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    Richard E Warren
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    j1…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

    j1…To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality…. (648.3) 56:10.20

    j2…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

    j2…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

    j3…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

    j3…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

    j4…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

    j4″…Let us be free in the knowledge of the truth of our Father’s eternal love….” (1404.5) 127:6.6

    j5…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

    j5″…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

    j6…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

    j6…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

    j7…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

    j7…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

    j8…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

    j8…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

    j9…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

    j9″…Love is the greatest of all spirit realities. Truth is a liberating revelation, but love is the supreme relationship….” (1608.1) 143:1.4

    j10…God’s primal perfection consists not in an assumed righteousness but rather in the inherent perfection of the goodness of his divine nature. He is final, complete, and perfect. There is no thing lacking in the beauty and perfection of his righteous character…. (36.3) 2:2.5

    j10″…How pure and beautiful, how deep and unfathomable is the supernal Ancestor of all things!” “The Infinite is most excellent in that he imparts himself to men. He is the beginning and the end, the Father of every good and perfect purpose….” (34.1) 2:1.2

    j11…The good nature of a loving Father could not possibly withhold the wise ministry of mercy to each member of every group of his universe children. Eternal justice and divine mercy together constitute what in human experience would be called fairness…. (38.4) 2:4.4

    j11…All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness–justice…. (1732.4) 155:6.11

    j12…I naturally love one who is so powerful in creation and in the control thereof, and yet who is so perfect in goodness and so faithful in the loving-kindness which constantly overshadows us.  I think I would love God just as much if he were not so great and powerful, as long as he is so good and merciful…. (39.6) 2:5.7

    j12…The higher and superphilosophic wisdom of such enlightened and disciplined individuals ultimately instructs them that to doubt God or distrust his goodness would be to prove untrue to the realest and deepest thing within the human mind and soul–the divine Adjuster…. (1105.4) 101:1.7

    j13…When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. Notwithstanding the infinite unity of the divine nature, love is the dominant characteristic of all God’s personal dealings with his creatures…. (40.4) 2:5.12

    j13…The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust…. (2064.4) 194:3.12

    j14…In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth, but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience…. (40.5) 2:6.1

    j14 “…Says the Lord: `I dwell within their own souls as a lamp of wisdom. I am the splendor of the splendid and the goodness of the good. Where two or three gather together, there am I also….'” (1448.2) 131:4.3

    j15…God could be great and absolute, somehow even intelligent and personal, in philosophy, but in religion God must also be moral; he must be good…. (40.5) 2:6.1

    j15″…He is the merciful and the compassionate.” “Truly God is plenteous in goodness to all men….” (1051.4) 95:7.6

    j16…Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. This goodness of God is a part of the personality of God, and its full revelation appears only in the personal religious experience of the believing sons of God…. (40.5) 2:6.1

    j16…And yet, despite this very deep consciousness of close relationship with divinity, this Galilean, God’s Galilean, when addressed as Good Teacher, instantly replied, “Why do you call me good?” (2088.4) 196:0.9

    j17…The olden concept that God is a Deity dominated by kingly morality was upstepped by Jesus to that affectionately touching level of intimate family morality of the parent-child relationship, than which there is none more tender and beautiful in mortal experience…. (40.6) 2:6.2

    j17…As the Son of God he loves man with a fatherly love–he is man’s Creator, his universe Father. As the Son of Man, Jesus loves mortals as a brother–he was truly a man among men…. (1573.4) 140:5.2

    j18…Righteousness implies that God is the source of the moral law of the universe. Truth exhibits God as a revealer, as a teacher. But love gives and craves affection, seeks understanding fellowship such as exists between parent and child. Righteousness may be the divine thought, but love is a father’s attitude…. (40.6) 2:6.2

    j18…Love, the love of a father for his son, becomes the central truth in the universe relations of Creator and creature–not the justice of a king which seeks satisfaction in the sufferings and punishment of the evil-doing subject…. (2018.1) 188:5.2

    j19…God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry. It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy…. (41.5) 2:6.7

    j19…The great truth of Siddhartha’s teaching was his proclamation of a universe of absolute justice…. (1037.2) 94:8.18

    j20…Facing the world of personality, God is discovered to be a loving person; facing the spiritual world, he is a personal love; in religious experience he is both. Love identifies the volitional will of God. The goodness of God rests at the bottom of the divine free-willness–the universal tendency to love, show mercy, manifest patience, and minister forgiveness…. (42.1) 2:6.9

    j20″…If our earth parents know how to love their children and bestow good gifts on them, how much more must the good Father in heaven know how wisely to love his children on earth and to bestow suitable blessings upon them….” (1453.5) 131:10.3

    j21…All finite knowledge and creature understanding are <em>relative</em>. Information and intelligence, gleaned from even high sources, is only relatively complete, locally accurate, and personally true…. (42.2) 2:7.1

    j21…The true child of universe insight looks for the living Spirit of Truth in every wise saying…. (1949.6) 180:5:4

    j22…Physical facts are fairly uniform, but truth is a living and flexible factor in the philosophy of the universe. Evolving personalities are only partially wise and relatively true in their communications. They can be certain only as far as their personal experience extends…. (42.3) 2:7.2

    j22…The fact of God, the divine law, is changeless; the truth of God, his relation to the universe, is a relative revelation which is ever adaptable to the constantly evolving universe…. (1126.2) 102:7.2

    j23…Divine truth, final truth, is uniform and universal, but the story of things spiritual, as it is told by numerous individuals hailing from various spheres, may sometimes vary in details owing to this relativity in the completeness of knowledge and in the repleteness of personal experience as well as in the length and extent of that experience…. (42.4) 2:7.3

    j23…Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is always more than knowledge…. (1459.2) 132:3.2

    j24…Truth is beautiful because it is both replete and symmetrical. When man searches for truth, he pursues the divinely real…. (42.5) 2:7.4

    j24…Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality…. (1949.4) 180:5.2

    j25…Philosophers commit their gravest error when they are misled into the fallacy of abstraction, the practice of focusing the attention upon one aspect of reality and then of pronouncing such an isolated aspect to be the whole truth…. (42.6) 2:7.5

    j25…Your science is engaged in the agelong contest between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism…. (141.6) 12:9.5

    j26…Intellectual self-consciousness can discover the beauty of truth, its spiritual quality, not only by the philosophic consistency of its concepts, but more certainly and surely by the unerring response of the ever-present Spirit of Truth…. (42.7) 2:7.6

    j26…If you do not reject this spirit, even though eternity may be required to fulfill the commission, “he will guide you into all truth….” (382.1) 34:7.1

    j27…Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be <em>acted out</em>; it can be lived. Disappointment and sorrow attend upon error because, not being a reality, it cannot be realized in experience…. (42.7) 2:7.6

    j27…The beauties of the spiritual values of truth are more pleasurable and uplifting than is the phenomenon of evil…. (2076.4) 195:5.13

    j28…Divine truth is best known by its <em>spiritual flavor</em>…. (42.7) 2:7.6

    j28″…Taste and see that the Lord is good!” (41.1) 2:6.3

    j29…The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty. Even the charm of human art consists in the harmony of its unity…. (43.1) 2:7.8

    j29…The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature…. (646.4) 56:10.3

    j30…As civilization progressed, and since religion continued to pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to the relative exclusion of truth and neglect of beauty, there developed an increasing tendency for certain types of men to turn away from the abstract and dissociated concept of isolated goodness…. (43.2) 2:7.9

    j30…The modern age will refuse to accept a religion which is inconsistent with facts and out of harmony with its highest conceptions of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (2083.1) 195:9.5</div>
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    j31…The overstressed and isolated morality of modern religion, which fails to hold the devotion and loyalty of many twentieth-century men, would rehabilitate itself if, in addition to its moral mandates, it would give equal consideration to the truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience, and to the beauties of the physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement…. (43.2) 2:7.9

    j31…Religion reaches out for undiscovered ideals, unexplored realities, superhuman values, divine wisdom, and true spirit attainment. True religion does all of this; all other beliefs are not worthy of the name…. (1781.1) 160:5.5

    f1…The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul…. (43.3) 2:7.10

    f1…But true religion is alive. Intellectual crystallization of religious concepts is the equivalent of spiritual death. You cannot conceive of religion without ideas, but when religion once becomes reduced only to an <em>idea</em>, it is no longer religion; it has become merely a species of human philosophy…. (1120.4) 102:2.7

    f2…Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love…. (43.3) 2:7.10

    f2…God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived…. (2095.8) 196:3.24

    f3…All truth–material, philosophic, or spiritual–is both beautiful and good. All real beauty–material art or spiritual symmetry–is both true and good. All genuine goodness– whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry–is equally true and beautiful…. (43.4) 2:7.11

    f3…Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty…. (1458.4) 132:2.7

    f4…Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience.  Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems…. (43.4) 2:7.11

    f4…Health, mental efficiency, and happiness arise from the unification of physical systems, mind systems, and spirit systems. Of health and sanity man understands much, but of happiness he has truly realized very little…. (1097.7) 100:4.3

    f5…Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty…. (43.5) 2:7.12

    f5…By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life…. (1458.6) 132:2.9

    f6…God’s doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest…. (47.6) 3:2.8

    f6…There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of <em>all </em>men and for the greatest length of time…. (1488.2) 134:5.4

    f7…The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations…. (52.2) 3:5.16

    f7″…A wise man is occupied with the search for truth, not in seeking for a mere living. To attain the perfection of Heaven is the goal of man….” (1453.2) 131:9.4

    f8…The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness–nearness to divinity; by potential evil–remoteness from divinity…. (52.5) 3:6.2

    f8″…God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil….” (1429.1) 130:1.5

    f9…The infinite goodness of the Father is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of time; hence must there always be afforded a contrast with comparative evil (not sin) for the effective exhibition of all phases of relative goodness…. (58.4) 4:3.6

    f9…Good is the carrying out of the divine plans; sin is a deliberate transgression of the divine will; evil is the misadaptation of plans and the maladjustment of techniques resulting in universe disharmony and planetary confusion…. (842.5) 75:4.3

    f10…Perfection of divine goodness can be discerned by mortal imperfection of insight only because it stands in contrastive association with relative imperfection in the relationships of time and matter in the motions of space…. (58.4) 4:3.6

    f10…Goodness is found in the recognition of the positive truth-values of the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart–the shadows of potential evil…. (1458.4) 132:2.7

    f11…God is the being of absolute self-determination; there are no limits to his universe reactions save those which are self-imposed, and his freewill acts are conditioned only by those divine qualities and perfect attributes which inherently characterize his eternal nature. Therefore is God related to the universe as the being of final goodness plus a free will of creative infinity…. (58.8) 4:4.3

    f11…Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is literally true that “with God all things are possible….” (46.6) 3:2.2

    f12…The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God…. (60.6) 4:5.7

    f12…There was just <em>one</em> motive in Jesus’ postbaptismal life on Urantia, and that was a better and truer revelation of his Paradise Father; he was the pioneer of the new and better way to God, the way of faith and love…. (1543.2) 138:6.4

    f13…Sooner or later, God is destined to be comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth…. (66.6) 5:4.2

    f13″…But now comes the Son of Man speaking and living the truth, and many of you refuse to believe….” (1796.5) 162:7.3

    f14…The Hebrews based their religion on goodness; the Greeks on beauty; both religions sought truth. Jesus revealed a God of love, and love is all-embracing of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (67.4) 5:4.6

    f14…He exalted love–truth, beauty, and goodness–as the divine ideal and the eternal reality…. (1583.5) 140:8.31

    f15…In the love of truth and in the creation of beauty the Father and the Son are equal except that the Son <em>appears </em>to devote himself more to the realization of the exclusively spiritual beauty of universal values…. (75.4) 6:2.7

    f15…The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty…. (1732.4) 155:6.11

    f16…In divine goodness I discern no difference between the Father and the Son. The Father loves his universe children as a father; the Eternal Son looks upon all creatures both as father and as brother…. (75.5) 6:2.8

    f16″…The acceptance of the doctrine of the fatherhood of God implies that you also freely accept the associated truth of the brotherhood of man….” (2053.4) 193:1.2

    f17…It is not possible that the Spirit could have more of goodness than the Father since all goodness takes origin in the Father, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the better comprehend such goodness…. (93.1) 8:2.7

    f17…Divine goodness is more fully shown forth in the loving ministry of the manifold personalities of the Infinite Spirit…. (647.8) 56:10.17

    f18…Individuals have their guardians of destiny; planets, systems, constellations, universes, and superuniverses each have their respective rulers who labor for the good of their domains…. (136:6) 12:6.8

    f18″…We know that all things work together for good to those who love God….” (55:2)  4:1.4

    f19…The part profits or suffers in measure with the whole. The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man augments the tribulation of all men…. (138.6) 12:7.11

    f19″…Remember, every act shall receive its reward. Evil results in sorrow and sin ends in pain. Joy and happiness are the outcome of a good life….” (1447.2) 131:3.5

    f20…Mathematics, material science, is indispensable to the intelligent discussion of the material aspects of the universe, but such knowledge is not necessarily a part of the higher realization of truth or of the personal appreciation of spiritual realities…. (141.4) 12:9.3

    f20…Truth having to do with spiritual realities and eternal values cannot always be built up by a combination of apparent facts…. (2023.5) 189:2.6

    f21…As the worship of the faith sons of the evolutionary worlds ministers to the satisfaction of the Universal Father’s love, so the exalted adoration of the Havona creatures satiates the perfect ideals of divine beauty and truth. As mortal man strives to do the will of God, these beings of the central universe live to gratify the ideals of the Paradise Trinity…. (157.5) 14:4.13

    f21…The mode of worship on Paradise is utterly beyond mortal comprehension, but the spirit of it you can begin to appreciate even down here on Urantia, for the spirits of the Gods even now indwell you, hover over you, and inspire you to true worship…. (304.3) 27:7.5

    f22…Man rejoices in the goodness of God, Havoners exult in the divine beauty, while you both enjoy the ministry of the liberty of living truth…. (157.5) 14:4.13

    f22…I am the hope of all who know the living truth…. (1965.17) 182:1.23

    f23…In the day-by-day life of mortal man, virtue is realized by the consistent choosing of good rather than evil, and such choosing ability is evidence of the possession of a moral nature…. (193:5) 16:7.6

    f23…Human likes and dislikes do not determine good and evil; moral values do not grow out of wish fulfillment or emotional frustration…. (1096.7) 100:3.2

    f24…The true perspective of any reality problem–human or divine, terrestrial or cosmic–can be had only by the full and unprejudiced study and correlation of three phases of universe reality: origin, history, and destiny…. (215:3)  19:1.6

    f24…Eternal ends are not shown in time beginnings. The present can be truly interpreted only in the light of the correlated past and future…. (215:8) 19:1.11

    f25…In the Trinity Teacher Sons the love, mercy, and ministry of the three Paradise Deities are co-ordinated on the highest time-space value-levels and are presented to the universes as living truth, divine goodness, and true spiritual beauty…. (232:6)  20:10.4

    f25…Truth, beauty, and goodness are correlated in the ministry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son, and the experience of the Supreme…. (1279:5) 117:1.7

    f26…In the universal regime you are not reckoned as having possessed yourself of knowledge and truth until you have demonstrated your ability and your willingness to impart this knowledge and truth to others…. (279:13) 25:17.12

    f26″…The pride of unspiritualized learning is a treacherous thing in human experience. The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner….”
    (1433:2) 130:3.7

    f27…The wisdom of truth takes origin in the divinity of the central universe, but knowledge, experiential knowledge, largely has its beginnings in the domains of time and space…. (302.3) 27:5.4

    f27…Knowledge deals with facts; wisdom, with relationships; truth, with reality values…. (1459.2) 132:3.2

    f28…The master philosophers of Paradise delight to lead the minds of its inhabitants, both native and ascendant, in the exhilarating pursuit of attempting to solve universe problems. These superaphic masters of philosophy are the “wise men of heaven,” the beings of wisdom who make use of the truth of knowledge and the facts of experience in their efforts to master the unknown…. (302:6) 27:6.2

    f28…Faith-insight, or spiritual intuition, is the endowment of the cosmic mind in association with the Thought Adjuster, which is the Father’s gift to man. Spiritual reason, soul intelligence, is the endowment of the Holy Spirit, the Creative Spirit’s gift to man. Spiritual philosophy, the wisdom of spirit realities, is the endowment of the Spirit of Truth…. (1108:1) 101:3.2

    f29…On Paradise the ascendant personalities of space experience the heights of being: They have knowledge; they know the truth; they may philosophize–think the truth; they may even seek to encompass the concepts of the Ultimate and attempt to grasp the techniques of the Absolutes…. (302:6) 27:6.2

    f29…The Unqualified Absolute is therefore devoid of personality, divinity, and all creator prerogatives. Neither fact nor truth, experience nor revelation, philosophy nor absonity are able to penetrate the nature and character of this Absolute without universe qualification…. (14:5) 0:11.7

    m1…Greatness is synonymous with divinity. God is supremely great and good. <em>Greatness and goodness simply cannot be divorced</em>. 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

    m1…Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection…. (647:3) 56:10.12

    m2…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

    m2…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

    m3…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

    m3…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

    m4…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) 34:4.8

    m4…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

    m5…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….” (380:7) 34:6.6

    m5…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

    m6…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

    m6…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

    m7…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) 34:6.12

    m7″…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

    m8…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

    m8…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

    m9…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

    m9…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

    m10…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) 44:0.15

    m10…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

    m11…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

    m11…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

    m12…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

    m12…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

    m13…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

    m13…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

    m14…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

    m14…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

    m15…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

    m15…The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained…. (557:14) 48:7.30

    m16…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

    m16…No worth-while experience ever happens in vain; no true meaning or real value ever perishes…. (1200:1) 109:6.1

    m17…Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something premeditated as a perversion of truth…. (555:1) 48:6.33

    m17″…The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth….” (1428:2) 130:1.2

    m18…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

    m18…Is the <em>love of truth</em> 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

    m19…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

    m19″…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

    m20…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

    m20…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

    m21…Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when
    it is asked for…. (556:16) 48:7.16

    m21″…If you would guide others into the kingdom, you must yourselves walk
    in the clear light of living truth….” (1571:5) 140:3.18

    m22…When the Planetary Prince arrives on a primitive world, the evolved religion of fear and ignorance prevails. The prince and his staff make the first revelations of higher truth and universe organization…. (591:3) 52:2.3

    m22…As natural religious experience continues to progress, periodic revelations of truth punctuate the otherwise slow-moving course of planetary evolution…. (1129:2) 103:0.2

    m23…The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity…. (613:2) 54:0.2

    m23…Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error…. (613:1) 54:0.1

    m24…Man’s ability to choose good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed liberty–not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty…. (615:3) 54:3.1

    m24…Spiritual evolution is an experience of the increasing and voluntary choice of goodness attended by an equal and progressive diminution of the possibility of evil…. (1460:1) 132:4.8

    m25…There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose…. (616:6) 54:4.7

    m25…To realize providence in time, man must accomplish the task of achieving perfection. But man can even now foretaste this providence in its eternity meanings as he ponders the universe fact that all things, be they good or evil, work together for the advancement of God-knowing mortals in their quest for the Father of all….. (1306:7) 118:10.18

    m26…Throughout this glorious age the chief pursuit of the ever-advancing mortals is the quest for a better understanding and a fuller realization of the comprehensible elements of Deity–truth, beauty, and goodness. This represents man’s effort to discern God in mind, matter, and spirit. And as the mortal pursues this quest, he finds himself increasingly absorbed in the experiential study of philosophy, cosmology, and divinity…. (646:3) 56:10.2

    m26…And on these worlds they are magnificently trained by the competitive systems of keen striving in the advanced domains and divisions of diverse achievement in the mastery of truth, beauty, and goodness. Never fear but that even such glorified spheres present plenty of evil, real and potential, which is stimulative of the choosing between truth and error, good and evil, sin and righteousness…. (625:9) 55:3.10

    m27…Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but the pursuit of beauty–cosmology–you all too often limit to the study of man’s crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty….  (646:4) 56:10.3

    m27…But you must await your deliverance from the animal body before you can begin to conceive of the artistic glories and aesthetic beauties of the morontia and spirit worlds…. (507:1) 44:6.9

    m28…Man finding God and God finding man–the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator–that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art…. (646:4) 56:10.3

    m28…Man thus becomes so beautifully real because Jesus had so much of God in his life, and the realization (recognition) of God is inalienable and constitutive in all men…. (196:2) 16:9.6

    m29…Hence materialism, atheism, is the maximation of ugliness, the climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful. Highest beauty consists in the panorama of the unification of the variations which have been born of pre-existent harmonious reality.

    The attainment of cosmologic levels of thought includes:

    1. <em>Curiosity</em>. Hunger for harmony and thirst for beauty. Persistent attempts to discover new levels of harmonious cosmic relationships.

    2. <em>Aesthetic appreciation</em>. Love of the beautiful and ever-advancing appreciation of the artistic touch of all creative manifestations on all levels of reality.

    3. <em>Ethic sensitivity.</em> Through the realization of truth the appreciation of beauty leads to the sense of the eternal fitness of those things which impinge upon the recognition of divine goodness in Deity relations with all beings; and thus even cosmology leads to the pursuit of divine reality values–to God-consciousness…. (646:5) 56:10.4

    m30…The worlds settled in light and life are so fully concerned with the comprehension of truth, beauty, and goodness because these quality values embrace the revelation of Deity to the realms of time and space…. (646:10) 56:10.9

    m30…Such advanced planets are indeed poems of harmony, pictures of the beauty of achieved goodness attained through the pursuit of cosmic truth…. (1306:4) 118:10.15

    m31…Universal beauty embraces the harmonious relations and rhythms of the cosmic creation; this is more distinctly the intellectual appeal and leads towards unified and synchronous comprehension of the material universe…. (646:10) 56:10.9

    m31…The Father enjoys the Havona reciprocation of the divine beauty. It satisfies the divine mind to afford a perfect pattern of exquisite harmony for all evolving universes…. (160:9) 14:5.8

    a1…Divine goodness represents the revelation of infinite values to the finite mind, therein to be perceived and elevated to the very threshold of the spiritual level of human comprehension…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    a1…Socrates and his successors, Plato and Aristotle, taught that virtue is knowledge; goodness, health of the soul…. (1079:3) 98:2.6

    a2…Truth is the basis of science and philosophy, presenting the intellectual foundation of religion…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    a2…True religion does not belittle man’s efforts to progress during the mortal lease on life…. (1134:5) 103:5.7

    a3…Goodness embraces the sense of ethics, morality, and religion–experiential perfection-hunger…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    a3″…Through our good thinking the wise Creator will enable us to do his will, thereby attaining the realization of all that is divinely perfect….” (1450:2) 131:5.3

    a4…Beauty is the intellectual recognition of the harmonious time-space synthesis of the far-flung diversification of phenomenal reality, all of which stems from pre-existent and eternal oneness…. (647:2) 56:10.11

    a4…Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually associated and spiritually akin…. (507:3) 44:7.2

    a5…The recognition of goodness implies a mind of moral status, a personal mind with ability to discriminate between good and evil. But the possession of goodness, greatness, is the measure of real divinity attainment…. (647:3) 56:10.12

    a5…Greatness cannot be estimated without knowing the content of goodness, while goodness cannot be portrayed without exhibiting its inherent and divine greatness…. (317:2) 28:6.20

    a6…The recognition of <em>true relations</em> implies a mind competent to discriminate between truth and error. The bestowal Spirit of Truth which invests the human minds of Urantia is unerringly responsive to truth–the living spirit relationship of all things and all beings as they are co-ordinated in the eternal ascent Godward…. (647:4) 56:10.13

    a6…Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living readaptative interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the Spirit of Truth. Love must thereby grasp the ever-changing and enlarging concepts of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved…. (1950:5) 180:5.10

    a7…Self-realization is potentially evil if it is antisocial. It is literally true: “No man lives by himself.” Cosmic socialization constitutes the highest form of personality unification. Said Jesus: “He who would be greatest among you, let him become server of all….” (647:5) 56:10.14

    a7…It is a severe strain on the soul to undergo the experience of an effort to serve both good and evil. The supremely happy and efficiently unified mind is the one wholly dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven…. (1480:4) 133:7.12

    a8…Universal beauty is the recognition of the reflection of the Isle of Paradise in the material creation, while eternal truth is the special ministry of the Paradise Sons who not only bestow themselves upon the mortal races but even pour out their Spirit of Truth upon all peoples…. (647:8) 56:10.17

    a8…The Creator Sons are endowed with a spirit of universe presence in many ways analogous to that of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise. This is the Spirit of Truth which is poured out upon a world by a bestowal Son…. (377:9) 34:4.5

    a9…Truth meanings are the mortal-intellect repercussions of the eternal word of Deity–the time-space comprehension of supreme concepts. The goodness values of divinity are the merciful ministries of the spirit personalities of the Universal, the Eternal, and the Infinite to the time-space finite creatures of the evolutionary spheres…. (647:9) 56:10.18

    a9…<em>Justice</em> is inherent in the universal sovereignty of the Paradise Trinity, but goodness, mercy, and truth are the universe ministry of the divine personalities, whose Deity union constitutes the Trinity…. (114:3) 10:6.2

    a10…Frontier society develops the unskilled side of humanity; the fine arts and true scientific progress, together with spiritual culture, have all thrived best in the larger centers of life when supported by an agricultural and industrial population slightly under the land-man ratio. Cities always multiply the power of their inhabitants for either good or evil…. (770:2) 68:5.5

    a10″…Ever remember, there is a city whose foundations are righteousness and truth, and whose builder and maker is God….” (1474:6) 133:4.6

    a11…But such an ideal society cannot be realized when either the weak or the wicked lie in wait to take unfair and unholy advantage of those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (804:16) 71:4.16

    a11…Let controversy come only when they who despise the truth force it upon you. But when the willful unbeliever attacks you, do not hesitate to stand in vigorous defense of the truth which has saved and sanctified you…. (1932:1) 178:1.16

