The following excerpts are from The Game of Life and How to Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn.  Any emphasis is original.

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shall have plenty of silver. [Job 22:25]

 

God [is your] supply, and … there is a supply for every demand.  (p. 15) 

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[A]ct rich, thereby showing perfect faith that you will receive [riches one day]…  [Do not] economize … act as if you have already received [your riches].  

“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”  You must act as if you have already received … [believing] that you are divinely protected and God is never too late….  

Spirit is never too late….  Give thanks [you have] received the money on the invisible plane and that it manifests on time. (p. 16-17) 

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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for…. 

We have a wonderful illustration of this in the bible, relating to the three kings who were in the desert, without water for their men and horses.  They consulted the prophet Elisha, who gave them this astonishing message: 

“Thus saith the Lord—Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet make this valley full of ditches.”  

Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight….  

[The kings] showed active faith … [and] the ditches [they] dug … in the desert were filled to over-flowing.  (II Kings) (p. 17-18) 

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In order to demonstrate [your] supply, you must first feel [you have] received it—a feeling of opulence must precede its manifestation. (p. 32) 

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You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic and live in the past.  Live fully in the now … [d]ig your ditches, and the money will come….  [Show] financial fearlessness and faith in God … [and don’t listen to] the reasoning mind [that says], “Keep every cent you have, as you are not sure you will get any more….” 

[You] must [impress] the subconscious with expectancy, and [open] the way for the manifestation of … money. (p. 36) 

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It is man’s divine right to have plenty!  More than enough! 

“His barns should be full, and his cup should flow over!”  This is God’s idea for man, and when man breaks down the barriers of lack in his own consciousness, the Golden Age will be his, and every righteous desire of his heart fulfilled! (p. 38) 

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If he desires riches, he must be rich first in consciousness….  If you wish to be rich, you must be orderly.  All men with great wealth are orderly—and order is heaven’s first law …  

[You must become] made over, and [keep your] self ever keyed-up financially, by being ever watchful of the external and expecting prosperity, knowing God is [your] supply.   

Many people are in ignorance of the fact that gifts and things are investments, and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.  

“There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty….” 

If man ignores these leadings to spend or give, the same amount of money will go in an uninteresting or unhappy way…. 

The law always stands in back of the man who spends fearlessly, with wisdom…. 

[Avoid] seeing lack, and not recognizing God as [your] supply. (p. 44-46) 

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Continually “making-believe” impresses the subconscious.  If one makes believe he is rich, and makes believe he is successful, in “due time he will reap.” 

Children are always “making believe,” and except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven….” 

[When you live] in the world of the wondrous … only riches [seem] real to [you]. (p. 53) 

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Walk up to the lion, and he will disappear; run away and he runs after you…. 

[T]he lion of lack [disappears] when the individual [spends] money fearlessly, showing faith that God [is your] supply and therefore, unfailing…. 

The subconscious mind is impressed with the truth that God is the Giver and the Gift; therefore as one is one with the Giver, he is one with the Gift…. 

Man has so long separated himself from his good and his supply, through thoughts of separation and lack, that sometimes, it takes dynamite to dislodge these false ideas from the subconscious, and the dynamite is a big situation. (p. 54)

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No man can attract money if he despises it.  Many people are kept in poverty by saying: “Money means nothing to me, and I have a contempt for people who have it….” 

This attitude of mind, of course, separates man from his supply; he must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.  

Money is God in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but it must be always kept in circulation and put to right uses.  Hoarding and saving react with grim vengeance. 

This does not mean that man should not have houses and lots, stocks and bonds, for “the barns of the righteous man shall be full.”  It means man should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion arises, when money is necessary.  In letting it go out fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way for more to come in, for God is man’s unfailing and inexhaustible supply. 

This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great Bank of the Universal never fails!… 

“[L]ove of money is the root of all evil.”  Money in itself, is good and beneficial, but used for destructive purposes, hoarded and saved, or considered more important than love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the money itself.  

Follow the path of love, and all things are added, for God is love, and God is supply; follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes, or man is separated from it. (p. 60-61) 

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Giving opens the way for receiving.  In order to create activity in finances, one should give.  Tithing or giving one-tenth of one’s income is an old Jewish custom and is sure to bring increase.  Many of the richest men in this country have been tithers, and I have never known it to fail as in investment. 

The tenth-part goes forth and returns blessed and multiplied.  But the gift or tithe must be given with love and cheerfulness, for “God loveth a cheerful giver.”  Bills should be paid cheerfully; all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.  

This attitude of mind makes man master of money.  It is his to obey, and his spoken word then opens vast reservoirs of wealth. 

Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision.  Sometimes the student has a great realization of wealth, but is afraid to act. 

The vision and action must go hand in hand … (p. 67-68) 

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As one grows in a financial consciousness, he should demand that the enormous sums of money, which are his by divine right, reach him under grace, in perfect ways. 

It is impossible for man to release more than he thinks is possible, for one is bound by the limited expectancies of the subconscious.  He must enlarge his expectancies in order to receive in a larger way. 

Man so often limits himself in his demands…. 

[I]t is [man’s] consciousness … of opulence, which brings riches into his life.  In making his demands, man begins at his journey’s end, that is, he declares he has already received.  “Before ye call I shall answer.” (p. 86)