Quotes from Emmet Fox's book Diagrams For Living, Chapter 10, Miracles:
A mere academic belief in God is of little use. Millions of people say they believe in God, but they do not believe God is particularly interested in them. If you take this attitude then you are not an Israelite in the Bible sense and you can expect no miracles. But if you say, "I believe in the power of God...I believe He is interested in me and that I can contact that Power to comfort me, heal me, enlighten me, purify me,,, I believe God is working through me to solve this seemingly insoluble problem"---then your mind is in tune with the Infinite. You are beginning to do some tall-minded thinking. That means the time has come for you to remember the power of the miracle. It means the time has come for a great thing to come into your life.
Jesus said we could move mountains and so we can. He did not mean material mountains. That would only be a conjuring trick. He meant mountains of difficulty and trouble, mountains of fear and frustration and doubt. He said we could do it if we had sufficient faith in God. There is no limit on the side of God, but we put a limit on our faith and understanding. That is why some people can demonstrate [Fox's way of saying miracles happen in their lives] over some things and others cannot. In practice, the only limit on demonstration is, "How well is your mind tuned into God? How tall are you thinking?"...
Every grief or difficulty means the time has come to go a step higher. A problem is not a barrier. It is a challenge. It is important to take the attitude that your spiritual promotion has presented itself in the guise of a problem or difficulty, and you are to take another step forward. And this calls for effort. If you want to go higher, you must climb the steps...
Every miracle is produced by a realization of the omnipresence of God, by knowing there is no place where God is not...
In every miracle there is a great element of faith that what is needed, God has already provided. It is not a question of making something happen, but rather uncovering the good that already exists in the Mind of God...
Tall-minded thinking does not grapple with the problem. It is a quiet knowing that you are the instrument of Divine Power. Such a mind can speak the Word and get a full-dress miracle if need be.
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