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Thoughts to Ponder
From The Urantia Book
Workman34's Page
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For the week starting Sunday, April 27th
April 27
Any attempt to shift parental responsibility to state or church will prove suicidal to the welfare and advancement of civilization.
April 28
Marriage, with children and consequent family life, is stimulative of the highest potentials in human nature.
April 29
The family is the fundamental unit of fraternity in which parents and children learn those lessons of patience, altruism, tolerance, and forbearance which are so essential to the realization of brotherhood among all men.
April 30
Remember, even if prayer does not change God, it very often effects great and lasting changes in the one who prays in faith and confident expectation.
The Urantia Book, p. 998, par. 3
The Urantia Book, p. 998, par. 3
May 1
Prayer has been the ancestor of much peace of mind, cheerfulness, calmness, courage, self-mastery, and fair-mindedness in the men and women of the evolving races.
May 2
If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing some friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life.
May 3
Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Deity and to revere truth, beauty, and goodness without form and ritual.
The Urantia Book, p. 999, par. 3
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For the week starting Sunday, May 4th
May 4
May 4
Prayer has turned many an irritable and complaining invalid into a paragon of patience and made him an inspiration to all other human sufferers.
May 5
Do not be so slothful as to ask God to solve your difficulties, but never hesitate to ask him for wisdom and spiritual strength to guide and sustain you while you yourself resolutely and courageously attack the problems at hand.
May 6
Pray as Jesus taught his disciples--honestly, unselfishly, with fairness, and without doubting.
May 7
God answers the soul's attitude, not the words.
May 8
Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict.
May 9
Pray only for values, not things; for growth, not for gratification.
May 10
Civilization, science, and advanced religions must deliver mankind from those fears born of the dread of natural phenomena.
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For the week starting Sunday, May 11th
May 11
May 11
Man's greatest spiritual jeopardy consists in partial progress, the predicament of unfinished growth: forsaking the evolutionary religions of fear without immediately grasping the revelatory religion of love.
May 12
Any religious belief which is effective in spiritualizing the believer is certain to have powerful repercussions in the social life of such a religionist.
May 13
Religious experience unfailingly yields the "fruits of the spirit" in the daily life of the spirit-led mortal.
May 14
Religion inspires man to live courageously and joyfully on the face of the earth; it joins patience with passion, insight to zeal, sympathy with power, and ideals with energy.
May 15
Religion ennobles the commonplace drudgery of daily living.
May 16
Some persons are too busy to grow and are therefore in grave danger of spiritual fixation.
May 17
The chief inhibitors of growth are prejudice and ignorance.
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For the week starting Sunday, May 18th
May 18
May 18
Give every developing child a chance to grow his own religious experience; do not force a ready-made adult experience upon him.
May 19
Growth is not truly indicated by mere products but rather by progress. Real educational growth is indicated by enhancement of ideals, increased appreciation of values, new meanings of values, and augmented loyalty to supreme values.
May 20
Children are permanently impressed only by the loyalties of their adult associates; precept or even example is not lastingly influential.
May 21
Live loyally today--grow--and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole.
May 22
Religion cannot be bestowed, received, loaned, learned, or lost. It is a personal experience which grows proportionally to the growing quest for final values.
May 23
Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values.
May 24
Spirit-born individuals are so remotivated in life that they can calmly stand by while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash.
The Urantia Book, p. 1096, par. 5
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For the week starting Sunday, May 25th
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May 25
Religion is not a technique for attaining a static and blissful peace of mind; it is an impulse for organizing the soul for dynamic service.
The Urantia Book, p. 1096, par. 6
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May 26
Love thus grows; it cannot be created, manufactured, or purchased; it must grow.
The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 4
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May 27
New meanings only emerge amid conflict; and conflict persists only in the face of refusal to espouse the higher values connoted in superior meanings.
The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 5
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May 28
Religious perplexities are inevitable; there can be no growth without psychic conflict and spiritual agitation.
The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 6
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May 29
If you love your fellow men, you must have discovered their values. Jesus loved men so much because he placed such a high value upon them.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 1
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May 30
If some one irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 1
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May 31
If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 1
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For the week starting Sunday, June 1st
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June 1
If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 2
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June 2
You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor's motives and sentiments.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 3
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June 3
It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 3
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June 4
Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 3
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June 5
The outstanding characteristics of all religions are: unquestioning loyalty and wholehearted devotion to supreme values.
The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 3
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June 6
The sincere religionist is conscious of universe citizenship.
The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 5
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June 7
And this intense striving for the attainment of supermortal ideals is always characterized by increasing patience, forbearance, fortitude, and tolerance.
The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 6
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For the week starting Sunday, June 8th
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July 8
The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 3
July 9
Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, service in eternity--all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature personality consents--chooses--to subject the creature will to the Father's will.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 5
July 10
A human being can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 6
July 11
Only religious confidence--living faith--can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing problems.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 7
July 12
Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
July 13
Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
July 14
Man's ability to transcend himself is the one thing which distinguishes him from the animal kingdom.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1*
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*For the week starting Sunday, June 15th
June 15
Do not make the mistake of judging another's religion by your own standards of knowledge and truth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1115, par. 3
June 16
If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1118, par. 4
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June 17
What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation.
The Urantia Book, p. 1119, par. 1
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June 18
Love is the essence of religion and the wellspring of superior civilization.
The Urantia Book, p. 1124, par. 5
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June 19
Belief may not be able to resist doubt and withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is both positive and living.
The Urantia Book, p. 1125, par. 2
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June 20
The positive always has the advantage over the negative, truth over error, experience over theory, spiritual realities over the isolated facts of time and space.
The Urantia Book, p. 1125, par. 2*
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June 21
The intellectual earmark of religion is certainty; the philosophical characteristic is consistency; the social fruits are love and service.
The Urantia Book, p. 1126, par. 5
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For the week starting Sunday, June 22nd
June 22
Many who are inwardly sure about God fear to assert such feelings of certainty because of the multiplicity and cleverness of those who assemble objections and magnify difficulties about believing in God. June 23
It requires no great depth of intellect to pick flaws, ask questions, or raise objections. June 24
Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences. June 25
The wisdom of the world is not necessary to an exercise of saving faith in eternal realities. June 26
In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him
The Urantia Book, p. 1129, par. 8
June 27
The psychology of a child is naturally positive, not negative.
June 28
The certainty of the God-knowing religionist should not be disturbed by the uncertainty of the doubting materialist; rather should the uncertainty of the unbeliever be mightily challenged by the profound faith and unshakable certainty of the experiential believer.
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For the week starting Sunday, July 6th
July 6
The doing of the will of God is nothing more or less than an exhibition of creature willingness to share the inner life with God
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 2
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July 7
Sharing is Godlike--divine.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 2
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July 8
The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 3
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July 9
Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, service in eternity--all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature personality consents--chooses--to subject the creature will to the Father's will.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 5
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July 10
A human being can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 6
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July 11
Only religious confidence--living faith--can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing problems.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 7
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July 12
Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
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For the week starting Sunday, July 13th
July 13
Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
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July 14
Man's ability to transcend himself is the one thing which distinguishes him from the animal kingdom.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
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July 15
Man consciously grows from the material toward the spiritual by the strength, power, and persistency of his own decisions
The Urantia Book, p. 1282, par. 1
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July 16
Men all too often forget that God is the greatest experience in human existence.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 2
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July 17
When men search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they have found everything.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 2
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July 18
All true love is from God, and man receives the divine affection as he himself bestows this love upon his fellows.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 19
Love is dynamic. It can never be captured; it is alive, free, thrilling, and always moving.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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For the week starting Sunday, July 26th
July 20
Man can never take the love of the Father and imprison it within his heart.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 21
The Father's love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man's personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 22
The great circuit of love is from the Father, through sons to brothers, and hence to the Supreme.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 23
Things are time conditioned, but truth is timeless.
