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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 1, 2016, 9:41 AM
March 1

…Greatness is synonymous with divinity. God is supremely great and good. Greatness and goodness simply cannot be divorced. They are forever made one in God. This truth is literally and strikingly illustrated by the reflective interdependence of the Secret of Greatness and the Soul of Goodness, for neither can function without the other…. (317:2) 28:6.21

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…Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection…. (647:3) 56:10.12

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 2, 2016, 11:23 AM
March 2

…The estimate of greatness varies from sphere to sphere. To be great is to be Godlike. And since the quality of greatness is wholly determined by the content of goodness, it follows that, even in your present human estate, if you can through grace become good, you are thereby becoming great…. (317:3) 28:6.22

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…To the Epicurean teacher he said: “You do well to choose the best and esteem the good, but are you wise when you fail to discern the greater things of mortal life which are embodied in the spirit realms derived from the realization of the presence of God in the human heart?” (1474:5) 133:4.5

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 3, 2016, 9:01 AM
March 3

…The more steadfastly you behold, and the more persistently you pursue, the concepts of divine goodness, the more certainly will you grow in greatness, in true magnitude of genuine survival character…. (317:3) 28:6.22

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…Jesus is truly a savior in the sense that his life and death do win men over to goodness and righteous survival…. (2018:1) 188:5.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 4, 2016, 10:59 AM
March 4

…The Creator Son may come and go; his personal presence may be in the local universe or elsewhere; yet the Spirit of Truth functions undisturbed, for this divine presence, while derived from the personality of the Creator Son, is functionally centered in the person of the Divine Minister…. (377:10) 34:4.6

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…Mankind can be unified only by the spiritual approach, and the Spirit of Truth is a world influence which is universal…. (2065:6) 194:3.18

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 5, 2016, 9:53 AM
March 5

…The dead theory of even the highest religious doctrines is powerless to transform human character or to control mortal behavior. What the world of today needs is the truth which your teacher of old declared: “Not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit….” (380:10) 34:6.6

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…Since the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth, man is subject to the teaching and guidance of a threefold spirit endowment: the spirit of the Father, the Thought Adjuster; the spirit of the Son, the Spirit of Truth; the spirit of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit…. (2061:9) 194:2.11

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 6, 2016, 9:30 AM
March 6

…The seed of theoretical truth is dead, the highest moral concepts without effect, unless and until the divine Spirit breathes upon the forms of truth and quickens the formulas of righteousness…. (380:7) 34:6.6

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…Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 7, 2016, 10:05 AM
March 7

…The consciousness of the spirit domination of a human life is presently attended by an increasing exhibition of the characteristics of the Spirit in the life reactions of such a spirit-led mortal, “for the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance…. (381:7) 34:6.13

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“…And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 8, 2016, 9:26 AM
March 8

…When the mortal nature has been upstepped by the addition of the nature of the Material Sons of God, as the Urantia races were in a measure advanced by the bestowal of Adam, then is the way better prepared for the Spirit of Truth to co-operate with the indwelling Adjuster to bring forth the beautiful harvest of the character fruits of the spirit…. (382:1) 34:7.1

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…In a sense the Adjusters may be fostering a certain degree of planetary cross-fertilization in the domains of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (1199:1) 109:4.6

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 9, 2016, 9:47 AM
March 9

…The methods employed in many of the higher schools are beyond the human concept of the art of teaching truth, but this is the keynote of the whole educational system: character acquired by enlightened experience. The teachers provide the enlightenment; the universe station and the ascender’s status afford the opportunity for experience; the wise utilization of these two augments character…. (412:3) 37:6.3

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…The entire ascendant plan of mortal progression is characterized by the practice of giving out to other beings new truth and experience just as soon as acquired. You work your way through the long school of Paradise attainment by serving as teachers to those pupils just behind you in the scale of progression…. (339:6) 30:3.9

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 10, 2016, 10:11 AM
March 10

…You will first begin to glimpse these transplanted arts of Havona on the mansion worlds, and their beauty and your appreciation of their beauty will heighten and brighten until you stand in the spirit halls of Salvington and behold the inspiring masterpieces of the supernal artists of the spirit realms…. (498:5) 44:0.14

