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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

  1. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 13, 2014, 9:22 AM
    September 13
    “…When men believe this gospel, which is a revelation of the goodness of God, they will be led to voluntary repentance of all known sin. Realization of sonship is incompatible with the desire to sin….” (1683:2) 150:5.5
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    “…The Lord is good and upright; the meek will he guide in judgment….” (1444:3) 131:2.3

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  2. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 14, 2014, 8:38 AM
    September 14

    …Parables favor the making of impartial moral decisions. The parable evades much prejudice and puts new truth gracefully into the mind and does all this with the arousal of a minimum of the self-defense of personal resentment…. (1692:7) 151:3.8

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    …The use of the parable form of teaching enables the teacher to present new and even startling truths while at the same time he largely avoids all controversy and outward clashing with tradition and established authority…. (1692:9) 151:3.10

     

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  3. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 15, 2014, 9:36 AM
    September 15

    …To reject the truth contained in parabolical analogy requires conscious intellectual action which is directly in contempt of one’s honest judgment and fair decision. The parable conduces to the forcing of thought through the sense of hearing…. (1692:8) 151:3.9

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    …The parable also possesses the advantage of stimulating the memory of the truth taught when the same familiar scenes are subsequently encountered…. (1693:1) 151:3.11

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  4. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 16, 2014, 8:46 AM
    September 16

    “…I have come to proclaim spiritual liberty, teach eternal truth, and foster living faith….” (1710:4) 153:2.6

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    …It is forever true, “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty….” (2063:3) 194:3.5

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  5. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 17, 2014, 8:18 AM
    September 17

    “…Turn now your attention to those who would know the truth. You cannot compel men to love the truth….” (1712:5) 153:3.5

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    “…Do not undertake to show men the beauties of the temple until you have first taken them into the temple….” (1592:6) 141:6.4

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  6. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 18, 2014, 8:38 AM
    September 18
    …It is forever true that all who may think they are misunderstood or not appreciated have in Jesus a sympathizing friend and an understanding counselor…. (1722:5) 154:6.9

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    “…I will sometime return. In the meantime, my Spirit of the Truth of a universe shall comfort and guide you….” (1914:4) 176:2.3

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  7. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 19, 2014, 9:14 AM
    September 19
    “…Why do the heathen rage? Because they know not the truth. Why do you languish in futile yearning? Because you obey not the truth. Cease your useless yearning and go forth bravely doing that which concerns the establishment of the kingdom….” (1725:4) 155:1.3

     

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    “…Those who avoid evil by seeing things as they are gain joy by thus embracing the truth. Make an end of your misery by loathing sin….” (1446:5) 131:3.3

     

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  8. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 20, 2014, 8:38 AM
    September 20

    “…Consider the Greeks, who have a science without religion, while the Jews have a religion without science. And when men become thus misled into accepting a narrow and confused disintegration of truth, their only hope of salvation is to become truth-co-ordinated–converted….” (1726:1) 155:1.4

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    …Gautama Siddhartha had a similar experience the night he sat alone and sought to penetrate the mystery of final truth. Many others have had like experiences, and many true believers have progressed in the spirit without sudden conversion…. (1099:1) 100:5.3

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  9. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 21, 2014, 8:02 AM

    September 21

    “…Let me emphatically state this eternal truth: If you, by truth co-ordination, learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, your fellow men will then seek after you that they may gain what you have so acquired….” (1726:2) 155:1.5

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    “…Man must become hungry for truth as a result of the experiences of living, or he must desire to know God as the result of contact with the lives of those who are acquainted with the divine Father….” (1466:2) 132:7.2

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  10. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 22, 2014, 9:46 AM
    September 22

    “…The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness….” (1726:2) 155:1.5

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    “…The teacher of truth attracts only those who hunger for the truth and who thirst for righteousness….” (1815:3) 164:5.2

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  11. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 23, 2014, 8:20 AM
    September 23

     

