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August 29…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) 143:5.11Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***
Richard E Warren
August 30…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) 143:6.3Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
August 31…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) 143:6.4Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…It is eternally true, “the Father himself loves you….” (1259:2) 114:7.17***Richard E Warren
September 1…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) 146:2.8Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
September 2…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
Truth, Beauty, Goodness
InComplementary Quote:“…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***Richard E Warren
September 3…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) 146:2.17Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…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***Richard E Warren
September 4“…Intellectual strivings may reveal the facts of life, but the gospel of the kingdom unfolds the truths of being….” (1641:3) 146:3.1Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…This gospel of the kingdom is a living truth…. (1931:6) 178:1.15***Richard E Warren
September 5“…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) 146:3.1Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
September 6“…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) 146:3.2Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Do not make the mistake of judging another’s religion by your own standards of knowledge and truth…. (1115:3) 101:9.2***Richard E Warren
September 7“…True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism….” (1641:4) 146:3.2Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Jesus stood up and said: “Let us be patient; the truth never suffers from honest examination….” (1711:3) 153:2.11***Richard E Warren
September 8
“…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) 146:3.2Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
September 9…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) 146:3.4Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…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***Richard E Warren
September 10“…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) 146:3.4Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:…Increasingly throughout the morontia progression the assurance of truth replaces the assurance of faith…. (1111:4) 101:5.14***Richard E Warren
September 11“…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) 149:6.3Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…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***Richard E Warren
September 12“…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) 149:6.4Truth, Beauty, GoodnessInComplementary Quote:“…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***Richard E Warren
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