books (I forget which one) to drop the  :mock: 'childish' teachings of the present day church (regarding hell/eternal torture etc)...  This was back in the early 1900's.
His work is very inspiring and it's rare to have a 'universalism devotional' book but Fox wrote a few.  :girlheart:

You can tell a lot from people's quotes overall; so I'll leave you with some quotes by Fox and if they resonate with you you may want to check him out.


Some quotes from Fox:

"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world..."
― Emmet Fox

"There can be no disharmony in an intelligent universe because all things must work together for the common good".
― Emmet Fox

"The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God."
― Emmet Fox

"It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free."
― Emmet Fox, Find and Use Your Inner Power

"If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble."
― Emmet Fox, Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

"As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never, because you have fallen below them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the Spiritual Coming of Age. When you really are no longer spiritually a minor, you will cease to need some of the outer observances that formerly seemed indispensable; but your resulting life will be purer, truer, freer, and less selfish than it was before; and that is the test."
― Emmet Fox, The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life

So there you go...Another good writer for your library if you haven't already heard of him.   :URWelcome:

[GodIsLove]

Thanks for sharing! I will check him out!

[marie glen]

Sounds very good!! A good find it sounds like! I really like his take on the law.. said it very well. And the rest too..
:thanks:

[violettera]

It seems very interresting .
thanks for sharing.

[guest6088]

There is a lot of his work in audio books now on youtube also...

Here is one (the ten commandments) where he relates our story with Moses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xj57lhGuO0

Quote: "Now consider the spiritual part of this. 
Always in the Bible we must ask what the name means. 
The Bible names always have a meaning. 
Moses means 'drawn out of the water' and we know that water in the Bible stands for the human mind, the human personality and especially the emotional nature. 
Of course, nine tenths of your personality are your feelings, and one tenth is your knowledge. - That is water, and Moses has to be 'drawn out' of the water. 
It is Moses who leads the children of Israel out of Egypt.
Egypt means limitation...Our belief in matter, time, speace, our fear, all the things that clamp us down, make us unhappy and old and bitter.  It is a lack of fath in God....

[guest6088]

There is only one thing I'm in disagreement with Fox about that I've noticed....'Reincarnation'. 
...I just don't believe in it.  Aside from that Fox is one of my favorite writers.
I keep an open-mind but I reckon God gets it right first time.

If there WAS a 'reincarnation' I reckon it might be reserved for children who died in infancy or for folks who committed suicide and never saw their life through.

Anyway...
...Just some ramblings...

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