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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

632 posts · 2 participants · started Jul 16, 2014, 11:31 AM

  1. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 16, 2014, 11:31 AM

    ~ July 16 ~

    “…God is full of goodness toward all men; we have no friend like the Most High. His mercy fills all places and his goodness encompasses all souls….” (1443:1) 131:1.5

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness In The URANTIA BOOK

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    …Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love…. (38:4) 2:4.4

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  2. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 17, 2014, 9:42 AM

    ~ July 17 ~

    “…Those who love their fellows and who have pure hearts shall see God. God never forgets sincerity. He will guide the honest of heart into the truth, for God is truth….” (1443:2) 131:1.6

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    “…There is but this one God, and his name is Truth. God is self-existent, and he is devoid of all anger and enmity; he is immortal and infinite….” (1442:5) 131:1.3

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  3. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 18, 2014, 8:53 AM

    ~ July 18 ~

    “…In your lives overthrow error and overcome evil by the love of the living truth. In all your relations with men do good for evil….” (1443:3) 131:1.7

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    …Fatherly love delights in returning good for evil–doing good in retaliation for injustice…. (1575:9) 140:5.24

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    Richard E Warren

  4. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 19, 2014, 8:45 AM

    ~ July 19 ~

    “…God reveals the deep and secret things because the light dwells with him. The Lord is merciful and gracious; he is long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth….” (1444:3) 131:2.3

     

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    “…God is the sure refuge of every good man when in need; the Immortal One cares for all mankind. God’s salvation is strong and his kindness is gracious….” (1448:2) 131:4.3

     

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  5. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 20, 2014, 8:59 AM

     

    ~ July 20 ~

    “…True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing. And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels which others avoid….” (1452:1) 131:8.3

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness In The URANTIA BOOK

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    “…Many times have I told you the story of the good shepherd who left the ninety and nine sheep in the fold while he went forth searching for the one that was lost….” (1850:9) 169:1.2

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    Richard E Warren

  6. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 21, 2014, 9:27 AM

    July 21

    “…Always remember that God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is; therefore should you extend help to your fellows without the thought of rewards. Do good without thought of benefit to the self….” (1452:3) 131:8.5

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    …This idea-ideal of doing good to others–the impulse to deny the ego something for the benefit of one’s neighbor–is very circumscribed at first…. (1133:7) 103:5.2

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    Richard E Warren

  7. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 22, 2014, 8:38 AM

     

    July 22

    “…If more human beings could only know about the goodness of God, they would certainly be led to repent of their evil ways and forsake all known sin….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness In The URANTIA BOOK

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    …The “richness of the goodness of God leads erring man to repentance….” (41:1) 2:6.3

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    Richard E Warren

  8. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 23, 2014, 9:32 AM

    July 23

    “…All good things come down from the Father of light, in whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness
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    “…Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.” “God is good….” (41:1) 2:6.3

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    Richard E Warren

  9. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 24, 2014, 8:39 AM
    July 24
     
     
    …Never once did he attack their errors or even mention the flaws in their teachings. In each case he would select the truth in what they taught and then proceed so to embellish and illuminate this truth in their minds that in a very short time this enhancement of the truth effectively crowded out the associated error…. (1455:4) 132:0.4
     
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    …You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs. Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work…. (1932:1) 178:1.16
     
     
     
     
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    Richard E Warren

  10. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 25, 2014, 8:57 AM

    July 25

    …Goodness, like truth, is always relative and unfailingly evil-contrasted. It is the perception of these qualities of goodness and truth that enables the evolving souls of men to make those personal decisions of choice which are essential to eternal survival…. (1457:6) 132:2.3

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness
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    …Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast…. (51:12) 3:5.13

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    Richard E Warren

  11. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 26, 2014, 8:46 AM

    July 26

    …An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one’s fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Adjuster…. (1458:2) 132:2.5

     

    Truth, Beauty, Goodness
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    The URANTIA BOOK

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    …After all, the greatest evidence of the goodness of God and the supreme reason for loving him is the indwelling gift of the Father–the Adjuster who so patiently awaits the hour when you both shall be eternally made one…. (39:4) 2:5.4

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    Richard E Warren

  12. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 27, 2014, 9:36 AM
    July 27

    …As you ascend the universe scale of creature development, you will find increasing goodness and diminishing evil in perfect accordance with your capacity for goodness-experience and truth-discernment…. (1458:3) 132:2.6

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    …From the life of the Master you may each assimilate that concept of God which represents the measure of your capacity to perceive realities spiritual and divine, truths real and eternal…. (1856:1) 169:4.3

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    Richard E Warren

  13. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 28, 2014, 10:04 AM
    July 28

     

    …Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness…. (1458:5) 132:2.8

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    …The attempt to secure equal good for the self and for the greatest number of other selves presents a problem which cannot always be satisfactorily resolved in a time-space frame….     (1134:4) 103:5.6

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    Richard E Warren

  14. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 29, 2014, 9:34 AM
    July 29

    …The presence of goodness and evil in the world is in itself positive proof of the existence and reality of man’s moral will, the personality, which thus identifies these values and is also able to choose between them…. (1458:5) 132:2.8

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    …Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function by exhibiting the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil–moral choice….     (1187:1) 108:2.2

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    Richard E Warren

  15. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 30, 2014, 9:43 AM
    July 30

     

    …Such a perfected spirit personality becomes so wholly, divinely, and spiritually unified with the positive and supreme qualities of goodness, beauty, and truth that there remains no possibility that such a righteous spirit would cast any negative shadow of potential evil when exposed to the searching luminosity of the divine light of the infinite Rulers of Paradise…. (1458:6) 132:2.9

     

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    …But the soul that survives time and emerges into eternity must make a living and personal choice between good and evil as they are determined by the true values of the spiritual standards established by the divine spirit which the Father in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man…. (1457:5) 132:2.2

     

     

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    Richard E Warren

  16. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jul 31, 2014, 8:48 AM
    July 31

     

    …Man tends to crystallize science, formulate philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is also terribly afraid of the unknown. Natural man is slow to initiate changes in his habits of thinking and in his techniques of living…. (1459:3) 132:3.3

     

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    …Today, Urantia is in the twilight zone of this intellectual evolution. One half the world is grasping eagerly for the light of truth and the facts of scientific discovery, while the other half languishes in the arms of ancient superstition and but thinly disguised magic…. (973:1) 88:6.8     

     

     

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  17. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Aug 1, 2014, 8:43 AM
    August 1

     

    …The eternal salvation of this truth-discerning and beauty-loving soul is assured by that hunger and thirst for goodness which leads this mortal to develop a singleness of purpose to do the Father’s will, to find God and to become like him…. (1459:4) 132:3.4
     
     
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    …A great teacher once admonished men that they should be renewed in the spirit of their minds; that they become new men who, like God, are created in righteousness and in the completion of truth…. (1193:2) 108:6.3
     
     
     
     
     
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  18. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Aug 2, 2014, 8:45 AM
    August 2

    …There is never conflict between true knowledge and truth. There may be conflict between knowledge and human beliefs, beliefs colored with prejudice, distorted by fear, and dominated by the dread of facing new facts of material discovery or spiritual progress….(1459:4) 132:3.4

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    Complementary Quote:

    …The teachings of Jesus constituted the first Urantian religion which so fully embraced a harmonious co-ordination of knowledge, wisdom, faith, truth, and love….(1112:4) 101:6.7

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    Richard E Warren

  19. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Aug 3, 2014, 8:50 AM
    August 3

    …But truth can never become man’s possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man’s thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope…. (1459:5) 132:3.5

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    …The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living…. (1114:5) 101:8.1
     

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  20. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Aug 4, 2014, 9:21 AM
    August 4

     

    …With the attainment of finality of choice for goodness and of completed capacity for truth appreciation, there comes into existence a perfection of beauty and holiness whose righteousness eternally inhibits the possibility of the emergence of even the concept of potential evil. Such a God-knowing soul casts no shadow of doubting evil when functioning on such a high spirit level of divine goodness…. (1460:1) 132:3.8

     

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    …The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil…. (2018:2) 188:5.3

     

     

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    Richard E Warren

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