    a12…This worship of truth was provocative of research and fearless exploration of the laws of nature and the potentials of mankind. The Chinese of even six thousand years ago were still keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth…. (885:8) 79:7.11

    a12…Do not overlook the value of your spiritual heritage, the river of truth running down through the centuries, even to the barren times of a materialistic and secular age…. (2082:6) 195:9.1

    a13…The great weakness of ancestor veneration is that it promotes a backward-looking philosophy. However wise it may be to glean wisdom from the past, it is folly to regard the past as the exclusive source of truth…. (888:1) 79:8.8

    a13…Jesus had an unerring ability for the recognition of truth, and truth he never hesitated to embrace, no matter from what source it appeared to emanate…. (1390:3) 126:3.8

    a14…Truth is relative and expanding; it <em>lives</em> always in the present, achieving new expression in each generation of men–even in each human life…. (888:1) 79:8.8

    a14…Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    a15…Knowledge can be had by education, but wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through experience and by men and women who are innately intelligent. Such a people are able to learn from experience; they may become truly wise…. (908:2) 81:6.13

    a15″…The wise course in life is to act in consonance with the spirit of truth….” (1450:1) 131:5.2

    a16…But even more, a true family–a good family–reveals to the parental procreators the attitude of the Creator to his children, while at the same time such true parents portray to their children the first of a long series of ascending disclosures of the love of the Paradise parent of all universe children…. (942:1) 84:7.30

    a16″…I have come among you to proclaim a greater truth, one which many of the later prophets also grasped, that God loves <em>you</em>–every one of you–as individuals….” (1629:5) 145:2.4

    a17…A surviving cult must symbolize that which is permanent in the presence of unceasing change; it must glorify that which unifies the stream of ever-changing social metamorphosis. It must recognize true meanings, exalt beautiful relations, and glorify the good values of real nobility…. (966:3) 87:7.8

    a17…The eye of the material mind perceives a world of factual knowledge; the eye of the spiritualized intellect discerns a world of true values. These two views, synchronized and harmonized, reveal the world of reality…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

    a18…Concerning the accumulated fetish writings which various religionists hold as <em>sacred books</em>, it is not only believed that what is in the book is true, but also that every truth is contained in the book. If one of these sacred books happens to speak of the earth as being flat, then, for long generations, otherwise sane men and women will refuse to accept positive evidence that the planet is round…. (969:5) 88:2.7

    a18″…The authority of truth is the very spirit that indwells its living manifestations, and not the dead words of the less illuminated and supposedly inspired men of another generation….” (1768:3) 159:4.7

    a19…Man is gradually backing into the truth, beginning in error, progressing in error, and finally attaining the threshold of truth. Only with the arrival of the scientific method has he faced forward…. (970:10) 88:4.5

    a19…The highest attainable philosophy of mortal man must be logically based on the reason of science, the faith of religion, and the truth insight afforded by revelation…. (1137:5) 103:6.15

    a20…The strong must not look with disdain upon the weak. Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Deity and to revere truth, beauty, and goodness without form and ritual…. (999:3) 91:5.7

    a20…No matter how illusory and erroneous one’s theology, one’s religion may be wholly genuine and everlastingly true…. (1140:8) 103:9.2

    a21…God answers man’s prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness. Prayer is a subjective gesture, but it contacts with mighty objective realities on the spiritual levels of human experience; it is a meaningful reach by the human for superhuman values…. (1002:3) 91:8.11

    a21…All true prayers are addressed to spiritual beings, and all such petitions must be answered in spiritual terms, and all such answers must consist in spiritual realities…. (1848:9) 168:4.9

    a22…With the dawn of civilization the human race espoused the more mystic and symbolic beliefs, while now, with approaching maturity, mankind is ripening for the appreciation of real religion, even a beginning of the revelation of truth itself…. (1003:7) 92:1.2

    a22″…Nathaniel, never forget, the Father does not limit the revelation of truth to any one generation or to any one people….” (1768:2) 159:4.6

    a23…But when tempted to criticize evolutionary religion, be careful. Remember, that is <em>what happened</em>; it is a historical fact. And further recall that the power of any idea lies, not in its certainty or truth, but rather in the vividness of its human appeal…. (1005:5) 92:3.3

    a23…The truth and maturity of any religion is directly proportional to its concept of the infinite personality of God and to its grasp of the absolute unity of Deity…. (28:7) 1:5.10

    a24…The future of Urantia will doubtless be characterized by the appearance of teachers of religious truth–the Fatherhood of God and the fraternity of all creatures…. (1010:4) 92:5.16

    a24″…The truth which you have given to me I have revealed to them….” (1964:1) 182:1.4

    a25…At one time the hope of the survival of Occidental civilization lay in the sublime Hebraic concepts of goodness and the advanced Hellenic concepts of beauty…. (1011:15) 92:6.17

    a25…The great mistake of the Hebrew religion was its failure to associate the goodness of God with the factual truths of science and the appealing beauty of art…. (43:2) 2:7.9

    a26…It is always difficult to induce evolutionary minds <em>suddenly </em>to accept advanced revealed truth. Man is an evolutionary creature and in the main must get his religion by evolutionary techniques…. (1011:17) 92:6.19

    a26…But it has often been the error of the teachers of new truth to attempt too much, to attempt to supplant slow evolution by sudden revolution…. (1043:3) 95:1.8

    a27…The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists to conceive of their creed as <em>The Truth</em>; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith…. (1012:4) 92:7.3

    a27…You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds, or intellectual patterns of human conduct…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

    a28…There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow the best in their neighbors’ living spiritual faith rather than to denounce the worst in their lingering superstitions and outworn rituals…. (1012:4) 92:7.3

    a28…The teachers of the religion of Jesus should approach other religions with the recognition of the truths which are held in common (many of which come directly or indirectly from Jesus’ message) while they refrain from placing so much emphasis on the differences…. (1670:6) 149:2.5

    a29…Lao-tse also made one of the earliest presentations of the doctrine of returning good for evil: “Goodness begets goodness, but to the one who is truly good, evil also begets goodness….” (1033:7) 94:6.4

    a29…And Jesus answered: “You shall return good for evil. My messengers must not strive with men, but be gentle toward all. Measure for measure shall not be your rule….” (1577:3) 140:6.9

    a30…At the time of this writing, much of Asia rests its hope in Buddhism. Will this noble faith, that has so valiantly carried on through the dark ages of the past, once again receive the truth of expanded cosmic realities even as the disciples of the great teacher in India once listened to his proclamation of new truth? (1041:4) 94:12.6

    a30…Through more than two thousand years, many of the best minds of Asia have concentrated upon the problem of ascertaining absolute truth and the truth of the Absolute…. (1039:6) 94:11.7

    my1…No matter what upheavals may attend the social and economic growth of civilization, religion is genuine and worth while if it fosters in the individual an experience in which the sovereignty of truth, beauty, and goodness prevails, for such is the true spiritual concept of supreme reality…. (1089:12) 99:4.4

    my1…Religion is destined to become the reality of the spiritual unification of all that is good, beautiful, and true in human experience…. (67:5) 5:4.7

    my2…It is the purpose of group religious activities to dramatize the loyalties of religion; to magnify the lures of truth, beauty, and goodness; to foster the attractions of supreme values; to enhance the service of unselfish fellowship; to glorify the potentials of family life; to promote religious education; to provide wise counsel and spiritual guidance; and to encourage group worship…. (1092:2) 99:6.2

    my2…True religion is the act of an individual soul in its self-conscious relations with the Creator; organized religion is man’s attempt to <em>socialize</em> the worship of individual religionists…. (1616:4) 143:7.2

    my3…Spirituality enhances the ability to discover beauty in things, recognize truth in meanings, and discover goodness in values. Spiritual development is determined by capacity therefor and is directly proportional to the elimination of the selfish qualities of love…. (1096:1) 100:2.4

    my3…Spiritual destiny is dependent on faith, love, and devotion to truth–hunger and thirst for righteousness–the wholehearted desire to find God and to be like him…. (1739:2) 156:5.7

    my4…Loyalties are not exercised in behalf of the great, the good, the true, and the noble without a struggle. Effort is attendant upon clarification of spiritual vision and enhancement of cosmic insight…. (1097:6) 100:4.2

    my4…do not falter and question your status and standing, for in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, “This is the way….” (383:2) 34:7.8

    my5…Jesus was great because he was good, and yet he fraternized with the little children. He was gentle and unassuming in his personal life, and yet he was the perfected man of a universe. His associates called him Master unbidden…. (1103:5) 100:7.17

    my5…He constantly talks about God as an ever-present associate in all that he does. He goes about doing good, for God seems to be in him…. (1786:4) 161:2.9

    my6…There really is a true and genuine inner voice, that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.” And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience…. (1104:3) 101:0.3

    my6…Conscience, rightly, admonishes you to do right; but the Adjuster, in addition, endeavors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to perceive the Monitor’s leading…. (1207:7) 110:5.1

    my7…Truth is always a revelation: autorevelation when it emerges as a result of the work of the indwelling Adjuster; epochal revelation when it is presented by the function of some other celestial agency, group, or personality…. (1109:4) 101:4.3

    my7…And true revelation never renders science unnatural, religion unreasonable, or philosophy illogical…. (1106:1) 101:2.3

    my8…Truth may be but relatively inspired, even though revelation is invariably a spiritual phenomenon…. (1109:6) 101:4.5

    my8…Successive planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing concepts of spiritual values…. (17:1) 0:12.12

    my9…Personally revealed religions are sponsored by the bestowal spirits representing the three persons of the Paradise Trinity and are especially concerned with the expansion of <em>truth</em>…. (1111:1) 101:5.11

    my9…Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling spirit…. (1459:4) 132:3.4

    my10…Evolved religion rests wholly on faith. Revelation has the additional assurance of its expanded presentation of the truths of divinity and reality and the still more valuable testimony of the actual experience which accumulates in consequence of the practical working union of the faith of evolution and the truth of revelation….. (1111:2) 101:5.12

    my10″…Let faith reveal your light to the world; let the revelation of truth open the eyes blinded by tradition, let your loving service effectually destroy the prejudice engendered by ignorance….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    my11…Evolutionary religion provides only the assurance of faith and the confirmation of conscience; revelatory religion provides the assurance of faith plus the truth of a living experience in the realities of revelation…. (1111:3) 101:5.13

    my11…much will be revealed in the ages to come as mortal religion ascends, level by level, toward the supernal heights of morontia value and spirit truth…. (1003:5) 92:0.5

    my12…Increasingly in the morontia progression the truths of revealed religion are expanded; more and more you will know the truth of supreme values, divine goodnesses, universal relationships, eternal realities, and ultimate destinies or, rather, in conjunction with, and superimposed upon, these former techniques of personality assurance…. (1111:4) 101:5.14

    my12…As divine love reveals the nature of God, eternal truth discloses his name in ever-enlarging proportions…. (1965:20) 182:1.26

    my13…Animals have knowledge, but only man possesses wisdom capacity. Truth is made accessible to the wisdom-endowed individual by the bestowal on such a mind of the spirits of the Father and the Sons, the Thought Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth…. (1111:8) 101:6.4

    my13…Evolutionary religion is the mother of the science, art, and philosophy which elevated man to the level of receptivity to revealed religion, including the bestowal of Adjusters and the coming of the Spirit of Truth…. (68:8) 5:5.5

    my14…Revelation teaches mortal man that, to start such a magnificent and intriguing adventure through space by means of the progression of time, he should begin by the organization of knowledge into idea-decisions; next, mandate wisdom to labor unremittingly at its noble task of transforming self-possessed ideas into increasingly practical but nonetheless supernal ideals, even those concepts which are so reasonable as ideas and so logical as ideals that the Adjuster dares so to combine and spiritize them as to render them available for such association in the finite mind as will constitute them the actual human complement thus made ready for the action of the Truth Spirit of the Sons, the time-space manifestations of Paradise truth–universal truth…. (1112:3) 101:6.7

    my14…Even truth, beauty, and goodness–man’s intellectual approach to the universe of mind, matter, and spirit–must be combined into one unified concept of a divine and supreme <em>ideal</em>…. (647:6) 56:10.15

    my15…One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more…. (1114:5) 101:8.1

    my15…And many other truths did Jesus tell his apostles about man’s communion with God, but not many of them could fully encompass his teaching…. (1641:2) 146:2.18

    my16…The search for beauty is a part of religion only in so far as it is ethical and to the extent that it enriches the concept of the moral. Art is only religious when it becomes diffused with purpose which has been derived from high spiritual motivation…. (1115:5) 101:9.4

    my16…But spirit communion is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man’s elaborate and ostentatious art. Beauty is most religious when it is most simple and naturelike…. (1840:5) 167:6.6

    my17…The enlightened spiritual consciousness of civilized man is not concerned so much with some specific intellectual belief or with any one particular mode of living as with discovering the truth of living, the good and right technique of reacting to the ever-recurring situations of mortal existence…. (1115:6) 101:9.5

    my17…Said Jesus, and it is literally true, “The Son does only those things which he sees the Father do….” (644:2) 56:8.4

    my18…The faith acceptance of the truth of God enables man to escape from the circumscribed confines of material limitations and affords him a rational hope of achieving safe conduct from the material realm, whereon is death, to the spiritual realm, wherein is life eternal…. (1116:5) 101:10.4

    my18…When you are finally mustered into the actual spirit world, then will the assurances of pure spirit insight operate in the place of faith and truth or, rather, in conjunction with, and superimposed upon, these former techniques of personality assurance…. (1111:4) 101:5.14

    my19…There must be perfection hunger in man’s heart to insure capacity for comprehending the faith paths to supreme attainment. If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is literally true, “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known….” (1118:4) 102:1.1

    my19…The coming of the Spirit of Truth purifies the human heart and leads the recipient to formulate a life purpose single to the will of God and the welfare of men…. (2065:7) 194:3.19

    my20…The reason of science is based on the observable facts of time; the faith of religion argues from the spirit program of eternity. What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation…. (1119:1) 102:1.2

    my20…Mankind can never discover divinity except through the avenue of religious experience and by the exercise of true faith…. (1116:5) 101:10.4

    my21…Owing to the isolation of rebellion, the revelation of truth on Urantia has all too often been mixed up with the statements of partial and transient cosmologies…. (1119:2) 101:2.3

    my21…The Melchizedeks now teach that the good resulting from the Satania rebellion is more than a thousand times the sum of all the evil…. (619:3) 54:6.6

    my22…Truth remains unchanged from generation to generation, but the associated teachings about the physical world vary from day to day and from year to year…. (1119:2) 101:2.3

    my22…That which apparently may be wholly true in one place may be only relatively true in another segment of creation…. (42:3) 2:7.2

    my23…Eternal truth should not be slighted because it chances to be found in company with obsolete ideas regarding the material world. The more of science you know, the less sure you can be; the more of religion you <em>have</em>, the more certain you are…. (1119:2) 102:1.3

    my23…Said Jesus: “That which is old and also<em> true</em> must abide. Likewise, that which is new but false must be rejected. But that which is new and also true, have the faith and courage to accept….”  (1656:1) 147:7.3

    my24…Knowledge is an eternal quest; always are you learning, but never are you able to arrive at the full knowledge of absolute truth. In knowledge alone there can never be absolute certainty, only increasing probability of approximation; but the religious soul of spiritual illumination <em>knows</em>, and knows <em>now</em>…. (1120:1) 102:2.4

    my24…And such seekers after truth do not have to wait for rewards in a distant future; they are rewarded <em>now</em>. They find the kingdom of heaven within their own hearts, and they experience such happiness <em>now</em>…. (1574:0) 140:5.7

    my25…Science, knowledge, leads to <em>fact</em> consciousness; religion, experience, leads to <em>value</em> consciousness; philosophy, wisdom, leads to <em>co-ordinate</em> consciousness; revelation (the substitute for morontia mota) leads to the consciousness of <em>true reality</em>…. (1122:1) 102:3.5

    my25…Always, in the absence of revelation or in the failure to accept or  grasp it, has mortal man resorted to his futile gesture of metaphysics, that being the only human substitute for the revelation of truth or for the mota of morontia personality…. (1138:6) 103:7.8

    my26…the co-ordination of the consciousness of fact, value, and true reality constitutes awareness of personality reality, maximum of being, together with the belief in the possibility of the survival of that very personality…. (1122:1) 102:3.5

    my26…And having achieved the status of a true universe value, the creature becomes liberated in potential for the seeking of the highest universe value–God…. (1238:1) 112:7.6

    my27…Science is only satisfied with first causes, religion with supreme personality, and philosophy with unity. Revelation affirms that these three are one, and that all are good…. (1122:11) 102:3.15

    my27…But it requires revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent Unity of philosophy are the God of religion, full of mercy and goodness and pledged to effect the eternal survival of his children on earth…. (59:3) 4:4.7

    my28…The <em>eternal real</em> is the good of the universe and not the time illusions of space evil. In the spiritual experience of all personalities, always is it true that the real is the good and the good is the real…. (1122:11) 102:3.15

    my28…Jesus said: “My brother, God is love; therefore he must be good, and his goodness is so great and real that it cannot contain the small and unreal things of evil….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

    my29…Though reason can always question faith, faith can always supplement both reason and logic. Reason creates the probability which faith can transform into a moral certainty, even a spiritual experience. God is the first truth and the last fact; therefore does all truth take origin in him, while all facts exist relative to him…. (1125:1) 102:6.6

    my29…Nor will the exhaustion of the possibilities of logic and reason ever reveal to the logician or to the reasoner the eternal truth of the survival of personality…. (1116:3) 101:10.6

    my30…The vast gulf between the experience of the truth of God and ignorance as to the fact of God can be bridged only by living faith. Reason alone cannot achieve harmony between infinite truth and universal fact…. (1125:1) 102:6.6

    my30…You mortals are the sons of God, and only one thing is required to make such a truth factual in your personal experience, and that is your spirit-born faith…. (2003:3) 186:5.9

    my31…Intelligent men should cease to reason like children and should attempt to use the consistent logic of  adulthood, logic which tolerates the concept of truth alongside the observation of fact…. (1125:4) 102:6.9

    my31…But the frank, honest, and fearless search for true causes gave birth to modern science: It turned astrology into astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, and magic into medicine…. (901:12) 81:2.9

    jn1…Organic evolution is a fact; purposive or progressive evolution is a truth which makes consistent the otherwise contradictory phenomena of the ever-ascending achievements of evolution…. (1125:5) 102:6.10

    jn1…True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolutionary progress…. (613:4) 54:1.2

    jn2…The higher any scientist progresses in his chosen science, the more will he abandon the theories of materialistic fact in favor of the cosmic truth of the dominance of the Supreme Mind…. (1125:5) 102:6.10

    jn2…The existence of beauty implies the presence of appreciative creature mind just as certainly as the fact of progressive evolution indicates the dominance of the Supreme Mind…. (647:2) 56:10.11

    jn3…True, many apparently religious traits can grow out of nonreligious roots. Man can, intellectually, deny God and yet be morally good, loyal, filial, honest, and even idealistic…. (1126:4) 102:7.4

    jn3…Evolutionary religion may become ethical, but only revealed religion becomes truly and spiritually moral…. (40:6) 2:6.2

    jn4…Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences…. (1127:4) 102:7.10

    jn4″…You know, Ganid, most human beings are like the lost child. They spend much of their time crying in fear and suffering in sorrow when, in very truth, they are but a short distance from safety and security….” (1465:5) 132:6.1

    jn5…The hunger and thirst for righteousness leads to the discovery of truth, and truth augments ideals, and this creates new problems for the individual religionists, for our ideals tend to grow by geometrical progression, while our ability to live up to them is enhanced only by arithmetical progression…. (1133:2) 103:4.2

    jn5…The co-ordination of idea-decisions, logical ideals, and divine truth constitutes the possession of a righteous character, the prerequisite for mortal admission to the ever-expanding and increasingly spiritual realities of the morontia worlds…. (1112:3) 101:6.7

    jn6…Never, then, can either science or religion, in and of themselves, standing alone, hope to gain an adequate understanding of universal truths and relationships without the guidance of human philosophy and the illumination of divine revelation…. (1135:7) 103:6.5

    jn6…The idea of the personality of the Universal Father is an enlarged and truer concept of God which has come to mankind chiefly through revelation…. (28:7) 1:5.10

    jn7…Revelation is evolutionary man’s only hope of bridging the morontia gulf. Faith and reason, unaided by mota, cannot conceive and construct a logical universe. Without the insight of mota, mortal man cannot discern goodness, love, and truth in the phenomena of the material world…. (1137:3) 103:6.13

    jn7…Metaphysics has proved a failure; mota, man cannot perceive. Revelation is the only technique which can compensate for the absence of the truth sensitivity of mota in a material world…. (1136:3) 103:6.8

    jn8…But logic can never succeed in harmonizing the findings of science and the insights of religion unless both the scientific and the religious aspects of a personality are truth dominated, sincerely desirous of following the truth wherever it may lead regardless of the conclusions which it may reach…. (1138:3) 103:7.5

    jn8…If the so-called science or religion of any age is false, then must it either purify its activities or pass away before the emergence of a material science or spiritual religion of a truer and more worthy order…. (1457:3) 132:1.4

    jn9…The truth–an understanding of cosmic relationships, universe facts, and spiritual values–can best be had through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth and can best be criticized by <em>revelation</em>.  But revelation originates neither a science nor a religion; its function is to co-ordinate both science and religion with the truth of reality…. (1138:6) 103:7.8

    jn9…The pursuit of knowledge constitutes science; the search for wisdom is philosophy; the love for God is religion; the hunger for truth<em>is </em>a revelation…. (1122:8) 102:3.12

    jn10…<em>Reason</em> is the act of recognizing the conclusions of consciousness with regard to the experience in and with the physical world of energy and matter. <em>Faith</em> is the act of recognizing the validity of spiritual consciousness–something which is incapable of other mortal proof. <em>Logic</em> is the synthetic truth-seeking progression of the unity of faith and reason and is founded on the constitutive mind endowments of mortal beings, the innate recognition of things, meanings, and values…. (1139:5) 103:7.13

    jn10…In physical life the senses tell of the existence of things; mind discovers the reality of meanings; but the spiritual experience reveals to the individual the true values of life. These high levels of human living are attained in the supreme love of God and in the unselfish love of man…. (1098:1) 100:4.4

    jn11…Although both science and philosophy may assume the probability of God by their reason and logic, only the personal religious experience of a spirit-led man can affirm the certainty of such a supreme and personal Deity. By the technique of such an incarnation of living truth the philosophic hypothesis of the probability of God becomes a religious reality…. (1140:1) 103:8.1

    jn11…Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience…. (2094:4)
    196:3.5

    jn12…Religion has to do with feeling, acting, and living, not merely with thinking. Thinking is more closely related to the material life and should be in the main, but not altogether, dominated by reason and the facts of science and, in its nonmaterial reaches toward the spirit realms, by truth…. (1140:8) 103:9.2

    jn12…Religion, then, is based on experience and religious thought; theology, the philosophy of religion, is an honest attempt to interpret that experience. Such interpretative beliefs may be right or wrong, or a mixture of truth and error…. (1130:4) 103:1.5

    jn13…Faith most willingly carries reason along as far as reason can go and then goes on with wisdom to the full philosophic limit; and then it dares to launch out upon the limitless and never-ending universe journey in the sole company of TRUTH…. (1141:5) 103:9.7

    jn13…Skepticism may challenge the theories of theology, but confidence in the dependability of personal experience affirms the truth of that belief which has grown into faith…. (1124:6) 102:6.4

    jn14…When reason once recognizes right and wrong, it exhibits wisdom; when wisdom chooses between right and wrong, truth and error, it demonstrates spirit leading…. (1142:1) 103:9.10

    jn14…Modern respect for wisdom and truth is but the recent escape from the fetish-making tendency up to the higher levels of thinking and reasoning…. (969:5) 88:2.7

    jn15…It is a <em>truth</em> that the Absolutes are manifestations of the I AM-First Source and Center; it is a <em>fact </em>that these Absolutes never had a beginning but are co-ordinate eternals with the First Source and Center…. (1157:1) 105:3.10

    jn15…Those who assume to be dogmatic must, if consistent, sooner or later be driven into the arms of the Absolute of energy, the Universal of truth, and the Infinite of love…. (1127:2) 102:7.8

    jn16…But regardless of any confusion concerning the origin of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity, it is both fact and truth that all reality is predicated upon their eternity existence and infinity relationships…. (1157:1) 105:3.10

    jn16…Always must Deity provide the pattern universe, the perfect personalities, the original truth, beauty, and goodness for which all subdeity creations strive…. (1299:3) 118:5.3

    jn17…No matter how remote from Paradise, how deep in space, a material survival personality may take origin, God the Sevenfold will be found there present and engaged in the loving and merciful ministry of truth, beauty, and goodness to such an incomplete, struggling, and evolutionary creature…. (1164:2) 106:1.3

    jn17…But these circuits of spiritual ministry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or superuniverse spirit presences, are receptive and reactive to the emerging values in ascending personality, and these values are faithfully transmitted through the Sevenfold to the Supreme…. (1286:6) 117:5.8

    jn18…To material, evolutionary, finite creatures, a life predicated on the living of the Father’s will leads directly to the attainment of spirit supremacy in the personality arena and brings such creatures one step nearer the comprehension of the Father-Infinite. Such a Father life is one predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by goodness…. (1175:1) 106:9.12

    jn18…The human Jesus saw God as being holy, just, and great, as well as being true, beautiful, and good. All these attributes of divinity he focused in his mind as the “will of the Father in heaven….” (2087:2) 196:0.2

    jn19…You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by:…Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love…. (1206:5) 110:3.6

    jn19…The consciousness of the Adjuster is based on the intellectual reception of truth, the supermind perception of goodness, and the personality motivation to love…. (1139:6) 103:7.14

    jn20…It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function–when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development–that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a
    being…. (1209:4) 110:6.4

    jn20…It is sometimes possible to have the mind illuminated, to hear the divine voice that continually speaks within you, so that you may become partially conscious of the wisdom, truth, goodness, and beauty of the potential personality constantly indwelling you…. (1199:3) 109:5.2

