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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 12, 2015, 10:49 AM
December 12

…The pursuit of mere knowledge, without the attendant interpretation of wisdom and the spiritual insight of religious experience, eventually leads to pessimism and human despair. A little knowledge is truly disconcerting…. (2076:8) 195:6.3

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…The false science of materialism would sentence mortal man to become an outcast in the universe. Such partial knowledge is potentially evil; it is knowledge composed of both good and evil…. (42:5) 2:7.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 13, 2015, 10:50 AM
December 13

…The concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness are not inherent in either physics or chemistry. A machine cannot know, much less know truth, hunger for righteousness, and cherish goodness…. (2077:7) 195:6.11

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…A mechanism might deteriorate, but it could never progress. Machines do not think, create, dream, aspire, idealize, hunger for truth, or thirst for righteousness…. (2079:9) 195:7.13

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 14, 2015, 11:15 AM
December 14

…Science may be physical, but the mind of the truth-discerning scientist is at once supermaterial. Matter knows not truth, neither can it love mercy nor delight in spiritual realities…. (2077:8) 195:6.12

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…Only facts and truth court the full light of comprehension and rejoice in the illumination and enlightenment of scientific research…. (992:1) 90:4.9

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 15, 2015, 10:22 AM
December 15

…The sincere pursuit of goodness, beauty, and truth leads to God. And every scientific discovery demonstrates the existence of both freedom and uniformity in the universe. The discoverer was free to make the discovery. The thing discovered is real and apparently uniform, or else it could not have become known as a thing…. (2078:3) 195:6.17

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…Evolutionary religion makes no provision for change or revision; unlike science, it does not provide for its own progressive correction. Evolved religion commands respect because its followers believe it is The Truth; “the faith once delivered to the saints” must, in theory, be both final and infallible…. (1006:1) 92:3.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 16, 2015, 11:12 AM
December 16

…Paradise values of eternity and infinity, of truth, beauty, and goodness, are concealed within the facts of the phenomena of the universes of time and space. But it requires the eye of faith in a spirit-born mortal to detect and discern these spiritual values…. (2078:7) 195:7.4

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…The standard of true values must be looked for in the spiritual world and on divine levels of eternal reality. To an ascending mortal all lower and material standards must be recognized as transient, partial, and inferior…. (1457:1) 132:1.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 17, 2015, 11:00 AM
December 17

…In all your worthy efforts to rid yourselves of the superstitious creeds of past ages, make sure that you hold fast the eternal truth…. (2082.6) 195:9.1

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…The great strength of Buddhism is that its adherents are free to choose truth from all religions…. (1041:2) 94:12.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 18, 2015, 10:44 AM
December 18

…But be patient! when the present superstition revolt is over, the truths of Jesus’ gospel will persist gloriously to illuminate a new and better way…. (2082.6) 195:9.1

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“…I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man goes to the Father except through me. All who find the Father, first find me….” (1947:6) 180:3.7

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 19, 2015, 11:04 AM
December 19

…Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill like the sight thereof, neither can creedal words inspire men’s souls like the experience of knowing the presence of God…. (2083:4) 195:9.8

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“…He is the great parent of heaven and earth, possessed of unlimited energy and infinite wisdom. His splendor is sublime and his beauty divine….” (1448:3) 131:4.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 20, 2015, 9:27 AM
December 20

…But there is no excuse for the involvement of the church in commerce and politics; such unholy alliances are a flagrant betrayal of the Master. And the genuine lovers of truth will be slow to forget that this powerful institutionalized church has often dared to smother newborn faith and persecute truth bearers who chanced to appear in unorthodox raiment…. (2085:5) 195:10.13

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…Since true religion is a matter of personal spiritual experience, it is inevitable that each individual religionist must have his own and personal interpretation of the realization of that spiritual experience…. (1091:6) 99:5.7

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 21, 2015, 11:13 AM
December 21