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…It is useless for me to undertake to portray to the human mind the divine nature and the beauteous grandeur of the Most Holy Sphere of Paradise. This realm is wholly spiritual, and you are almost wholly material. A purely spiritual reality is, to a purely material being, apparently nonexistent…. (120:4) 11:3.1

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 11, 2016, 10:51 AM
March 11

…Truth, fact, and relationship are intellectually inseparable and associated with the philosophic concepts of beauty. Goodness, righteousness, and justice are philosophically interrelated and spiritually bound up together with living truth and divine beauty…. (507:3) 44:7.2

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…The unity of truth, beauty, and goodness can only be realized in the spiritual experience of the God-knowing personality…. (2095:8) 196:3.24

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 12, 2016, 9:47 AM
March 12

…Cosmic concepts of true philosophy, the portrayal of celestial artistry, or the mortal attempt to depict the human recognition of divine beauty can never be truly satisfying if such attempted creature progression is ununified…. (507:4) 44:7.3

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…The emotional artist sees God as the ideal of beauty, a God of aesthetics. The reasoning philosopher is sometimes inclined to posit a God of universal unity, even a pantheistic Deity…. (68:6) 5:5.3

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 13, 2016, 9:38 AM
March 13

…These expressions of the divine urge within the evolving creature may be intellectually true, emotionally beautiful, and spiritually good; but the real soul of expression is absent unless these realities of truth, meanings of beauty, and values of goodness are unified in the life experience of the artisan, the scientist, or the philosopher…. (507:4) 44:7.3

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…The truth, beauty, and goodness of man’s world are unified by the increasing spirituality of the experience of mortals ascending toward Paradise realities…. (2095:8) 196:3.24

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 14, 2016, 11:03 AM
March 14

…And every God-knowing man or angel possesses the potential of unlimited self-expression on ever-progressive levels of unified self-realization by the technique of the never-ending achievement of Godlikeness–the experiential blending in the evolutionary experience of eternal truth, universal beauty, and divine goodness…. (507:5) 44:7.4

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…It was on this same day that we first heard that momentous truth which, stated in modern terms, would signify: “Will is that manifestation of the human mind which enables the subjective consciousness to express itself objectively and to experience the phenomenon of aspiring to be Godlike….” (1431:5) 130:3.10

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 15, 2016, 10:25 AM
March 15

…Humor also functions to lessen the shock of the unexpected impact of fact or of truth, rigid unyielding fact and flexible ever-living truth. The mortal personality, never sure as to which will next be encountered, through humor swiftly grasps–sees the point and achieves insight–the unexpected nature of the situation be it fact or be it truth…. (549:5) 48:4.18

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…The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained…. (557:14) 48:7.30

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 16, 2016, 9:30 AM
March 16

…On the mansion worlds they proclaim the great law of the conservation and dominance of goodness: No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of its motivation…. (552:5) 48:6.7

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…No worth-while experience ever happens in vain; no true meaning or real value ever perishes…. (1200:1) 109:6.1

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 17, 2016, 9:45 AM
March 17

…Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something premeditated as a perversion of truth…. (555:1) 48:6.33

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“…The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth….” (1428:2) 130:1.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 18, 2016, 10:18 AM
March 18

…The creation of new pictures out of old facts, the restatement of parental life in the lives of offspring–these are the artistic triumphs of truth. The shadow of a hair’s turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle–these constitute falseness…. (555:1) 48:6.33

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…Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible…. (51:9) 3:5.10

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 19, 2016, 11:09 AM
March 19

…But the fetish of factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth…. (555:1) 48:6.33

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“…Be not deceived by their show of much learning and by their profound loyalty to the forms of religion. Be only concerned with the spirit of living truth and the power of true religion….” (1745:1) 157:2.2

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Richard E Warren
Richard E WarrenParticipant
Mar 20, 2016, 10:10 AM
March 20

…Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos. Neither do the celestial beings assist the lower being who refuses to act upon his light of truth…. (556:9) 48:7.9

Truth, Beauty, Goodness

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The URANTIA BOOK

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…Most of what a mortal would call providential is not; his judgment of such matters is very handicapped by lack of farsighted vision into the true meanings of the circumstances of life…. (1305:4) 118:10.9

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