    “…The extent to which you have to go with your message to the people is, in a way, the measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous life, the truth-co-ordinated life….” (1726:2) 155:1.5

     

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    “…Make sure that the truth abides in your lives, and that you daily grow in grace….” (1920:1) 177:0.1

     

     

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  12. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 24, 2014, 8:43 AM
    September 24

    …when truth becomes formulated as a boundary line of self-righteous exclusiveness instead of serving as signposts of spiritual guidance and progress, such teachings lose their creative and life-giving power and ultimately become merely preservative and fossilizing…. (1727:3) 155:3.3

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    …You are not given truth to crystallize into settled, safe, and honored forms…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

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  13. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 25, 2014, 8:44 AM
    September 25

    …True religion–the religion of revelation. The revelation of supernatural values, a partial insight into eternal realities, a glimpse of the goodness and beauty of the infinite character of the Father in heaven–the religion of the spirit as demonstrated in human experience…. (1728:7) 155:5.5

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    …Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion is that very truth…. (1007:3) 92:4.3

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  14. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 26, 2014, 9:38 AM
    September 26

    ...And for a long time there will live on earth those timid, fearful, and hesitant individuals who will prefer thus to secure their religious consolations, even though, in so casting their lot with the religions of authority, they compromise the sovereignty of personality, debase the dignity of self-respect, and utterly surrender the right to participate in that most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences: the personal quest for truth…. (1729:5) 155:5.10

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    “…Truth is real and divine….” (1452:6) 131:9.2

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  15. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 27, 2014, 8:32 AM
    September 27

    …It is not required of you that your own sense of mercy, justice, and truth should be outraged by submission to an outworn system of religious forms and ceremonies. The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the spirit may take you…. (1731:3) 155:6.5

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    “…If you will be taught by the Spirit of Truth, never will there be conflict between the requirements of citizenship on earth and sonship in heaven unless the temporal rulers presume to require of you the homage and worship which belong only to God….” (1956:5) 181:2.10

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  16. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 28, 2014, 8:42 AM
    September 28

    …As the days pass, every true believer becomes more skillful in alluring his fellows into the love of eternal truth. Are you more resourceful in revealing goodness to humanity today than you were yesterday? (1740:2) 156:5.15

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    …And it behooves the Master’s followers in all ages to learn to minister as “they pass by”–to do unselfish good as they go about their daily duties…. (1875:5) 171:7.10

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  17. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 29, 2014, 8:53 AM
    September 29

    …The true believer does not grow weary in well-doing just because he is thwarted. Difficulty whets the ardor of the truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted kingdom builder…. (1740:8) 156:5.21

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    …You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity…. (557:2) 48:7.18

      

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  18. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Sep 30, 2014, 9:35 AM
    September 30

    “…It is not the purpose of true religion merely to bring peace but rather to insure progress. And there can be no peace in the heart or progress in the mind unless you fall wholeheartedly in love with truth, the ideals of eternal realities….” (1745:1) 157:2.2

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    …True religion must ever be, at one and the same time, the eternal foundation and the guiding star of all enduring civilizations…. (1013:10) 92:7.15

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  19. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Oct 1, 2014, 8:13 AM
    October 1

     

    …In entering the kingdom, you cannot escape its responsibilities or avoid its obligations, but remember: The gospel yoke is easy and the burden of truth is light…. (1766:3) 159:3.7

     

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    “…Are you fearful, soft, and ease-seeking? Are you afraid to trust your future in the hands of the God of truth, whose sons you are?” (1730:1) 155:5.13

     

     

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  20. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Oct 2, 2014, 8:53 AM
    October 2
     
    “…These writings are the work of men, some of them holy men, others not so holy. The teachings of these books represent the views and extent of enlightenment of the times in which they had their origin. As a revelation of truth, the last are more dependable than the first….” (1767:5) 159:4.3

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    “…Many earnest seekers after the truth have been, and will continue to be, confused and disheartened by these doctrines of the perfection of the Scriptures….” (1768:2) 159:4.6
     
     
     
     
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