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Today's Thought Gem—January
31 posts · 1 participants · started Jan 1, 2015, 2:26 AM
The evidence of God can never be proved
by scientific experiment or by the pure reason
of logical deduction. God can be realized only
in the realms of human experience…
Those who know God have experienced
the fact of his presence: such God-knowing
mortals hold in their personal experience
the only positive proof of the existence of
the living God which one human being
can offer to another
…it is not necessary
to see God
with the eyes of the flesh
in order to discern him
by the faith-vision of the
spiritualized mind
The more completely man understands himself
and appreciates the personality value of his fellows,
the more he will crave to know the Original Personality,
and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human
will strive to become like the Original Personality
You can argue
over opinions about God,
but experience with him
and in him exists
above and beyond
all human controversy and
mere intellectual logic
The God knowing man
describes his spiritual experiences,
not to convince unbelievers,
but for the edification and
mutual satisfaction of believers
To assume that
the universe can be known,
that it is intelligible,
is to assume that the universe
is mind made and
personality managed
If man’s personality can experience
the universe, there is a divine mind
and an actual personality somewhere
concealed in that universe
The better man understands his neighbour,
the easier it will be to forgive him,
even to love him
Mercy is the natural
and inevitable
offspring of
goodness and love
Though you cannot find God by searching,
if you will submit to the leading
of the indwelling spirit, you will be
unerringly guided, step by step,
life by life, through universe upon universe,
and age upon age, until you finally stand in
the presence of the Paradise personality
of the Universal Father
The experience of loving
is very much a direct response
to the experience of being loved
…for, as a father, a real father,
a true father, loves his children,
so the Universal Father loves and
forever seeks the welfare of his
created sons and daughters
God is love,
but
love is not God
When man loses sight of
the love of a personal God,
the kingdom of God becomes
merely the kingdom of good
…love is the dominant
characteristic
of all God’s
personal dealings
with his creatures.
In the physical universe we
may see the divine beauty,
in the intellectual world we
may discern eternal truth,
but the goodness of God
is found only in the spiritual world
of personal religious experience
Man might fear
a great God,
but he trusts
and loves only
a good God
Happiness ensues from
the recognition of truth
because it can be acted out;
it can be lived
