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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 8, 2015, 10:30 AM
July 8

“…Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejectful of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is only the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

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…Man’s choosing between good and evil is influenced, not only by the keenness of his moral nature, but also by such influences as ignorance, immaturity, and delusion…. (193:6) 16:7.7

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 9, 2015, 9:13 AM
July 9

“…Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and which, when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

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…Forget not, the truly good is invariably more powerful than the most malignant evil…. (1770:2) 159:5.10

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 10, 2015, 10:36 AM
July 10

“…Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life; but such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life….” (1429:2) 130:1.6

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…The positive always has the advantage over the negative, truth over error, experience over theory, spiritual realities over the isolated facts of time and space…. (1125:2) 102:6.7

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 11, 2015, 9:56 AM
July 11

…In substance Jesus said: The will of God is the way of God, partnership with the choice of God in the face of any potential alternative. To do the will of God, therefore, is the progressive experience of becoming more and more like God, and God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true…. (1431:2) 130:2.7

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“…And never forget: You who know God are the sons of God if you truly yearn to be like him….” (1474:4) 133:4.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 12, 2015, 9:10 AM
July 12

…Knowledge is the sphere of the material or fact-discerning mind. Truth is the domain of the spiritually endowed intellect that is conscious of knowing God…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

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…Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

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Richard E Warren
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Jul 13, 2015, 10:00 AM
July 13

…Knowledge is demonstrable; truth is experienced. Knowledge is a possession of the mind; truth an experience of the soul, the progressing self. Knowledge is a function of the nonspiritual level; truth is a phase of the mind-spirit level of the universes…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

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…Knowledge originates in science; wisdom, in true philosophy; truth, in the religious experience of spiritual living…. (1459:2) 132:3.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 14, 2015, 8:49 AM
July 14

…All static, dead, concepts are potentially evil. The finite shadow of relative and living truth is continually moving…. (1436:1) 130:4.15

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…The great advance made in Buddhist philosophy consisted in its comprehension of the relativity of all truth…. (1039:3) 94:11.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 15, 2015, 10:24 AM
July 15

…Static concepts invariably retard science, politics, society, and religion. Static concepts may represent a certain knowledge, but they are deficient in wisdom and devoid of truth…. (1436:1) 130:4.15

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…The apostles learned that the Jews were spiritually stagnant and dying because they had crystallized truth into a creed…. (1727:3) 155:3.3

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 16, 2015, 10:03 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

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

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 17, 2015, 9:56 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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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 18, 2015, 10:20 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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 19, 2015, 9:44 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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“…All things come from, and belong to, the One God–all-wise, good, righteous, holy, resplendent, and glorious. This, our God, is the source of all luminosity….” (1450.1) 131:5.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 20, 2015, 10:06 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

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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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 21, 2015, 10:03 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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 22, 2015, 10:17 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
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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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 23, 2015, 9:12 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

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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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 24, 2015, 10:31 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

Truth, Beauty, Goodness
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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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 25, 2015, 10:13 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

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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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 26, 2015, 9:46 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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…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
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Jul 27, 2015, 9:43 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

Truth, Beauty, Goodness
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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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