    jn21…The Adjuster bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis, impervious to evil and incapable of sin, but mortal mind can actually be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and ugly by the sinful machinations of a perverse and self-seeking human will. Likewise can this mind be made noble, beautiful, true, and good–actually great–in accordance with the spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing human being…. (1217:1) 111:1.6

    jn21…Even on Urantia, these seraphim teach the everlasting truth: If your own mind does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the mind of Jesus of Nazareth, who always serves you well…. (553:7) 48:6.26

    jn22…In so far as man’s evolving morontia soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness as the value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant being becomes indestructible…. (1219:6) 111:3.7

    jn22″…The soul is the self-reflective, truth-discerning, and spirit-perceiving  part of man which forever elevates the human being above the level of the animal world….” (1478:4) 133:6.5

    jn23…A human being can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life…. (1222:6) 111:6.7

    jn23…Why do you not allow the Adjuster to strengthen you with the spiritual truths of cosmic power while you wrestle with the temporal difficulties of creature existence? (1223:5) 111:7.3

    jn24…In the physical life, mortals may be outwardly beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the personality form will vary directly in accordance with the nature of the inner person…. (1236:1) 112:6.3

    jn24″…The old and the inferior will be forgotten in the love for the new and the superior. Beauty is always triumphant over ugliness in the hearts of all who are illuminated by the love of truth….” (1738:4) 156:5.5

    jn25…In the choosing of truth, beauty, and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction of the spirit of wisdom…. (1237:1) 112:6.9

    jn25…All of man’s truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early ministry of the adjutant of worship and are censored by the adjutant of wisdom…. (1129:1) 103:0.1

    jn26…God the Supreme <em>is</em> truth, beauty, and goodness, for these concepts of divinity represent finite maximums of ideational experience. The eternal sources of these triune qualities of divinity are on superfinite levels, but a creature could only conceive of such sources as supertruth, superbeauty, and supergoodness…. (1279:5) 117:1.7

    jn26…The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (1263:6) 115:3.19

    jn27…The perfected grand universe of those future days will be vastly different from what it is at present. Gone will be the thrilling adventures of the organization of the galaxies of space, the planting of life on the uncertain worlds of time, and the evolving of harmony out of chaos, beauty out of potentials, truth out of meanings, and goodness out of values…. (1293:1) 117:7.17

    jn27…Even though material mortals cannot see the person of God, they should rejoice in the assurance that he is a person; by faith accept the truth which portrays that the Universal Father so loved the world as to provide for the eternal spiritual progression of its lowly inhabitants; that he “delights in his children….” (28:1) 1:5.4

    jn28…Things are time conditioned, but truth is timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you <em>are</em>, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend…. (1297:3) 118:3.2

    jn28…When on Urantia, Christ Michael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And we believe that in eternity the Michaels are literally destined to be “the way, the truth, and the life….” (242:3) 21:6.4

    jn29…But when truth becomes linked with fact, then both time and space condition its meanings and correlate its values. Such realities of truth wedded to fact become concepts and are accordingly relegated to the domain of relative cosmic realities…. (1297:4) 118:3.3

    jn29…Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true; they are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension…. (1260:3) 115:1.2

    jn30…The linking of the absolute and eternal truth of the Creator with the factual experience of the finite and temporal creature eventuates a new and emerging value of the Supreme. The concept of the Supreme is essential to the co-ordination of the divine and unchanging overworld with the finite and ever-changing underworld…. (1297:5) 118:3.4

    jn30…The Supreme is the beauty of physical harmony, the truth of intellectual meaning, and the goodness of spiritual value. He is the sweetness of true success and the joy of everlasting achievement. He is the oversoul of the grand universe, the consciousness of the finite cosmos, the completion of finite reality…. (1278:5) 117:1.1

    jl1…God the Supreme is the personalization of all universe experience, the focalization of all finite evolution, the maximation of all creature reality, the consummation of cosmic wisdom, the embodiment of the harmonious beauties of the galaxies of time, the truth of cosmic mind meanings, and the goodness of supreme spirit values…. (1304:2) 118:9.9

    jl1…Mortal man must, through the recognition of truth, the appreciation of beauty, and the worship of goodness, evolve the recognition of a God of love and then progress through ascending deity levels to the comprehension of the Supreme…. (641:4) 56:6.3

    jl2…Much that takes place on an evolving world is rather hard for mortal man to understand–natural law is so often apparently cruel, heartless, and indifferent to all that is true, beautiful, and good in human comprehension…. (1306:1) 118:10.12

    jl2…Many things which happen in the course of a human life are hard to understand, difficult to reconcile with the idea that this is a universe in which truth prevails and in which righteousness triumphs…. (2062:11) 194:3.2

    jl3…Semicivilized man is beginning to unlock the storehouse of the secrets of the natural realms, and his science is slowly but effectively destroying his superstitions while at the same time providing a new and enlarged factual basis for the comprehension of the meanings of philosophy and the values of true spiritual experience…. (1306:3) 118:10.14

    jl3…Reason, wisdom, and faith are man’s highest human attainments. Reason introduces man to the world of facts, to things; wisdom introduces him to a world of truth, to relationships; faith initiates him into a world of divinity, spiritual experience…. (1141:4) 103:9.6

    jl4…And yet, as this man walked about Nazareth to and from his work, it was literally true–as concerned a vast universe–that “in him were hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge….” (1417:1) 128:7.2

    jl4…As the days passed, with ever-increasing clearness Jesus perceived what kind of a truth-revealer he was to become…. (1522:3) 136:9.4

    jl5…True it is, indeed, that in his full, rich, beautiful, and noble life we may all find much that is exquisitely exemplary, divinely inspiring, but this is because he lived a true and genuinely human life…. (1425:6) 129:4.7

    jl5…Though the apostles failed to comprehend much of his teaching, they did not fail to grasp the significance of the charmingly beautiful life he lived with them…. (1579:2) 140:7.8

    jl6″…And when such disheartened souls sincerely seek for God–hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness–there is nothing that can hold them in further captivity….” (1428:2) 130:1.2

    jl6″…The bread of life and the water thereof are given only to those who hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness–for God….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    jl7″…How can God, if he is infinitely good, permit us to suffer the sorrows of evil; after all, who creates evil?” It was still believed by many in those days that God creates both good and evil, but Jesus never taught such error…. (1429:1) 130:1.5

    jl7″…Your Father in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; likewise he sends rain on the just and the unjust….” (1571:3) 140:3.16

    jl8″…Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejectful of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is only the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

    jl8…Man’s choosing between good and evil is influenced, not only by the keenness of his moral nature, but also by such influences as ignorance, immaturity, and delusion…. (193:6) 16:7.7

    jl9″…Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and which, when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

    jl9…Forget not, the truly good is invariably more powerful than the most malignant evil…. (1770:2) 159:5.10

    jl10″…Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life; but such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life….” (1429:2) 130:1.6

    jl10…The positive always has the advantage over the negative, truth over error, experience over theory, spiritual realities over the isolated facts of time and space…. (1125:2) 102:6.7

    jl11…In substance Jesus said: The will of God is the way of God, partnership with the choice of God in the face of any potential alternative. To do the will of God, therefore, is the progressive experience of becoming more and more like God, and God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true…. (1431:2) 130:2.7

    jl11″…And never forget: You who know God are the sons of God if you truly yearn to be like him….” (1474:4) 133:4.4

    jl12…Knowledge is the sphere of the material or fact-discerning mind. Truth is the domain of the spiritually endowed intellect that is conscious of knowing God…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

    jl12…Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

    jl13…Knowledge is demonstrable; truth is experienced. Knowledge is a possession of the mind; truth an experience of the soul, the progressing self. Knowledge is a function of the nonspiritual level; truth is a phase of the mind-spirit level of the universes…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

    jl13…Knowledge originates in science; wisdom, in true philosophy; truth, in the religious experience of spiritual living…. (1459:2) 132:3.2

    jl14…All static, dead, concepts are potentially evil. The finite shadow of relative and living truth is continually moving…. (1436:1) 130:4.15

    jl14…The great advance made in Buddhist philosophy consisted in its comprehension of the relativity of all truth…. (1039:3) 94:11.4

    jl15…Static concepts invariably retard science, politics, society, and religion. Static concepts may represent a certain knowledge, but they are deficient in wisdom and devoid of truth…. (1436:1) 130:4.15

    jl15…The apostles learned that the Jews were spiritually stagnant and dying because they had crystallized truth into a creed…. (1727:3) 155:3.3

    jl16″…God is full of goodness toward all men; we have no friend like the Most High. His mercy fills all places and his goodness encompasses all souls….” (1443:1) 131:1.5

    jl16…Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love…. (38:4) 2:4.4

    jl17″…Those who love their fellows and who have pure hearts shall see God. God never forgets sincerity. He will guide the honest of heart into the truth, for God is truth….” (1443:2) 131:1.6

    jl17″…There is but this one God, and his name is Truth. God is self-existent, and he is devoid of all anger and enmity; he is immortal and infinite….” (1442:5) 131:1.3

    jl18″…In your lives overthrow error and overcome evil by the love of the living truth. In all your relations with men do good for evil….” (1443:3) 131:1.7

    jl18…Fatherly love delights in returning good for evil–doing good in retaliation for injustice…. (1575:9) 140:5.24

    jl19″…God reveals the deep and secret things because the light dwells with him. The Lord is merciful and gracious; he is long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth….” (1444:3) 131:2.3

    jl19″…God is the sure refuge of every good man when in need; the Immortal One cares for all mankind. God’s salvation is strong and his kindness is gracious….” (1448:2) 131:4.3

    jl20″…True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing.  And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels which others avoid….” (1452:1) 131:8.3

    jl20″…Many times have I told you the story of the good shepherd who left the ninety and nine sheep in the fold while he went forth searching for the one that was lost….” (1850:9) 169:1.2

    jl21″…Always remember that God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is; therefore should you extend help to your fellows without the thought of rewards. Do good without thought of benefit to the self….” (1452:3) 131:8.5

    jl21…This idea-ideal of doing good to others–the impulse to deny the ego something for the benefit of one’s neighbor–is very circumscribed at first…. (1133:7) 103:5.2

    jl22″…If more human beings could only know about the goodness of God, they would
    certainly be led to repent of their evil ways and forsake all known sin….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    jl22…The “richness of the goodness of God leads erring man to repentance….” (41:1) 2:6.3

    jl23″…All good things come down from the Father of light, in whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    jl23″…Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.” “God is good….” (41:1) 2:6.3

    jl24…Never once did he attack their errors or even mention the flaws in their teachings. In each case he would select the truth in what they taught and then proceed so to embellish and illuminate this truth in their minds that in a very short time this enhancement of the truth effectively crowded out the associated error…. (1455:4) 132:0.4

    jl24…You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs. Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work…. (1932:1) 178:1.16

    jl25…Goodness, like truth, is always relative and unfailingly evil-contrasted. It is the perception of these qualities of goodness and truth that enables the evolving souls of men to make those personal decisions of choice which are essential to eternal survival…. (1457:6) 132:2.3

    jl25…Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast…. (51:12) 3:5.13

    jl26…An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one’s fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Adjuster…. (1458:2) 132:2.5

    jl26…After all, the greatest evidence of the goodness of God and the supreme reason for loving him is the indwelling gift of the Father–the Adjuster who so patiently awaits the hour when you both shall be eternally made one…. (39:4) 2:5.4

    jl27…As you ascend the universe scale of creature development, you will find increasing goodness and diminishing evil in perfect accordance with your capacity for goodness-experience and truth-discernment…. (1458:3) 132:2.6

    jl27…From the life of the Master you may each assimilate that concept of God which represents the measure of your capacity to perceive realities spiritual and divine, truths real and eternal…. (1856:1) 169:4.3

    jl28…Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness…. (1458:5) 132:2.8

    jl28…The attempt to secure equal good for the self and for the greatest number of other selves presents a problem which cannot always be satisfactorily resolved in a time-space frame…. (1134:4) 103:5.6

    jl29…The presence of goodness and evil in the world is in itself positive proof of the existence and reality of man’s moral will, the personality, which thus identifies these values and is also able to choose between them…. (1458:5) 132:2.8

    jl29…Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function by exhibiting the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil–moral choice…. (1187:1) 108:2.2

    jl30…Such a perfected spirit personality becomes so wholly, divinely, and spiritually unified with the positive and supreme qualities of goodness, beauty, and truth that there remains no possibility that such a righteous spirit would cast any negative shadow of potential evil when exposed to the searching luminosity of the divine light of the infinite Rulers of Paradise…. (1458:6) 132:2.9

    jl30…But the soul that survives time and emerges into eternity must make a living and personal choice between good and evil as they are determined by the true values of the spiritual standards established by the divine spirit which the Father in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man…. (1457:5) 132:2.2

    jl31…Man tends to crystallize science, formulate philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is also terribly afraid of the unknown. Natural man is slow to initiate changes in his habits of thinking and in his techniques of living…. (1459:3) 132:3.3

    jl31…Today, Urantia is in the twilight zone of this intellectual evolution. One half the world is grasping eagerly for the light of truth and the facts of scientific discovery, while the other half languishes in the arms of ancient superstition and but thinly disguised magic…. (973:1) 88:6.8

    ag1…The eternal salvation of this truth-discerning and beauty-loving soul is assured by that hunger and thirst for goodness which leads this mortal to develop a singleness of purpose to do the Father’s will, to find God and to become like him…. (1459:4) 132:3.4

    ag1…A great teacher once admonished men that they should be renewed in the spirit of their minds; that they become new men who, like God, are created in righteousness and in the completion of truth…. (1193:2) 108:6.3

    ag2…There is never conflict between true knowledge and truth. There may be conflict between knowledge and human beliefs, beliefs colored with prejudice, distorted by fear, and dominated by the dread of facing new facts of material discovery or spiritual progress…. (1459:4) 132:3.4

    ag2…The teachings of Jesus constituted the first Urantian religion which so fully embraced a harmonious co-ordination of knowledge, wisdom, faith, truth, and love…. (1112:4) 101:6.7

    ag3…But truth can never become man’s possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man’s thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope…. (1459:5) 132:3.5

    ag3…The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living…. (1114:5) 101:8.1

    ag4…With the attainment of finality of choice for goodness and of completed capacity for truth appreciation, there comes into existence a perfection of beauty and holiness whose righteousness eternally inhibits the possibility of the emergence of even the concept of potential evil. Such a God-knowing soul casts no shadow of doubting evil when functioning on such a high spirit level of divine goodness…. (1460:1) 132:3.8

    ag4…The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil…. (2018:2) 188:5.3

    ag5″…Revere goodness and exalt truth. Choose the beautiful in place of the ugly. Love your fellows and reach out for God with a whole heart, for God is your Father in heaven….” (1461:4) 132:4.6

    ag5″…The spirit of the true God is in man’s heart. He intends that all men should be brothers. When men begin to feel after God, that is evidence that God has found them….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    ag6″…I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me–this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary….” (1469:3) 133:1.4

    ag6…Jesus’ wholehearted faith in the fundamental goodness of the universe very much resembled the child’s trust in the security of its earthly surroundings…. (2089:1) 196:0.11

    ag7…Said Jesus: “Give the milk of truth to those who are babes in spiritual perception. In your living and loving ministry serve spiritual food in attractive form and suited to the capacity of receptivity of each of your inquirers….” (1474:2) 133:4.2

    ag7…Jesus introduced the evening’s conference by saying. “My beloved, you must always make a difference in teaching so as to suit your presentation of truth to the minds and hearts before you….” (1692:0) 151:3.1

    ag8…To the earnest leader of the Mithraic cult he said: “You do well to seek for a religion of eternal salvation, but you err to go in quest of such a glorious truth among man-made mysteries and human philosophies. Know you not that the mystery of eternal salvation dwells within your own soul?” (1474:4) 133:4.4

    ag8…To the traveler from Britain he said: “My brother, I perceive you are seeking for truth, and I suggest that the spirit of the Father of all truth may chance to dwell within you. Did you ever sincerely endeavor to talk with the spirit of your own soul?” (1475:3) 133:4.10

    ag9″…Do you not know that the God of heaven has sent his spirit to live within you, and that this spirit will lead all truth-loving and God-serving mortals out of this life and through the portals of death up to the eternal heights of light where God waits to receive his children?” (1474:4) 133:4.4

    ag9…These heavenly helpers are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding you safely inward and upward to the celestial haven of happiness. These tireless toilers are consecrated to the future personification of the triumph of divine truth in your life everlasting…. (1203:4) 110:1.2

    ag10…But the survival character of a soul is not fostered by attempting to secure peace of mind at any price, by the surrender of noble aspirations, and by the compromise of spiritual ideals; rather is such peace attained by the stalwart assertion of the triumph of that which is true, and this victory is achieved in the overcoming of evil with the potent force of good…. (1480:4) 133:7.12

    ag10…As you ascend in the survival experience, you will broaden your universe concepts and extend your horizon of meanings and values; and thus will you be able the better to understand why such beings as Lucifer and Satan are permitted to continue in rebellion. You will also better comprehend how ultimate (if not immediate) good can be derived from time-limited evil…. (620:2) 54:6.10

    ag11″…I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them….” (1571:2) 140:3.15

    ag11″…Do not to others those things you would not wish done to you. Pay good for evil; overcome evil with the good….” (1447:3) 131:3.6

    ag12…Have faith–confidence in the eventual triumph of divine justice and eternal goodness…. (1580:3) 140:8.8

    ag12…In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God…. (40:5) 2:6.1

    ag13…James grasped the thrilling truth that Jesus wanted his children on earth to live as though they were already citizens of the completed heavenly kingdom…. (1582:6) 140:8.25

    ag13″…If you receive God as your Father, then indeed and in truth are you the sons of God….” (1601:2) 142:5.2

    ag14…Jesus always insisted that true goodness must be unconscious, in bestowing charity not allowing the left hand to know what the right hand does…. (1582:7) 140:8.26

    ag14…The righteousness of any act must be measured by the motive; the highest forms of good are therefore unconscious…. (1862:6) 170:3.9

    ag15…Jesus wished to develop spiritual insight into eternal realities and to stimulate initiative in the originality of living; he concerned himself exclusively with the underlying and permanent spiritual needs of the human race. He revealed a goodness equal to God…. (1583:5) 140:8.31

    ag15…But his superb originality did not cause him to overlook the gems of truth in the teachings of his predecessors and contemporaries. And the most original of his teachings was the emphasis of love and mercy in the place of fear and sacrifice…. (1102:2)  100:7.5

    ag16…The Master came to create in man a new spirit, a new will–to impart a new capacity for knowing the truth, experiencing compassion, and choosing goodness–the will to be in harmony with God’s will, coupled with the eternal urge to become perfect, even as the Father in heaven is perfect…. (1583:6) 140:8.32

    ag16…Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness…. (1209:4) 110:6.4

    ag17″…True, there is a King in this kingdom, and that King is my Father and your Father. We are indeed his loyal subjects, but far transcending that fact is the transforming truth that we are his sons. In my life this truth is to become manifest to all….” (1588:4) 141:2.1

    ag17″…Your message is not changed by my resurrection experience. Sonship with God, by faith, is still the saving truth of the gospel of the kingdom….” (2052:4) 193:0.4

    ag18″…Verily, verily, I say to you, when the Father’s will is your <em>law</em>, you are hardly in the kingdom. But when the Father’s will becomes truly your <em>will</em>, then are you in very truth in the kingdom because the kingdom has thereby become an established experience in you….” (1588:5) 141:2.2

    ag18″…If you would enter the kingdom, you must have a righteousness that consists in love, mercy, and truth–the sincere desire to do the will of my Father in heaven….” (1576:3) 140:6.3

    ag19…His was a dignified manhood; he was good, but natural. Jesus did not pose as a mild, sweet, gentle, and kindly mystic. His teaching was thrillingly dynamic. He not only <em>meant well</em>, but he went about actually <em>doing good</em>…. (1590:1) 141:3.6

    ag19…He dispensed health and scattered happiness naturally and gracefully as he journeyed through life. It was literally true, “He went about doing good….” (1875:4) 171:7.9

    ag20″…Lead men into the kingdom, and the great and living truths of the kingdom will presently drive out all serious error. When you have presented to mortal man the good news that God is his Father, you can the easier persuade him that he is in reality a son of God….” (1592:4) 141:6.2

    ag20″…By the spirit fruits of your lives impel souls to believe the truth that man is a son of God, and that all men are brethren….” (2057:4) 193:5.2

    ag21…He became, indeed, “the way, the truth, and the life.” The religion of Jesus was wholly based on the living of his bestowal life on earth. When Jesus departed from this world, he left behind no books, laws, or other forms of human organization affecting the religious life of the individual…. (1593:5) 141:7.4

    ag21…The magical and mythological parentage of natural religion does not invalidate the reality and truth of the later revelational religions and the consummate saving gospel of the religion of Jesus…. (1141:2) 103:9.4

    ag22…Jesus laid great emphasis upon what he called the two truths of first import in the teachings of the kingdom, and they are: the attainment of salvation by faith, and faith alone, associated with the revolutionary teaching of the attainment of human liberty through the sincere recognition of truth, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free….” (1593:7) 141:7.6

    ag22…Such a working union of human faith and divine truth constitutes the possession of a character well on the road to the actual acquirement of a morontial personality…. (1111:2) 101:5.12

    ag23″…As the gospel of this kingdom shall spread over the world with its message of good cheer and good will to all men, there will grow up improved and better relations among the families of all nations….” (1597:2) 142:2.2

    ag23…As are the families of the race or nation, so is its society. If the families are good, the society is likewise good…. (939:4) 84:7.1

    ag24″…Henceforth, intelligent men may enjoy the treasures of art without confusing such material appreciation of beauty with the worship and service of the Father in Paradise, the God of all things and all beings….” (1600:4) 142:4.3

    ag24…The adoration of the abstract beautiful is not the worship of God; neither is exaltation of nature nor the reverence of unity the worship of God…. (68:7) 5:5.4

    ag25″…As to my message and the teaching of my disciples, you should judge them by their fruits. If we proclaim to you the truths of the spirit, the spirit will witness in your hearts that our message is genuine….” (1601:2) 142:5.2

    ag25″…mortal man, while he has his roots of origin and being in the animal soil of human nature, can by faith raise his spiritual nature up into the sunlight of heavenly truth and actually bear the noble fruits of the spirit….” (1737:5) 156:5.1

    ag26″…It is easy to die in the line of physical battle when your courage is strengthened by the presence of your fighting comrades, but it requires a higher and more profound form of human courage and devotion calmly and all alone to lay down your life for the love of a truth enshrined in your mortal heart….” (1608:3) 143:1.6

    ag26″…I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live. In truth, whosoever lives and believes in me shall never really die….” (1843:1) 168:0.7

    ag27″…By the old way you seek to suppress, obey, and conform to the rules of living; by the new way you are first <em>transformed</em> 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

    ag27…The meanings of eternal truth make a combined appeal to the intellectual and spiritual natures of mortal man…. (646:10) 56:10.9

    ag28”…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

    ag28″…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

    ag29…Even the Christian religion has been persistently built up around the fact of the death of Christ instead of around the truth of his life. The world should be more concerned with his happy and God-revealing life than with his tragic and sorrowful death…. (1614:5) 143:5.11

    ag29…Siddhartha taught far more truth than has survived in the modern cults bearing his name. Modern Buddhism is no more the teachings of Gautama Siddhartha than is Christianity the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth…. (1036:2) 94:7.8

    ag30…The fact of the cross became the very center of subsequent Christianity; but it is not the central truth of the religion which may be derived from the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth…. (1615:4) 143:6.3

    ag30…The hour is striking for a rediscovery of the true and original foundations of present-day distorted and compromised Christianity–the real life and teachings of Jesus…. (2083:1) 195:9.5

    ag31…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

    ag31…It is eternally true, “the Father himself loves you….” (1259:2) 114:7.17

    s1…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

    s1…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

    s2…When Jesus taught his associates to pray in the spirit and in truth, he explained that he referred to praying sincerely and in accordance with one’s enlightenment, to praying wholeheartedly and intelligently, earnestly and steadfastly…. (1640:3) 146:2.14

    s2″…The ideal prayer is a form of spiritual communion which leads to intelligent worship. True praying is the sincere attitude of reaching heavenward for the attainment of your ideals….” (1618:6) 144:2.2

    s3…The spirit of the Father speaks best to man when the human mind is in an attitude of true worship. We worship God by the aid of the Father’s indwelling spirit and by the illumination of the human mind through the ministry of truth…. (1641:1) 146:2.17

    s3″…Always will I try to worship God with the help of the Spirit of Truth, which is my helper when I have become really God-knowing….” (1454:2) 131:10.5

    s4″…Intellectual strivings may reveal the facts of life, but the gospel of the kingdom unfolds the <em>truths</em> of being….” (1641:3) 146:3.1

    s4…This gospel of the kingdom is a living truth…. (1931:6) 178:1.15

    s5″…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

    s5…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

    s6″…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

    s6…Do not make the mistake of judging another’s religion by your own standards of knowledge and truth…. (1115:3) 101:9.2

    s7″…True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism….” (1641:4) 146:3.2

    s7…Jesus stood up and said: “Let us be patient; the truth never suffers from honest examination….” (1711:3) 153:2.11

    s8″…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

    s8…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

    s9…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

    s9…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

    s10″…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

    s10…Increasingly throughout the morontia progression the assurance of truth replaces the assurance of faith…. (1111:4) 101:5.14

    s11″…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

    s11″…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

    s12″…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

    s12″…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

    s13″…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

    s13″…The Lord is good and upright; the meek will he guide in judgment….” (1444:3) 131:2.3

    s14…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

    s14…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

    s15…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

    s15…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

    s16″…I have come to proclaim spiritual liberty, teach eternal truth, and foster living faith….” (1710:4) 153:2.6

    s16…It is forever true, “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty….” (2063:3) 194:3.5

    s17″…Turn now your attention to those who would know the truth. You cannot compel men to love the truth….” (1712:5) 153:3.5

    s17″…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

    s18…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

    s18″…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

    s19″…Why do the heathen rage? Because they know not the truth. Why do you languish in futile yearning? Because you <em>obey</em> 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

    s19″…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

    s20″…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

    s20…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

    s21″…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

    s21″…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

    s22″…The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness….” (1726:2) 155:1.5

    s22″…The teacher of truth attracts only those who hunger for the truth and who thirst for righteousness….” (1815:3) 164:5.2

    s23″…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

    s23″…Make sure that the truth abides in your lives, and that you daily grow in grace….” (1920:1) 177:0.1

    s24…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

    s24…You are not given truth to crystallize into settled, safe, and honored forms…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    s25…<em>True religion–the religion of revelation</em>. 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

    s25…Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion <em>is</em> that very truth…. (1007:3) 92:4.3

    s26…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

    s26″…Truth is real and divine….” (1452:6) 131:9.2

    s27…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

    s27″…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

    s28…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

    s28…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

    s29…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

    s29…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

    s30″…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

    s30…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

    o1…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

    o1″…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

    o2″…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

    o2″…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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    <div>o3″…To attain the perfection of Heaven is the goal of man. The superior man is given to self-adjustment, and he is free from anxiety and fear. God is with you; have no doubt in your heart. Every good deed has its recompense….” (1453.2) 131:9.4</div>
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    o4…Jesus did not advocate the practice of negative submission to the indignities of those who might purposely seek to impose upon the practitioners of nonresistance to evil, but rather that his followers should be wise and alert in the quick and positive reaction of good to evil to the end that they might effectively overcome evil with good…. (1770:2) 159:5.10

    o4″…Why not assert your mastery of evil by virtue of the power of goodness and thus become the master of all relations between the two of you? I predict that the good in you could overcome the evil in him if you gave it a fair and living chance….” (1430:2) 130:2.4

    o5…Prejudice blinds the soul to the recognition of truth, and prejudice can be removed only by the sincere devotion of the soul to the adoration of a cause that is all-embracing and all-inclusive of one’s fellow men. Prejudice is inseparably linked to selfishness…. (1774:5) 160:1.13

    o5″…The revelations of divine truth are not sealed except by human ignorance, bigotry, and narrow-minded intolerance. The light of the Scriptures is only dimmed by prejudice and darkened by superstition….” (1768:5) 159:4.9

    o6…Friendship enhances the joys and glorifies the triumphs of life. Loving and intimate human associations tend to rob suffering of its sorrow and hardship of much of its bitterness. The presence of a friend enhances all beauty and exalts every goodness…. (1776:2) 160:2.8

    o6″…Have you not read in the Scripture where it is written: ‘It is not good for man to be alone. No man lives to himself’? And also where it says: `He who would have friends must show himself friendly’?” (2055:2) 193:3.2

    o7…Only a glimpse of the circle of eternity can inspire man to do his best and can challenge the best in him to do its utmost. And when man is thus at his best, he lives most unselfishly for the good of others, his fellow sojourners in time and eternity…. (1776:3) 160:2.9

    o7…In all such spirit personalities, goodness is no longer partial, contrastive, and comparative; it has become divinely complete and spiritually replete; it approaches the purity and perfection of the Supreme…. (1458:6) 132:2.9

    o8…Train your memory to hold in sacred trust the strength-giving and worth-while episodes of life, which you can recall at will for your pleasure and edification. Thus build up for yourself and in yourself reserve galleries of beauty, goodness, and artistic grandeur. But the noblest of all memories are the treasured recollections of the great moments of a superb friendship…. (1779:4) 160:4.12

    o8…Every true relationship of mortal man with other persons–human or divine–is an end in itself…. (1228:3) 112:2.8

    o9…True religion has reference to destiny and reality of attainment as well as to the reality and idealism of that which is wholeheartedly faith-accepted. And all of this must be made personal to us by the revelation of the Spirit of Truth…. (1782:4) 160:5.13

    o9…And so did the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth bring to the world and its peoples the last of the spirit endowment designed to aid in the ascending search for God…. (2062:9) 194:2.20

    o10…We grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth, but our Master exhibits maturity of righteousness to start with. All men, good and evil, recognize these elements of goodness in Jesus…. (1785:4) 161:2.4

    o10…Jesus loves men so much that his love awakens the response of love in the human heart. Love is truly contagious and eternally creative…. (2018:1) 188:5.2

    o11…He is so just and fair and at the same time so merciful and considerate. He grieves over the spiritual obstinacy of the people and rejoices when they consent to see the light of truth…. (1785:5) 161:2.5

    o11…He boldly proclaimed man’s spiritual freedom and dared to teach that mortals of the flesh are indeed and in truth sons of the living God…. (1671:5) 149:2.10

    o12″…When the Son of Man has finished his work on earth, there shall be poured out upon all flesh the living Spirit of Truth. Those who receive this spirit shall never know spiritual thirst….” (1795:5) 162:6.1

    o12″…But as many as do receive him shall be enlightened, cleansed, and comforted. And this Spirit of Truth will become in them a well of living water springing up into eternal life….” (1954:1) 181:1.4

    o13″…If my words abide in you and you are minded to do the will of my Father, then are you truly my disciples. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free….” (1796:4) 162:7.2

    o13″…Discern the truth clearly; live the righteous life fearlessly; and so shall you be my apostles and my Father’s ambassadors….” (1571:5) 140:3.18

    014″…Woe upon all who shun justice, spurn mercy, and reject truth! Woe upon all those who despise the revelation of the Father while they seek the chief seats in the synagogue and crave flattering salutations in the market places!” (1826:1) 166:1.4

    014…In any religion it is very easy to allow values to become disproportionate and to permit facts to occupy the place of truth in one’s theology…. (1615:4) 143:6.3

    o15″…I am the door, I am the new and living way, and whosoever wills may enter to embark upon the endless truth-search for eternal life….” (1829:4) 166:3.7

    o15″…The door of the kingdom is wide open for all who desire to know the truth and to find God….” (1541:4) 138:4.2

    o16…It was very difficult for the apostles to understand the Master’s reluctance to make positive pronouncements relative to scientific, social, economic, and political problems. They did not fully realize that his earth mission was exclusively concerned with revelations of spiritual and religious truths…. (1839:3) 167:5.6

    o16…Mankind should understand that we who participate in the revelation of truth are very rigorously limited by the instructions of our superiors…. (1109:3) 101:4.2

    o17…It was also at Jericho, in connection with the discussion of the early religious training of children in habits of divine worship, that Jesus impressed upon his apostles the great value of beauty as an influence leading to the urge to worship, especially with children…. (1840:4) 167:6.5

    o17…Beauty sponsors art, music, and the meaningful rhythms of all human experience…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    o18…Truth, beauty, and holiness are powerful and effective aids to true worship. But spirit communion is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man’s elaborate and ostentatious art…. (1840:5) 167:6.6

    o18…The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment…. (630:2) 55:5.5

    o19…Jesus spread good cheer everywhere he went. He was full of grace and truth. His associates never ceased to wonder at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul…. (1874:4) 171:7.1

    o19…He would pause in the midst of a profound discourse that he might go out in the road to speak good cheer to a passing woman laden with her burden of body and soul. He would interrupt a serious conference with his apostles to fraternize with an intruding child…. (1545:10) 138:8.9

    o20…Goodness always compels respect, but when it is devoid of grace, it often repels affection. Goodness is universally attractive only when it is gracious. Goodness is effective only when it is attractive…. (1874:5) 171:7.2

    o20…Jesus and the apostles remained that night in Matthew’s house, and as the people went to their homes, they spoke of but one thing: the goodness and friendliness of Jesus…. (1541:2) 138:3.8

    O21″…And when the kingdom shall have come to its full fruition, be assured that the Father in heaven will not fail to visit you with an enlarged revelation of truth and an enhanced demonstration of righteousness….” (1914:4) 176:2.3

    O21…Each dispensation, each mortal epoch, receives an enlarged presentation of spiritual truth and religious ethics…. (591:3) 52:2.3

    O22″…You who know these truths must yield the increase of the fruits of the spirit and manifest a growing devotion to the unselfish service of your fellow servants. And remember that, inasmuch as you minister to one of the least of my brethren, you have done this service to me….” (1917:1) 176:3.5

    O22″…And all those who know the way of truth and enjoy the assurance of knowing God should esteem it a privilege, not a duty, to offer guidance to their fellows in their efforts to find the satisfactions of living….” (1465:5) 132:6.1

    O23…Your revelation of truth must be so enhanced by passing through your personal experience that new beauty and actual spiritual gains will be disclosed to all who behold your spiritual fruits and in consequence thereof are led to glorify the Father who is in heaven…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    O23″…Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and be led to glorify your Father who is in heaven….” (1570:14) 140:3.13

    O24…Only those faithful servants who thus grow in the knowledge of the truth, and who thereby develop the capacity for divine appreciation of spiritual realities, can ever hope to “enter fully into the joy of their Lord….” (1917:3) 176:3.7

    O24…God’s love is universal; “whosoever will may come.” He would “have all men be saved by coming into the knowledge of the truth.” He is “not willing that any should perish….” (39:1) 2:5.2

    o25…What a sorry sight for successive generations of the professed followers of Jesus to say, regarding their stewardship of divine truth: “Here, Master, is the truth you committed to us a hundred or a thousand years ago. We have lost nothing; we have faithfully preserved all you gave us; we have allowed no changes to be made in that which you taught us; here is the truth you gave us.” But such a plea concerning spiritual indolence will not justify the barren steward of truth in the presence of the Master…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    o25″…You cannot stand still in the affairs of the eternal kingdom. My Father requires all his children to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth….” (1917:1) 176:3.5

    o26…In accordance with the truth committed to your hands will the Master of truth require a reckoning…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    o26″…God will bring every man’s work to judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil….” (1445:2) 145:2.8

    o27″…Freely have you received; therefore freely should you give of the truth of heaven, and in the giving will this truth multiply and show forth the increasing light of saving grace, even as you minister it….” (1918:3) 176:3.10

    o27″…The good man seeks not to retain truth for himself but rather attempts to bestow these riches upon his fellows, for that is the realization of truth….” (1034:1) 94:6.6

    o28…The fruits of the spirit, your sincere and loving service, are the mighty social lever to uplift the races of darkness, and this Spirit of Truth will become your power-multiplying fulcrum…. (1930:3) 178:1.6

    o28″…If professed believers bear not these fruits of the divine spirit in their lives, they are dead; the Spirit of Truth is not in them….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    o29…You must not seek to promulgate truth nor to establish righteousness by the power of civil governments or by the enaction of secular laws. You may always labor to persuade men’s minds, but you must never dare to compel them…. (1931:3) 178:1.12

    o29…In the kingdom of heaven true believers will not resort to the employment of physical force. The kingdom of heaven, being a spiritual brotherhood of the spirit-born sons of God, may be promulgated only by the power of the spirit…. (1929:3) 178:1.2

    o30″…You should know that in my Father’s universe and in mine are many abodes, and that there awaits the children of light the revelation of cities whose builder is God and worlds whose habit of life is righteousness and joy in the truth….” (1934:6) 178:3.4

    o30″…The Lord is near all who call upon him in sincerity and in truth. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. A merry heart does good like a medicine. No good thing will God withhold from those who walk uprightly….” (1445:3) 131:2.9

    o31″…I have brought the kingdom of heaven to you here on earth, but I declare that all of you who by faith enter therein and remain therein by the living service of truth, shall surely ascend to the worlds on high and sit with me in the spirit kingdom of our Father….” (1934:6) 178:3.4

    o31″…I have revealed God as your Father in heaven; I have revealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact becomes an eternal and living truth in your hearts….” (2052:3) 193:0.3

    n1″…And when the Father shall approve, I will pour out the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh. Already is my Father’s spirit in your hearts, and when this day shall come, you will also have me with you even as you now have the Father. This new gift is the spirit of living truth….” (1948:2) 180:4.1

    n1…Jesus was a truth giver; he was the truth for that generation on Urantia. When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth…. (1428:1) 130:1.1

    n2″…As my Father has given me of his spirit, so will I give you of my spirit. And this Spirit of Truth which I will bestow upon you shall guide and comfort you and shall eventually lead you into all truth….” (1948:3) 180:4.2

    n2…This bestowed Comforter is the spiritual force which ever draws all truth seekers
    towards Him who is the personification of truth in the local universe…. (377:9) 34:4.5

    n3…The new helper which Jesus promised to send into the hearts of believers, to pour out upon all flesh, is the Spirit of Truth. This divine endowment is not the letter or law of truth, neither is it to function as the form or expression of truth. The new teacher is the conviction of truth, the consciousness and assurance of true meanings on real spirit levels…. (1949:3) 180:5.1

    n3…Many queer and strange teachings became associated with the early narratives of the day of Pentecost. In subsequent times the events of this day, on which the Spirit of Truth, the new teacher, came to dwell with mankind, have become confused with the foolish outbreaks of rampant emotionalism…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n4…When you undertake the human formulation of divine truth, it speedily dies. The post-mortem salvage of imprisoned truth, even at best, can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

    n4…Ever bear in mind that these profound truths pertaining to Deity will increasingly clarify as your minds become progressively spiritualized during the successive epochs of the long mortal ascent to Paradise…. (31:8) 1:7.8

    n5…Truth is a spiritual reality value experienced only by spirit-endowed beings who function upon supermaterial levels of universe consciousness, and who, after the realization of truth, permit its spirit of activation to live and reign within their souls…. (1949:5) 180:5.3

    n5…Reason alone can never validate the values and goodnesses of religious experience. But it will always remain true: Whosoever wills to do the will of God shall comprehend the validity of spiritual values…. (1116:7) 101:10.6

    n6…The God-knowing individual is constantly elevating wisdom to the living-truth levels of divine attainment; the spiritually unprogressive soul is all the while dragging the living truth down to the dead levels of wisdom and to the domain of mere exalted knowledge…. (1949:6) 180:5.4

    n6…Knowledge pertains to things observed, but truth transcends such purely material levels in that it consorts with wisdom and embraces such imponderables as human experience, even spiritual and living realities…. (1459:2) 132:3.2

    n7…But the highest realization and the truest interpretation of the golden rule consists in the consciousness of the spirit of the truth of the enduring and living reality of such a divine declaration. The true cosmic meaning of this rule of universal relationship is revealed only in its spiritual realization.… (1950:3) 180:5.8

    n7…The golden rule, when divested of the superhuman insight of the Spirit of Truth, becomes nothing more than a rule of high ethical conduct. The golden rule, when literally interpreted, may become the instrument of great offense to one’s fellows…. (1949:7) 180:5.5

    n8…This same philosophy of the living flexibility and cosmic adaptability of divine truth to the individual requirements and capacity of every son of God, must be perceived before you can hope adequately to understand the Master’s teaching and practice of nonresistance to evil. The Master’s teaching is basically a spiritual pronouncement…. (1950:4) 180:5.9

    n8…Truth is inconcussible–forever exempt from all transient vicissitudes, albeit never dead and formal, always vibrant and adaptable–radiantly alive…. (1297:4) 118:3.3

    n9…The spirit of the Master’s injunction consists in the nonresistance of all selfish reaction to the universe, coupled with the aggressive and progressive attainment of righteous levels of true spirit values: divine beauty, infinite goodness, and eternal truth–to know God and to become increasingly like him…. (1950:4) 180:5.9

    n9…Truth hunger. The thirst for righteousness, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God…. (1861:4) 170:2.22

    n10…And so must we clearly recognize that neither the golden rule nor the teaching of nonresistance can ever be properly understood as dogmas or precepts. They can only be comprehended by living them, by realizing their meanings in the living interpretation of the Spirit of Truth, who directs the loving contact of one human being with another…. (1950:6) 180:5.11

    n10…And when such spirit-led mortals realize the true meaning of this golden rule, they are filled to overflowing with the assurance of citizenship in a friendly universe, and their ideals of spirit reality are satisfied only when they love their fellows as Jesus loved us all…. (1950:3) 180:5.8

    n11″…Life in the Father’s eternal creation is not an endless rest of idleness and selfish ease but rather a ceaseless progression in grace, truth, and glory.  Each of the many, many stations in my Father’s house is a stopping place, a life designed to prepare you for the next one ahead….” (1953:4) 181:1.2

    n11″…It is forever true, `the just shall live by faith.’ Entrance into the Father’s kingdom is wholly free, but progress–growth in grace–is essential to continuance therein….” (1682:4) 150:5.2

    n12″…Dedicate your life to the great work of showing how the critical material mind of man can triumph over the inertia of intellectual doubting when faced by the demonstration of the manifestation of living truth as it operates in the experience of spirit-born men and women who yield the fruits of the spirit in their lives, and who love one another, even as I have loved you….” (1961:5) 181:2.26

    n12″…You will serve mankind with a new and amazing devotion, even as I have served you. And when men see you so love them, and when they behold how fervently you serve them, they will perceive that you have become faith-fellows of the kingdom of heaven, and they will follow after the Spirit of Truth which they see in your lives, to the finding of eternal salvation….” (2044:3) 191:6.2

    n13…Sin creates a dead level of evil inertia, but righteousness nourishes the creative spirit of individual experience in the living realities of eternal truth and in the progressive communion of the divine spirits of the Father and the Son…. (1965:2) 182:1.8

    n13…Righteousness strikes the harmony chords of truth, and the melody vibrates throughout the cosmos, even to the recognition of the Infinite…. (556:12) 48:7.12

    n14″…For this purpose was I born into this world, even that I should show my Father to all men and bear witness to the truth of God.  And even now do I declare to you that every one who loves the truth hears my voice.” Then said Pilate, half in ridicule and half in sincerity, “Truth, what is truth–who knows?” (1991:4) 185:3.4

    n14″…God is truth. And it is the desire of God that his creatures should understand him–come fully to know the truth. Truth is eternal; it sustains the universe….” (1449:1) 131:4.6

    n15…Although individual facts may be materially true, it does not follow that the association of a group of facts must necessarily lead to truthful spiritual conclusions…. (2023:5) 189:2.6

    n15…The facts of evolution must not be arrayed against the truth of the reality of the certainty of the spiritual experience of the religious living of the God-knowing mortal…. (1125:4) 102:6.9

    n16″…When you have faith, when power from on high, the Spirit of Truth, has come upon you, you will not hide your light here behind closed doors; you will make known the love and the mercy of God to all mankind….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    n16…the Spirit of Truth came to help the believer to witness to the realities of Jesus’ teachings and his life as he lived it in the flesh, and as he now again lives it anew and afresh in the individual believer…. (2061:4) 194:2.6

    n17″…Your mission to the world is founded on the fact that I lived a God-revealing life among you; on the truth that you and all other men are the sons of God….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    n17″…If you gentiles will hear me, you shall receive the words of life and shall enter forthwith into the joyous liberty of the truth of sonship with God….” (1903:4) 174:5.7

    n18″…The Jews have extolled goodness; the Greeks have exalted beauty; the Hindus preach devotion; the far-away ascetics teach reverence; the Romans demand loyalty; but I require of my disciples life, even a life of loving service for your brothers in the flesh….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    n18…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

    n19″…This gospel of the kingdom belongs to both Jew and gentile, to rich and poor, to free and bond, to male and female, even to the little children. And you are all to proclaim this gospel of love and truth by the lives which you live in the flesh….” (2044:3) 191:6.2

    n19″…Verily, verily, I say to you who believe the gospel that, if a man will keep this word of truth alive in his heart, he shall never taste death….” (1797:2) 162:7.5

    n20″…I admonish you ever to remember that your mission among men is to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom–the reality of the fatherhood of God and the truth of the sonship of man….” (2052:4) 193:0.4

    n20″…Preach the gospel of the kingdom and proclaim the saving truth that man is a son of God….” (1681:9) 150:4.2

    n21″…You are to go forth preaching the love of God and the service of man. That which the world needs most to know is: Men are the sons of God, and through faith they can actually realize, and daily experience, this ennobling truth….” (2052:4) 193:0.4

    n21…Always the burden of his message was: the fact of the heavenly Father’s love and the truth of his mercy, coupled with the good news that man is a faith-son of this same God of love…. (1460:6) 132:4.2

    n22″…Freely you have received, freely give. Only tarry here in Jerusalem while I go to the Father, and until I send you the Spirit of Truth. He shall lead you into the enlarged truth, and I will go with you into all the world….” (2053:1) 193:0.5

    n22…Jesus was the truth made manifest in the flesh, and he promised to send his Spirit of Truth into the hearts of all his children after his return to the Father in heaven…. (1593:7) 141:7.6

    n23″…You rejoice to know that the Son of Man has risen from the dead because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also survive mortal death. But such survival is dependent on your having been previously born of the spirit of truth-seeking and God-finding….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    n23…Every day a true believer lives, he finds it easier to do the right thing…. (1740:8) 156:5.13

    n24″…You may enter the kingdom as a child, but the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full stature of spiritual adulthood. And when you go abroad to tell all nations the good news of this gospel, I will go before you, and my Spirit of Truth shall abide in your hearts….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    n24…Do not make the mistake of expecting to become strongly intellectually conscious of the outpoured Spirit of Truth. The spirit never creates a consciousness of himself, only a consciousness of Michael, the Son…. (2061:2) 194:2.4

    n25…The first mission of this spirit is, of course, to foster and personalize truth, for it is the comprehension of truth that constitutes the highest form of human liberty…. (2060:7) 194:2.2

    n25…Only true and genuine liberty is compatible with the reign of love and the
    ministry of mercy…. (614:3) 54:1.8

    n26…Thus it appears that the Spirit of Truth comes really to lead all believers into all truth, into the expanding knowledge of the experience of the living and growing spiritual consciousness of the reality of eternal and ascending sonship with God…. (2061:5) 194:2.7

    n26″…Albeit, when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he shall eventually guide you into all truth as you pass through the many abodes in my Father’s universe….” (1951:4) 180:6.3

    n27…And, sooner or later, these concealed truths of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men will emerge to effectually transform the civilization of all mankind…. (2061:6) 194:2.8

    n27…The gospel of the kingdom is: the fact of the fatherhood of God, coupled with the resultant truth of the sonship-brotherhood of men…. (2059:4) 194:0.4

    n28…When Jesus was on earth, he lived his life as one personality–Jesus of Nazareth. As the indwelling spirit of the “new teacher,” the Master has, since Pentecost, been able to live his life anew in the experience of every truth-taught believer…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n28…And this new teacher is the spirit of living and growing truth, expanding, unfolding, and adaptative truth…. (1949:3) 180:5.1

    n29…The chief mission of this outpoured spirit of the Father and the Son is to teach men about the truths of the Father’s love and the Son’s mercy. These are the truths of divinity which men can comprehend more fully than all the other divine traits of character…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n29…The Conjoint Creator is truly and forever the great ministering personality, the universal mercy minister. To comprehend the ministry of the Spirit, ponder the truth that he is the combined portrayal of the Father’s unending love and of the Son’s eternal mercy…. (95:2) 8:4.7

    n30…The Spirit of Truth is concerned primarily with the revelation of the Father’s spirit nature and the Son’s moral character. The Creator Son, in the flesh, revealed God to men; the Spirit of Truth, in the heart, reveals the Creator Son to men…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n30…The Spirit of Truth works as one with the presence of the spirit of the Divine Minister. This dual spirit liaison hovers over the worlds, seeking to teach truth and to spiritually enlighten the minds of men…. (379:4) 34:5.4

    d1…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

    d1…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

    d2…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

    d2…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

    d3…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

    d3…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

    d4…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

    d4…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

    d5…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

    d5…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

    d6…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

    d6″…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

    d7…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

    d7…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

    d8…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

    d8…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

    d9…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

    d9…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

    d10…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

    d10″…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

    d11…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

    d11″…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

    d12…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

    d12…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

    d13…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

    d13…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

    d14…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

    d14…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

    d15…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

    d15…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

    d16…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

    d16…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

    d17…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

    d17…The great strength of Buddhism is that its adherents are free to choose truth from all religions…. (1041:2) 94:12.4

    d18…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

    d18″…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

    d19…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

    d19″…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

    d20…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

    d20…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

    d21…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

    d21″…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

    d22…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

    d22…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

    d23…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

    d23…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

    d24…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

    d24″…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

    d25…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

    d25…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

    d26…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

    d26…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

    d27…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

    d27″…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

    d28…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

    d28…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

    d29…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

    d29…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

    d20…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

    d30…Love is the desire to do good to others…. (648:4) 56:10.21

    d31…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

    d31…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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    Richard E Warren

