Vern wrote: Today, 11 November is “Never hesitate to admit failure. Make no attempt to hide failure under deceptive smiles and beaming optimism” a suggested match would be:
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Today's Thought Gem—November
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- Vern wrote: Today, 12 November is “Success may generate courage and promote confidence, but wisdom comes only from the experiences of adjustment to the results of one’s failures” a suggested match would be:
Vern wrote: Today, 13 November is “Men who prefer optimistic illusions to reality can never become wise. Only those who face facts and adjust them to ideals can achieve wisdom” a suggested match would be:
Wisdom embraces both the fact
and the ideal and therefore saves its devotees
from both of those barren extremes
of philosophy — the man whose idealism
excludes facts and the materialist
who is devoid of spiritual outlook
- Vern wrote: Today, 14 November is “Failure is simply an educational episode—a cultural experiment in the acquirement of wisdom…” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 15 November is “The career of a God-seeking man may prove to be a great success in the light of eternity, even though the whole temporal-life enterprise may appear as an overwhelming failure, provided each life failure yielded the culture of wisdom and spirit achievement ” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 16 November is “Almost every human being has some one thing which is held on to as a pet evil, and which the entrance into the kingdom of heaven requires as a part of the price of admission” a suggested match would be:
The forces of the spiritual world
will not coerce man; they allow him
to go the way of his own choosing
- Vern wrote: Today, 17 November is “Riches have nothing directly to do with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven, but the love of wealth does” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 18 November is “Wealth in itself, is not a curse, but the love of riches many times leads to such devotion to the things of this world that the soul becomes blinded to the beautiful attractions of the spiritual realities of the kingdom of God on earth and to the joys of eternal life in heaven” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 19 November is “There is no sin in having honest possessions on earth provided our treasure is in heaven…” a suggested match would be:
…for where your treasure
is there will your heart be also
- Vern wrote: …Today, 20 November is “Seek the greater thing, and the lesser will be found therein; ask for the heavenly, and the earthly shall be included. The shadow is certain to follow the substance.” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 21 November is “When you forgive your brother in the flesh, you thereby create the capacity in your own soul for the reception of the reality of God’s forgiveness of your own misdeeds” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 22 November is “God’s forgiveness is made actually available and is personally experienced by man just in so far as he forgives his fellows” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 23 November is “You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 24 November is “Divine justice is so eternally fair that it unfailingly embodies understanding mercy” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 25 November is “Your inability or unwillingness to forgive your fellows is the measure of your immaturity, your failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love” a suggested match would be:
The child, being immature and lacking in
the fuller understanding of the depth of
the child-father relationship, must
frequently feel a sense of guilty
separation from a father’s full approval,
but the true father is never conscious of any such separation
- Vern wrote: Today, 26 November is “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” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 27 November is “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 suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 28 November is “…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” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 29 November is “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” a suggested match would be:
- Vern wrote: Today, 30 November is “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” a suggested match would be: