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December 11
.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:.“…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..***Richard E Warren
December 12.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
December 13.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
December 14.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:....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..***Richard E Warren
December 15.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
December 16.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:.…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..***.Richard E Warren
December 17.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.…The great strength of Buddhism is that its adherents are free to choose truth from all religions…. (1041:2) 94:12.4..***Richard E Warren
December 18.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.“…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..***Richard E Warren
December 19.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.“…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..***Richard E Warren
December 20.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quotes:.…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..…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....***Richard E Warren
December 21
…The hope of modern Christianity is that it should cease to sponsor the social systems and industrial policies of Western civilization while it humbly bows itself before the cross it so valiantly extols, there to learn anew from Jesus of Nazareth the greatest truths mortal man can ever hear–the living gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man…. (2086:7) 195:10.21
Truth, Beauty, Goodness
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The URANTIA BOOKComplementary Quote:
“…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
84 Uses of Truth, Beauty & Goodness In 16 Languages
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Richard E Warren
December 22.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
December 23.…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
.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
December 24.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:.“…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...***Richard E Warren
December 25.…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
.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:.…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...***Richard E Warren
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