Today's Thought Gem—January

31 posts · 1 participants · started Jan 1, 2015, 2:26 AM

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 21, 2015, 4:49 AM

   Divine truth

   is best known

   by its

   spiritual flavor

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 22, 2015, 2:07 AM

   Truth is coherent,

   beauty attractive,

   goodness stabilizing

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 26, 2015, 10:29 AM

   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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   VernParticipant
   Jan 26, 2015, 10:32 AM

   Is altruism—service to one’s fellows—desirable?

   Then must life experience provide for encountering

   situations of social inequality

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 26, 2015, 10:37 AM

   Is hope—the grandeur of trust—desirable?

   Then human existence must constantly be 

   confronted with insecurities

   and recurrent uncertainties

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 26, 2015, 10:43 AM

   Is faith—the supreme exertion of human thought—desirable?

   Then must the mind of man find itself in

   that troublesome predicament

   where it ever knows less than it can believe

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 27, 2015, 1:45 AM

   Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable?

   Then must man grow up in a world where error is present

   and falsehood always possible

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 28, 2015, 3:30 AM

   Is idealism—the approaching concept of the divine—desirable?

   Then must man struggle in an environment

   of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative

   of the irrepressible search for better things

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   VernParticipant
   Jan 28, 2015, 11:37 AM

   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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    VernParticipant
    Jan 29, 2015, 12:29 PM

    Is unselfishness—the spirit of self-forgetfulness—desirable?

    Then must mortal man live face to face

    with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self

    for recognition and honor

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    VernParticipant
    Jan 30, 2015, 11:12 PM

    Man could never lay saving hold

    on righteousness if there were

    no potential evil to exalt and

    differentiate the good by contrast

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