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Worship and Wisdom
When the worship urge is admonished and directed by
wisdom -- meditative and experiential thinking -- it then begins to develop
into the phenomenon of real religion.
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Progress
The entire organization of high spirits, angelic
hosts, and midway fellows is enthusiastically devoted to the furtherance of
the Paradise plan for the progressive ascension and perfection attainment of
evolutionary mortals....
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Perfection Is Our Goal
We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is
not strange that everything does not work in perfection; our universe was not
created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin.
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Be
You Perfect
The divine command,"Be you perfect, even as I am
perfect," ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and
fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of
spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God
of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of
time and space.
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Hope
that Transcends Fear
And throughout every trial and in the presence of
every hardship, spirit-born souls are sustained by that hope which transcends
all fear because the love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the presence
of the divine Spirit.
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Human Helpers
The entire organization of high spirits, angelic
hosts, and midway fellows is enthusiastically devoted to the furtherance of
the Paradise plan for the progressive ascension and perfection attainment of
evolutionary mortals…
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Evil
Man is only defiled by that evil which may
originate within the heart, and which finds expression in the words and deeds
of such unholy persons.
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Spirit
Motivation
Spirit-motivated beings "never thirst, for this
spiritual water shall be in them a well of satisfaction springing up into life
everlasting."
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Mercy
Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient
time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude regarding
his evil thoughts and sinful acts.
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Fruits
of New Life
P555:4, 48:6.25 Sometimes the planting of a seed
necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be
reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity.
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The
Power of an Idea
In influencing the expanding evolutionary mind,
the power of an idea lies not in its reality or reasonableness but rather in
its vividness and the universality of its ready and simple application.
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Spiritual Progress
The Spirit never drives, only leads. If you are a
willing learner, if you want to attain spirit levels and reach divine heights,
if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal goal, then the divine Spirit will
gently and lovingly lead you along the pathway of sonship and spiritual
progress
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Adventure
Never forget there is only one adventure which is
more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the
living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that
divine will.
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Goodness, Beauty, and Truth
The sincere pursuit of goodness, beauty, and truth
leads to God.
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Service
Service -- more service, increased service,
difficult service, adventurous service, and at last divine and perfect service
-- is the goal of time and the destination of space.
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Our
Gift to God
The affectionate dedication of the human will to
the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God; in fact, such a
consecration of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true
value to the Paradise Father.
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Religious Experience
When mind chooses a right moral judgment by an act
of the free will, such a decision constitutes a religious experience.
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Mission of Religion
When certain vacillating and timid mortals attempt
to escape from the incessant pressure of evolutionary life, religion, as they
conceive it, seems to present the nearest refuge, the best avenue of escape.
But it is the mission of religion to prepare man for bravely, even heroically,
facing the vicissitudes of life.
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Perfection: Our Eternal Goal
We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is
not strange that everything does not work in perfection; our universe was not
created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin.
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Greatness
Greatness lies not so much in
possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength.
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The
Privilege of Service
The privilege of service immediately follows the
discovery of trustworthiness. Nothing can stand between you and opportunity
for increased service except your own untrustworthiness, your lack of capacity
for appreciation of the solemnity of trust.
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Mind
If your own mind does not serve you well, you can
exchange it for the mind of Jesus of Nazareth, who always serves you well.
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Achievement
Your actual achievement is not so
important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward.
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Trustworthiness
Trust is the crucial test of will creatures.
Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character.
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A
Heart Dominated by Love
Let your hearts be so dominated by love that your
spirit guide will have little trouble in delivering you from the tendency to
give vent to those outbursts of animal anger which are inconsistent with the
status of divine sonship.
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Time
You all have time in which to insure your
survival; and time is fatally squandered only when it is buried in neglect...
Failure to improve one's time to the fullest extent possible does not impose
fatal penalties; it merely retards the pilgrim of time in his journey of
ascent.
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Mercy requires...
Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have
sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude
regarding his evil thoughts and sinful acts.
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Finding God
And when a human being does find God, there is
experienced within the soul of that being such an indescribable restlessness
of triumph in discovery that he is impelled to seek loving service-contact
with his less illuminated fellows, not to disclose that he has found God, but
rather to allow the overflow of the welling-up of eternal goodness within his
own soul to refresh and ennoble his fellows.
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The
Religion of Jesus
The religion of Jesus does, indeed, dominate and
transform its believers, demanding that men dedicate their lives to seeking
for a knowledge of the will of the Father in heaven and requiring that the
energies of living be consecrated to the unselfish service of the brotherhood
of man.
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Your
Spiritual Destiny
Your spiritual destiny is conditioned only by your
spiritual longings and purposes.
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Spiritual Insight
To see God -- by faith -- means to acquire true
spiritual insight.
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The
Educated Person
Truly educated persons are not satisfied with
remaining in ignorance of the lives and doings of their fellows.
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Regrettable Experiences
Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget
some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in
time will be forgotten in eternity.
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Opportunity
What you begin in time you will assuredly finish
in eternity -- if it is worth finishing.
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Ambition
Ambition is dangerous until it is fully
socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you
worthy of it.
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Love
your Enemies
Love your enemies -- remember the moral claims of
human brotherhood.
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Heroism
Mind bravery is a higher type of human courage,
but the highest and supreme is uncompromising loyalty to the enlightened
convictions of profound spiritual realities. And such courage constitutes the
heroism of the God-knowing man.
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Change
without Growth
Change without growth, expansion of meaning and
exaltation of value, is valueless -- is potential evil.
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Acts
of Goodness
No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long
thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion
to the divinity of its motivation.
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Hardships of Life
When thinking men and women look upon Jesus as he
offers up his life on the cross, they will hardly again permit themselves to
complain at even the severest hardships of life, much less at petty
harassments and their many purely fictitious grievances.
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Divine
Love
The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to
the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil.
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Life's
Opportunities
Ability is the practical measure of life's
opportunities. You will never be held responsible for the accomplishment of
that which is beyond your abilities.
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Graciousness
You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is
the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul.
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Exhibiting Mercy
You should realize that there is a great reward of
personal satisfaction in being first just, next fair, then patient, then kind.
And then, on that foundation, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can
take the next step and really show mercy; but you cannot exhibit mercy in and
of itself.
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Love
Others
If you love people, they will draw near you -- you
will have no difficulty in winning them.
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Love
Love is the desire to do good to others.
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Evil
The possibility of evil is necessary to moral
choosing, but not the actuality thereof....Evil becomes a reality of personal
experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice.
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Living
Truth
Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading
the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service.
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Faith
and Fear
Few persons live up to the faith which they really
have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the
evolving mortal soul.
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Triumphant Faith
Belief may not be able to resist doubt and
withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is
both positive and living.
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Fatherly Love
Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it
always looks for the best in man; that is the attitude of a true parent.
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Hope
Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its
death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the
fruits of new life and new opportunity.
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Prejudice Blinds the Soul
Prejudice blinds the soul to the recognition of
truth, and prejudice can be removed only by the sincere devotion of the soul
to the adoration of a cause that is all-embracing and all-inclusive of one's
fellow men.
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A
Philosophy of Living
An effective philosophy of living is formed by a
combination of cosmic insight and the total of one’s emotional reactions to
the social and economic environment.
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The
Immortal Spirit
The mind of man is human, mortal, but the spirit of
man is divine, immortal.
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Spiritual Growth
Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes all understanding.
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Human
Rights
Every human right is associated with a social duty;
group privilege is an insurance mechanism which unfailingly demands the full
payment of the exacting premiums of group service.
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Things
Spiritual
Your only assurance of a personal God consists in
your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual.
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Our
Earthly Goal
At first life was a struggle for existence; now, for
a standard of living; next it will be for quality of thinking, the coming
earthly goal of human existence.
