Entry 2,396 - Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Entry 2,396 - January 1, 2025

Forget not, when you feel the need arise to be defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. ²And therefore feel that you are weak because you are alone. (ACIM, T-22.V.6:1-2)

¹⁰Love rests in certainty. ¹¹Only uncertainty can be defensive. ¹²And all uncertainty is doubt about yourself. (ACIM, T-22.V.3:10-12)

On your learning depends the welfare of the world. ²And it is only arrogance that would deny the power of your will. ³Think you the Will of God is powerless? ⁴Is this humility? ⁵You do not see what this belief has done. ⁶You see yourself as vulnerable, frail and easily destroyed, and at the mercy of countless attackers more powerful than you. ⁷Let us look straight at how this error came about, for here lies buried the heavy anchor that seems to keep the fear of God in place, immovable and solid as a rock. ⁸While this remains, so will it seem to be.

11. Who can attack the Son of God and not attack his Father? ²How can God’s Son be weak and frail and easily destroyed unless his Father is? ³You do not see that every sin and every condemnation that you perceive and justify is an attack upon your Father. ⁴And that is why it has not happened, nor could be real. ⁵You do not see that this is your attempt because you think the Father and the Son are separate. ⁶And you must think that They are separate, because of fear. ⁷For it seems safer to attack another or yourself than to attack the great Creator of the universe, Whose power you know.
(ACIM, T-22.VI.10:1–11:7)

If you were one with God and recognized this oneness, you would know His power is yours. ²But you will not remember this while you believe attack of any kind means anything. ³It is unjustified in any form, because it has no meaning. ⁴The only way it could be justified is if you and your brother were separate from the other, and all were separate from your Creator. ⁵For only then would it be possible to attack a part of the creation without the whole, the Son without the Father; and to attack another without yourself, or hurt yourself without the other feeling pain. (ACIM, T-22.VI.12:1-5)

From loving minds there is no separation. ⁷And every thought in one brings gladness to the other because they are the same. ⁸Joy is unlimited, because each shining thought of love extends its being and creates more of itself. ⁹ (ACIM, T-22.VI.14:6-9)

Do you not see the opposite of frailty and weakness is sinlessness? ²Innocence is strength, and nothing else is strong. ³The sinless cannot fear, for sin of any kind is weakness. ⁴The show of strength attack would use to cover frailty conceals it not, for how can the unreal be hidden? ⁵No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has. ⁶Belief in enemies is therefore the belief in weakness, and what is weak is not the Will of God. ⁷Being opposed to it, it is God’s “enemy.” ⁸And God is feared as an opposing will. (ACIM, T-23.in.1:1-8)

Nothing around you but is part of you. ²Look on it lovingly, and see the light of Heaven in it. ³So will you come to understand all that is given you. ⁴In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle and shine, and everything you once thought sinful now will be reinterpreted as part of Heaven (ACIM, T-23.in.6:1-4)

Do you not realize a war against yourself would be a war on God? ²Is victory conceivable? ³And if it were, is this a victory that you would want? ⁴The death of God, if it were possible, would be your death. ⁵Is this a victory? ⁶The ego always marches to defeat, because it thinks that triumph over you is possible. ⁷And God thinks otherwise. ⁸This is no war; only the mad belief the Will of God can be attacked and overthrown. (ACIM, T-23.I.2:1-9)

⁵Your “enemy” was God Himself, to Whom all conflict, triumph and attack of any kind are all unknown. ⁶He loves you perfectly, completely and eternally. ⁷The Son of God at war with his Creator is a condition as ridiculous as nature roaring at the wind in anger, proclaiming it is part of itself no more. ⁸Could nature possibly establish this, and make it true? ⁹Nor is it up to you to say what shall be part of you and what is kept apart. (ACIM, T-23.I.4:5-9)

Conflict must be between two forces. ²It cannot exist between one power and nothingness. ³There is nothing you could attack that is not part of you. ⁴And by attacking it you make two illusions of yourself, in conflict with each other. ⁵And this occurs whenever you look on anything that God created with anything but love. ⁶Conflict is fearful, for it is the birth of fear. ⁷Yet what is born of nothing cannot win reality through battle. ⁸Why would you fill your world with conflicts with yourself? (ACIM, T-23.I.8:1-8)

Thus, conflict is the choice between illusions, one to be crowned as real, the other vanquished and despised. ⁴Here will the Father never be remembered. ⁵Yet no illusion can invade His home and drive Him out of what He loves forever. ⁶And what He loves must be forever quiet and at peace because it is His home. (ACIM, T-23.I.9:3-6)

Each part of Heaven that you bring is given you. ⁶And every empty place in Heaven that you fill again with the eternal light you bring, shines now on you. ⁷The means of sinlessness can know no fear because they carry only love with them. (ACIM, T-22.VI.5:5-7)

What you remember is a part of you. ²For you must be as God created you. ³Truth does not fight against illusions, nor do illusions fight against the truth. ⁴Illusions battle only with themselves. ⁵Being fragmented, they fragment. ⁶But truth is indivisible, and far beyond their little reach. ⁷You will remember what you know when you have learned you cannot be in conflict. ⁸One illusion about yourself can battle with another, yet the war of two illusions is a state where nothing happens. ⁹There is no victor and there is no victory. ¹⁰And truth stands radiant, apart from conflict, untouched and quiet in the peace of God. (ACIM, T-23.I.7:1-10)

Be not deceived when madness takes a form you think is lovely. ¹¹What is intent on your destruction is not your friend. (ACIM, T-23.II.17:10-11)