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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

  1. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 1, 2014, 9:34 AM

    DECEMBER 1

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    …Does faith, after all, triumph over evil, sin, and iniquity? It does. And the life and death of Jesus are the eternal proof that the truth of goodness and the faith of the spirit-led creature will always be vindicated…. (2062:11) 194:3.2
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    …And then long into the night Jesus propounded to his apostles the truth that it was their faith that made them secure in the kingdom of the present and the future, and not their affliction of soul nor fasting of body…. (1656:6) 147:8.5
     
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  2. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 2, 2014, 9:20 AM

    December 2

    …The spiritual forward urge is the most powerful driving force present in this world; the truth-learning believer is the one progressive and aggressive soul on earth…. (2063:2) 194:3.4
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    ...Man’s forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of man’s universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth…. (2096:7) 196:3.31
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  3. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 3, 2014, 9:49 AM
    December 3
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    …The coming of the Spirit of Truth on Pentecost made possible a religion which is neither radical nor conservative; it is neither the old nor the new; it is to be dominated neither by the old nor the young…. (2063:6) 194:3.8
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    …The old religion was motivated by fear-consciousness; the new gospel of the kingdom is dominated by truth-conviction, the spirit of eternal and universal truth…. (1951:1) 180:5.12
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  4. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 4, 2014, 9:40 AM

    December 4

    …The fact of Jesus’ earthly life provides a fixed point for the anchor of time, while the bestowal of the Spirit of  Truth provides for the everlasting expansion and endless growth of the religion which he lived and the gospel which he proclaimed…. (2063:6) 194:3.8

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    …Subsequent to the bestowals of the Paradise Sons the liberated Spirit of Truth makes mighty contributions to the enlargement of the human capacity to perceive religious truths…. (1129:1) 103:0.1

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  5. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 5, 2014, 8:59 AM

    December 5

    …The spirit guides into all truth; he is the teacher of an expanding and always-growing religion of endless progress and divine unfolding. This new teacher will be forever unfolding to the truth-seeking believer that which was so divinely folded up in the person and nature of the Son of Man…. (2063:6) 194:3.8

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    …He enters the human mind to elevate, transform, and transfigure it. It is literally true: “If any man has Christ Jesus within him, he is a new creature; old things are passing away; behold, all things are becoming new….” (1103.6) 100:7.18

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  6. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 6, 2014, 9:30 AM

    December 6

    …Pentecost, with its spiritual endowment, was designed forever to loose the religion of the Master from all dependence upon physical force; the teachers of this new religion are now equipped with spiritual weapons. They are to go out to conquer the world with unfailing forgiveness, matchless good will, and abounding love. They are equipped to overcome evil with good, to vanquish hate by love, to destroy fear with a courageous and living faith in truth…. (2064:3) 194:3.11

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    “…There is mighty power in the expulsive energy of a new and sincere spiritual affection. And again I say to you, be not overcome by evil but rather overcome evil with good….” (1738:4) 156:5.5

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  7. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 7, 2014, 9:06 AM

    DECEMBER 7

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    …Urantia has passed through the ravages of great and destructive wars in its history. All participants in these terrible struggles met with defeat. There was but one victor; there was only one who came out of these embittered struggles with an enhanced reputation–that was Jesus of Nazareth and his gospel of overcoming evil with good…. (2064:4) 194:3.12
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    …Jesus brought a new method of living to Urantia. He taught us not to resist evil but to find through him a goodness which effectually destroys evil…. (2018:1) 188:5.2
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  8. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 8, 2014, 9:26 AM
    December 8

     
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    …Truth often becomes confusing and even misleading when it is dismembered, segregated, isolated, and too much analyzed. Living truth teaches the truth seeker aright only when it is embraced in wholeness and as a living spiritual reality, not as a fact of material science or an inspiration of intervening art…. (2075:5) 195:5.2
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    …The materialistic scientist and the extreme idealist are destined always to be at loggerheads. This is not true of those scientists and idealists who are in possession of a common standard of high moral values and spiritual test levels…. (1457:3) 132:1.4
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  9. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 9, 2014, 9:21 AM

    December 9

    …As you view the world, remember that the black patches of evil which you see are shown against a white background of ultimate good. You do not view merely white patches of good which show up miserably against a black background of evil…. (2076:3) 195:5.12
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    …Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good and evil…. (613:2) 54:0.2

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  10. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 10, 2014, 9:58 AM

    December 10

     
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    …When there is so much good truth to publish and proclaim, why should men dwell so much upon the evil in the world just because it appears to be a fact? (2076:4) 195:5.13
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    “…In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have triumphed in the world and shown you the way to eternal joy and everlasting service….” (1954:3) 181:1.6
     
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  11. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 11, 2014, 9:21 AM

    December 11

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    …We find God through the leadings of spiritual insight, but we approach this insight of the soul through the love of the beautiful, the pursuit of truth, loyalty to duty, and the worship of divine goodness. But of all these values, love is the true guide to real insight…. (2076:5) 195:5.14
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    “…Devote your life to proving that love is the greatest thing in the world. It is the love of God that impels men to seek salvation. Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful….” (2047:5) 192:2.1
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  12. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 12, 2014, 11:13 AM
    December 12
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    …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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  13. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 13, 2014, 10:08 AM
    December 13
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    …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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  14. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 14, 2014, 10:10 AM
    December 14
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    …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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  15. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 15, 2014, 10:46 AM
    December 15
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    …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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  16. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 16, 2014, 10:11 AM
    December 16
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    …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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  17. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 17, 2014, 10:50 AM
    December 17
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    …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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  18. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 18, 2014, 10:17 AM
    December 18
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    …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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  19. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 19, 2014, 9:21 AM
    December 19
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    …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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  20. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 20, 2014, 10:45 AM
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    …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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    …But true religion is a living love, a life of service. The religionist’s detachment from much that is purely temporal and trivial never leads to social isolation, and it should not destroy the sense of humor…. (1100:7) 100:6.5
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