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Today's Thought Gem—November
60 posts · 1 participants · started Nov 2, 2014, 12:20 PM
God’s forgiveness is made actually available
and is personally experienced by man
just in so far as he forgives his fellows
Yo can cultivate gracefulness,
but graciousness is the aroma
of friendliness which emanates
from a love-saturated soul
Divine justice is
so eternally fair
that it unfailingly
embodies
understanding
mercy
Your inability or unwillingness to forgive
your fellows is the measure of your immaturity,
your failure to attain adult sympathy,
understanding, and love
You hold grudges and nurse vengefulness
in direct proportion to your ignorance
of the inner nature and true longings
of your children and your fellow beings
Love is the outworking
of the divine
and inner urge of life,
it is founded on understanding,
nurtured by unselfish service
and perfected in wisdom
…a tremendous responsibility
rests upon all earthly fathers
so to live and order their homes
that the word father becomes
worthily enshrined in the minds
and hearts of all growing children
You can know the truth, and you can live the truth;
you can experience the growth of truth in the soul
and enjoy the liberty of enlightenment in the mind,
but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes,
creeds or intellectual patterns of human conduct
Static truth is dead truth,
and only dead truth can be held as a theory
Living truth is dynamic
and can enjoy only an experiential existence
in the human mind
Vern wrote: Today, 1 November is “All too often, when we battle for the right, it turns out that both the victor and the vanquished have sustained defeat” a suggested match would be:
I heard the Master say only yesterday
that the “wise man, when seeking entrance
through the locked door, would not destroy
the door but rather would seek
for the key wherewith to unlock it”
- Vern wrote: Today, 2 November is “Too often we engage in a fight merely to convince ourselves that we are not afraid” a suggested match would be:
My philosophy tells me
that there are times when I must fight,
if need be, for the defense of my concept of righteousness,
but I doubt not that the Master,
with a more mature type of personality,
would easily and gracefully gain
an equal victory by his superior and
winsome technique of tact and tolerance
- Vern wrote: Today, 3 November is “On every mountaintop of intellectual thought are to be found relaxation for the mind, strength for the soul, and communion for the spirit” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 4 November is “The two major problems of life are: making a temporal living and the achievement of eternal survival. And even the problem of making a living requires religion for its ideal solution” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 5 November is “Skill is one of the real sources of the satisfaction of living” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 6 November is “Be not deceived by the tempting rewards of dishonest achievement: be willing to toil for the later returns inherent in honest endeavor” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 7 November is “As a pleasure seeker you should aim to be a producer as well as a consumer” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 8 November is “Train your memory to hold in sacred trust the strength-giving and worth-while episodes of life, which you can recall at will for your pleasure and edification” a suggested match would be:
Vern wrote: Today, 9 November is “…the noblest of all memories are the treasured recollections of the great moments of a superb friendship” a suggested match would be:
And all of these memory treasures
radiate their most precious
and exalting influences under
the releasing touch of spiritual worship
- Vern wrote: Today, 10 November is “There is an art in defeat which noble souls always acquire; you must know how to lose cheerfully; you must be fearless of disappointment” a suggested match would be:
