Today's Thought Gem—January

[Vern]

When man loses sight of

the love of a personal God,

the kingdom of God becomes

merely the kingdom of good

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[Vern]

…love is the dominant

characteristic

of all God’s

personal dealings

with his creatures.

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[Vern]

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 

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[Vern]

Man might fear

a great God,

but he trusts

and loves only

a good God

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[Vern]

Happiness ensues from

the recognition of truth

because it can be acted out;

it can be lived

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[Vern]

Divine truth

is best known

by its

spiritual flavor

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[Vern]

Truth is coherent,

beauty attractive,

goodness stabilizing

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[Vern]

Is courage—strength of character—desirable?

Then must man be reared in an environment

which necessitates grappling with hardships

and reacting to disappointments

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[Vern]

Is altruism—service to one’s fellows—desirable?

Then must life experience provide for encountering

situations of social inequality

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[Vern]

Is hope—the grandeur of trust—desirable?

Then human existence must constantly be 

confronted with insecurities

and recurrent uncertainties

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Is faith—the supreme exertion of human thought—desirable?

Then must the mind of man find itself in

that troublesome predicament

where it ever knows less than it can believe

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[Vern]

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

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Is idealism—the approaching concept of the divine—desirable?

Then must man struggle in an environment

of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative

of the irrepressible search for better things

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Is loyalty—devotion to highest duty—desirable?

Then must man carry on amid the

possibilities of betrayal and desertion.

The valor of devotion to duty consists

in the implied danger of default

 

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Is unselfishness—the spirit of self-forgetfulness—desirable?

Then must mortal man live face to face

with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self

for recognition and honor

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