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Our
Relationships
The relationships between
personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality
relationships has cosmic value and will persist.
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Dangers
of Pride
Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and
jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest. Courage is
valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
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Personality
If this were a mechanistic universe . . . there
would be no disagreement; there would be no friction. But in our evolving
universe of relative perfection and imperfection we rejoice that disagreement
and misunderstanding are possible, for thereby is evidenced the fact and the
act of personality in the universe.
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The
Garden of Eden
And so was the Garden of Eden made ready for the
reception of the promised Adam and his consort [Eve]. . . . Never before this
time nor after has Urantia harbored such a beautiful and replete exhibition of
horticulture and agriculture.
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Afflictions
Man should not blame God for those afflictions which
are the natural result of the life which he chooses to live; neither should
man complain of those experiences which are a part of life as it is lived on
this world.
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Perfection
We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not
strange that everything does not work in perfection; our universe was not
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Humor
Humor functions as an automatic safety valve to
prevent the building up of excessive pressures due to the monotony of
sustained and serious self-contemplation...
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Effective Praying
You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine
will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.
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A
Victorious Human Life
The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is
born of that creature faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of
existence when confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by
the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who
can and will do it...
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Brotherhood
Brotherhood constitutes a fact of relationship
between every personality in universal existence. No person can escape the
benefits or the penalties that may come as a result of relationship to other
persons. The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of
each man augments the tribulation of all men.
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Unexpected Situations
The mortal personality, never sure as to which will next
be encountered, through humor swiftly grasps... the unexpected nature of the
situation be it fact or be it truth.
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Our
Future and Past
The future signifies struggle and advancement; it
bespeaks work, effort, and achievement; but the past savors of things already
mastered and achieved.
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Peace
on Earth
Without God, neither freedom and liberty, nor property and wealth will lead to
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Unremitting Service
Jesus taught men to place a high value upon
themselves in time and in eternity. Because of this high estimate which Jesus
placed upon men, he was willing to spend himself in the unremitting service of
humankind.
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Uncertainty
When the clouds gather overhead, your faith should accept the fact of the
presence of the indwelling Adjuster, and thus you should be able to look
beyond the mists of mortal uncertainty into the clear shining of the sun of
eternal righteousness ...
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Misguided Conscience
A misguided conscience can become responsible for
much conflict, worry, sorrow, and no end of human unhappiness.
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Spiritual Loyalty and Wealth
Riches have nothing directly to do with entrance into the kingdom of heaven,
but the love of wealth does.
The spiritual loyalties of the kingdom are incompatible with servility to
materialistic mammon. Man may not share his supreme loyalty to a spiritual
ideal with a material devotion.
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Freewill Choice
The portal of eternity opens only in response to
the freewill choice of the freewill sons of the God of free will.
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Courage
Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable?
Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with
hardships and reacting to disappointments.
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Pressure
Man is not saved or ennobled by pressure...Spiritual
growth is greatest where all external pressures are at a minimum.
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Providence
When men pray for providential intervention in the
circumstances of life, many times the answer to their prayer is their own
changed attitudes toward life.
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Mind -
The Referee
The mind of evolutionary man is ever confronted with
the intricate problem of refereeing the contest between the natural expansion
of emotional impulses and the moral growth of unselfish urges predicated on
spiritual insight...
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Partnership with God
...When man and God enter into partnership, no
limitation can be placed upon the future possibilities of such a partnership.
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Truth
The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the
more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend.
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The
Sincere Religionist
The sincere religionist is conscious of universe
citizenship and is aware of making contact with sources of superhuman power.
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Genuine
Religion
Genuine religion renders the religionist socially
fragrant and creates insights into human fellowship.
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Genuine
Prayer
Genuine prayer adds to spiritual growth, modifies
attitudes, and yields that satisfaction which comes from communion with
divinity.