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    732 TRUTH, BEAUTY & GOODNESS Calendar Quotes
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    j1…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

    j1…To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality…. (648.3) 56:10.20

    j2…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

    j2…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

    j3…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

    j3…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

    j4…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

    j4″…Let us be free in the knowledge of the truth of our Father’s eternal love….” (1404.5) 127:6.6

    j5…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

    j5″…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

    j6…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

    j6…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

    j7…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

    j7…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

    j8…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

    j8…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

    j9…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

    j9″…Love is the greatest of all spirit realities. Truth is a liberating revelation, but love is the supreme relationship….” (1608.1) 143:1.4

    j10…God’s primal perfection consists not in an assumed righteousness but rather in the inherent perfection of the goodness of his divine nature. He is final, complete, and perfect. There is no thing lacking in the beauty and perfection of his righteous character…. (36.3) 2:2.5

    j10″…How pure and beautiful, how deep and unfathomable is the supernal Ancestor of all things!” “The Infinite is most excellent in that he imparts himself to men. He is the beginning and the end, the Father of every good and perfect purpose….” (34.1) 2:1.2

    j11…The good nature of a loving Father could not possibly withhold the wise ministry of mercy to each member of every group of his universe children. Eternal justice and divine mercy together constitute what in human experience would be called fairness…. (38.4) 2:4.4

    j11…All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness–justice…. (1732.4) 155:6.11

    j12…I naturally love one who is so powerful in creation and in the control thereof, and yet who is so perfect in goodness and so faithful in the loving-kindness which constantly overshadows us.  I think I would love God just as much if he were not so great and powerful, as long as he is so good and merciful…. (39.6) 2:5.7

    j12…The higher and superphilosophic wisdom of such enlightened and disciplined individuals ultimately instructs them that to doubt God or distrust his goodness would be to prove untrue to the realest and deepest thing within the human mind and soul–the divine Adjuster…. (1105.4) 101:1.7

    j13…When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. Notwithstanding the infinite unity of the divine nature, love is the dominant characteristic of all God’s personal dealings with his creatures…. (40.4) 2:5.12

    j13…The secret of a better civilization is bound up in the Master’s teachings of the brotherhood of man, the good will of love and mutual trust…. (2064.4) 194:3.12

    j14…In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth, but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience…. (40.5) 2:6.1

    j14 “…Says the Lord: `I dwell within their own souls as a lamp of wisdom. I am the splendor of the splendid and the goodness of the good. Where two or three gather together, there am I also….'” (1448.2) 131:4.3

    j15…God could be great and absolute, somehow even intelligent and personal, in philosophy, but in religion God must also be moral; he must be good…. (40.5) 2:6.1

    j15″…He is the merciful and the compassionate.” “Truly God is plenteous in goodness to all men….” (1051.4) 95:7.6

    j16…Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. This goodness of God is a part of the personality of God, and its full revelation appears only in the personal religious experience of the believing sons of God…. (40.5) 2:6.1

    j16…And yet, despite this very deep consciousness of close relationship with divinity, this Galilean, God’s Galilean, when addressed as Good Teacher, instantly replied, “Why do you call me good?” (2088.4) 196:0.9

    j17…The olden concept that God is a Deity dominated by kingly morality was upstepped by Jesus to that affectionately touching level of intimate family morality of the parent-child relationship, than which there is none more tender and beautiful in mortal experience…. (40.6) 2:6.2

    j17…As the Son of God he loves man with a fatherly love–he is man’s Creator, his universe Father. As the Son of Man, Jesus loves mortals as a brother–he was truly a man among men…. (1573.4) 140:5.2

    j18…Righteousness implies that God is the source of the moral law of the universe. Truth exhibits God as a revealer, as a teacher. But love gives and craves affection, seeks understanding fellowship such as exists between parent and child. Righteousness may be the divine thought, but love is a father’s attitude…. (40.6) 2:6.2

    j18…Love, the love of a father for his son, becomes the central truth in the universe relations of Creator and creature–not the justice of a king which seeks satisfaction in the sufferings and punishment of the evil-doing subject…. (2018.1) 188:5.2

    j19…God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry. It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy…. (41.5) 2:6.7

    j19…The great truth of Siddhartha’s teaching was his proclamation of a universe of absolute justice…. (1037.2) 94:8.18

    j20…Facing the world of personality, God is discovered to be a loving person; facing the spiritual world, he is a personal love; in religious experience he is both. Love identifies the volitional will of God. The goodness of God rests at the bottom of the divine free-willness–the universal tendency to love, show mercy, manifest patience, and minister forgiveness…. (42.1) 2:6.9

    j20″…If our earth parents know how to love their children and bestow good gifts on them, how much more must the good Father in heaven know how wisely to love his children on earth and to bestow suitable blessings upon them….” (1453.5) 131:10.3

    j21…All finite knowledge and creature understanding are relative. Information and intelligence, gleaned from even high sources, is only relatively complete, locally accurate, and personally true…. (42.2) 2:7.1

    j21…The true child of universe insight looks for the living Spirit of Truth in every wise saying…. (1949.6) 180:5:4

    j22…Physical facts are fairly uniform, but truth is a living and flexible factor in the philosophy of the universe. Evolving personalities are only partially wise and relatively true in their communications. They can be certain only as far as their personal experience extends…. (42.3) 2:7.2

    j22…The fact of God, the divine law, is changeless; the truth of God, his relation to the universe, is a relative revelation which is ever adaptable to the constantly evolving universe…. (1126.2) 102:7.2

    j23…Divine truth, final truth, is uniform and universal, but the story of things spiritual, as it is told by numerous individuals hailing from various spheres, may sometimes vary in details owing to this relativity in the completeness of knowledge and in the repleteness of personal experience as well as in the length and extent of that experience…. (42.4) 2:7.3

    j23…Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is always more than knowledge…. (1459.2) 132:3.2

    j24…Truth is beautiful because it is both replete and symmetrical. When man searches for truth, he pursues the divinely real…. (42.5) 2:7.4

    j24…Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality…. (1949.4) 180:5.2

    j25…Philosophers commit their gravest error when they are misled into the fallacy of abstraction, the practice of focusing the attention upon one aspect of reality and then of pronouncing such an isolated aspect to be the whole truth…. (42.6) 2:7.5

    j25…Your science is engaged in the agelong contest between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism…. (141.6) 12:9.5

    j26…Intellectual self-consciousness can discover the beauty of truth, its spiritual quality, not only by the philosophic consistency of its concepts, but more certainly and surely by the unerring response of the ever-present Spirit of Truth…. (42.7) 2:7.6

    j26…If you do not reject this spirit, even though eternity may be required to fulfill the commission, “he will guide you into all truth….” (382.1) 34:7.1

    j27…Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. Disappointment and sorrow attend upon error because, not being a reality, it cannot be realized in experience…. (42.7) 2:7.6

    j27…The beauties of the spiritual values of truth are more pleasurable and uplifting than is the phenomenon of evil…. (2076.4) 195:5.13

    j28…Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor…. (42.7) 2:7.6

    j28″…Taste and see that the Lord is good!” (41.1) 2:6.3

    j29…The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty. Even the charm of human art consists in the harmony of its unity…. (43.1) 2:7.8

    j29…The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature…. (646.4) 56:10.3

    j30…As civilization progressed, and since religion continued to pursue the same unwise course of overemphasizing the goodness of God to the relative exclusion of truth and neglect of beauty, there developed an increasing tendency for certain types of men to turn away from the abstract and dissociated concept of isolated goodness…. (43.2) 2:7.9

    j30…The modern age will refuse to accept a religion which is inconsistent with facts and out of harmony with its highest conceptions of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (2083.1) 195:9.5

    j31…The overstressed and isolated morality of modern religion, which fails to hold the devotion and loyalty of many twentieth-century men, would rehabilitate itself if, in addition to its moral mandates, it would give equal consideration to the truths of science, philosophy, and spiritual experience, and to the beauties of the physical creation, the charm of intellectual art, and the grandeur of genuine character achievement…. (43.2) 2:7.9

    j31…Religion reaches out for undiscovered ideals, unexplored realities, superhuman values, divine wisdom, and true spirit attainment. True religion does all of this; all other beliefs are not worthy of the name…. (1781.1) 160:5.5

    f1…The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul…. (43.3) 2:7.10

    f1…But true religion is alive. Intellectual crystallization of religious concepts is the equivalent of spiritual death. You cannot conceive of religion without ideas, but when religion once becomes reduced only to an idea, it is no longer religion; it has become merely a species of human philosophy…. (1120.4) 102:2.7

    f2…Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love…. (43.3) 2:7.10

    f2…God is not a hypothesis formulated to unify the human concepts of truth, beauty, and goodness; he is the personality of love from whom all of these universe manifestations are derived…. (2095.8) 196:3.24

    f3…All truth–material, philosophic, or spiritual–is both beautiful and good. All real beauty–material art or spiritual symmetry–is both true and good. All genuine goodness– whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry–is equally true and beautiful…. (43.4) 2:7.11

    f3…Goodness is living, relative, always progressing, invariably a personal experience, and everlastingly correlated with the discernment of truth and beauty…. (1458.4) 132:2.7

    f4…Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience.  Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems…. (43.4) 2:7.11

    f4…Health, mental efficiency, and happiness arise from the unification of physical systems, mind systems, and spirit systems. Of health and sanity man understands much, but of happiness he has truly realized very little…. (1097.7) 100:4.3

    f5…Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty…. (43.5) 2:7.12

    f5…By the time of the attainment of Paradise the ascending mortal’s capacity for identifying the self with true spirit values has become so enlarged as to result in the attainment of the perfection of the possession of the light of life…. (1458.6) 132:2.9

    f6…God’s doings are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest…. (47.6) 3:2.8

    f6…There is no such thing as a “chosen people.” The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time…. (1488.2) 134:5.4

    f7…The full appreciation of truth, beauty, and goodness is inherent in the perfection of the divine universe. The inhabitants of the Havona worlds do not require the potential of relative value levels as a choice stimulus; such perfect beings are able to identify and choose the good in the absence of all contrastive and thought-compelling moral situations…. (52.2) 3:5.16

    f7″…A wise man is occupied with the search for truth, not in seeking for a mere living. To attain the perfection of Heaven is the goal of man….” (1453.2) 131:9.4

    f8…The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness–nearness to divinity; by potential evil–remoteness from divinity…. (52.5) 3:6.2

    f8″…God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil….” (1429.1) 130:1.5

    f9…The infinite goodness of the Father is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of time; hence must there always be afforded a contrast with comparative evil (not sin) for the effective exhibition of all phases of relative goodness…. (58.4) 4:3.6

    f9…Good is the carrying out of the divine plans; sin is a deliberate transgression of the divine will; evil is the misadaptation of plans and the maladjustment of techniques resulting in universe disharmony and planetary confusion…. (842.5) 75:4.3

    f10…Perfection of divine goodness can be discerned by mortal imperfection of insight only because it stands in contrastive association with relative imperfection in the relationships of time and matter in the motions of space…. (58.4) 4:3.6

    f10…Goodness is found in the recognition of the positive truth-values of the spiritual level, which must, in human experience, be contrasted with the negative counterpart–the shadows of potential evil…. (1458.4) 132:2.7

    f11…God is the being of absolute self-determination; there are no limits to his universe reactions save those which are self-imposed, and his freewill acts are conditioned only by those divine qualities and perfect attributes which inherently characterize his eternal nature. Therefore is God related to the universe as the being of final goodness plus a free will of creative infinity…. (58.8) 4:4.3

    f11…Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is literally true that “with God all things are possible….” (46.6) 3:2.2

    f12…The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God…. (60.6) 4:5.7

    f12…There was just one motive in Jesus’ postbaptismal life on Urantia, and that was a better and truer revelation of his Paradise Father; he was the pioneer of the new and better way to God, the way of faith and love…. (1543.2) 138:6.4

    f13…Sooner or later, God is destined to be comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth…. (66.6) 5:4.2

    f13″…But now comes the Son of Man speaking and living the truth, and many of you refuse to believe….” (1796.5) 162:7.3

    f14…The Hebrews based their religion on goodness; the Greeks on beauty; both religions sought truth. Jesus revealed a God of love, and love is all-embracing of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (67.4) 5:4.6

    f14…He exalted love–truth, beauty, and goodness–as the divine ideal and the eternal reality…. (1583.5) 140:8.31

    f15…In the love of truth and in the creation of beauty the Father and the Son are equal except that the Son appears to devote himself more to the realization of the exclusively spiritual beauty of universal values…. (75.4) 6:2.7

    f15…The spirit which my Father and I shall send into the world is not only the Spirit of Truth but also the spirit of idealistic beauty…. (1732.4) 155:6.11

    f16…In divine goodness I discern no difference between the Father and the Son. The Father loves his universe children as a father; the Eternal Son looks upon all creatures both as father and as brother…. (75.5) 6:2.8

    f16″…The acceptance of the doctrine of the fatherhood of God implies that you also freely accept the associated truth of the brotherhood of man….” (2053.4) 193:1.2

    f17…It is not possible that the Spirit could have more of goodness than the Father since all goodness takes origin in the Father, but in the acts of the Spirit we can the better comprehend such goodness…. (93.1) 8:2.7

    f17…Divine goodness is more fully shown forth in the loving ministry of the manifold personalities of the Infinite Spirit…. (647.8) 56:10.17

    f18…Individuals have their guardians of destiny; planets, systems, constellations, universes, and superuniverses each have their respective rulers who labor for the good of their domains…. (136:6) 12:6.8

    f18″…We know that all things work together for good to those who love God….” (55:2)  4:1.4

    f19…The part profits or suffers in measure with the whole. The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man augments the tribulation of all men…. (138.6) 12:7.11

    f19″…Remember, every act shall receive its reward. Evil results in sorrow and sin ends in pain. Joy and happiness are the outcome of a good life….” (1447.2) 131:3.5

    f20…Mathematics, material science, is indispensable to the intelligent discussion of the material aspects of the universe, but such knowledge is not necessarily a part of the higher realization of truth or of the personal appreciation of spiritual realities…. (141.4) 12:9.3

    f20…Truth having to do with spiritual realities and eternal values cannot always be built up by a combination of apparent facts…. (2023.5) 189:2.6

    f21…As the worship of the faith sons of the evolutionary worlds ministers to the satisfaction of the Universal Father’s love, so the exalted adoration of the Havona creatures satiates the perfect ideals of divine beauty and truth. As mortal man strives to do the will of God, these beings of the central universe live to gratify the ideals of the Paradise Trinity…. (157.5) 14:4.13

    f21…The mode of worship on Paradise is utterly beyond mortal comprehension, but the spirit of it you can begin to appreciate even down here on Urantia, for the spirits of the Gods even now indwell you, hover over you, and inspire you to true worship…. (304.3) 27:7.5

    f22…Man rejoices in the goodness of God, Havoners exult in the divine beauty, while you both enjoy the ministry of the liberty of living truth…. (157.5) 14:4.13

    f22…I am the hope of all who know the living truth…. (1965.17) 182:1.23

    f23…In the day-by-day life of mortal man, virtue is realized by the consistent choosing of good rather than evil, and such choosing ability is evidence of the possession of a moral nature…. (193:5) 16:7.6

    f23…Human likes and dislikes do not determine good and evil; moral values do not grow out of wish fulfillment or emotional frustration…. (1096.7) 100:3.2

    f24…The true perspective of any reality problem–human or divine, terrestrial or cosmic–can be had only by the full and unprejudiced study and correlation of three phases of universe reality: origin, history, and destiny…. (215:3)  19:1.6

    f24…Eternal ends are not shown in time beginnings. The present can be truly interpreted only in the light of the correlated past and future…. (215:8) 19:1.11

    f25…In the Trinity Teacher Sons the love, mercy, and ministry of the three Paradise Deities are co-ordinated on the highest time-space value-levels and are presented to the universes as living truth, divine goodness, and true spiritual beauty…. (232:6)  20:10.4

    f25…Truth, beauty, and goodness are correlated in the ministry of the Spirit, the grandeur of Paradise, the mercy of the Son, and the experience of the Supreme…. (1279:5) 117:1.7

    f26…In the universal regime you are not reckoned as having possessed yourself of knowledge and truth until you have demonstrated your ability and your willingness to impart this knowledge and truth to others…. (279:13) 25:17.12

    f26″…The pride of unspiritualized learning is a treacherous thing in human experience. The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner….”
    (1433:2) 130:3.7

    f27…The wisdom of truth takes origin in the divinity of the central universe, but knowledge, experiential knowledge, largely has its beginnings in the domains of time and space…. (302.3) 27:5.4

    f27…Knowledge deals with facts; wisdom, with relationships; truth, with reality values…. (1459.2) 132:3.2

    f28…The master philosophers of Paradise delight to lead the minds of its inhabitants, both native and ascendant, in the exhilarating pursuit of attempting to solve universe problems. These superaphic masters of philosophy are the “wise men of heaven,” the beings of wisdom who make use of the truth of knowledge and the facts of experience in their efforts to master the unknown…. (302:6) 27:6.2

    f28…Faith-insight, or spiritual intuition, is the endowment of the cosmic mind in association with the Thought Adjuster, which is the Father’s gift to man. Spiritual reason, soul intelligence, is the endowment of the Holy Spirit, the Creative Spirit’s gift to man. Spiritual philosophy, the wisdom of spirit realities, is the endowment of the Spirit of Truth…. (1108:1) 101:3.2

    f29…On Paradise the ascendant personalities of space experience the heights of being: They have knowledge; they know the truth; they may philosophize–think the truth; they may even seek to encompass the concepts of the Ultimate and attempt to grasp the techniques of the Absolutes…. (302:6) 27:6.2

    f29…The Unqualified Absolute is therefore devoid of personality, divinity, and all creator prerogatives. Neither fact nor truth, experience nor revelation, philosophy nor absonity are able to penetrate the nature and character of this Absolute without universe qualification…. (14:5) 0:11.7

    m1…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

    m1…Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection…. (647:3) 56:10.12

    m2…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

    m2…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

    m3…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

    m3…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

    m4…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) 34:4.8

    m4…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

    m5…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….” (380:7) 34:6.6

    m5…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

    m6…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

    m6…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

    m7…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) 34:6.12

    m7″…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

    m8…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

    m8…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

    m9…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

    m9…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

    m10…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) 44:0.15

    m10…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

    m11…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

    m11…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

    m12…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

    m12…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

    m13…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

    m13…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

    m14…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

    m14…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

    m15…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

    m15…The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained…. (557:14) 48:7.30

    m16…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

    m16…No worth-while experience ever happens in vain; no true meaning or real value ever perishes…. (1200:1) 109:6.1

    m17…Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something premeditated as a perversion of truth…. (555:1) 48:6.33

    m17″…The flight from duty is the sacrifice of truth….” (1428:2) 130:1.2

    m18…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

    m18…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

    m19…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

    m19″…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

    m20…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

    m20…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

    m21…Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when
    it is asked for…. (556:16) 48:7.16

    m21″…If you would guide others into the kingdom, you must yourselves walk
    in the clear light of living truth….” (1571:5) 140:3.18

    m22…When the Planetary Prince arrives on a primitive world, the evolved religion of fear and ignorance prevails. The prince and his staff make the first revelations of higher truth and universe organization…. (591:3) 52:2.3

    m22…As natural religious experience continues to progress, periodic revelations of truth punctuate the otherwise slow-moving course of planetary evolution…. (1129:2) 103:0.2

    m23…The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity…. (613:2) 54:0.2

    m23…Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error…. (613:1) 54:0.1

    m24…Man’s ability to choose good or evil is a universe reality. This liberty to choose for oneself is an endowment of the Supreme Rulers, and they will not permit any being or group of beings to deprive a single personality in the wide universe of this divinely bestowed liberty–not even to satisfy such misguided and ignorant beings in the enjoyment of this misnamed personal liberty…. (615:3) 54:3.1

    m24…Spiritual evolution is an experience of the increasing and voluntary choice of goodness attended by an equal and progressive diminution of the possibility of evil…. (1460:1) 132:4.8

    m25…There is good to be derived in the universe from this technique of patience in dealing with sinful rebels. While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose…. (616:6) 54:4.7

    m25…To realize providence in time, man must accomplish the task of achieving perfection. But man can even now foretaste this providence in its eternity meanings as he ponders the universe fact that all things, be they good or evil, work together for the advancement of God-knowing mortals in their quest for the Father of all….. (1306:7) 118:10.18

    m26…Throughout this glorious age the chief pursuit of the ever-advancing mortals is the quest for a better understanding and a fuller realization of the comprehensible elements of Deity–truth, beauty, and goodness. This represents man’s effort to discern God in mind, matter, and spirit. And as the mortal pursues this quest, he finds himself increasingly absorbed in the experiential study of philosophy, cosmology, and divinity…. (646:3) 56:10.2

    m26…And on these worlds they are magnificently trained by the competitive systems of keen striving in the advanced domains and divisions of diverse achievement in the mastery of truth, beauty, and goodness. Never fear but that even such glorified spheres present plenty of evil, real and potential, which is stimulative of the choosing between truth and error, good and evil, sin and righteousness…. (625:9) 55:3.10

    m27…Philosophy you somewhat grasp, and divinity you comprehend in worship, social service, and personal spiritual experience, but the pursuit of beauty–cosmology–you all too often limit to the study of man’s crude artistic endeavors. Beauty, art, is largely a matter of the unification of contrasts. Variety is essential to the concept of beauty….  (646:4) 56:10.3

    m27…But you must await your deliverance from the animal body before you can begin to conceive of the artistic glories and aesthetic beauties of the morontia and spirit worlds…. (507:1) 44:6.9

    m28…Man finding God and God finding man–the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator–that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art…. (646:4) 56:10.3

    m28…Man thus becomes so beautifully real because Jesus had so much of God in his life, and the realization (recognition) of God is inalienable and constitutive in all men…. (196:2) 16:9.6

    m29…Hence materialism, atheism, is the maximation of ugliness, the climax of the finite antithesis of the beautiful. Highest beauty consists in the panorama of the unification of the variations which have been born of pre-existent harmonious reality.

    The attainment of cosmologic levels of thought includes:

    1. Curiosity. Hunger for harmony and thirst for beauty. Persistent attempts to discover new levels of harmonious cosmic relationships.

    2. Aesthetic appreciation. Love of the beautiful and ever-advancing appreciation of the artistic touch of all creative manifestations on all levels of reality.

    3. Ethic sensitivity. Through the realization of truth the appreciation of beauty leads to the sense of the eternal fitness of those things which impinge upon the recognition of divine goodness in Deity relations with all beings; and thus even cosmology leads to the pursuit of divine reality values–to God-consciousness…. (646:5) 56:10.4

    m30…The worlds settled in light and life are so fully concerned with the comprehension of truth, beauty, and goodness because these quality values embrace the revelation of Deity to the realms of time and space…. (646:10) 56:10.9

    m30…Such advanced planets are indeed poems of harmony, pictures of the beauty of achieved goodness attained through the pursuit of cosmic truth…. (1306:4) 118:10.15

    m31…Universal beauty embraces the harmonious relations and rhythms of the cosmic creation; this is more distinctly the intellectual appeal and leads towards unified and synchronous comprehension of the material universe…. (646:10) 56:10.9

    m31…The Father enjoys the Havona reciprocation of the divine beauty. It satisfies the divine mind to afford a perfect pattern of exquisite harmony for all evolving universes…. (160:9) 14:5.8

    a1…Divine goodness represents the revelation of infinite values to the finite mind, therein to be perceived and elevated to the very threshold of the spiritual level of human comprehension…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    a1…Socrates and his successors, Plato and Aristotle, taught that virtue is knowledge; goodness, health of the soul…. (1079:3) 98:2.6

    a2…Truth is the basis of science and philosophy, presenting the intellectual foundation of religion…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    a2…True religion does not belittle man’s efforts to progress during the mortal lease on life…. (1134:5) 103:5.7

    a3…Goodness embraces the sense of ethics, morality, and religion–experiential perfection-hunger…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    a3″…Through our good thinking the wise Creator will enable us to do his will, thereby attaining the realization of all that is divinely perfect….” (1450:2) 131:5.3

    a4…Beauty is the intellectual recognition of the harmonious time-space synthesis of the far-flung diversification of phenomenal reality, all of which stems from pre-existent and eternal oneness…. (647:2) 56:10.11

    a4…Beauty, rhythm, and harmony are intellectually associated and spiritually akin…. (507:3) 44:7.2

    a5…The recognition of goodness implies a mind of moral status, a personal mind with ability to discriminate between good and evil. But the possession of goodness, greatness, is the measure of real divinity attainment…. (647:3) 56:10.12

    a5…Greatness cannot be estimated without knowing the content of goodness, while goodness cannot be portrayed without exhibiting its inherent and divine greatness…. (317:2) 28:6.20

    a6…The recognition of true relations implies a mind competent to discriminate between truth and error. The bestowal Spirit of Truth which invests the human minds of Urantia is unerringly responsive to truth–the living spirit relationship of all things and all beings as they are co-ordinated in the eternal ascent Godward…. (647:4) 56:10.13

    a6…Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living readaptative interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the Spirit of Truth. Love must thereby grasp the ever-changing and enlarging concepts of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved…. (1950:5) 180:5.10

    a7…Self-realization is potentially evil if it is antisocial. It is literally true: “No man lives by himself.” Cosmic socialization constitutes the highest form of personality unification. Said Jesus: “He who would be greatest among you, let him become server of all….” (647:5) 56:10.14

    a7…It is a severe strain on the soul to undergo the experience of an effort to serve both good and evil. The supremely happy and efficiently unified mind is the one wholly dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven…. (1480:4) 133:7.12

    a8…Universal beauty is the recognition of the reflection of the Isle of Paradise in the material creation, while eternal truth is the special ministry of the Paradise Sons who not only bestow themselves upon the mortal races but even pour out their Spirit of Truth upon all peoples…. (647:8) 56:10.17

    a8…The Creator Sons are endowed with a spirit of universe presence in many ways analogous to that of the Seven Master Spirits of Paradise. This is the Spirit of Truth which is poured out upon a world by a bestowal Son…. (377:9) 34:4.5

    a9…Truth meanings are the mortal-intellect repercussions of the eternal word of Deity–the time-space comprehension of supreme concepts. The goodness values of divinity are the merciful ministries of the spirit personalities of the Universal, the Eternal, and the Infinite to the time-space finite creatures of the evolutionary spheres…. (647:9) 56:10.18

    a9…Justice is inherent in the universal sovereignty of the Paradise Trinity, but goodness, mercy, and truth are the universe ministry of the divine personalities, whose Deity union constitutes the Trinity…. (114:3) 10:6.2

    a10…Frontier society develops the unskilled side of humanity; the fine arts and true scientific progress, together with spiritual culture, have all thrived best in the larger centers of life when supported by an agricultural and industrial population slightly under the land-man ratio. Cities always multiply the power of their inhabitants for either good or evil…. (770:2) 68:5.5

    a10″…Ever remember, there is a city whose foundations are righteousness and truth, and whose builder and maker is God….” (1474:6) 133:4.6

    a11…But such an ideal society cannot be realized when either the weak or the wicked lie in wait to take unfair and unholy advantage of those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (804:16) 71:4.16

    a11…Let controversy come only when they who despise the truth force it upon you. But when the willful unbeliever attacks you, do not hesitate to stand in vigorous defense of the truth which has saved and sanctified you…. (1932:1) 178:1.16

    a12…This worship of truth was provocative of research and fearless exploration of the laws of nature and the potentials of mankind. The Chinese of even six thousand years ago were still keen students and aggressive in their pursuit of truth…. (885:8) 79:7.11

