Time is not a factor in your life–READING LIST
Dave Hohle, CSB
The Christian Science Board of Lectureship -- 2016
BIBLE
John 4:35
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you,
Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Rev. 12:10 (to :)
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:
II Cor. 6:2 1st I
2 I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee:
behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
John 8: 56-58
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Isa. 46:9,10 (to 4th ,)
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and
there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet
done, saying, My counsel shall stand,
II Pet. 3:8
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.
I Cor. 15: 51, 52
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Heb. 4: 12
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Matt. 13: 35 1st I
35 I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the
foundation of the world.
II Tim. 3: 17
17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURESBy Mary Baker Eddy
SH 595:17-21
TIME. Mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after, what is termed death, until the mortal disappears and spiritual perfection appears.
SH 39:18-22
"Now," cried the apostle, "is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation," —meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life.
SH 246:11-13
The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun.
SH 468:28-469:1
Eternity, not time, expresses the thought of Life, and time is no part of eternity. One ceases in proportion as the other is recognized. Time is finite; eternity is forever infinite.
SH 44:5-10
The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refugefrom his foes, a place in which to solve the greatproblem of being. His three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal ofeternity on time.He proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the master of hate.
SH 598:19-599:2
YEAR. A solar measurement of time; mortality;space for repentance.
"One day is with the Lord as a thousand years."(II Peter iii. 8.)One moment of divine consciousness, or the spiritualunderstanding of Life and Love, is a foretaste of eternity.This exalted view, obtained and retained when the Science of being is understood, would bridge over with lifediscerned spiritually the interval of death, and manwould be in the full consciousness of his immortality andeternal harmony, where sin, sickness, and death are un-known. Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of whichis the solar year. Eternity is God's measurement of Soul-filled years.
SH 55:22-26
The time for the reappearing of the divine healingis throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthlyall on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ'scup now, and is endued with the spirit and power ofChristian healing.
SH 92:32-93:9
Do you say the time has not yet come in which torecognize Soul as substantial and able to control thebody? Remember Jesus, who nearly nineteen centuriesago demonstrated the power of Spirit and said,"He that believeth on me, the works that Ido shall he do also," and who also said, "But the hourcometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shallworship the Father in spirit and in truth." "Behold,now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation," said Paul.
SH 125:21-30
The seasons will come and go with changes of time andtide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. The agriculturist will find that these changes cannotaffect his crops. "As a vesture shalt Thouchange them and they shall be changed." The marinerwill have dominion over the atmosphere and the greatdeep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars, —he will look out from them upon the universe; and theflorist will find his flower before its seed.
SH 245:5-12
Disappointed in love in her early years, she becameinsane and lost all account of time. Believing that shewas still living in the same hour which partedher from her lover, taking no note of years,she stood daily before the window watching for herlover's coming. In this mental state she remained young.Having no consciousness of time, she literally grew noolder.
SH 245:27-31
Impossibilities never occur. One instance like theforegoing proves it possible to be young at seventy-four;and the primary of that illustration makes it plain thatdecrepitude is not according to law, nor is it a necessity ofnature, but an illusion.
SH 249:18-20 (to 1st .)
Life is, like Christ, "the same yesterday, and to-day,and forever." Organization and time have nothing to dowith Life.
SH 246:17-31
Never record ages. Chronological data are no part of the vast forever. Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood. Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise. Man,
governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness.
Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight.
SH 509:20-28
So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substancesare no more contingent now on time or material structure than they were when "the morning starssang together." Mind made the "plant ofthe field before it was in the earth." The periods ofspiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind'screation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness—yea, the divine nature —appear in man and the universe never to disappear.
SH 261:24-30
Breaking away from themutations of time and sense, you will neitherlose the solid objects and ends of life nor your own identity. Fixing your gaze on the realities supernal, you willrise to the spiritual consciousness of being, even as the birdwhich has burst from the egg and preens its wings for askyward flight.
SH 266:29-32
Man is deathless, spiritual. Heis above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers
of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists withGod and the universe.
SH 504:16-20
The successive appearing of God's ideas is representedas taking place on so many evenings and mornings, —words which indicate, in the absence of solartime, spiritually clearer views of Him, viewswhich are not implied by material darkness and dawn.
SH 520:10-15
The numerals of infinity, called seven days, cannever be reckoned according to the calendar of time.These days will appear as mortality disappears, and theywill reveal eternity, newness of Life, in which all sense oferror forever disappears and thought accepts the divineinfinite calculus.
SH 584:3-8
"And the evening and the morning were the first day."(Genesis i. 5.) The objects of time and sense disappearin the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mindmeasures time according to the good that is unfolded.This unfolding is God's day, and "there shall be no nightthere."
SH 332:9-15
IX. Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true ideavoicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. The Christis incorporeal, spiritual, —yea, the divineimage and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses;the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick andcasting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death.
SH 263:28-31
A sensual thought, likean atom of dust thrown into the face of spiritual immensity, is dense blindness instead of a scientific eternalconsciousness of creation.
SH 247:28-30
The embellishments of the person are poor substitutesfor the charms of being, shining resplendent and eternalover age and decay.
SH 129:22-24
We must look deepinto realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.
SH 504:23-26
The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously, whereas a thousand years of human doctrines, hypotheses, and vague conjectures emit no such effulgence.
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGSBy Mary Baker Eddy
Mis. 15:13-20
The new birth is not the work of a moment. It beginswith moments, and goes on with years; moments of surrender to God, of childlike trust and joyful adoptionof good; moments of self-abnegation, self-consecration,heaven-born hope, and spiritual love.Time may commence, but it cannot complete, thenew birth: eternity does this; for progress is the lawof infinity.
Mis. 230:1-25
ImproveYour Time
Success in life depends upon persistent effort, uponthe improvement of moments more than upon any otherone thing. A great amount of time is consumed in talkingnothing, doing nothing, and indecision as to what oneshould do. If one would be successful in the future, lethim make the most of the present.
Three ways of wasting time, one of which is contemptible, are gossiping mischief, making lingering calls,and mere motion when at work, thinking of nothing orplanning for some amusement, —travel of limb morethan mind. Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.
All successful individuals have become such by hardwork; by improving moments before they pass into hours,and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit
of pleasure. They spend no time in sheer idleness, intalking when they have nothing to say, in building aircastles or floating off on the wings of sense: all of whichdrop human life into the ditch of nonsense, and worsethan waste its years.
"Let us, then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait."
Mis. ix:15-18
To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and tempest, requires strength from above, —deep draughts from the fount of divine Love.
Mis. 307:1-5
God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment.
UNITY OF GOODBy Mary Baker Eddy
Unity of Good 11:24-27
“Jesus required neither cycles of time nor thoughtin order to mature fitness for perfection and itspossibilities.Hesaid that the kingdom of heaven is here, andis included in Mind;”
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST AND MISCELLANYBy Mary Baker Eddy
My. 149:31-150:2
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee.
My. 12:20-28
We own no past, no future, we possess only now. If the reliable now is carelessly lost inspeaking or in acting, it comes not back again. Whatever needs to be done which cannot be done now,God prepares the way for doing; while that which canbe done now, but is not, increases our indebtedness toGod. Faith in divine Love supplies the ever-presenthelp and now, and gives the power to "act in the livingpresent."
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SENTINEL
THE REDUNDANCY OF TIME: AN ASTROPHYSICIST'S VIEW
By Laurance Doyle with contributions from Scott LaninghamMay 5, 1997 issue
MORE UNDERSTANDING, LESS MATTER
By Laurance DoyleJuly 11, 2005 issue
AT THE NEW YEAR, A NEW VIEW OF TIME - Program 001
Guests: Laurance Doyle, Elizabeth Jenks, Daniel Scott, Margit Hammerstrom, Mark Swinney, L. Doyle January 2, 2000 - Sentinel Radio 2000
TIME -- IS IT A FACT OF LIFE? - Program 243
Guests: Dr. Laurance R. Doyle, Madelon M. Miles, Channing Walker October 26, 2002 - Sentinel Radio 2002
A HIGH STAKES PROJECT LED BY PRAYER
By Linda RolfesJuly 11, 2011 issue
A MATTER OF TIME
By Russ Gerber with contributions from Laurance Doyle December 30, 2002 issue
NEW LIGHT ON TIME MANAGEMENT
Elaine Follis, July 1, 2002 issue
SOME THOUGHTS ON TIME
Tom Taffel December 24, 2012 issue
TIME AND ENERGY –DIVINELY INSPIRED
By Bob Bilhorn February 7, 2011 issue
TIME WARPS EXPOSED
By Joyce C. LeddyDecember 26, 1983 issue
UNFETTERED
By Max DunawayJuly 1, 1950 issue
"ETERNITY, NOT TIME..."