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Effective Prayer
If you engage in effective praying, you must make a wholehearted choice of the
divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.
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Angels
Angels are so near you and care so feelingly for you
that they figuratively "weep because of your willful intolerance and
stubbornness."
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An
Eternal Quest
Knowledge is an eternal quest; always are you
learning, but never are you able to arrive at the full knowledge of absolute
truth.
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Love
Human things must be known in order to be loved,
but divine things must be loved in order to be known.
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True
Religion
Always keep in mind: True religion is to know God as
your Father and man as your brother.
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Greatness
To be great is to be Godlike.
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Egoistic Desires
Jesus seemed to be utterly free from all egoistic
desire to win an argument merely to experience logical triumph over his
fellows, being interested supremely in just one thing: to proclaim everlasting
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Eternal Life
When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of
the spirit as children of light and life, even the eternal life wherewith you
shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of finding
God the Father on Paradise.
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Work
Have faith in God to the end of your days on
earth. Never forget that, when you are a faith son of God, all upright work of
the realm is sacred. Nothing which a son of God does can be common. Do your
work, therefore, from this time on, as for God.
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Tact
and Tolerance
You cannot hope for a large measure of success in
either secular or religious work unless you can learn how to persuade your
fellows.... You simply must have tact and tolerance.
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True
Believer
The true believer does not grow weary in
well-doing just because he is thwarted. Difficulty whets the ardor of the
truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted
kingdom builder.
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To
Follow Jesus
To "follow Jesus" means to personally share his
religious faith and to enter into the spirit of the Master's life of unselfish
service for man.
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Every
Moral Choice
Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he
immediately experiences a new divine invasion of his soul.
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God
Concious Mortal
The God-conscious mortal is certain of salvation;
he is unafraid of life; he is honest and consistent. He knows how bravely to
endure unavoidable suffering; he is uncomplaining when faced by inescapable
hardship.
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Religious Faith
Religious faith is available alike to the learned
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God's
Will
Never forget there is only one adventure which is
more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the
living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that
divine will.
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Jesus'
Religious Life
The secret of Jesus' unparalleled religious life
was a consciousness of the presence of God; and he attained it by intelligent
prayer and sincere worship ...
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Fatherly
Love
Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it
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Fear
and Anger
Fear and anger weaken character and destroy
happiness.
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Effective Praying
You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely
and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess
cosmic stamina.
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Moral
and Spiritual Adjustments
Only moral and spiritual adjustments can be made on
the spur of the moment, and even these require the passing of time for the
full outworking of their material and social repercussions.
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Truth
Things are time conditioned, but truth is
timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the
past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend.
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Values
You can best discover values in your associates by
discovering their motivation. If someone irritates you, causes feelings of
resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his
reasons for such objectionable conduct.
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Our
Father Within Us
Do not allow the magnitude of the infinity, the
immensity of the eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the matchless
character of God to overawe, stagger, or discourage you; for the Father is not
very far from any one of you; he dwells within you...
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Misguided Conscience
A misguided conscience can become responsible for
much conflict, worry, sorrow, and no end of human unhappiness.
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Uncertainty
When the clouds gather overhead, your faith should
accept the fact of the presence of the indwelling Adjuster, and thus you
should be able to look beyond the mists of mortal uncertainty into the clear
shining of the sun of eternal righteousness ...
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Unremitting Service
Jesus taught men to place a high value upon
themselves in time and in eternity. Because of this high estimate which Jesus
placed upon men, he was willing to spend himself in the unremitting service of
humankind.
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Peace
on Earth
Without God, neither freedom and liberty, nor
property and wealth will lead to peace.
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Our
Future and Past
The future signifies struggle and advancement; it
bespeaks work, effort, and achievement; but the past savors of things already
mastered and achieved.
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Unexpected Situations
The mortal personality, never sure as to which
will next be encountered, through humor swiftly grasps... the unexpected
nature of the situation be it fact or be it truth.
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Brotherhood
Brotherhood constitutes a fact of relationship between every personality in
universal existence. No person can escape the benefits or the penalties that
may come as a result of relationship to other persons. The good effort of each
man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man augments the tribulation
of all men.
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A
Victorious Human Life
The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is born of that creature
faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of existence when
confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by the unfailing
declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will
do it...
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The
Faith of Jesus
Jesus never argued about either the fatherhood of
God or the brotherhood of men; he was a living illustration of the one and a
profound demonstration of the other.
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Effective Praying
You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine
will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.
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The
Highest Concept of Brotherhood
Jesus taught that service to one's fellows is the
highest concept of the brotherhood of spirit believers.
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Universe
Ascension
It is not so much that man is conscious of God as
that man yearns for God that results in universe ascension.
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Education
The purpose of education should be acquirement of
skill, pursuit of wisdom, realization of selfhood, and attainment of spiritual
values.
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Fatherly
Love
The Father loves each of his sons, and that
affection is not less than true, holy, divine, unlimited, eternal and
unique.... And such a love utterly eclipses all other facts.
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Keys of
the Kingdom
The keys of the kingdom of heaven are: sincerity,
more sincerity, and more sincerity.
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Spiritual Progress
The highest happiness is indissolubly linked with
spiritual progress. Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes
all understanding.
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Dangers
of Pride
Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature
and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest. Courage is
valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
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Our
Relationships
The relationships between personalities are never
scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and
will persist.
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The
Inspiration of Religion
Religion inspires man to live courageously and
joyfully on the face of the earth; it joins patience with passion, insight to
zeal, sympathy with power, and ideals with energy.
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Our
Earthly Goal
At first life was a struggle for existence; now, for
a standard of living; next it will be for quality of thinking, the coming
earthly goal of human existence.
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Virus of
Love
If each mortal could only become a focus of dynamic
affection, this benign virus of love ... that would be the realization of the
brotherhood of man.
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Things
Spiritual
Your only assurance of a personal God consists in
your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual.
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Human
Rights
Every human right is associated with a social duty;
group privilege is an insurance mechanism which unfailingly demands the full
payment of the exacting premiums of group service.
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Survival
There is no favoritism, nothing arbitrary, in the
selective operation of the divine plan of mortal survival.
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Friendship
Friendship enhances the joys and glorifies the
triumphs of life.
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Worship
and Meditation
Meditation makes the contact of mind with spirit;
relaxation determines the capacity for spiritual receptivity. And this
interchange of strength for weakness, courage for fear, the will of God for
the mind of self, constitutes worship.
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No
Greater Love
Greater love no man can have than this: that he
would be willing to lay down his life for his friends -- and Jesus had such a
love that he was willing to lay down his life for his enemies, a love greater
than any which had hitherto been known on earth.
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The
Experience of Knowing God
Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill
like the sight thereof, neither can creedal words inspire men's souls like the
experience of knowing the presence of God.
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Perfection: The Plan
The plan for your intellectual evolution is,
indeed, one of sublime perfection, but you are far short of that divine goal
as you function in the tabernacles of the flesh.
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Religion
While religion is normal and natural to man, it is
also optional. Man does not have to be religious against his will.
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Skill
Life is not real to one who cannot do some one thing
well, expertly. Skill is one of the real sources of the satisfaction of
living.
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Religion
Religion is man's supreme gesture, his magnificent
reach for final reality, his determination to find God and to be like him.
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Destiny
of Tomorrow
The destiny of eternity is determined moment by
moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the
destiny of tomorrow.
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Loyalty
Is loyalty -- devotion to highest duty -- desirable?
Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The
valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.
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Love of
God
The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God
destroys the sin.
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Our
Destiny
If you yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces
in you and around you, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established
by a loving God ...
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The
Religionist
The religionist, not religion, proves the existence
of the spirit realities and divine values which are to be encountered in the
progress of eternity.
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