    a12…Do not overlook the value of your spiritual heritage, the river of truth running down through the centuries, even to the barren times of a materialistic and secular age…. (2082:6) 195:9.1

    a13…The great weakness of ancestor veneration is that it promotes a backward-looking philosophy. However wise it may be to glean wisdom from the past, it is folly to regard the past as the exclusive source of truth…. (888:1) 79:8.8

    a13…Jesus had an unerring ability for the recognition of truth, and truth he never hesitated to embrace, no matter from what source it appeared to emanate…. (1390:3) 126:3.8

    a14…Truth is relative and expanding; it lives always in the present, achieving new expression in each generation of men–even in each human life…. (888:1) 79:8.8

    a14…Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    a15…Knowledge can be had by education, but wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through experience and by men and women who are innately intelligent. Such a people are able to learn from experience; they may become truly wise…. (908:2) 81:6.13

    a15″…The wise course in life is to act in consonance with the spirit of truth….” (1450:1) 131:5.2

    a16…But even more, a true family–a good family–reveals to the parental procreators the attitude of the Creator to his children, while at the same time such true parents portray to their children the first of a long series of ascending disclosures of the love of the Paradise parent of all universe children…. (942:1) 84:7.30

    a16″…I have come among you to proclaim a greater truth, one which many of the later prophets also grasped, that God loves you–every one of you–as individuals….” (1629:5) 145:2.4

    a17…A surviving cult must symbolize that which is permanent in the presence of unceasing change; it must glorify that which unifies the stream of ever-changing social metamorphosis. It must recognize true meanings, exalt beautiful relations, and glorify the good values of real nobility…. (966:3) 87:7.8

    a17…The eye of the material mind perceives a world of factual knowledge; the eye of the spiritualized intellect discerns a world of true values. These two views, synchronized and harmonized, reveal the world of reality…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

    a18…Concerning the accumulated fetish writings which various religionists hold as sacred books, it is not only believed that what is in the book is true, but also that every truth is contained in the book. If one of these sacred books happens to speak of the earth as being flat, then, for long generations, otherwise sane men and women will refuse to accept positive evidence that the planet is round…. (969:5) 88:2.7

    a18″…The authority of truth is the very spirit that indwells its living manifestations, and not the dead words of the less illuminated and supposedly inspired men of another generation….” (1768:3) 159:4.7

    a19…Man is gradually backing into the truth, beginning in error, progressing in error, and finally attaining the threshold of truth. Only with the arrival of the scientific method has he faced forward…. (970:10) 88:4.5

    a19…The highest attainable philosophy of mortal man must be logically based on the reason of science, the faith of religion, and the truth insight afforded by revelation…. (1137:5) 103:6.15

    a20…The strong must not look with disdain upon the weak. Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Deity and to revere truth, beauty, and goodness without form and ritual…. (999:3) 91:5.7

    a20…No matter how illusory and erroneous one’s theology, one’s religion may be wholly genuine and everlastingly true…. (1140:8) 103:9.2

    a21…God answers man’s prayer by giving him an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, and an augmented concept of goodness. Prayer is a subjective gesture, but it contacts with mighty objective realities on the spiritual levels of human experience; it is a meaningful reach by the human for superhuman values…. (1002:3) 91:8.11

    a21…All true prayers are addressed to spiritual beings, and all such petitions must be answered in spiritual terms, and all such answers must consist in spiritual realities…. (1848:9) 168:4.9

    a22…With the dawn of civilization the human race espoused the more mystic and symbolic beliefs, while now, with approaching maturity, mankind is ripening for the appreciation of real religion, even a beginning of the revelation of truth itself…. (1003:7) 92:1.2

    a22″…Nathaniel, never forget, the Father does not limit the revelation of truth to any one generation or to any one people….” (1768:2) 159:4.6

    a23…But when tempted to criticize evolutionary religion, be careful. Remember, that is what happened; it is a historical fact. And further recall that the power of any idea lies, not in its certainty or truth, but rather in the vividness of its human appeal…. (1005:5) 92:3.3

    a23…The truth and maturity of any religion is directly proportional to its concept of the infinite personality of God and to its grasp of the absolute unity of Deity…. (28:7) 1:5.10

    a24…The future of Urantia will doubtless be characterized by the appearance of teachers of religious truth–the Fatherhood of God and the fraternity of all creatures…. (1010:4) 92:5.16

    a24″…The truth which you have given to me I have revealed to them….” (1964:1) 182:1.4

    a25…At one time the hope of the survival of Occidental civilization lay in the sublime Hebraic concepts of goodness and the advanced Hellenic concepts of beauty…. (1011:15) 92:6.17

    a25…The great mistake of the Hebrew religion was its failure to associate the goodness of God with the factual truths of science and the appealing beauty of art…. (43:2) 2:7.9

    a26…It is always difficult to induce evolutionary minds suddenly to accept advanced revealed truth. Man is an evolutionary creature and in the main must get his religion by evolutionary techniques…. (1011:17) 92:6.19

    a26…But it has often been the error of the teachers of new truth to attempt too much, to attempt to supplant slow evolution by sudden revolution…. (1043:3) 95:1.8

    a27…The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith…. (1012:4) 92:7.3

    a27…You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds, or intellectual patterns of human conduct…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

    a28…There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow the best in their neighbors’ living spiritual faith rather than to denounce the worst in their lingering superstitions and outworn rituals…. (1012:4) 92:7.3

    a28…The teachers of the religion of Jesus should approach other religions with the recognition of the truths which are held in common (many of which come directly or indirectly from Jesus’ message) while they refrain from placing so much emphasis on the differences…. (1670:6) 149:2.5

    a29…Lao-tse also made one of the earliest presentations of the doctrine of returning good for evil: “Goodness begets goodness, but to the one who is truly good, evil also begets goodness….” (1033:7) 94:6.4

    a29…And Jesus answered: “You shall return good for evil. My messengers must not strive with men, but be gentle toward all. Measure for measure shall not be your rule….” (1577:3) 140:6.9

    a30…At the time of this writing, much of Asia rests its hope in Buddhism. Will this noble faith, that has so valiantly carried on through the dark ages of the past, once again receive the truth of expanded cosmic realities even as the disciples of the great teacher in India once listened to his proclamation of new truth? (1041:4) 94:12.6

    a30…Through more than two thousand years, many of the best minds of Asia have concentrated upon the problem of ascertaining absolute truth and the truth of the Absolute…. (1039:6) 94:11.7

    my1…No matter what upheavals may attend the social and economic growth of civilization, religion is genuine and worth while if it fosters in the individual an experience in which the sovereignty of truth, beauty, and goodness prevails, for such is the true spiritual concept of supreme reality…. (1089:12) 99:4.4

    my1…Religion is destined to become the reality of the spiritual unification of all that is good, beautiful, and true in human experience…. (67:5) 5:4.7

    my2…It is the purpose of group religious activities to dramatize the loyalties of religion; to magnify the lures of truth, beauty, and goodness; to foster the attractions of supreme values; to enhance the service of unselfish fellowship; to glorify the potentials of family life; to promote religious education; to provide wise counsel and spiritual guidance; and to encourage group worship…. (1092:2) 99:6.2

    my2…True religion is the act of an individual soul in its self-conscious relations with the Creator; organized religion is man’s attempt to socialize the worship of individual religionists…. (1616:4) 143:7.2

    my3…Spirituality enhances the ability to discover beauty in things, recognize truth in meanings, and discover goodness in values. Spiritual development is determined by capacity therefor and is directly proportional to the elimination of the selfish qualities of love…. (1096:1) 100:2.4

    my3…Spiritual destiny is dependent on faith, love, and devotion to truth–hunger and thirst for righteousness–the wholehearted desire to find God and to be like him…. (1739:2) 156:5.7

    my4…Loyalties are not exercised in behalf of the great, the good, the true, and the noble without a struggle. Effort is attendant upon clarification of spiritual vision and enhancement of cosmic insight…. (1097:6) 100:4.2

    my4…do not falter and question your status and standing, for in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, “This is the way….” (383:2) 34:7.8

    my5…Jesus was great because he was good, and yet he fraternized with the little children. He was gentle and unassuming in his personal life, and yet he was the perfected man of a universe. His associates called him Master unbidden…. (1103:5) 100:7.17

    my5…He constantly talks about God as an ever-present associate in all that he does. He goes about doing good, for God seems to be in him…. (1786:4) 161:2.9

    my6…There really is a true and genuine inner voice, that “true light which lights every man who comes into the world.” And this spirit leading is distinct from the ethical prompting of human conscience…. (1104:3) 101:0.3

    my6…Conscience, rightly, admonishes you to do right; but the Adjuster, in addition, endeavors to tell you what truly is right; that is, when and as you are able to perceive the Monitor’s leading…. (1207:7) 110:5.1

    my7…Truth is always a revelation: autorevelation when it emerges as a result of the work of the indwelling Adjuster; epochal revelation when it is presented by the function of some other celestial agency, group, or personality…. (1109:4) 101:4.3

    my7…And true revelation never renders science unnatural, religion unreasonable, or philosophy illogical…. (1106:1) 101:2.3

    my8…Truth may be but relatively inspired, even though revelation is invariably a spiritual phenomenon…. (1109:6) 101:4.5

    my8…Successive planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing concepts of spiritual values…. (17:1) 0:12.12

    my9…Personally revealed religions are sponsored by the bestowal spirits representing the three persons of the Paradise Trinity and are especially concerned with the expansion of truth…. (1111:1) 101:5.11

    my9…Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul; it is the joint creation of the material mind and the indwelling spirit…. (1459:4) 132:3.4

    my10…Evolved religion rests wholly on faith. Revelation has the additional assurance of its expanded presentation of the truths of divinity and reality and the still more valuable testimony of the actual experience which accumulates in consequence of the practical working union of the faith of evolution and the truth of revelation….. (1111:2) 101:5.12

    my10″…Let faith reveal your light to the world; let the revelation of truth open the eyes blinded by tradition, let your loving service effectually destroy the prejudice engendered by ignorance….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    my11…Evolutionary religion provides only the assurance of faith and the confirmation of conscience; revelatory religion provides the assurance of faith plus the truth of a living experience in the realities of revelation…. (1111:3) 101:5.13

    my11…much will be revealed in the ages to come as mortal religion ascends, level by level, toward the supernal heights of morontia value and spirit truth…. (1003:5) 92:0.5

    my12…Increasingly in the morontia progression the truths of revealed religion are expanded; more and more you will know the truth of supreme values, divine goodnesses, universal relationships, eternal realities, and ultimate destinies or, rather, in conjunction with, and superimposed upon, these former techniques of personality assurance…. (1111:4) 101:5.14

    my12…As divine love reveals the nature of God, eternal truth discloses his name in ever-enlarging proportions…. (1965:20) 182:1.26

    my13…Animals have knowledge, but only man possesses wisdom capacity. Truth is made accessible to the wisdom-endowed individual by the bestowal on such a mind of the spirits of the Father and the Sons, the Thought Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth…. (1111:8) 101:6.4

    my13…Evolutionary religion is the mother of the science, art, and philosophy which elevated man to the level of receptivity to revealed religion, including the bestowal of Adjusters and the coming of the Spirit of Truth…. (68:8) 5:5.5

    my14…Revelation teaches mortal man that, to start such a magnificent and intriguing adventure through space by means of the progression of time, he should begin by the organization of knowledge into idea-decisions; next, mandate wisdom to labor unremittingly at its noble task of transforming self-possessed ideas into increasingly practical but nonetheless supernal ideals, even those concepts which are so reasonable as ideas and so logical as ideals that the Adjuster dares so to combine and spiritize them as to render them available for such association in the finite mind as will constitute them the actual human complement thus made ready for the action of the Truth Spirit of the Sons, the time-space manifestations of Paradise truth–universal truth…. (1112:3) 101:6.7

    my14…Even truth, beauty, and goodness–man’s intellectual approach to the universe of mind, matter, and spirit–must be combined into one unified concept of a divine and supreme ideal…. (647:6) 56:10.15

    my15…One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more…. (1114:5) 101:8.1

    my15…And many other truths did Jesus tell his apostles about man’s communion with God, but not many of them could fully encompass his teaching…. (1641:2) 146:2.18

    my16…The search for beauty is a part of religion only in so far as it is ethical and to the extent that it enriches the concept of the moral. Art is only religious when it becomes diffused with purpose which has been derived from high spiritual motivation…. (1115:5) 101:9.4

    my16…But spirit communion is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man’s elaborate and ostentatious art. Beauty is most religious when it is most simple and naturelike…. (1840:5) 167:6.6

    my17…The enlightened spiritual consciousness of civilized man is not concerned so much with some specific intellectual belief or with any one particular mode of living as with discovering the truth of living, the good and right technique of reacting to the ever-recurring situations of mortal existence…. (1115:6) 101:9.5

    my17…Said Jesus, and it is literally true, “The Son does only those things which he sees the Father do….” (644:2) 56:8.4

    my18…The faith acceptance of the truth of God enables man to escape from the circumscribed confines of material limitations and affords him a rational hope of achieving safe conduct from the material realm, whereon is death, to the spiritual realm, wherein is life eternal…. (1116:5) 101:10.4

    my18…When you are finally mustered into the actual spirit world, then will the assurances of pure spirit insight operate in the place of faith and truth or, rather, in conjunction with, and superimposed upon, these former techniques of personality assurance…. (1111:4) 101:5.14

    my19…There must be perfection hunger in man’s heart to insure capacity for comprehending the faith paths to supreme attainment. If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is literally true, “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known….” (1118:4) 102:1.1

    my19…The coming of the Spirit of Truth purifies the human heart and leads the recipient to formulate a life purpose single to the will of God and the welfare of men…. (2065:7) 194:3.19

    my20…The reason of science is based on the observable facts of time; the faith of religion argues from the spirit program of eternity. What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation…. (1119:1) 102:1.2

    my20…Mankind can never discover divinity except through the avenue of religious experience and by the exercise of true faith…. (1116:5) 101:10.4

    my21…Owing to the isolation of rebellion, the revelation of truth on Urantia has all too often been mixed up with the statements of partial and transient cosmologies…. (1119:2) 101:2.3

    my21…The Melchizedeks now teach that the good resulting from the Satania rebellion is more than a thousand times the sum of all the evil…. (619:3) 54:6.6

    my22…Truth remains unchanged from generation to generation, but the associated teachings about the physical world vary from day to day and from year to year…. (1119:2) 101:2.3

    my22…That which apparently may be wholly true in one place may be only relatively true in another segment of creation…. (42:3) 2:7.2

    my23…Eternal truth should not be slighted because it chances to be found in company with obsolete ideas regarding the material world. The more of science you know, the less sure you can be; the more of religion you have, the more certain you are…. (1119:2) 102:1.3

    my23…Said Jesus: “That which is old and also true must abide. Likewise, that which is new but false must be rejected. But that which is new and also true, have the faith and courage to accept….”  (1656:1) 147:7.3

    my24…Knowledge is an eternal quest; always are you learning, but never are you able to arrive at the full knowledge of absolute truth. In knowledge alone there can never be absolute certainty, only increasing probability of approximation; but the religious soul of spiritual illumination knows, and knows now…. (1120:1) 102:2.4

    my24…And such seekers after truth do not have to wait for rewards in a distant future; they are rewarded now. They find the kingdom of heaven within their own hearts, and they experience such happiness now…. (1574:0) 140:5.7

    my25…Science, knowledge, leads to fact consciousness; religion, experience, leads to value consciousness; philosophy, wisdom, leads to co-ordinate consciousness; revelation (the substitute for morontia mota) leads to the consciousness of true reality…. (1122:1) 102:3.5

    my25…Always, in the absence of revelation or in the failure to accept or  grasp it, has mortal man resorted to his futile gesture of metaphysics, that being the only human substitute for the revelation of truth or for the mota of morontia personality…. (1138:6) 103:7.8

    my26…the co-ordination of the consciousness of fact, value, and true reality constitutes awareness of personality reality, maximum of being, together with the belief in the possibility of the survival of that very personality…. (1122:1) 102:3.5

    my26…And having achieved the status of a true universe value, the creature becomes liberated in potential for the seeking of the highest universe value–God…. (1238:1) 112:7.6

    my27…Science is only satisfied with first causes, religion with supreme personality, and philosophy with unity. Revelation affirms that these three are one, and that all are good…. (1122:11) 102:3.15

    my27…But it requires revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent Unity of philosophy are the God of religion, full of mercy and goodness and pledged to effect the eternal survival of his children on earth…. (59:3) 4:4.7

    my28…The eternal real is the good of the universe and not the time illusions of space evil. In the spiritual experience of all personalities, always is it true that the real is the good and the good is the real…. (1122:11) 102:3.15

    my28…Jesus said: “My brother, God is love; therefore he must be good, and his goodness is so great and real that it cannot contain the small and unreal things of evil….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

    my29…Though reason can always question faith, faith can always supplement both reason and logic. Reason creates the probability which faith can transform into a moral certainty, even a spiritual experience. God is the first truth and the last fact; therefore does all truth take origin in him, while all facts exist relative to him…. (1125:1) 102:6.6

    my29…Nor will the exhaustion of the possibilities of logic and reason ever reveal to the logician or to the reasoner the eternal truth of the survival of personality…. (1116:3) 101:10.6

    my30…The vast gulf between the experience of the truth of God and ignorance as to the fact of God can be bridged only by living faith. Reason alone cannot achieve harmony between infinite truth and universal fact…. (1125:1) 102:6.6

    my30…You mortals are the sons of God, and only one thing is required to make such a truth factual in your personal experience, and that is your spirit-born faith…. (2003:3) 186:5.9

    my31…Intelligent men should cease to reason like children and should attempt to use the consistent logic of  adulthood, logic which tolerates the concept of truth alongside the observation of fact…. (1125:4) 102:6.9

    my31…But the frank, honest, and fearless search for true causes gave birth to modern science: It turned astrology into astronomy, alchemy into chemistry, and magic into medicine…. (901:12) 81:2.9

    jn1…Organic evolution is a fact; purposive or progressive evolution is a truth which makes consistent the otherwise contradictory phenomena of the ever-ascending achievements of evolution…. (1125:5) 102:6.10

    jn1…True liberty is the quest of the ages and the reward of evolutionary progress…. (613:4) 54:1.2

    jn2…The higher any scientist progresses in his chosen science, the more will he abandon the theories of materialistic fact in favor of the cosmic truth of the dominance of the Supreme Mind…. (1125:5) 102:6.10

    jn2…The existence of beauty implies the presence of appreciative creature mind just as certainly as the fact of progressive evolution indicates the dominance of the Supreme Mind…. (647:2) 56:10.11

    jn3…True, many apparently religious traits can grow out of nonreligious roots. Man can, intellectually, deny God and yet be morally good, loyal, filial, honest, and even idealistic…. (1126:4) 102:7.4

    jn3…Evolutionary religion may become ethical, but only revealed religion becomes truly and spiritually moral…. (40:6) 2:6.2

    jn4…Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences…. (1127:4) 102:7.10

    jn4″…You know, Ganid, most human beings are like the lost child. They spend much of their time crying in fear and suffering in sorrow when, in very truth, they are but a short distance from safety and security….” (1465:5) 132:6.1

    jn5…The hunger and thirst for righteousness leads to the discovery of truth, and truth augments ideals, and this creates new problems for the individual religionists, for our ideals tend to grow by geometrical progression, while our ability to live up to them is enhanced only by arithmetical progression…. (1133:2) 103:4.2

    jn5…The co-ordination of idea-decisions, logical ideals, and divine truth constitutes the possession of a righteous character, the prerequisite for mortal admission to the ever-expanding and increasingly spiritual realities of the morontia worlds…. (1112:3) 101:6.7

    jn6…Never, then, can either science or religion, in and of themselves, standing alone, hope to gain an adequate understanding of universal truths and relationships without the guidance of human philosophy and the illumination of divine revelation…. (1135:7) 103:6.5

    jn6…The idea of the personality of the Universal Father is an enlarged and truer concept of God which has come to mankind chiefly through revelation…. (28:7) 1:5.10

    jn7…Revelation is evolutionary man’s only hope of bridging the morontia gulf. Faith and reason, unaided by mota, cannot conceive and construct a logical universe. Without the insight of mota, mortal man cannot discern goodness, love, and truth in the phenomena of the material world…. (1137:3) 103:6.13

    jn7…Metaphysics has proved a failure; mota, man cannot perceive. Revelation is the only technique which can compensate for the absence of the truth sensitivity of mota in a material world…. (1136:3) 103:6.8

    jn8…But logic can never succeed in harmonizing the findings of science and the insights of religion unless both the scientific and the religious aspects of a personality are truth dominated, sincerely desirous of following the truth wherever it may lead regardless of the conclusions which it may reach…. (1138:3) 103:7.5

    jn8…If the so-called science or religion of any age is false, then must it either purify its activities or pass away before the emergence of a material science or spiritual religion of a truer and more worthy order…. (1457:3) 132:1.4

    jn9…The truth–an understanding of cosmic relationships, universe facts, and spiritual values–can best be had through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth and can best be criticized by revelation.  But revelation originates neither a science nor a religion; its function is to co-ordinate both science and religion with the truth of reality…. (1138:6) 103:7.8

    jn9…The pursuit of knowledge constitutes science; the search for wisdom is philosophy; the love for God is religion; the hunger for truthis a revelation…. (1122:8) 102:3.12

    jn10…Reason is the act of recognizing the conclusions of consciousness with regard to the experience in and with the physical world of energy and matter. Faith is the act of recognizing the validity of spiritual consciousness–something which is incapable of other mortal proof. Logic is the synthetic truth-seeking progression of the unity of faith and reason and is founded on the constitutive mind endowments of mortal beings, the innate recognition of things, meanings, and values…. (1139:5) 103:7.13

    jn10…In physical life the senses tell of the existence of things; mind discovers the reality of meanings; but the spiritual experience reveals to the individual the true values of life. These high levels of human living are attained in the supreme love of God and in the unselfish love of man…. (1098:1) 100:4.4

    jn11…Although both science and philosophy may assume the probability of God by their reason and logic, only the personal religious experience of a spirit-led man can affirm the certainty of such a supreme and personal Deity. By the technique of such an incarnation of living truth the philosophic hypothesis of the probability of God becomes a religious reality…. (1140:1) 103:8.1

    jn11…Physical certainty consists in the logic of science; moral certainty, in the wisdom of philosophy; spiritual certainty, in the truth of genuine religious experience…. (2094:4)
    196:3.5

    jn12…Religion has to do with feeling, acting, and living, not merely with thinking. Thinking is more closely related to the material life and should be in the main, but not altogether, dominated by reason and the facts of science and, in its nonmaterial reaches toward the spirit realms, by truth…. (1140:8) 103:9.2

    jn12…Religion, then, is based on experience and religious thought; theology, the philosophy of religion, is an honest attempt to interpret that experience. Such interpretative beliefs may be right or wrong, or a mixture of truth and error…. (1130:4) 103:1.5

    jn13…Faith most willingly carries reason along as far as reason can go and then goes on with wisdom to the full philosophic limit; and then it dares to launch out upon the limitless and never-ending universe journey in the sole company of TRUTH…. (1141:5) 103:9.7

    jn13…Skepticism may challenge the theories of theology, but confidence in the dependability of personal experience affirms the truth of that belief which has grown into faith…. (1124:6) 102:6.4

    jn14…When reason once recognizes right and wrong, it exhibits wisdom; when wisdom chooses between right and wrong, truth and error, it demonstrates spirit leading…. (1142:1) 103:9.10

    jn14…Modern respect for wisdom and truth is but the recent escape from the fetish-making tendency up to the higher levels of thinking and reasoning…. (969:5) 88:2.7

    jn15…It is a truth that the Absolutes are manifestations of the I AM-First Source and Center; it is a fact that these Absolutes never had a beginning but are co-ordinate eternals with the First Source and Center…. (1157:1) 105:3.10

    jn15…Those who assume to be dogmatic must, if consistent, sooner or later be driven into the arms of the Absolute of energy, the Universal of truth, and the Infinite of love…. (1127:2) 102:7.8

    jn16…But regardless of any confusion concerning the origin of the Seven Absolutes of Infinity, it is both fact and truth that all reality is predicated upon their eternity existence and infinity relationships…. (1157:1) 105:3.10

    jn16…Always must Deity provide the pattern universe, the perfect personalities, the original truth, beauty, and goodness for which all subdeity creations strive…. (1299:3) 118:5.3

    jn17…No matter how remote from Paradise, how deep in space, a material survival personality may take origin, God the Sevenfold will be found there present and engaged in the loving and merciful ministry of truth, beauty, and goodness to such an incomplete, struggling, and evolutionary creature…. (1164:2) 106:1.3

    jn17…But these circuits of spiritual ministry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or superuniverse spirit presences, are receptive and reactive to the emerging values in ascending personality, and these values are faithfully transmitted through the Sevenfold to the Supreme…. (1286:6) 117:5.8

    jn18…To material, evolutionary, finite creatures, a life predicated on the living of the Father’s will leads directly to the attainment of spirit supremacy in the personality arena and brings such creatures one step nearer the comprehension of the Father-Infinite. Such a Father life is one predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, and dominated by goodness…. (1175:1) 106:9.12

    jn18…The human Jesus saw God as being holy, just, and great, as well as being true, beautiful, and good. All these attributes of divinity he focused in his mind as the “will of the Father in heaven….” (2087:2) 196:0.2

    jn19…You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by:…Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love…. (1206:5) 110:3.6

    jn19…The consciousness of the Adjuster is based on the intellectual reception of truth, the supermind perception of goodness, and the personality motivation to love…. (1139:6) 103:7.14

    jn20…It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function–when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development–that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a
    being…. (1209:4) 110:6.4

    jn20…It is sometimes possible to have the mind illuminated, to hear the divine voice that continually speaks within you, so that you may become partially conscious of the wisdom, truth, goodness, and beauty of the potential personality constantly indwelling you…. (1199:3) 109:5.2