…The hope of modern Christianity is that it should cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization while it humbly bows itself before the cross it so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man can ever hear–the living gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man…. (2086:7) 195:10.21

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“…Who is this God of the kingdom?” Jesus replied: “God is your Father, and religion–my gospel–is nothing more nor less than the believing recognition of the truth that you are his son….” (1590:5) 141:4.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 22, 2015, 11:06 AM
December 22

…Let not the discussions of the humanity or the divinity of the Christ obscure the saving truth that Jesus of Nazareth was a religious man who, by faith, achieved the knowing and the doing of the will of God; he was the most truly religious man who has ever lived on Urantia…. (2090:2) 196:1.1

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…Religion (the truth of personal spiritual experience) is founded on the inherent (Thought Adjuster) assumption that faith is valid, that God can be known and attained…. (1141:6) 103:9.8

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 23, 2015, 11:29 AM
December 23

…There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities as science, philosophy, and truth. Philosophy would be inclined to view these activities as reason, wisdom, and faith–physical reality, intellectual reality, and spiritual reality. We are in the habit of designating these realities as thing, meaning, and value…. (2094:1) 196:3.2

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…A one-eyed person can never hope to visualize depth of perspective. Neither can single-eyed material scientists nor single-eyed spiritual mystics and allegorists correctly visualize and adequately comprehend the true depths of universe reality. All true values of creature experience are concealed in depth of recognition…. (1434:3) 130:3.4

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 24, 2015, 10:52 AM
December 24

…Moral evaluation with a religious meaning–spiritual insight–connotes the individual’s choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity…. (2095:1) 196:3.17

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“…Moral self-consciousness is true human self-realization and constitutes the foundation of the human soul, and the soul is that part of man which represents the potential survival value of human experience….” (1478:4) 133:6.5

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 25, 2015, 10:30 AM
December 25

…The idealization and attempted service of truth, beauty, and goodness is not a substitute for genuine religious experience–spiritual reality. Psychology and idealism are not the equivalent of religious reality…. (2095:7) 196:3.23

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…The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true…. (1260:3) 115:1.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 26, 2015, 10:36 AM
December 26

…The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God…. (2096:2) 196:3.26

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…Morality has its origin in the reason of self-consciousness; it is superanimal but wholly evolutionary. Human evolution embraces in its unfolding all endowments antecedent to the bestowal of the Adjusters and to the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth…. (68:4) 5:5.1

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 27, 2015, 10:37 AM
December 27

…Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values. Religion provides for the enhancement, glorification, and assured survival of everything morality recognizes and approves…. (2096:3) 196:3.27

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“…It is the possession of such powers of spiritual discrimination and truth choosing that makes mortal man a moral being, a creature endowed with the attributes of spiritual responsibility and the potential of eternal survival….” (1431:3) 130:2.8

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 28, 2015, 10:24 AM
December 28

…Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. But love, divested of truth, beauty, and goodness, is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion, a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception…. (2096:5) 196:3.29

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…Reason deals with factual knowledge; wisdom, with philosophy and revelation; faith, with living spiritual experience. Through truth man attains beauty and by spiritual love ascends to goodness…. (1142:1) 103:9.10

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 29, 2015, 11:29 AM
December 29

…Art results from man’s attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level…. (2096:6) 196:3.30

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…God’s residence is central and eternal, glorious and ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all universe headquarters worlds…. (127:4) 11:9.6

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 30, 2015, 11:51 AM
December 30

…This concept of love generates in the soul of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness…. (2096:8) 196:3.32

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…Love is the desire to do good to others…. (648:4) 56:10.21

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Dec 31, 2015, 10:42 AM
December 31

…God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. Only the spirit content of any value is imperishable. Even that which is true, beautiful, and good may not perish in human experience…. (2097:3) 196:3.35

Truth, Beauty, Goodness

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The URANTIA BOOK

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…The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life…. (1134:5) 103:5.7

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