By William E. Moody August 26, 1996 issue
ETERNITY, NOT TIME [Written Especially for Young People]
By Rebecca Whitman Ball June 27, 1942 issue
TIME AND ETERNITY
By Robert Ellis KeyJanuary 1, 1949 issue
FORSAKING TIME FOR ETERNITY
By John Randall DunnJune 12, 1948 issue
HOW LONG WILL THIS TAKE?
By Michelle Nanouche January 13, 2014 issue
Beyond age, beyond time
By Mary MetznerTrammell July 19, 1993 issue
TIME IS NOT TOXIC
By Edith Mary Fox May 30, 1970 issue
HOW LONG?
By Nate Talbot August 30, 2010 issue
"BEHOLD, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION"
By Peter J. Henniker Heaton August 2, 1947 issue
RIGHT WHEN—RIGHT THEN
By Paul Stark SeeleyMay 24, 1958 issue
DEFEATING THE CHALLENGE OF AGING
By Robert Gilbert October 3, 2011 issue
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL
IMPROVE YOUR TIME
By Mary Baker EddyOctober 1883 issue
TIME IS NOT LAW
DeWitt John September 1960 issue
ETERNITY IS NOT EXTENDED TIME
Beverly Bemis Hawks DeWindt September 1993 issue
TIME SPACE MATTER
Conversations I, II, III
By Jeffrey Hildner July 2005 issue
CASTING NO SHADOW
By Ruth Elizabeth Jenks September 2007 issue
WHERE DO EVIL AND MISFORTUNE COME FROM? [Original in German]
by Max Lang July 1981 issue
TIME IS NOT LAW
By Dewitt John September 1960 issue
TIME IS NOT TOXIC
James Spencer January 1998 issue
RETHINKING AGE AND TIME
Janet Heineman Clements January 1998 issue
TIME, SPACE, HEALING CDpublished by The Christian Science Publishing Society
MoreUnderstanding, Less Matterby Laurance Doyle
Conversation with Geoffrey Barrattinterviewed by Geoffrey Hildner
MARY BAKER EDDY CHRISTIAN HEALER
byYvonne Cache von Fettweis (Author) , Robert Townsend Warneck (Author)
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
So you need more time? February 28, 1995
QUANTA MAGAZINE
A JEWEL AT THE HEART OF QUANTUM PHYSICS
By Natalie Wolchover September 17, 2013 issue
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
What Does “Happy New Year”Even Really Mean?
By Sean M. Carroll January 2015 issue
QUOTES
Albert Einstein
“For us who are convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”
Arnaud Sait-Paul
"Freedom is in the Now.”
Becca Levy
Yale University Social and Behavioral Sciences
“The challenge we had in this study was to enable participants to overcome the negative age stereotypes which they acquire from society, as in everyday conversations and from television.”
Caleb
Josh 14:10,11
“…I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.”
Carl J. Welz
“Progress toward spiritual perfection demands full and efficient use of the moment we call "now."”
DeWitt John
“Learning from Science that man is not a mortal confined in matter but the spiritual image and likeness of God, we begin to discover that man’s life is not bracketed within a framework of time.”
“‘I haven’t time,’or ‘I’m too busy,’typifies a universal belief compounded of fear, ignorance, limitation, and materiality, all of which are mortal concepts of existence.”
“…when human thinking truly yields to divine Truth and Love, light dawns instantaneously. Into this spiritualization of thought, the element of time does not enter.”
Discover Magazine
“…Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity demolished the idea of time as a universal constant. One consequence is that the past, present, and future are not absolutes.”
Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed.”
Evan Mehlenbacher
“God is Spirit, so whatever has always been true in Spirit, is true now. And whatever will be true in Spirit, is true now.”
“…never wait on time for improvement in one’s life, but accept the presence of health, abundance and harmony now.”
Frank E. Morgan III
“The prospect of a never-ending sequence of hours, stretching on and on, without climax or conclusion, droning through eternity, terrified me.Yet eternity is the opposite of time, not its extension.”
Geoffrey Barratt
Christian Science Sentinel