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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

  1. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 30, 2015, 10:57 AM
    January 30
     
    …As civilization progressed, and since religion continued to pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to the relative exclusion of truth and neglect of beauty, there developed an increasing tendency for certain types of men to turn away from the abstract and dissociated concept of isolated goodness…. (43.2) 2:7.9
     
     
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    …The modern age will refuse to accept a religion which is inconsistent with facts and out of harmony with its highest conceptions of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (2083.1) 195:9.5
     
     
     
     
     
     
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  2. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 31, 2015, 10:56 AM
    January 31
     
    …The overstressed and isolated morality of modern religion, which fails to hold the devotion and loyalty of many twentieth-century men, would rehabilitate itself if, in addition to its moral mandates, it would give equal consideration to the truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience, and to the beauties of the physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement…. (43.2) 2:7.9
     
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    …Religion reaches out for undiscovered ideals, unexplored realities, superhuman values, divine wisdom, and true spirit attainment. True religion does all of this; all other beliefs are not worthy of the name…. (1781.1) 160:5.5


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  3. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 1, 2015, 10:47 AM
    February 1
     
     
    …The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul…. (43.3) 2:7.10
     
     
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    …But true religion is alive. Intellectual crystallization of religious concepts is the equivalent of spiritual death. You cannot conceive of religion without ideas, but when religion once becomes reduced only to an idea, it is no longer religion; it has become merely a species of human philosophy…. (1120.4) 102:2.7
     
     
     
     
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  4. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 2, 2015, 11:30 AM
    February 2
     
     …Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love…. (43.3) 2:7.10
     
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    …God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived…. (2095.8) 196:3.24
     
     
     
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  5. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 3, 2015, 10:16 AM
    February 3
     
     
     …All truth–material, philosophic, or spiritual–is both beautiful and good. All real beauty–material art or spiritual symmetry–is both true and good. All genuine goodness– whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry–is equally true and beautiful…. (43.4) 2:7.11
     
     
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    …Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty…. (1458.4) 132:2.7
     
     
     
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  6. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 4, 2015, 10:35 AM
    February 4
     
     …Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience.  Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems…. (43.4) 2:7.11
     
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    …Health, mental efficiency, and happiness arise from the unification of physical systems, mind systems, and spirit systems. Of health and sanity man understands much, but of happiness he has truly realized very little…. (1097.7) 100:4.3
     
     
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  7. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 5, 2015, 10:59 AM
    February 5
     
     …Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty…. (43.5) 2:7.12
     
     
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    …By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life…. (1458.6) 132:2.9
     

     
     
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  8. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 6, 2015, 11:03 AM
    February 6
     
     …God’s doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest…. (47.6) 3:2.8
     
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    …There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time…. (1488.2) 134:5.4
     
     
     
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  9. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 7, 2015, 10:30 AM
    February 7
     
     ...The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations…. (52.2) 3:5.16
     
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    “…A wise man is occupied with the search for truth, not in seeking for a mere living. To attain the perfection of Heaven is the goal of man….” (1453.2) 131:9.4
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  10. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 8, 2015, 10:56 AM
    February 8
     
     …The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness–nearness to divinity; by potential evil–remoteness from divinity…. (52.5) 3:6.2
     
     
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    “…God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil….” (1429.1) 130:1.5 
     
     
     
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  11. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 9, 2015, 10:20 AM
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     …The infinite goodness of the Father is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of time; hence must there always be afforded a contrast with comparative evil (not sin) for the effective exhibition of all phases of relative goodness…. (58.4) 4:3.6
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    …Good is the carrying out of the divine plans; sin is a deliberate transgression of the divine will; evil is the misadaptation of plans and the maladjustment of techniques resulting in universe disharmony and planetary confusion…. (842.5) 75:4.3
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  12. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 10, 2015, 10:36 AM
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     …Perfection of divine goodness can be discerned by mortal imperfection of insight only because it stands in contrastive association with relative imperfection in the relationships of time and matter in the motions of space…. (58.4) 4:3.6
     
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    …Goodness is found in the recognition of the positive truth-values of the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart–the shadows of potential evil…. (1458.4) 132:2.7
      
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  13. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 11, 2015, 9:48 AM
    February 11
     
     …God is the being of absolute self-determination; there are no limits to his universe reactions save those which are self-imposed, and his freewill acts are conditioned only by those divine qualities and perfect attributes which inherently characterize his eternal nature. Therefore is God related to the universe as the being of final goodness plus a free will of creative infinity…. (58.8) 4:4.3
     
     
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    …Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is literally true that “with God all things are possible….” (46.6) 3:2.2
     
      
     
     
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  14. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 12, 2015, 10:06 AM
    February 12
     
    …The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God…. (60.6) 4:5.7
     
     
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    …There was just one motive in Jesus’ postbaptismal life on Urantia, and that was a better and truer revelation of his Paradise Father; he was the pioneer of the new and better way to God, the way of faith and love…. (1543.2) 138:6.4
     
      
     
     
     
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  15. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 13, 2015, 10:37 AM
    February 13
     
    …Sooner or later, God is destined to be comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth…. (66.6) 5:4.2
     
     
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    “…But now comes the Son of Man speaking and living the truth, and many of you refuse to believe….” (1796.5) 162:7.3
      
     
     
     
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  16. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 14, 2015, 10:56 AM
    February 14
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    …The Hebrews based their religion on goodness; the Greeks on beauty; both religions sought truth. Jesus revealed a God of love, and love is all-embracing of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (67.4) 5:4.6
     
     
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    …He exalted love–truth, beauty, and goodness–as the divine ideal and the eternal reality…. (1583.5) 140:8.31
     
     
     
     
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  17. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 15, 2015, 12:10 PM
    February 15
     
     
    …In the love of truth and in the creation of beauty the Father and the Son are equal except that the Son appears to devote himself more to the realization of the exclusively spiritual beauty of universal values…. (75.4) 6:2.7
     
     
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    …The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty…. (1732.4) 155:6.11 
     
     
     
     
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  18. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 16, 2015, 10:01 AM
    February 16
     
     
    …In divine goodness I discern no difference between the Father and the Son. The Father loves his universe children as a father; the Eternal Son looks upon all creatures both as father and as brother…. (75.5) 6:2.8
     
     
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    “…The acceptance of the doctrine of the fatherhood of God implies that you also freely accept the associated truth of the brotherhood of man….” (2053.4) 193:1.2
     
     
     
     
     
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  19. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 17, 2015, 11:22 AM
    February 17
     
     
    ...It is not possible that the Spirit could have more of goodness than the Father since all goodness takes origin in the Father, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the better comprehend such goodness…. (93.1) 8:2.7
     
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    …Divine goodness is more fully shown forth in the loving ministry of the manifold personalities of the Infinite Spirit…. (647.8) 56:10.17
     
     
     
     
     
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  20. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Feb 18, 2015, 11:16 AM
    February 18
     
     
    …Individuals have their guardians of destiny; planets, systems, constellations, universes, and superuniverses each have their respective rulers who labor for the good of their domains…. (136:6) 12:6.8
     
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    “…We know that all things work together for good to those who love God….” (55:2)  4:1.4
     
     
     
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