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Today’s Thought Gem—December
78 posts · 3 participants · started Nov 30, 2014, 9:59 PM
Divine love
does not merely
forgive wrongs:
it absorbs
and actually
destroys them
The beauty of
divine love,
once fully admitted
to the human heart,
forever destroys
the charm of sin
and the power of evil
Dedicate your life
to proving that
love is the greatest
thing in the world
Love is the ancestor of
all spiritual goodness,
the essence of the true
and the beautiful
Pray for
tranquility
of spirit
and
cultivate
patience
And the fruits of the divine spirit
which are yielded in the lives of
spirit-born God-knowing mortals are:
loving service,
unselfish devotion,
courageous loyalty,
sincere fairness,
enlightened honesty,
undying hope,
confiding trust,
merciful ministry,
unfailing goodness,
forgiving tolerance,
and enduring peace
Increasingly, must you
yield the fruits of the spirit
as you progress heavenward
in the kingdom of God
The spiritual forward urge is
the most powerful driving force
present in this world…
Mankind can be unified
only by the spiritual approach,
and the Spirit of Truth is a
world influence which is universal
Religion discovers for the soul
those supreme values which are
in contrast with the relative values
discovered by the mind
As you view the world,
remember that the black
patches of evil which you see
are shown against a white
background of ultimate good
We find God through leadings
of spiritual insight, but we approach this
insight of the soul through the love
of the beautiful, the pursuit of truth,
loyalty to duty, and the worship
of divine goodness
Moral convictions based on
spiritual enlightenment
and rooted in human experience
are just as real and certain
as mathematical deductions
based on physical observations,
but on another and higher level
Secularism can never
bring peace to mankind.
Nothing can take the place
of God in human society
In winning souls for the Master,
it is not the first mile of compulsion,
duty or convention that will transform
man and his world, but rather the second
mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion…
Of all human knowledge,
that which is of greatest value
is to know the religious life of Jesus
and how he lived it
It should not be the aim of kingdom believers
literally to imitate the outward life of Jesus
in the flesh but rather to share his faith;
to trust God as he trusted God and to
believe in men as he believed in men
You may preach a religion
about Jesus, but perforce,
you must live the
religion of Jesus
The progressive
comprehension
of reality
is the equivalent
of approaching
God