The Urantia Book, p. 1297, par. 3
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July 24
Much of what a mortal would call good luck might really be bad luck; the smile of fortune that bestows unearned leisure and undeserved wealth may be the greatest of human afflictions
The Urantia Book, p. 1305, par. 4
July 25
The apparent cruelty of a perverse fate that heaps tribulation upon some suffering mortal may in reality be the tempering fire that is transmuting the soft iron of immature personality into the tempered steel of real character.
The Urantia Book, p. 1305, par. 4
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July 26
When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1428, par. 1
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For the week starting Sunday, July 27th
July 27
It is a marvelous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness.
The Urantia Book, p. 1430, par. 2
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July 28
The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner.
The Urantia Book, p. 1433, par. 2
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July 29
The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man on earth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1437, par. 3
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July 30
Why waste words upon one who cannot perceive the meaning of what you say?
The Urantia Book, p. 1440, par. 4
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July 31
We gain knowledge from the experience of man, but we derive wisdom from the contemplation of the Most High.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 0
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August 1
In your lives overthrow error and overcome evil by the love of the living truth. In all your relations with men do good for evil.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 3
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August 2
If the faith of the Most High has entered your heart, then shall you abide free from fear throughout all the days of your life.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 5
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For the week starting Sunday, August 3rd
August 3
Fret not yourself because of the prosperity of the ungodly; fear not those who plot evil; let the soul turn away from sin and put your whole trust in the God of salvation.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 5
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August 4
Make no apology for evil; make no excuse for sin. By your efforts to make amends for past sins you acquire strength to resist future tendencies thereto.
The Urantia Book, p. 1446, par. 5
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August 5
No man can rob you of the liberty of your own mind.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 1
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August 6
No religionist may hope to attain the enlightenment of immortal wisdom who persists in being slothful, indolent, feeble, idle, shameless, and selfish.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 2
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August 7
He is the greatest of warriors who overcomes and subdues himself.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 3
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August 8
Contentment is the greatest wealth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 3
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August 9
Let not anger and hate master you.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 3
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For the week starting Sunday, August 3rd
August 10
Pride obscures God. If you would obtain heavenly help, put away your pride; every hair of pride shuts off saving light, as it were, by a great cloud.
The Urantia Book, p. 1451, par. 3
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August 11
If you are not right on the inside, it is useless to pray for that which is on the outside.
The Urantia Book, p. 1451, par. 3
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August 12
True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 1
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August 13
He is a wise man who regards all parts from the point of view of the whole.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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August 14
Relate yourself to every man as if you were in his place.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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August 15
Recompense injury with kindness.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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August 16
If you love people, they will draw near you--you will have no difficulty in winning them.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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For the week starting Sunday, August 17th
August 17
Always remember that God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is; therefore should you extend help to your fellows without the thought of rewards.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 3
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August 18
Do good without thought of benefit to the self.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 3
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August 19
We cannot search out God by knowledge, but we can know him in our hearts by personal experience.
The Urantia Book, p. 1453, par. 5
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August 20
Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul.
The Urantia Book, p. 1459, par. 4
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August 21
Upon the impartiality, fairness, and integrity of its courts the endurance of a nation depends. Civil government is founded on justice, even as true religion is founded on mercy.
The Urantia Book, p. 1462, par. 1
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August 22
You must first recognize man as your brother, and if you honestly desire to do by him as you would have him do by you, the commonplace dictates of justice, honesty, and fairness will guide you...
The Urantia Book, p. 1464, par. 4
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August 23
If we know God, our real business on earth is so to live as to permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives...