    jn21…The Adjuster bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis, impervious to evil and incapable of sin, but mortal mind can actually be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and ugly by the sinful machinations of a perverse and self-seeking human will. Likewise can this mind be made noble, beautiful, true, and good–actually great–in accordance with the spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing human being…. (1217:1) 111:1.6

    jn21…Even on Urantia, these seraphim teach the everlasting truth: If your own mind does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the mind of Jesus of Nazareth, who always serves you well…. (553:7) 48:6.26

    jn22…In so far as man’s evolving morontia soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness as the value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant being becomes indestructible…. (1219:6) 111:3.7

    jn22″…The soul is the self-reflective, truth-discerning, and spirit-perceiving  part of man which forever elevates the human being above the level of the animal world….” (1478:4) 133:6.5

    jn23…A human being can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life…. (1222:6) 111:6.7

    jn23…Why do you not allow the Adjuster to strengthen you with the spiritual truths of cosmic power while you wrestle with the temporal difficulties of creature existence? (1223:5) 111:7.3

    jn24…In the physical life, mortals may be outwardly beautiful though inwardly unlovely; in the morontia life, and increasingly on its higher levels, the personality form will vary directly in accordance with the nature of the inner person…. (1236:1) 112:6.3

    jn24″…The old and the inferior will be forgotten in the love for the new and the superior. Beauty is always triumphant over ugliness in the hearts of all who are illuminated by the love of truth….” (1738:4) 156:5.5

    jn25…In the choosing of truth, beauty, and goodness, the mortal mind enters upon its premorontia universe career under the tutelage of the seven adjutant mind-spirits unified under the direction of the spirit of wisdom…. (1237:1) 112:6.9

    jn25…All of man’s truly religious reactions are sponsored by the early ministry of the adjutant of worship and are censored by the adjutant of wisdom…. (1129:1) 103:0.1

    jn26…God the Supreme is truth, beauty, and goodness, for these concepts of divinity represent finite maximums of ideational experience. The eternal sources of these triune qualities of divinity are on superfinite levels, but a creature could only conceive of such sources as supertruth, superbeauty, and supergoodness…. (1279:5) 117:1.7

    jn26…The final penetration of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Supreme Being could only open up to the progressing creature those absonite qualities of ultimate divinity which lie beyond the concept levels of truth, beauty, and goodness…. (1263:6) 115:3.19

    jn27…The perfected grand universe of those future days will be vastly different from what it is at present. Gone will be the thrilling adventures of the organization of the galaxies of space, the planting of life on the uncertain worlds of time, and the evolving of harmony out of chaos, beauty out of potentials, truth out of meanings, and goodness out of values…. (1293:1) 117:7.17

    jn27…Even though material mortals cannot see the person of God, they should rejoice in the assurance that he is a person; by faith accept the truth which portrays that the Universal Father so loved the world as to provide for the eternal spiritual progression of its lowly inhabitants; that he “delights in his children….” (28:1) 1:5.4

    jn28…Things are time conditioned, but truth is timeless. The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend…. (1297:3) 118:3.2

    jn28…When on Urantia, Christ Michael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And we believe that in eternity the Michaels are literally destined to be “the way, the truth, and the life….” (242:3) 21:6.4

    jn29…But when truth becomes linked with fact, then both time and space condition its meanings and correlate its values. Such realities of truth wedded to fact become concepts and are accordingly relegated to the domain of relative cosmic realities…. (1297:4) 118:3.3

    jn29…Conceptual frames of the universe are only relatively true; they are serviceable scaffolding which must eventually give way before the expansions of enlarging cosmic comprehension…. (1260:3) 115:1.2

    jn30…The linking of the absolute and eternal truth of the Creator with the factual experience of the finite and temporal creature eventuates a new and emerging value of the Supreme. The concept of the Supreme is essential to the co-ordination of the divine and unchanging overworld with the finite and ever-changing underworld…. (1297:5) 118:3.4

    jn30…The Supreme is the beauty of physical harmony, the truth of intellectual meaning, and the goodness of spiritual value. He is the sweetness of true success and the joy of everlasting achievement. He is the oversoul of the grand universe, the consciousness of the finite cosmos, the completion of finite reality…. (1278:5) 117:1.1

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    jl1…God the Supreme is the personalization of all universe experience, the focalization of all finite evolution, the maximation of all creature reality, the consummation of cosmic wisdom, the embodiment of the harmonious beauties of the galaxies of time, the truth of cosmic mind meanings, and the goodness of supreme spirit values…. (1304:2) 118:9.9

    jl1…Mortal man must, through the recognition of truth, the appreciation of beauty, and the worship of goodness, evolve the recognition of a God of love and then progress through ascending deity levels to the comprehension of the Supreme…. (641:4) 56:6.3

    jl2…Much that takes place on an evolving world is rather hard for mortal man to understand–natural law is so often apparently cruel, heartless, and indifferent to all that is true, beautiful, and good in human comprehension…. (1306:1) 118:10.12

    jl2…Many things which happen in the course of a human life are hard to understand, difficult to reconcile with the idea that this is a universe in which truth prevails and in which righteousness triumphs…. (2062:11) 194:3.2

    jl3…Semicivilized man is beginning to unlock the storehouse of the secrets of the natural realms, and his science is slowly but effectively destroying his superstitions while at the same time providing a new and enlarged factual basis for the comprehension of the meanings of philosophy and the values of true spiritual experience…. (1306:3) 118:10.14

    jl3…Reason, wisdom, and faith are man’s highest human attainments. Reason introduces man to the world of facts, to things; wisdom introduces him to a world of truth, to relationships; faith initiates him into a world of divinity, spiritual experience…. (1141:4) 103:9.6

    jl4…And yet, as this man walked about Nazareth to and from his work, it was literally true–as concerned a vast universe–that “in him were hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge….” (1417:1) 128:7.2

    jl4…As the days passed, with ever-increasing clearness Jesus perceived what kind of a truth-revealer he was to become…. (1522:3) 136:9.4

    jl5…True it is, indeed, that in his full, rich, beautiful, and noble life we may all find much that is exquisitely exemplary, divinely inspiring, but this is because he lived a true and genuinely human life…. (1425:6) 129:4.7

    jl5…Though the apostles failed to comprehend much of his teaching, they did not fail to grasp the significance of the charmingly beautiful life he lived with them…. (1579:2) 140:7.8

    jl6″…And when such disheartened souls sincerely seek for God–hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness–there is nothing that can hold them in further captivity….” (1428:2) 130:1.2

    jl6″…The bread of life and the water thereof are given only to those who hunger for truth and thirst for righteousness–for God….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    jl7″…How can God, if he is infinitely good, permit us to suffer the sorrows of evil; after all, who creates evil?” It was still believed by many in those days that God creates both good and evil, but Jesus never taught such error…. (1429:1) 130:1.5

    jl7″…Your Father in heaven makes the sun to shine on the evil as well as upon the good; likewise he sends rain on the just and the unjust….” (1571:3) 140:3.16

    jl8″…Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejectful of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is only the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

    jl8…Man’s choosing between good and evil is influenced, not only by the keenness of his moral nature, but also by such influences as ignorance, immaturity, and delusion…. (193:6) 16:7.7

    jl9″…Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and which, when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin….” (1429:1) 130:1.5

    jl9…Forget not, the truly good is invariably more powerful than the most malignant evil…. (1770:2) 159:5.10

    jl10″…Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life; but such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life….” (1429:2) 130:1.6

    jl10…The positive always has the advantage over the negative, truth over error, experience over theory, spiritual realities over the isolated facts of time and space…. (1125:2) 102:6.7

    jl11…In substance Jesus said: The will of God is the way of God, partnership with the choice of God in the face of any potential alternative. To do the will of God, therefore, is the progressive experience of becoming more and more like God, and God is the source and destiny of all that is good and beautiful and true…. (1431:2) 130:2.7

    jl11″…And never forget: You who know God are the sons of God if you truly yearn to be like him….” (1474:4) 133:4.4

    jl12…Knowledge is the sphere of the material or fact-discerning mind. Truth is the domain of the spiritually endowed intellect that is conscious of knowing God…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

    jl12…Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

    jl13…Knowledge is demonstrable; truth is experienced. Knowledge is a possession of the mind; truth an experience of the soul, the progressing self. Knowledge is a function of the nonspiritual level; truth is a phase of the mind-spirit level of the universes…. (1435:2) 130:4.10

    jl13…Knowledge originates in science; wisdom, in true philosophy; truth, in the religious experience of spiritual living…. (1459:2) 132:3.2

    jl14…All static, dead, concepts are potentially evil. The finite shadow of relative and living truth is continually moving…. (1436:1) 130:4.15

    jl14…The great advance made in Buddhist philosophy consisted in its comprehension of the relativity of all truth…. (1039:3) 94:11.4

    jl15…Static concepts invariably retard science, politics, society, and religion. Static concepts may represent a certain knowledge, but they are deficient in wisdom and devoid of truth…. (1436:1) 130:4.15

    jl15…The apostles learned that the Jews were spiritually stagnant and dying because they had crystallized truth into a creed…. (1727:3) 155:3.3

    jl16″…God is full of goodness toward all men; we have no friend like the Most High. His mercy fills all places and his goodness encompasses all souls….” (1443:1) 131:1.5

    jl16…Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love…. (38:4) 2:4.4

    jl17″…Those who love their fellows and who have pure hearts shall see God. God never forgets sincerity. He will guide the honest of heart into the truth, for God is truth….” (1443:2) 131:1.6

    jl17″…There is but this one God, and his name is Truth. God is self-existent, and he is devoid of all anger and enmity; he is immortal and infinite….” (1442:5) 131:1.3

    jl18″…In your lives overthrow error and overcome evil by the love of the living truth. In all your relations with men do good for evil….” (1443:3) 131:1.7

    jl18…Fatherly love delights in returning good for evil–doing good in retaliation for injustice…. (1575:9) 140:5.24

    jl19″…God reveals the deep and secret things because the light dwells with him. The Lord is merciful and gracious; he is long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth….” (1444:3) 131:2.3

    jl19″…God is the sure refuge of every good man when in need; the Immortal One cares for all mankind. God’s salvation is strong and his kindness is gracious….” (1448:2) 131:4.3

    jl20″…True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing.  And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels which others avoid….” (1452:1) 131:8.3

    jl20″…Many times have I told you the story of the good shepherd who left the ninety and nine sheep in the fold while he went forth searching for the one that was lost….” (1850:9) 169:1.2

    jl21″…Always remember that God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is; therefore should you extend help to your fellows without the thought of rewards. Do good without thought of benefit to the self….” (1452:3) 131:8.5

    jl21…This idea-ideal of doing good to others–the impulse to deny the ego something for the benefit of one’s neighbor–is very circumscribed at first…. (1133:7) 103:5.2

    jl22″…If more human beings could only know about the goodness of God, they would
    certainly be led to repent of their evil ways and forsake all known sin….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    jl22…The “richness of the goodness of God leads erring man to repentance….” (41:1) 2:6.3

    jl23″…All good things come down from the Father of light, in whom there is no variableness neither shadow of changing….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    jl23″…Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.” “God is good….” (41:1) 2:6.3

    jl24…Never once did he attack their errors or even mention the flaws in their teachings. In each case he would select the truth in what they taught and then proceed so to embellish and illuminate this truth in their minds that in a very short time this enhancement of the truth effectively crowded out the associated error…. (1455:4) 132:0.4

    jl24…You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs. Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work…. (1932:1) 178:1.16

    jl25…Goodness, like truth, is always relative and unfailingly evil-contrasted. It is the perception of these qualities of goodness and truth that enables the evolving souls of men to make those personal decisions of choice which are essential to eternal survival…. (1457:6) 132:2.3

    jl25…Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast…. (51:12) 3:5.13

    jl26…An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one’s fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Adjuster…. (1458:2) 132:2.5

    jl26…After all, the greatest evidence of the goodness of God and the supreme reason for loving him is the indwelling gift of the Father–the Adjuster who so patiently awaits the hour when you both shall be eternally made one…. (39:4) 2:5.4

    jl27…As you ascend the universe scale of creature development, you will find increasing goodness and diminishing evil in perfect accordance with your capacity for goodness-experience and truth-discernment…. (1458:3) 132:2.6

    jl27…From the life of the Master you may each assimilate that concept of God which represents the measure of your capacity to perceive realities spiritual and divine, truths real and eternal…. (1856:1) 169:4.3

    jl28…Until you attain Paradise levels, goodness will always be more of a quest than a possession, more of a goal than an experience of attainment. But even as you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you experience increasing satisfaction in the partial attainment of goodness…. (1458:5) 132:2.8

    jl28…The attempt to secure equal good for the self and for the greatest number of other selves presents a problem which cannot always be satisfactorily resolved in a time-space frame…. (1134:4) 103:5.6

    jl29…The presence of goodness and evil in the world is in itself positive proof of the existence and reality of man’s moral will, the personality, which thus identifies these values and is also able to choose between them…. (1458:5) 132:2.8

    jl29…Creature mind must exhibit the worship outreach and indicate wisdom function by exhibiting the ability to choose between the emerging values of good and evil–moral choice…. (1187:1) 108:2.2

    jl30…Such a perfected spirit personality becomes so wholly, divinely, and spiritually unified with the positive and supreme qualities of goodness, beauty, and truth that there remains no possibility that such a righteous spirit would cast any negative shadow of potential evil when exposed to the searching luminosity of the divine light of the infinite Rulers of Paradise…. (1458:6) 132:2.9

    jl30…But the soul that survives time and emerges into eternity must make a living and personal choice between good and evil as they are determined by the true values of the spiritual standards established by the divine spirit which the Father in heaven has sent to dwell within the heart of man…. (1457:5) 132:2.2

    jl31…Man tends to crystallize science, formulate philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is also terribly afraid of the unknown. Natural man is slow to initiate changes in his habits of thinking and in his techniques of living…. (1459:3) 132:3.3

    jl31…Today, Urantia is in the twilight zone of this intellectual evolution. One half the world is grasping eagerly for the light of truth and the facts of scientific discovery, while the other half languishes in the arms of ancient superstition and but thinly disguised magic…. (973:1) 88:6.8

    ag1…The eternal salvation of this truth-discerning and beauty-loving soul is assured by that hunger and thirst for goodness which leads this mortal to develop a singleness of purpose to do the Father’s will, to find God and to become like him…. (1459:4) 132:3.4

    ag1…A great teacher once admonished men that they should be renewed in the spirit of their minds; that they become new men who, like God, are created in righteousness and in the completion of truth…. (1193:2) 108:6.3

    ag2…There is never conflict between true knowledge and truth. There may be conflict between knowledge and human beliefs, beliefs colored with prejudice, distorted by fear, and dominated by the dread of facing new facts of material discovery or spiritual progress…. (1459:4) 132:3.4

    ag2…The teachings of Jesus constituted the first Urantian religion which so fully embraced a harmonious co-ordination of knowledge, wisdom, faith, truth, and love…. (1112:4) 101:6.7

    ag3…But truth can never become man’s possession without the exercise of faith. This is true because man’s thoughts, wisdom, ethics, and ideals will never rise higher than his faith, his sublime hope…. (1459:5) 132:3.5

    ag3…The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living…. (1114:5) 101:8.1

    ag4…With the attainment of finality of choice for goodness and of completed capacity for truth appreciation, there comes into existence a perfection of beauty and holiness whose righteousness eternally inhibits the possibility of the emergence of even the concept of potential evil. Such a God-knowing soul casts no shadow of doubting evil when functioning on such a high spirit level of divine goodness…. (1460:1) 132:3.8

    ag4…The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil…. (2018:2) 188:5.3

    ag5″…Revere goodness and exalt truth. Choose the beautiful in place of the ugly. Love your fellows and reach out for God with a whole heart, for God is your Father in heaven….” (1461:4) 132:4.6

    ag5″…The spirit of the true God is in man’s heart. He intends that all men should be brothers. When men begin to feel after God, that is evidence that God has found them….” (1454:1) 131:10.4

    ag6″…I am absolutely assured that the entire universe is friendly to me–this all-powerful truth I insist on believing with a wholehearted trust in spite of all appearances to the contrary….” (1469:3) 133:1.4

    ag6…Jesus’ wholehearted faith in the fundamental goodness of the universe very much resembled the child’s trust in the security of its earthly surroundings…. (2089:1) 196:0.11

    ag7…Said Jesus: “Give the milk of truth to those who are babes in spiritual perception. In your living and loving ministry serve spiritual food in attractive form and suited to the capacity of receptivity of each of your inquirers….” (1474:2) 133:4.2

    ag7…Jesus introduced the evening’s conference by saying. “My beloved, you must always make a difference in teaching so as to suit your presentation of truth to the minds and hearts before you….” (1692:0) 151:3.1

    ag8…To the earnest leader of the Mithraic cult he said: “You do well to seek for a religion of eternal salvation, but you err to go in quest of such a glorious truth among man-made mysteries and human philosophies. Know you not that the mystery of eternal salvation dwells within your own soul?” (1474:4) 133:4.4

    ag8…To the traveler from Britain he said: “My brother, I perceive you are seeking for truth, and I suggest that the spirit of the Father of all truth may chance to dwell within you. Did you ever sincerely endeavor to talk with the spirit of your own soul?” (1475:3) 133:4.10

    ag9″…Do you not know that the God of heaven has sent his spirit to live within you, and that this spirit will lead all truth-loving and God-serving mortals out of this life and through the portals of death up to the eternal heights of light where God waits to receive his children?” (1474:4) 133:4.4

    ag9…These heavenly helpers are dedicated to the stupendous task of guiding you safely inward and upward to the celestial haven of happiness. These tireless toilers are consecrated to the future personification of the triumph of divine truth in your life everlasting…. (1203:4) 110:1.2

    ag10…But the survival character of a soul is not fostered by attempting to secure peace of mind at any price, by the surrender of noble aspirations, and by the compromise of spiritual ideals; rather is such peace attained by the stalwart assertion of the triumph of that which is true, and this victory is achieved in the overcoming of evil with the potent force of good…. (1480:4) 133:7.12

    ag10…As you ascend in the survival experience, you will broaden your universe concepts and extend your horizon of meanings and values; and thus will you be able the better to understand why such beings as Lucifer and Satan are permitted to continue in rebellion. You will also better comprehend how ultimate (if not immediate) good can be derived from time-limited evil…. (620:2) 54:6.10

    ag11″…I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them….” (1571:2) 140:3.15

    ag11″…Do not to others those things you would not wish done to you. Pay good for evil; overcome evil with the good….” (1447:3) 131:3.6

    ag12…Have faith–confidence in the eventual triumph of divine justice and eternal goodness…. (1580:3) 140:8.8

    ag12…In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God…. (40:5) 2:6.1

    ag13…James grasped the thrilling truth that Jesus wanted his children on earth to live as though they were already citizens of the completed heavenly kingdom…. (1582:6) 140:8.25

    ag13″…If you receive God as your Father, then indeed and in truth are you the sons of God….” (1601:2) 142:5.2

    ag14…Jesus always insisted that true goodness must be unconscious, in bestowing charity not allowing the left hand to know what the right hand does…. (1582:7) 140:8.26

    ag14…The righteousness of any act must be measured by the motive; the highest forms of good are therefore unconscious…. (1862:6) 170:3.9

    ag15…Jesus wished to develop spiritual insight into eternal realities and to stimulate initiative in the originality of living; he concerned himself exclusively with the underlying and permanent spiritual needs of the human race. He revealed a goodness equal to God…. (1583:5) 140:8.31

    ag15…But his superb originality did not cause him to overlook the gems of truth in the teachings of his predecessors and contemporaries. And the most original of his teachings was the emphasis of love and mercy in the place of fear and sacrifice…. (1102:2)  100:7.5

    ag16…The Master came to create in man a new spirit, a new will–to impart a new capacity for knowing the truth, experiencing compassion, and choosing goodness–the will to be in harmony with God’s will, coupled with the eternal urge to become perfect, even as the Father in heaven is perfect…. (1583:6) 140:8.32

    ag16…Lack of spiritual capacity makes it very difficult to transmit to such a material intellect the spiritual truths resident in the higher superconsciousness…. (1209:4) 110:6.4

    ag17″…True, there is a King in this kingdom, and that King is my Father and your Father. We are indeed his loyal subjects, but far transcending that fact is the transforming truth that we are his sons. In my life this truth is to become manifest to all….” (1588:4) 141:2.1

    ag17″…Your message is not changed by my resurrection experience. Sonship with God, by faith, is still the saving truth of the gospel of the kingdom….” (2052:4) 193:0.4

    ag18″…Verily, verily, I say to you, when the Father’s will is your law, you are hardly in the kingdom. But when the Father’s will becomes truly your will, then are you in very truth in the kingdom because the kingdom has thereby become an established experience in you….” (1588:5) 141:2.2

    ag18″…If you would enter the kingdom, you must have a righteousness that consists in love, mercy, and truth–the sincere desire to do the will of my Father in heaven….” (1576:3) 140:6.3

    ag19…His was a dignified manhood; he was good, but natural. Jesus did not pose as a mild, sweet, gentle, and kindly mystic. His teaching was thrillingly dynamic. He not only meant well, but he went about actually doing good…. (1590:1) 141:3.6

    ag19…He dispensed health and scattered happiness naturally and gracefully as he journeyed through life. It was literally true, “He went about doing good….” (1875:4) 171:7.9

    ag20″…Lead men into the kingdom, and the great and living truths of the kingdom will presently drive out all serious error. When you have presented to mortal man the good news that God is his Father, you can the easier persuade him that he is in reality a son of God….” (1592:4) 141:6.2

    ag20″…By the spirit fruits of your lives impel souls to believe the truth that man is a son of God, and that all men are brethren….” (2057:4) 193:5.2

    ag21…He became, indeed, “the way, the truth, and the life.” The religion of Jesus was wholly based on the living of his bestowal life on earth. When Jesus departed from this world, he left behind no books, laws, or other forms of human organization affecting the religious life of the individual…. (1593:5) 141:7.4

    ag21…The magical and mythological parentage of natural religion does not invalidate the reality and truth of the later revelational religions and the consummate saving gospel of the religion of Jesus…. (1141:2) 103:9.4

    ag22…Jesus laid great emphasis upon what he called the two truths of first import in the teachings of the kingdom, and they are: the attainment of salvation by faith, and faith alone, associated with the revolutionary teaching of the attainment of human liberty through the sincere recognition of truth, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free….” (1593:7) 141:7.6

    ag22…Such a working union of human faith and divine truth constitutes the possession of a character well on the road to the actual acquirement of a morontial personality…. (1111:2) 101:5.12

    ag23″…As the gospel of this kingdom shall spread over the world with its message of good cheer and good will to all men, there will grow up improved and better relations among the families of all nations….” (1597:2) 142:2.2

    ag23…As are the families of the race or nation, so is its society. If the families are good, the society is likewise good…. (939:4) 84:7.1

    ag24″…Henceforth, intelligent men may enjoy the treasures of art without confusing such material appreciation of beauty with the worship and service of the Father in Paradise, the God of all things and all beings….” (1600:4) 142:4.3

    ag24…The adoration of the abstract beautiful is not the worship of God; neither is exaltation of nature nor the reverence of unity the worship of God…. (68:7) 5:5.4

    ag25″…As to my message and the teaching of my disciples, you should judge them by their fruits. If we proclaim to you the truths of the spirit, the spirit will witness in your hearts that our message is genuine….” (1601:2) 142:5.2

    ag25″…mortal man, while he has his roots of origin and being in the animal soil of human nature, can by faith raise his spiritual nature up into the sunlight of heavenly truth and actually bear the noble fruits of the spirit….” (1737:5) 156:5.1

    ag26″…It is easy to die in the line of physical battle when your courage is strengthened by the presence of your fighting comrades, but it requires a higher and more profound form of human courage and devotion calmly and all alone to lay down your life for the love of a truth enshrined in your mortal heart….” (1608:3) 143:1.6

    ag26″…I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live. In truth, whosoever lives and believes in me shall never really die….” (1843:1) 168:0.7

    ag27″…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

    ag27…The meanings of eternal truth make a combined appeal to the intellectual and spiritual natures of mortal man…. (646:10) 56:10.9

    ag28”…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

    ag28″…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

    ag29…Even the Christian religion has been persistently built up around the fact of the death of Christ instead of around the truth of his life. The world should be more concerned with his happy and God-revealing life than with his tragic and sorrowful death…. (1614:5) 143:5.11

    ag29…Siddhartha taught far more truth than has survived in the modern cults bearing his name. Modern Buddhism is no more the teachings of Gautama Siddhartha than is Christianity the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth…. (1036:2) 94:7.8

    ag30…The fact of the cross became the very center of subsequent Christianity; but it is not the central truth of the religion which may be derived from the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth…. (1615:4) 143:6.3

    ag30…The hour is striking for a rediscovery of the true and original foundations of present-day distorted and compromised Christianity–the real life and teachings of Jesus…. (2083:1) 195:9.5

    ag31…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

    ag31…It is eternally true, “the Father himself loves you….” (1259:2) 114:7.17

    s1…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

    s1…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

    s2…When Jesus taught his associates to pray in the spirit and in truth, he explained that he referred to praying sincerely and in accordance with one’s enlightenment, to praying wholeheartedly and intelligently, earnestly and steadfastly…. (1640:3) 146:2.14

    s2″…The ideal prayer is a form of spiritual communion which leads to intelligent worship. True praying is the sincere attitude of reaching heavenward for the attainment of your ideals….” (1618:6) 144:2.2

    s3…The spirit of the Father speaks best to man when the human mind is in an attitude of true worship. We worship God by the aid of the Father’s indwelling spirit and by the illumination of the human mind through the ministry of truth…. (1641:1) 146:2.17

    s3″…Always will I try to worship God with the help of the Spirit of Truth, which is my helper when I have become really God-knowing….” (1454:2) 131:10.5

    s4″…Intellectual strivings may reveal the facts of life, but the gospel of the kingdom unfolds the truths of being….” (1641:3) 146:3.1

    s4…This gospel of the kingdom is a living truth…. (1931:6) 178:1.15

    s5″…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

    s5…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

    s6″…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

    s6…Do not make the mistake of judging another’s religion by your own standards of knowledge and truth…. (1115:3) 101:9.2

