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January 10.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.“…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..***
Richard E Warren
January 11.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
January 12.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
January 13.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:...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***Richard E Warren
January 14.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.“…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..***Richard E Warren
January 15…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…He is the merciful and the compassionate.” “Truly God is plenteous in goodness to all men….” (1051.4) 95:7.6***Richard E Warren
January 16.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:.…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..***Richard E Warren
January 17…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) 2:6.2Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
January 18.…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.Truth, Beauty, GoodnessIn.Complementary Quote:…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..***Richard E Warren
January 19....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
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Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:....The great truth of Siddhartha’s teaching was his proclamation of a universe of absolute justice…. (1037.2) 94:8.18
..***Richard E Warren
January 20…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) 2:6.9Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…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***Richard E Warren
January 21…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
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…The true child of universe insight looks for the living Spirit of Truth in every wise saying…. (1949.6) 180:5:4***Richard E Warren
January 22...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) 2:7.2Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
January 23....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
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:...Truth cannot be defined with words, only by living. Truth is always more than knowledge…. (1459.2) 132:3.2***Richard E Warren
January 24…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
Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality…. (1949.4) 180:5.2***Richard E Warren
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