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January 1
…Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty…. (3.4) 0:1.17
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…To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality…. (648.3) 56:10.20
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January 2
…God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms…. (23.4) 1:2.1
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…God is absolute truth. As truth one may know God, but to understand–to explain–God, one must explore the fact of the universe of universes…. (1125.1) 102:6.6
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Richard E Warren
January 3
…To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality…. (23.4) 1:2.1
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…Infinity of personality must, perforce, embrace all finitude of personality; hence the truth–literal truth–of the teaching which declares that “In Him we live and move and have our being….” (35.4) 2:1.11
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Richard E Warren
January 4
…I know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: “God is spirit” and “God is love….” (26:2) 1:3.8
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“…Let us be free in the knowledge of the truth of our Father’s eternal love….” (1404.5) 127:6.6
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Richard E Warren
January 5
…We are constantly confronted with this mystery of God; we are nonplused by the increasing unfolding of the endless panorama of the truth of his infinite goodness, endless mercy, matchless wisdom, and superb character…. (26:6) 1:4.4
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“…Your forebears feared God because he was mighty and mysterious. You shall adore him because he is magnificent in love, in mercy, and glorious in truth….” (1675.6) 149:6.5
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January 6
…The God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures up to the fullness of that creature’s capacity to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness…. (26:7) 1:4.5
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…The measure of the spiritual capacity of the evolving soul is your faith in truth and your love for man…. (1740.4) 156:5.17
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January 7
…The material creature’s highest possible concept of the Universal Creator is embraced within the spiritual ideals of the exalted idea of divine personality. Therefore, although you may know that God must be much more than the human conception of personality, you equally well know that the Universal Father cannot possibly be anything less than an eternal, infinite, true, good, and beautiful personality…. (27.4) 1:5.2
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…The Universal One of Infinity. I AM as I AM. This is the stasis or self-relationship of Infinity, the eternal fact of infinity-reality and the universal truth of reality-infinity. In so far as this relationship is discernible as personality, it is revealed to the universes in the divine Father of all personality–even of absolute personality…. (1155.4) 105:2.11
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Richard E Warren
January 8
…The concept of truth might possibly be entertained apart from personality, the concept of beauty may exist without personality, but the concept of divine goodness is understandable only in relation to personality…. (31.3) 1:7.3
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…Goodness is always growing toward new levels of the increasing liberty of moral self-realization and spiritual personality attainment–the discovery of, and identification with, the indwelling Adjuster…. (1458.2) 132:2.5
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January 9
…Only a person can love and be loved. Even beauty and truth would be divorced from survival hope if they were not attributes of a personal God, a loving Father…. (31.3) 1:7.3
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“…Love is the greatest of all spirit realities. Truth is a liberating revelation, but love is the supreme relationship….” (1608.1) 143:1.4
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January 10
…God’s primal perfection consists not in an assumed righteousness but rather in the inherent perfection of the goodness of his divine nature. He is final, complete, and perfect. There is no thing lacking in the beauty and perfection of his righteous character…. (36.3) 2:2.5
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“…How pure and beautiful, how deep and unfathomable is the supernal Ancestor of all things!” “The Infinite is most excellent in that he imparts himself to men. He is the beginning and the end, the Father of every good and perfect purpose….” (34.1) 2:1.2
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January 11
…The good nature of a loving Father could not possibly withhold the wise ministry of mercy to each member of every group of his universe children. Eternal justice and divine mercy together constitute what in human experience would be called fairness…. (38.4) 2:4.4
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…All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness–justice…. (1732.4) 155:6.11
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January 12
…I naturally love one who is so powerful in creation and in the control thereof, and yet who is so perfect in goodness and so faithful in the loving-kindness which constantly overshadows us. I think I would love God just as much if he were not so great and powerful, as long as he is so good and merciful…. (39.6) 2:5.7
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…The higher and superphilosophic wisdom of such enlightened and disciplined individuals ultimately instructs them that to doubt God or distrust his goodness would be to prove untrue to the realest and deepest thing within the human mind and soul–the divine Adjuster…. (1105.4) 101:1.7
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January 13
…When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. Notwithstanding the infinite unity of the divine nature, love is the dominant characteristic of all God’s personal dealings with his creatures…. (40.4) 2:5.12
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…The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust…. (2064.4) 194:3.12
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January 14
…In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth, but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience…. (40.5) 2:6.1
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“…Says the Lord: `I dwell within their own souls as a lamp of wisdom. I am the splendor of the splendid and the goodness of the good. Where two or three gather together, there am I also….'” (1448.2) 131:4.3
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January 15
…God could be great and absolute, somehow even intelligent and personal, in philosophy, but in religion God must also be moral; he must be good…. (40.5) 2:6.1
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“…He is the merciful and the compassionate.” “Truly God is plenteous in goodness to all men….” (1051.4) 95:7.6
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January 16
…Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. This goodness of God is a part of the personality of God, and its full revelation appears only in the personal religious experience of the believing sons of God…. (40.5) 2:6.1
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…And yet, despite this very deep consciousness of close relationship with divinity, this Galilean, God’s Galilean, when addressed as Good Teacher, instantly replied, “Why do you call me good?” (2088.4) 196:0.9
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January 17
…The olden concept that God is a Deity dominated by kingly morality was upstepped by Jesus to that affectionately touching level of intimate family morality of the parent-child relationship, than which there is none more tender and beautiful in mortal experience…. (40.6) 2:6.2
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…As the Son of God he loves man with a fatherly love–he is man’s Creator, his universe Father. As the Son of Man, Jesus loves mortals as a brother–he was truly a man among men…. (1573.4) 140:5.2
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January 18
…Righteousness implies that God is the source of the moral law of the universe. Truth exhibits God as a revealer, as a teacher. But love gives and craves affection, seeks understanding fellowship such as exists between parent and child. Righteousness may be the divine thought, but love is a father’s attitude…. (41.3) 2:6.5
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…Love, the love of a father for his son, becomes the central truth in the universe relations of Creator and creature–not the justice of a king which seeks satisfaction in the sufferings and punishment of the evil-doing subject…. (2018.1) 188:5.2
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January 19
…God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry. It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy…. (41.5) 2:6.7
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…The great truth of Siddhartha’s teaching was his proclamation of a universe of absolute justice…. (1037.2) 94:8.18
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January 20
…Facing the world of personality, God is discovered to be a loving person; facing the spiritual world, he is a personal love; in religious experience he is both. Love identifies the volitional will of God. The goodness of God rests at the bottom of the divine free-willness–the universal tendency to love, show mercy, manifest patience, and minister forgiveness…. (42.1) 2:6.9
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“…If our earth parents know how to love their children and bestow good gifts on them, how much more must the good Father in heaven know how wisely to love his children on earth and to bestow suitable blessings upon them….” (1453.5) 131:10.3
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