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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

  1. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    May 29, 2015, 11:07 AM

    May 29

    …Though reason can always question faith, faith can always supplement both reason and logic. Reason creates the probability which faith can transform into a moral certainty, even a spiritual experience. God is the first truth and the last fact; therefore does all truth take origin in him, while all facts exist relative to him…. (1125:1) 102:6.6

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    …Nor will the exhaustion of the possibilities of logic and reason ever reveal to the logician or to the reasoner the eternal truth of the survival of personality…. (1116:3) 101:10.6

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    May 30, 2015, 11:14 AM

    May 30

    …The vast gulf between the experience of the truth of God and ignorance as to the fact of God can be bridged only by living faith. Reason alone cannot achieve harmony between infinite truth and universal fact…. (1125:1) 102:6.6

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    …You mortals are the sons of God, and only one thing is required to make such a truth factual in your personal experience, and that is your spirit-born faith…. (2003:3) 186:5.9

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    May 31, 2015, 11:28 AM

    May 31

    …Intelligent men should cease to reason like children and should attempt to use the consistent logic of adulthood, logic which tolerates the concept of truth alongside the observation of fact…. (1125:4) 102:6.9

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    …But the frank, honest, and fearless search for true causes gave birth to modern science: It turned astrology into astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, and magic into medicine…. (901:12) 81:2.9

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  4. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 2, 2015, 9:50 AM

    June 1

    …Organic evolution is a fact; purposive or progressive evolution is a truth which makes consistent the otherwise contradictory phenomena of the ever-ascending achievements of evolution…. (1125:5) 102:6.10

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    …True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolutionary progress…. (613:4) 54:1.2

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  5. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 2, 2015, 10:22 AM

    June 2

    …The higher any scientist progresses in his chosen science, the more will he abandon the theories of materialistic fact in favor of the cosmic truth of the dominance of the Supreme Mind…. (1125:5) 102:6.10

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    …The existence of beauty implies the presence of appreciative creature mind just as certainly as the fact of progressive evolution indicates the dominance of the Supreme Mind…. (647:2) 56:10.11

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  6. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 3, 2015, 10:21 AM

    June 3

    …True, many apparently religious traits can grow out of nonreligious roots. Man can, intellectually, deny God and yet be morally good, loyal, filial, honest, and even idealistic…. (1126:4) 102:7.4

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    …Evolutionary religion may become ethical, but only revealed religion becomes truly and spiritually moral…. (40:6) 2:6.2

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  7. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 4, 2015, 10:59 AM

    June 4

    …Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences…. (1127:4) 102:7.10

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    “…You know, Ganid, most human beings are like the lost child. They spend much of their time crying in fear and suffering in sorrow when, in very truth, they are but a short distance from safety and security….” (1465:5) 132:6.1

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  8. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 5, 2015, 10:59 AM
    June 5
     
    …The hunger and thirst for righteousness leads to the discovery of truth, and truth augments ideals, and this creates new problems for the individual religionists, for our ideals tend to grow by geometrical progression, while our ability to live up to them is enhanced only by arithmetical progression…. (1133:2) 103:4.2
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    …The co-ordination of idea-decisions, logical ideals, and divine truth constitutes the possession of a righteous character, the prerequisite for mortal admission to the ever-expanding and increasingly spiritual realities of the morontia worlds…. (1112:3) 101:6.7
     
     
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  9. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 6, 2015, 10:24 AM

    June 6

    …Never, then, can either science or religion, in and of themselves, standing alone, hope to gain an adequate understanding of universal truths and relationships without the guidance of human philosophy and the illumination of divine revelation…. (1135:7) 103:6.5

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    …The idea of the personality of the Universal Father is an enlarged and truer concept of God which has come to mankind chiefly through revelation…. (28:7) 1:5.10

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  10. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 7, 2015, 9:50 AM

    June 7

    …Revelation is evolutionary man’s only hope of bridging the morontia gulf. Faith and reason, unaided by mota, cannot conceive and construct a logical universe. Without the insight of mota, mortal man cannot discern goodness, love, and truth in the phenomena of the material world…. (1137:3) 103:6.13

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    …Metaphysics has proved a failure; mota, man cannot perceive. Revelation is the only technique which can compensate for the absence of the truth sensitivity of mota in a material world…. (1136:3) 103:6.8

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  11. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 8, 2015, 11:55 AM

    June 8

    …But logic can never succeed in harmonizing the findings of science and the insights of religion unless both the scientific and the religious aspects of a personality are truth dominated, sincerely desirous of following the truth wherever it may lead regardless of the conclusions which it may reach…. (1138:3) 103:7.5