    s7″…True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism….” (1641:4) 146:3.2

    s7…Jesus stood up and said: “Let us be patient; the truth never suffers from honest examination….” (1711:3) 153:2.11

    s8″…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

    s8…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

    s9…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

    s9…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

    s10″…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

    s10…Increasingly throughout the morontia progression the assurance of truth replaces the assurance of faith…. (1111:4) 101:5.14

    s11″…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

    s11″…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

    s12″…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

    s12″…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

    s13″…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

    s13″…The Lord is good and upright; the meek will he guide in judgment….” (1444:3) 131:2.3

    s14…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

    s14…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

    s15…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

    s15…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

    s16″…I have come to proclaim spiritual liberty, teach eternal truth, and foster living faith….” (1710:4) 153:2.6

    s16…It is forever true, “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty….” (2063:3) 194:3.5

    s17″…Turn now your attention to those who would know the truth. You cannot compel men to love the truth….” (1712:5) 153:3.5

    s17″…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

    s18…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

    s18″…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

    s19″…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

    s19″…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

    s20″…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

    s20…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

    s21″…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

    s21″…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

    s22″…The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness….” (1726:2) 155:1.5

    s22″…The teacher of truth attracts only those who hunger for the truth and who thirst for righteousness….” (1815:3) 164:5.2

    s23″…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

    s23″…Make sure that the truth abides in your lives, and that you daily grow in grace….” (1920:1) 177:0.1

    s24…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

    s24…You are not given truth to crystallize into settled, safe, and honored forms…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    s25…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

    s25…Evolutionary religion pictures the circuitous gropings of humanity in quest of truth; revelatory religion is that very truth…. (1007:3) 92:4.3

    s26…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

    s26″…Truth is real and divine….” (1452:6) 131:9.2

    s27…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

    s27″…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

    s28…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

    s28…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

    s29…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

    s29…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

    s30″…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

    s30…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

    o1…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

    o1″…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

    o2″…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

    o2″…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

    o3″…Mark you well my words, Nathaniel, nothing which human nature has touched can be regarded as infallible. Through the mind of man divine truth may indeed shine forth, but always of relative purity and partial divinity. The creature may crave infallibility, but only the Creators possess it….” (1768:4) 159:4.8

    o3″…To attain the perfection of Heaven is the goal of man. The superior man is given to self-adjustment, and he is free from anxiety and fear. God is with you; have no doubt in your heart. Every good deed has its recompense….” (1453.2) 131:9.4

    o4…Jesus did not advocate the practice of negative submission to the indignities of those who might purposely seek to impose upon the practitioners of nonresistance to evil, but rather that his followers should be wise and alert in the quick and positive reaction of good to evil to the end that they might effectively overcome evil with good…. (1770:2) 159:5.10

    o4″…Why not assert your mastery of evil by virtue of the power of goodness and thus become the master of all relations between the two of you? I predict that the good in you could overcome the evil in him if you gave it a fair and living chance….” (1430:2) 130:2.4

    o5…Prejudice blinds the soul to the recognition of truth, and prejudice can be removed only by the sincere devotion of the soul to the adoration of a cause that is all-embracing and all-inclusive of one’s fellow men. Prejudice is inseparably linked to selfishness…. (1774:5) 160:1.13

    o5″…The revelations of divine truth are not sealed except by human ignorance, bigotry, and narrow-minded intolerance. The light of the Scriptures is only dimmed by prejudice and darkened by superstition….” (1768:5) 159:4.9

    o6…Friendship enhances the joys and glorifies the triumphs of life. Loving and intimate human associations tend to rob suffering of its sorrow and hardship of much of its bitterness. The presence of a friend enhances all beauty and exalts every goodness…. (1776:2) 160:2.8

    o6″…Have you not read in the Scripture where it is written: ‘It is not good for man to be alone. No man lives to himself’? And also where it says: `He who would have friends must show himself friendly’?” (2055:2) 193:3.2

    o7…Only a glimpse of the circle of eternity can inspire man to do his best and can challenge the best in him to do its utmost. And when man is thus at his best, he lives most unselfishly for the good of others, his fellow sojourners in time and eternity…. (1776:3) 160:2.9

    o7…In all such spirit personalities, goodness is no longer partial, contrastive, and comparative; it has become divinely complete and spiritually replete; it approaches the purity and perfection of the Supreme…. (1458:6) 132:2.9

    o8…Train your memory to hold in sacred trust the strength-giving and worth-while episodes of life, which you can recall at will for your pleasure and edification. Thus build up for yourself and in yourself reserve galleries of beauty, goodness, and artistic grandeur. But the noblest of all memories are the treasured recollections of the great moments of a superb friendship…. (1779:4) 160:4.12

    o8…Every true relationship of mortal man with other persons–human or divine–is an end in itself…. (1228:3) 112:2.8

    o9…True religion has reference to destiny and reality of attainment as well as to the reality and idealism of that which is wholeheartedly faith-accepted. And all of this must be made personal to us by the revelation of the Spirit of Truth…. (1782:4) 160:5.13

    o9…And so did the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth bring to the world and its peoples the last of the spirit endowment designed to aid in the ascending search for God…. (2062:9) 194:2.20

    o10…We grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth, but our Master exhibits maturity of righteousness to start with. All men, good and evil, recognize these elements of goodness in Jesus…. (1785:4) 161:2.4

    o10…Jesus loves men so much that his love awakens the response of love in the human heart. Love is truly contagious and eternally creative…. (2018:1) 188:5.2

    o11…He is so just and fair and at the same time so merciful and considerate. He grieves over the spiritual obstinacy of the people and rejoices when they consent to see the light of truth…. (1785:5) 161:2.5

    o11…He boldly proclaimed man’s spiritual freedom and dared to teach that mortals of the flesh are indeed and in truth sons of the living God…. (1671:5) 149:2.10

    o12″…When the Son of Man has finished his work on earth, there shall be poured out upon all flesh the living Spirit of Truth. Those who receive this spirit shall never know spiritual thirst….” (1795:5) 162:6.1

    o12″…But as many as do receive him shall be enlightened, cleansed, and comforted. And this Spirit of Truth will become in them a well of living water springing up into eternal life….” (1954:1) 181:1.4

    o13″…If my words abide in you and you are minded to do the will of my Father, then are you truly my disciples. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free….” (1796:4) 162:7.2

    o13″…Discern the truth clearly; live the righteous life fearlessly; and so shall you be my apostles and my Father’s ambassadors….” (1571:5) 140:3.18

    014″…Woe upon all who shun justice, spurn mercy, and reject truth! Woe upon all those who despise the revelation of the Father while they seek the chief seats in the synagogue and crave flattering salutations in the market places!” (1826:1) 166:1.4

    014…In any religion it is very easy to allow values to become disproportionate and to permit facts to occupy the place of truth in one’s theology…. (1615:4) 143:6.3

    o15″…I am the door, I am the new and living way, and whosoever wills may enter to embark upon the endless truth-search for eternal life….” (1829:4) 166:3.7

    o15″…The door of the kingdom is wide open for all who desire to know the truth and to find God….” (1541:4) 138:4.2

    o16…It was very difficult for the apostles to understand the Master’s reluctance to make positive pronouncements relative to scientific, social, economic, and political problems. They did not fully realize that his earth mission was exclusively concerned with revelations of spiritual and religious truths…. (1839:3) 167:5.6

    o16…Mankind should understand that we who participate in the revelation of truth are very rigorously limited by the instructions of our superiors…. (1109:3) 101:4.2

    o17…It was also at Jericho, in connection with the discussion of the early religious training of children in habits of divine worship, that Jesus impressed upon his apostles the great value of beauty as an influence leading to the urge to worship, especially with children…. (1840:4) 167:6.5

    o17…Beauty sponsors art, music, and the meaningful rhythms of all human experience…. (647:1) 56:10.10

    o18…Truth, beauty, and holiness are powerful and effective aids to true worship. But spirit communion is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man’s elaborate and ostentatious art…. (1840:5) 167:6.6

    o18…The temples of worship with their associated schools of philosophy and experiential religion are creations of beauty and grandeur. The open-air arenas of worship assembly are equally sublime in the simplicity of their artistic appointment…. (630:2) 55:5.5

    o19…Jesus spread good cheer everywhere he went. He was full of grace and truth. His associates never ceased to wonder at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul…. (1874:4) 171:7.1

    o19…He would pause in the midst of a profound discourse that he might go out in the road to speak good cheer to a passing woman laden with her burden of body and soul. He would interrupt a serious conference with his apostles to fraternize with an intruding child…. (1545:10) 138:8.9

    o20…Goodness always compels respect, but when it is devoid of grace, it often repels affection. Goodness is universally attractive only when it is gracious. Goodness is effective only when it is attractive…. (1874:5) 171:7.2

    o20…Jesus and the apostles remained that night in Matthew’s house, and as the people went to their homes, they spoke of but one thing: the goodness and friendliness of Jesus…. (1541:2) 138:3.8

    O21″…And when the kingdom shall have come to its full fruition, be assured that the Father in heaven will not fail to visit you with an enlarged revelation of truth and an enhanced demonstration of righteousness….” (1914:4) 176:2.3

    O21…Each dispensation, each mortal epoch, receives an enlarged presentation of spiritual truth and religious ethics…. (591:3) 52:2.3

    O22″…You who know these truths must yield the increase of the fruits of the spirit and manifest a growing devotion to the unselfish service of your fellow servants. And remember that, inasmuch as you minister to one of the least of my brethren, you have done this service to me….” (1917:1) 176:3.5

    O22″…And all those who know the way of truth and enjoy the assurance of knowing God should esteem it a privilege, not a duty, to offer guidance to their fellows in their efforts to find the satisfactions of living….” (1465:5) 132:6.1

    O23…Your revelation of truth must be so enhanced by passing through your personal experience that new beauty and actual spiritual gains will be disclosed to all who behold your spiritual fruits and in consequence thereof are led to glorify the Father who is in heaven…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    O23″…Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and be led to glorify your Father who is in heaven….” (1570:14) 140:3.13

    O24…Only those faithful servants who thus grow in the knowledge of the truth, and who thereby develop the capacity for divine appreciation of spiritual realities, can ever hope to “enter fully into the joy of their Lord….” (1917:3) 176:3.7

    O24…God’s love is universal; “whosoever will may come.” He would “have all men be saved by coming into the knowledge of the truth.” He is “not willing that any should perish….” (39:1) 2:5.2

    o25…What a sorry sight for successive generations of the professed followers of Jesus to say, regarding their stewardship of divine truth: “Here, Master, is the truth you committed to us a hundred or a thousand years ago. We have lost nothing; we have faithfully preserved all you gave us; we have allowed no changes to be made in that which you taught us; here is the truth you gave us.” But such a plea concerning spiritual indolence will not justify the barren steward of truth in the presence of the Master…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    o25″…You cannot stand still in the affairs of the eternal kingdom. My Father requires all his children to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth….” (1917:1) 176:3.5

    o26…In accordance with the truth committed to your hands will the Master of truth require a reckoning…. (1917:3) 176:3.7

    o26″…God will bring every man’s work to judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil….” (1445:2) 145:2.8

    o27″…Freely have you received; therefore freely should you give of the truth of heaven, and in the giving will this truth multiply and show forth the increasing light of saving grace, even as you minister it….” (1918:3) 176:3.10

    o27″…The good man seeks not to retain truth for himself but rather attempts to bestow these riches upon his fellows, for that is the realization of truth….” (1034:1) 94:6.6

    o28…The fruits of the spirit, your sincere and loving service, are the mighty social lever to uplift the races of darkness, and this Spirit of Truth will become your power-multiplying fulcrum…. (1930:3) 178:1.6

    o28″…If professed believers bear not these fruits of the divine spirit in their lives, they are dead; the Spirit of Truth is not in them….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    o29…You must not seek to promulgate truth nor to establish righteousness by the power of civil governments or by the enaction of secular laws. You may always labor to persuade men’s minds, but you must never dare to compel them…. (1931:3) 178:1.12

    o29…In the kingdom of heaven true believers will not resort to the employment of physical force. The kingdom of heaven, being a spiritual brotherhood of the spirit-born sons of God, may be promulgated only by the power of the spirit…. (1929:3) 178:1.2

    o30″…You should know that in my Father’s universe and in mine are many abodes, and that there awaits the children of light the revelation of cities whose builder is God and worlds whose habit of life is righteousness and joy in the truth….” (1934:6) 178:3.4

    o30″…The Lord is near all who call upon him in sincerity and in truth. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. A merry heart does good like a medicine. No good thing will God withhold from those who walk uprightly….” (1445:3) 131:2.9

    o31″…I have brought the kingdom of heaven to you here on earth, but I declare that all of you who by faith enter therein and remain therein by the living service of truth, shall surely ascend to the worlds on high and sit with me in the spirit kingdom of our Father….” (1934:6) 178:3.4

    o31″…I have revealed God as your Father in heaven; I have revealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact becomes an eternal and living truth in your hearts….” (2052:3) 193:0.3

    n1″…And when the Father shall approve, I will pour out the Spirit of Truth upon all flesh. Already is my Father’s spirit in your hearts, and when this day shall come, you will also have me with you even as you now have the Father. This new gift is the spirit of living truth….” (1948:2) 180:4.1

    n1…Jesus was a truth giver; he <em>was</em> the truth for that generation on Urantia. When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth…. (1428:1) 130:1.1

    n2″…As my Father has given me of his spirit, so will I give you of my spirit. And this Spirit of Truth which I will bestow upon you shall guide and comfort you and shall eventually lead you into all truth….” (1948:3) 180:4.2

    n2…This bestowed Comforter is the spiritual force which ever draws all truth seekers
    towards Him who is the personification of truth in the local universe…. (377:9) 34:4.5

    n3…The new helper which Jesus promised to send into the hearts of believers, to pour out upon all flesh, is the <em>Spirit of Truth</em>. This divine endowment is not the letter or law of truth, neither is it to function as the form or expression of truth. The new teacher is the <em>conviction of truth</em>, the consciousness and assurance of true meanings on real spirit levels…. (1949:3) 180:5.1

    n3…Many queer and strange teachings became associated with the early narratives of the day of Pentecost. In subsequent times the events of this day, on which the Spirit of Truth, the new teacher, came to dwell with mankind, have become confused with the foolish outbreaks of rampant emotionalism…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n4…When you undertake the human formulation of divine truth, it speedily dies. The post-mortem salvage of imprisoned truth, even at best, can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom…. (1949:4) 180:5.2

    n4…Ever bear in mind that these profound truths pertaining to Deity will increasingly clarify as your minds become progressively spiritualized during the successive epochs of the long mortal ascent to Paradise…. (31:8) 1:7.8

    n5…Truth is a spiritual reality value experienced only by spirit-endowed beings who function upon supermaterial levels of universe consciousness, and who, after the realization of truth, permit its spirit of activation to live and reign within their souls…. (1949:5) 180:5.3

    n5…Reason alone can never validate the values and goodnesses of religious experience. But it will always remain true: Whosoever wills to do the will of God shall comprehend the validity of spiritual values…. (1116:7) 101:10.6

    n6…The God-knowing individual is constantly elevating wisdom to the living-truth levels of divine attainment; the spiritually unprogressive soul is all the while dragging the living truth down to the dead levels of wisdom and to the domain of mere exalted knowledge…. (1949:6) 180:5.4

    n6…Knowledge pertains to things observed, but truth transcends such purely material levels in that it consorts with wisdom and embraces such imponderables as human experience, even spiritual and living realities…. (1459:2) 132:3.2

    n7…But the highest realization and the truest interpretation of the golden rule consists in the consciousness of the spirit of the truth of the enduring and living reality of such a divine declaration. The true cosmic meaning of this rule of universal relationship is revealed only in its spiritual realization.… (1950:3) 180:5.8

    n7…The golden rule, when divested of the superhuman insight of the Spirit of Truth, becomes nothing more than a rule of high ethical conduct. The golden rule, when literally interpreted, may become the instrument of great offense to one’s fellows…. (1949:7) 180:5.5

    n8…This same philosophy of the living flexibility and cosmic adaptability of divine truth to the individual requirements and capacity of every son of God, must be perceived before you can hope adequately to understand the Master’s teaching and practice of nonresistance to evil. The Master’s teaching is basically a spiritual pronouncement…. (1950:4) 180:5.9

    n8…Truth is inconcussible–forever exempt from all transient vicissitudes, albeit never dead and formal, always vibrant and adaptable–radiantly alive…. (1297:4) 118:3.3

    n9…The spirit of the Master’s injunction consists in the nonresistance of all selfish reaction to the universe, coupled with the aggressive and progressive attainment of righteous levels of true spirit values: divine beauty, infinite goodness, and eternal truth–to know God and to become increasingly like him…. (1950:4) 180:5.9

    n9…<em>Truth hunger</em>. The thirst for righteousness, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God…. (1861:4) 170:2.22

    n10…And so must we clearly recognize that neither the golden rule nor the teaching of nonresistance can ever be properly understood as dogmas or precepts. They can only be comprehended by living them, by realizing their meanings in the living interpretation of the Spirit of Truth, who directs the loving contact of one human being with another…. (1950:6) 180:5.11

    n10…And when such spirit-led mortals realize the true meaning of this golden rule, they are filled to overflowing with the assurance of citizenship in a friendly universe, and their ideals of spirit reality are satisfied only when they love their fellows as Jesus loved us all…. (1950:3) 180:5.8

    n11″…Life in the Father’s eternal creation is not an endless rest of idleness and selfish ease but rather a ceaseless progression in grace, truth, and glory.  Each of the many, many stations in my Father’s house is a stopping place, a life designed to prepare you for the next one ahead….” (1953:4) 181:1.2

    n11″…It is forever true, `the just shall live by faith.’ Entrance into the Father’s kingdom is wholly free, but progress–growth in grace–is essential to continuance therein….” (1682:4) 150:5.2

    n12″…Dedicate your life to the great work of showing how the critical material mind of man can triumph over the inertia of intellectual doubting when faced by the demonstration of the manifestation of living truth as it operates in the experience of spirit-born men and women who yield the fruits of the spirit in their lives, and who love one another, even as I have loved you….” (1961:5) 181:2.26

    n12″…You will serve mankind with a new and amazing devotion, even as I have served you. And when men see you so love them, and when they behold how fervently you serve them, they will perceive that you have become faith-fellows of the kingdom of heaven, and they will follow after the Spirit of Truth which they see in your lives, to the finding of eternal salvation….” (2044:3) 191:6.2

    n13…Sin creates a dead level of evil inertia, but righteousness nourishes the creative spirit of individual experience in the living realities of eternal truth and in the progressive communion of the divine spirits of the Father and the Son…. (1965:2) 182:1.8

    n13…Righteousness strikes the harmony chords of truth, and the melody vibrates throughout the cosmos, even to the recognition of the Infinite…. (556:12) 48:7.12

    n14″…For this purpose was I born into this world, even that I should show my Father to all men and bear witness to the truth of God.  And even now do I declare to you that every one who loves the truth hears my voice.” Then said Pilate, half in ridicule and half in sincerity, “Truth, what is truth–who knows?” (1991:4) 185:3.4

    n14″…God is truth. And it is the desire of God that his creatures should understand him–come fully to know the truth. Truth is eternal; it sustains the universe….” (1449:1) 131:4.6

    n15…Although individual facts may be materially true, it does not follow that the association of a group of facts must necessarily lead to truthful spiritual conclusions…. (2023:5) 189:2.6

    n15…The facts of evolution must not be arrayed against the truth of the reality of the certainty of the spiritual experience of the religious living of the God-knowing mortal…. (1125:4) 102:6.9

    n16″…When you have faith, when power from on high, the Spirit of Truth, has come upon you, you will not hide your light here behind closed doors; you will make known the love and the mercy of God to all mankind….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    n16…the Spirit of Truth came to help the believer to witness to the realities of Jesus’ teachings and his life as he lived it in the flesh, and as he now again lives it anew and afresh in the individual believer…. (2061:4) 194:2.6

    n17″…Your mission to the world is founded on the fact that I lived a God-revealing life among you; on the truth that you and all other men are the sons of God….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    n17″…If you gentiles will hear me, you shall receive the words of life and shall enter forthwith into the joyous liberty of the truth of sonship with God….” (1903:4) 174:5.7

    n18″…The Jews have extolled goodness; the Greeks have exalted beauty; the Hindus preach devotion; the far-away ascetics teach reverence; the Romans demand loyalty; but I require of my disciples life, even a life of loving service for your brothers in the flesh….” (2043:1) 191:5.3

    n18…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

    n19″…This gospel of the kingdom belongs to both Jew and gentile, to rich and poor, to free and bond, to male and female, even to the little children. And you are all to proclaim this gospel of love and truth by the lives which you live in the flesh….” (2044:3) 191:6.2

    n19″…Verily, verily, I say to you who believe the gospel that, if a man will keep this word of truth alive in his heart, he shall never taste death….” (1797:2) 162:7.5

    n20″…I admonish you ever to remember that your mission among men is to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom–the reality of the fatherhood of God and the truth of the sonship of man….” (2052:4) 193:0.4

    n20″…Preach the gospel of the kingdom and proclaim the saving truth that man is a son of God….” (1681:9) 150:4.2

    n21″…You are to go forth preaching the love of God and the service of man. That which the world needs most to know is: Men are the sons of God, and through faith they can actually realize, and daily experience, this ennobling truth….” (2052:4) 193:0.4

    n21…Always the burden of his message was: the fact of the heavenly Father’s love and the truth of his mercy, coupled with the good news that man is a faith-son of this same God of love…. (1460:6) 132:4.2

    n22″…Freely you have received, freely give. Only tarry here in Jerusalem while I go to the Father, and until I send you the Spirit of Truth. He shall lead you into the enlarged truth, and I will go with you into all the world….” (2053:1) 193:0.5

    n22…Jesus was the truth made manifest in the flesh, and he promised to send his Spirit of Truth into the hearts of all his children after his return to the Father in heaven…. (1593:7) 141:7.6

    n23″…You rejoice to know that the Son of Man has risen from the dead because you thereby know that you and your brethren shall also survive mortal death. But such survival is dependent on your having been previously born of the spirit of truth-seeking and God-finding….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    n23…Every day a true believer lives, he finds it easier to do the right thing…. (1740:8) 156:5.13

    n24″…You may enter the kingdom as a child, but the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full stature of spiritual adulthood. And when you go abroad to tell all nations the good news of this gospel, I will go before you, and my Spirit of Truth shall abide in your hearts….” (2054:3) 193:2.2

    n24…Do not make the mistake of expecting to become strongly intellectually conscious of the outpoured Spirit of Truth. The spirit never creates a consciousness of himself, only a consciousness of Michael, the Son…. (2061:2) 194:2.4

    n25…The first mission of this spirit is, of course, to foster and personalize truth, for it is the comprehension of truth that constitutes the highest form of human liberty…. (2060:7) 194:2.2

    n25…Only true and genuine liberty is compatible with the reign of love and the
    ministry of mercy…. (614:3) 54:1.8

    n26…Thus it appears that the Spirit of Truth comes really to lead all believers into all truth, into the expanding knowledge of the experience of the living and growing spiritual consciousness of the reality of eternal and ascending sonship with God…. (2061:5) 194:2.7

    n26″…Albeit, when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he shall eventually guide you into all truth as you pass through the many abodes in my Father’s universe….” (1951:4) 180:6.3

    n27…And, sooner or later, these concealed truths of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men will emerge to effectually transform the civilization of all mankind…. (2061:6) 194:2.8

    n27…The gospel of the kingdom is: the fact of the fatherhood of God, coupled with the resultant truth of the sonship-brotherhood of men…. (2059:4) 194:0.4

    n28…When Jesus was on earth, he lived his life as one personality–Jesus of Nazareth. As the indwelling spirit of the “new teacher,” the Master has, since Pentecost, been able to live his life anew in the experience of every truth-taught believer…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n28…And this new teacher is the spirit of living and growing truth, expanding, unfolding, and adaptative truth…. (1949:3) 180:5.1

    n29…The chief mission of this outpoured spirit of the Father and the Son is to teach men about the truths of the Father’s love and the Son’s mercy. These are the truths of divinity which men can comprehend more fully than all the other divine traits of character…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n29…The Conjoint Creator is truly and forever the great ministering personality, the universal mercy minister. To comprehend the ministry of the Spirit, ponder the truth that he is the combined portrayal of the Father’s unending love and of the Son’s eternal mercy…. (95:2) 8:4.7

    n30…The Spirit of Truth is concerned primarily with the revelation of the Father’s spirit nature and the Son’s moral character. The Creator Son, in the flesh, revealed God to men; the Spirit of Truth, in the heart, reveals the Creator Son to men…. (2062:10) 194:3.1

    n30…The Spirit of Truth works as one with the presence of the spirit of the Divine Minister. This dual spirit liaison hovers over the worlds, seeking to teach truth and to spiritually enlighten the minds of men…. (379:4) 34:5.4

    d1…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

    d1…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

    d2…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

    d2…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

    d3…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

    d3…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

    d4…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

    d4…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

    d5…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

    d5…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

    d6…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

    d6″…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

    d7…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

    d7…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

    d8…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

    d8…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

    d9…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

    d9…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

    d10…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

    d10″…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

    d11…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

    d11″…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

    d12…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

    d12…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

    d13…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

    d13…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

    d14…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

    d14…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

    d15…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

    d15…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

    d16…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

    d16…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

    d17…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

    d17…The great strength of Buddhism is that its adherents are free to choose truth from all religions…. (1041:2) 94:12.4

    d18…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

    d18″…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

    d19…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

    d19″…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

    d20…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

    d20…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

    d21…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

    d21″…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

    d22…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

    d22…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

    d23…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

    d23…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

    d24…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

    d24″…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

    d25…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

    d25…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

    d26…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

    d26…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

    d27…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

    d27″…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

    d28…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

    d28…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

    d29…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

    d29…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

    d30…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

    d30…Love is the desire to do good to others…. (648:4) 56:10.21

    d31…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

    d31…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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    Richard E Warren

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