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Richard E Warren
Richard E Warren
Richard E Warren
August 27“…By the old way you seek to suppress, obey, and conform to the rules of living; by the new way you are first transformed by the Spirit of Truth and thereby strengthened in your inner soul by the constant spiritual renewing of your mind, and so are you endowed with the power of the certain and joyous performance of the gracious, acceptable, and perfect will of God….” (1609:5) 143:2.4
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…The meanings of eternal truth make a combined appeal to the intellectual and spiritual natures of mortal man…. (646:10) 56:10.9
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Richard E Warren
“…But you should believe me when I say that the hour will soon come–even now is–when all sincere worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for it is just such worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth….” (1613:4) 143:5:6
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“…The time has come when you worship God neither on Gerizim nor at Jerusalem, but where you are, as you are, in spirit and in truth….” (2053:4) 193:1.2
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Richard E Warren
Richard E Warren
Richard E Warren
…And again and again he impressed upon them that love is the greatest relationship in the world–in the universe–just as truth is the greatest pronouncement of the observation of these divine relationships…. (1615:5) 143:6.4
…It is eternally true, “the Father himself loves you….” (1259:2) 114:7.17
Richard E Warren
…The cry of the righteous is the faith act of the child of God which opens the door of the Father’s storehouse of goodness, truth, and mercy, and these good gifts have long been in waiting for the son’s approach and personal appropriation…. (1639:3) 146:2.8
…He taught that the truth-loving soul, the one who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, for God, is admitted by faith to the spiritual kingdom…. (1865:3) 170:5.13
Richard E Warren
Richard E Warren
Richard E Warren
“…Intellectual strivings may reveal the facts of life, but the gospel of the kingdom unfolds the truths of being….” (1641:3) 146:3.1
…This gospel of the kingdom is a living truth…. (1931:6) 178:1.15
Richard E Warren
“…You have discussed the material shadows of truth; will you now listen while I tell you about the eternal and spiritual realities which cast these transient time shadows of the material facts of mortal existence?” For more than an hour Jesus taught this Greek the saving truths of the gospel of the kingdom…. (1641:3) 146:3.1
…He lived the truth, even as he taught it. He was the truth. He was constrained to proclaim saving truth to his generation, even though such sincerity sometimes caused pain. He was unquestioningly loyal to all truth…. (1101:6) 100:7.2
Richard E Warren
“…You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering up the entertainment of secret doubts as to the trueness of one’s belief….” (1641:4) 146:3.2
…Do not make the mistake of judging another’s religion by your own standards of knowledge and truth…. (1115:3) 101:9.2
Richard E Warren
“…True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism….” (1641:4) 146:3.2
…Jesus stood up and said: “Let us be patient; the truth never suffers from honest examination….” (1711:3) 153:2.11
Richard E Warren
“…No man is at any time disturbed by his neighbor’s attitude when he has perfect confidence in the truth of that which he wholeheartedly believes. Courage is the confidence of thoroughgoing honesty about those things which one professes to believe. Sincere men are unafraid of the critical examination of their true convictions and noble ideals….” (1641:4) 146:3.2
…My Father does not require of you as the price of entering the kingdom of heaven that you should force yourself to subscribe to a belief in things which are spiritually repugnant, unholy, and untruthful…. (1731:3) 155:6.5
Richard E Warren
…And Jesus said to Thomas: “Your assurance that you have entered into the kingdom family of the Father, and that you will eternally survive with the children of the kingdom, is wholly a matter of personal experience–faith in the word of truth….” (1641:6) 146:3.4
…Kingdom believers should possess an implicit faith, a whole-souled belief, in the certain triumph of righteousness. Kingdom builders must be undoubting of the truth of the gospel of eternal salvation…. (1739:7) 156:5.12
Richard E Warren
“…Spiritual assurance is the equivalent of your personal religious experience in the eternal realities of divine truth and is otherwise equal to your intelligent understanding of truth realities plus your spiritual faith and minus your honest doubts….” (1641:6) 146:3.4
…Increasingly throughout the morontia progression the assurance of truth replaces the assurance of faith…. (1111:4) 101:5.14
Richard E Warren
“…When man recognizes only the works of God, he is led to fear the Supreme; but when man begins to understand and experience the personality and character of the living God, he is led increasingly to love such a good and perfect, universal and eternal Father….” (1675:4) 149:6.3
“…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. He is the Creator, the God of all good purposes, and the protector of the justice of the universe….” (1450:1) 131:5.2
Richard E Warren
“…The goodness of God leads to repentance; the beneficence of God leads to service; the mercy of God leads to salvation; while the love of God leads to intelligent and freehearted worship….” (1675:5) 149:6.4
“…It is the very goodness of God that leads men into true and genuine repentance. Your secret of the mastery of self is bound up with your faith in the indwelling spirit, which ever works by love….” (1610:2) 143:2.7
Richard E Warren