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    …If the so-called science or religion of any age is false, then must it either purify its activities or pass away before the emergence of a material science or spiritual religion of a truer and more worthy order…. (1457:3) 132:1.4

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  12. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 9, 2015, 10:39 AM

    June 9

    …The truth–an understanding of cosmic relationships, universe facts, and spiritual values–can best be had through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth and can best be criticized by revelation. But revelation originates neither a science nor a religion; its function is to co-ordinate both science and religion with the truth of reality…. (1138:6) 103:7.8

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    …The pursuit of knowledge constitutes science; the search for wisdom is philosophy; the love for God is religion; the hunger for truth is a revelation…. (1122:8) 102:3.12

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  13. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 10, 2015, 11:39 AM

    June 10

    …Reason is the act of recognizing the conclusions of consciousness with regard to the experience in and with the physical world of energy and matter. Faith is the act of recognizing the validity of spiritual consciousness–something which is incapable of other mortal proof. Logic is the synthetic truth-seeking progression of the unity of faith and reason and is founded on the constitutive mind endowments of mortal beings, the innate recognition of things, meanings, and values…. (1139:5) 103:7.13

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    …In physical life the senses tell of the existence of things; mind discovers the reality of meanings; but the spiritual experience reveals to the individual the true values of life. These high levels of human living are attained in the supreme love of God and in the unselfish love of man…. (1098:1) 100:4.4

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  14. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 11, 2015, 10:33 AM

    June 11

    …Although both science and philosophy may assume the probability of God by their reason and logic, only the personal religious experience of a spirit-led man can affirm the certainty of such a supreme and personal Deity. By the technique of such an incarnation of living truth the philosophic hypothesis of the probability of God becomes a religious reality…. (1140:1) 103:8.1

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    …Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience…. (2094:4) 196:3.5

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  15. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 12, 2015, 11:36 AM
     
     
     
     
     
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    …Religion has to do with feeling, acting, and living, not merely with thinking. Thinking is more closely related to the material life and should be in the main, but not altogether, dominated by reason and the facts of science and, in its nonmaterial reaches toward the spirit realms, by truth…. (1140:8) 103:9.2
     
     
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    …Religion, then, is based on experience and religious thought; theology, the philosophy of religion, is an honest attempt to interpret that experience. Such interpretative beliefs may be right or wrong, or a mixture of truth and error…. (1130:4) 103:1.5
     
     
     
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  16. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 13, 2015, 11:32 AM

    June 13

    …Faith most willingly carries reason along as far as reason can go and then goes on with wisdom to the full philosophic limit; and then it dares to launch out upon the limitless and never-ending universe journey in the sole company of TRUTH…. (1141:5) 103:9.7

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    …Skepticism may challenge the theories of theology, but confidence in the dependability of personal experience affirms the truth of that belief which has grown into faith…. (1124:6) 102:6.4

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  17. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 14, 2015, 10:32 AM

    June 14

    …When reason once recognizes right and wrong, it exhibits wisdom; when wisdom chooses between right and wrong, truth and error, it demonstrates spirit leading…. (1142:1) 103:9.10

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    …Modern respect for wisdom and truth is but the recent escape from the fetish-making tendency up to the higher levels of thinking and reasoning…. (969:5) 88:2.7

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  18. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 15, 2015, 10:15 AM
    June 15
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    …It is a truth that the Absolutes are manifestations of the I AM-First Source and Center; it is a fact that these Absolutes never had a beginning but are co-ordinate eternals with the First Source and Center…. (1157:1) 105:3.10
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    …Those who assume to be dogmatic must, if consistent, sooner or later be driven into the arms of the Absolute of energy, the Universal of truth, and the Infinite of love…. (1127:2) 102:7.8
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  19. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 16, 2015, 10:55 AM

    June 16

    …But regardless of any confusion concerning the origin of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity, it is both fact and truth that all reality is predicated upon their eternity existence and infinity relationships…. (1157:1) 105:3.10

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    …Always must Deity provide the pattern universe, the perfect personalities, the original truth, beauty, and goodness for which all subdeity creations strive…. (1299:3) 118:5.3

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  20. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jun 17, 2015, 11:14 AM

    June 17

    …No matter how remote from Paradise, how deep in space, a material survival personality may take origin, God the Sevenfold will be found there present and engaged in the loving and merciful ministry of truth, beauty, and goodness to such an incomplete, struggling, and evolutionary creature…. (1164:2) 106:1.3

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    …But these circuits of spiritual ministry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or superuniverse spirit presences, are receptive and reactive to the emerging values in ascending personality, and these values are faithfully transmitted through the Sevenfold to the Supreme…. (1286:6) 117:5.8

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