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TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS CALENDAR

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

  1. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 21, 2014, 11:12 AM

    December 21

    …The hope of modern Christianity is that it should cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization while it humbly bows itself before the cross it so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man can ever hear–the living gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man…. (2086:7) 195:10.21

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    “…Who is this God of the kingdom?” Jesus replied: “God is your Father, and religion–my gospel–is nothing more nor less than the believing recognition of the truth that you are his son….” (1590:5) 141:4.2

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  2. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 22, 2014, 12:09 PM
    December 22
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    …Let not the discussions of the humanity or the divinity of the Christ obscure the saving truth that Jesus of Nazareth was a religious man who, by faith, achieved the knowing and the doing of the will of God; he was the most truly religious man who has ever lived on Urantia…. (2090:2) 196:1.1
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    …Religion (the truth of personal spiritual experience) is founded on the inherent (Thought Adjuster) assumption that faith is valid, that God can be known and attained…. (1141:6) 103:9.8
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    Dec 23, 2014, 10:12 AM
    December 23
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    …There are just three elements in universal reality: fact, idea, and relation. The religious consciousness identifies these realities as science, philosophy, and truth. Philosophy would be inclined to view these activities as reason, wisdom, and faith–physical reality, intellectual reality, and spiritual reality. We are in the habit of designating these realities as thing, meaning, and value…. (2094:1) 196:3.2
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    …A one-eyed person can never hope to visualize depth of perspective. Neither can single-eyed material scientists nor single-eyed spiritual mystics and allegorists correctly visualize and adequately comprehend the true depths of universe reality. All true values of creature experience are concealed in depth of recognition…. (1434:3) 130:3.4
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  4. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 24, 2014, 10:57 AM
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    …Moral evaluation with a religious meaning–spiritual insight–connotes the individual’s choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity…. (2095:1) 196:3.17
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    “…Moral self-consciousness is true human self-realization and constitutes the foundation of the human soul, and the soul is that part of man which represents the potential survival value of human experience….” (1478:4) 133:6.5
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  5. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 25, 2014, 10:35 AM
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    …The idealization and attempted service of truth, beauty, and goodness is not a substitute for genuine religious experience–spiritual reality. Psychology and idealism are not the equivalent of religious reality…. (2095:7) 196:3.23
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    …The understandings of truth, beauty, and goodness, morality, ethics, duty, love, divinity, origin, existence, purpose, destiny, time, space, even Deity, are only relatively true…. (1260:3) 115:1.2
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  6. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 26, 2014, 10:13 AM
    December 26
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    …The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God…. (2096:2) 196:3.26
     
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    …Morality has its origin in the reason of self-consciousness; it is superanimal but wholly evolutionary. Human evolution embraces in its unfolding all endowments antecedent to the bestowal of the Adjusters and to the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth…. (68:4) 5:5.1
     
     
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  7. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 27, 2014, 11:47 AM
    December 27
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    …Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values. Religion provides for the enhancement, glorification, and assured survival of everything morality recognizes and approves…. (2096:3) 196:3.27
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    “…It is the possession of such powers of spiritual discrimination and truth choosing that makes mortal man a moral being, a creature endowed with the attributes of spiritual responsibility and the potential of eternal survival….” (1431:3) 130:2.8
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  8. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 28, 2014, 10:47 AM
    December 28
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    …Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. But love, divested of truth, beauty, and goodness, is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion, a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception…. (2096:5) 196:3.29
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    …Reason deals with factual knowledge; wisdom, with philosophy and revelation; faith, with living spiritual experience. Through truth man attains beauty and by spiritual love ascends to goodness…. (1142:1) 103:9.10
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  9. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 29, 2014, 10:05 AM
    December 29
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    …Art results from man’s attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level…. (2096:6) 196:3.30  
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    …God’s residence is central and eternal, glorious and ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all universe headquarters worlds…. (127:4) 11:9.6
     
     
     
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  10. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 30, 2014, 9:55 AM
    December 30
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    …This concept of love generates in the soul of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness…. (2096:8) 196:3.32
     
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    …Love is the desire to do good to others…. (648:4) 56:10.21
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  11. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Dec 31, 2014, 9:43 AM
    December 31
     
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    …God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. Only the spirit content of any value is imperishable. Even that which is true, beautiful, and good may not perish in human experience…. (2097:3) 196:3.35
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    …The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life…. (1134:5) 103:5.7
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  12. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 1, 2015, 10:41 AM
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    …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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  13. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 2, 2015, 9:39 AM
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    …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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  14. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 3, 2015, 11:23 AM
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    ...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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  15. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 4, 2015, 10:49 AM
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    …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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  16. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 5, 2015, 10:11 AM
    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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  17. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 6, 2015, 9:41 AM
    January 6
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    …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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    Jan 7, 2015, 10:24 AM
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    …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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  19. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 8, 2015, 10:10 AM
    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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  20. Richard E WarrenParticipant
    Jan 9, 2015, 10:53 AM
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    …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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