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    December 26
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    …The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics; but the bestowed spirit, the indwelling Adjuster, reveals to the evolving human mind the lawgiver, the Father-source of all that is true, beautiful, and good; and such an illuminated man has a religion and is spiritually equipped to begin the long and adventurous search for God…. (2096:2) 196:3.26
     
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    …Morality has its origin in the reason of self-consciousness; it is superanimal but wholly evolutionary. Human evolution embraces in its unfolding all endowments antecedent to the bestowal of the Adjusters and to the pouring out of the Spirit of Truth…. (68:4) 5:5.1
     
     
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    #12161
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    December 27
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    …Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values. Religion provides for the enhancement, glorification, and assured survival of everything morality recognizes and approves…. (2096:3) 196:3.27
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    “…It is the possession of such powers of spiritual discrimination and truth choosing that makes mortal man a moral being, a creature endowed with the attributes of spiritual responsibility and the potential of eternal survival….” (1431:3) 130:2.8
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    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    December 28
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    …Love is the highest motivation which man may utilize in his universe ascent. But love, divested of truth, beauty, and goodness, is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion, a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception…. (2096:5) 196:3.29
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    …Reason deals with factual knowledge; wisdom, with philosophy and revelation; faith, with living spiritual experience. Through truth man attains beauty and by spiritual love ascends to goodness…. (1142:1) 103:9.10
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    #12173
    Richard E Warren
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    December 29
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    …Art results from man’s attempt to escape from the lack of beauty in his material environment; it is a gesture toward the morontia level…. (2096:6) 196:3.30  
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    God’s residence is central and eternal, glorious and ideal. His home is the beauteous pattern for all universe headquarters worlds…. (127:4) 11:9.6
     
     
     
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    Richard E Warren
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    December 30
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    …This concept of love generates in the soul of man that superanimal effort to find truth, beauty, and goodness; and when he does find them, he is glorified in their embrace; he is consumed with the desire to live them, to do righteousness…. (2096:8) 196:3.32
     
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    …Love is the desire to do good to others…. (648:4) 56:10.21
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    Richard E Warren
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    December 31
     
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    …God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. Only the spirit content of any value is imperishable. Even that which is true, beautiful, and good may not perish in human experience…. (2097:3) 196:3.35
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    …The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life…. (1134:5) 103:5.7
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    #12211
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 1
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    …Divinity is creature comprehensible as truth, beauty, and goodness; correlated in personality as love, mercy, and ministry; disclosed on impersonal levels as justice, power, and sovereignty…. (3.4) 0:1.17
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    …To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality…. (648.3) 56:10.20  
     
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    #12215
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 2
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    …God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms…. (23.4) 1:2.1 
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    …God is absolute truth. As truth one may know God, but to understand–to explain–God, one must explore the fact of the universe of universes…. (1125.1) 102:6.6
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    #12218
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 3
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    ...To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality…. (23.4) 1:2.1
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    Infinity of personality must, perforce, embrace all finitude of personality; hence the truth–literal truth–of the teaching which declares that “In Him we live and move and have our being….” (35.4) 2:1.11
     
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    #12224
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 4
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    …I know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: “God is spirit” and “God is love….” (26.2) 1:3.8
     
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    “…Let us be free in the knowledge of the truth of our Father’s eternal love….” (1404.5) 127:6.6 
     
     
     
     
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    #12238
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 5
     
    …We are constantly confronted with this mystery of God; we are nonplused by the increasing unfolding of the endless panorama of the truth of his infinite goodness, endless mercy, matchless wisdom, and superb character…. (26.6) 1:4.4
     
     
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    “…Your forebears feared God because he was mighty and mysterious. You shall adore him because he is magnificent in love, in mercy, and glorious in truth….” (1675.6) 149:6.5
     
     
     
     
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    #12259
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 6
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    …The God of universal love unfailingly manifests himself to every one of his creatures up to the fullness of that creature’s capacity to spiritually grasp the qualities of divine truth, beauty, and goodness…. (26.7) 1:4.5
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    …The measure of the spiritual capacity of the evolving soul is your faith in truth and your love for man…. (1740.4) 156:5.17
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    Richard E Warren
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    January 7
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    …The material creature’s highest possible concept of the Universal Creator is embraced within the spiritual ideals of the exalted idea of divine personality. Therefore, although you may know that God must be much more than the human conception of personality, you equally well know that the Universal Father cannot possibly be anything less than an eternal, infinite, true, good, and beautiful personality…. (27.4) 1:5.2
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    The Universal One of Infinity. I AM as I AM. This is the stasis or self-relationship of Infinity, the eternal fact of infinity-reality and the universal truth of reality-infinity. In so far as this relationship is discernible as personality, it is revealed to the universes in the divine Father of all personality–even of absolute personality…. (1155.4) 105:2.11
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    #12292
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 8
     
    …The concept of truth might possibly be entertained apart from personality, the concept of beauty may exist without personality, but the concept of divine goodness is understandable only in relation to personality…. (31.3) 1:7.3
     
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    …Goodness is always growing toward new levels of the increasing liberty of moral self-realization and spiritual personality attainment–the discovery of, and identification with, the indwelling Adjuster…. (1458.2) 132:2.5
     
     
     
     
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    #12307
    Richard E Warren
    Richard E Warren
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    January 9
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    …Only a person can love and be loved. Even beauty and truth would be divorced from survival hope if they were not attributes of a personal God, a loving Father…. (31.3) 1:7.3
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    “…Love is the greatest of all spirit realities. Truth is a liberating revelation, but love is the supreme relationship….” (1608.1) 143:1.4
     
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