The Urantia Book, p. 1466, par. 2
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I got the following from Joer1*
Do It Anyway
Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical,
And self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
Of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
False friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank;
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis
it is between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway
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May 25
Religion is not a technique for attaining a static and blissful peace of mind; it is an impulse for organizing the soul for dynamic service.
The Urantia Book, p. 1096, par. 6
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May 26
Love thus grows; it cannot be created, manufactured, or purchased; it must grow.
The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 4
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May 27
New meanings only emerge amid conflict; and conflict persists only in the face of refusal to espouse the higher values connoted in superior meanings.
The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 5
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May 28
Religious perplexities are inevitable; there can be no growth without psychic conflict and spiritual agitation.
The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 6
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May 29
If you love your fellow men, you must have discovered their values. Jesus loved men so much because he placed such a high value upon them.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 1
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May 30
If some one irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 1
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May 31
If once you understand your neighbor, you will become tolerant, and this tolerance will grow into friendship and ripen into love.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 1
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For the week starting Sunday, June 1st
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June 1
If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 2
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June 2
You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor's motives and sentiments.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 3
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June 3
It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 3
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June 4
Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate.
The Urantia Book, p. 1098, par. 3
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June 5
The outstanding characteristics of all religions are: unquestioning loyalty and wholehearted devotion to supreme values.
The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 3
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June 6
The sincere religionist is conscious of universe citizenship.
The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 5
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June 7
And this intense striving for the attainment of supermortal ideals is always characterized by increasing patience, forbearance, fortitude, and tolerance.
The Urantia Book, p. 1100, par. 6
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For the week starting Sunday, June 8th
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July 8
The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 3
July 9
Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, service in eternity--all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature personality consents--chooses--to subject the creature will to the Father's will.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 5
July 10
A human being can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 6
July 11
Only religious confidence--living faith--can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing problems.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 7
July 12
Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
July 13
Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
July 14
Man's ability to transcend himself is the one thing which distinguishes him from the animal kingdom.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1*
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*For the week starting Sunday, June 15th
June 15
Do not make the mistake of judging another's religion by your own standards of knowledge and truth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1115, par. 3
June 16
If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1118, par. 4
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June 17
What knowledge and reason cannot do for us, true wisdom admonishes us to allow faith to accomplish through religious insight and spiritual transformation.
The Urantia Book, p. 1119, par. 1
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June 18
Love is the essence of religion and the wellspring of superior civilization.
The Urantia Book, p. 1124, par. 5
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June 19
Belief may not be able to resist doubt and withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is both positive and living.
The Urantia Book, p. 1125, par. 2
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June 20
The positive always has the advantage over the negative, truth over error, experience over theory, spiritual realities over the isolated facts of time and space.
The Urantia Book, p. 1125, par. 2*
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June 21
The intellectual earmark of religion is certainty; the philosophical characteristic is consistency; the social fruits are love and service.
The Urantia Book, p. 1126, par. 5
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For the week starting Sunday, June 22nd
June 22
Many who are inwardly sure about God fear to assert such feelings of certainty because of the multiplicity and cleverness of those who assemble objections and magnify difficulties about believing in God. June 23
It requires no great depth of intellect to pick flaws, ask questions, or raise objections. June 24
Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences. June 25
The wisdom of the world is not necessary to an exercise of saving faith in eternal realities. June 26
In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him
The Urantia Book, p. 1129, par. 8
June 27
The psychology of a child is naturally positive, not negative.
June 28
The certainty of the God-knowing religionist should not be disturbed by the uncertainty of the doubting materialist; rather should the uncertainty of the unbeliever be mightily challenged by the profound faith and unshakable certainty of the experiential believer.
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For the week starting Sunday, July 6th
July 6
The doing of the will of God is nothing more or less than an exhibition of creature willingness to share the inner life with God
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 2
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July 7
Sharing is Godlike--divine.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 2
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July 8
The imitation of God is the key to perfection; the doing of his will is the secret of survival and of perfection in survival.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 3
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July 9
Peace in this life, survival in death, perfection in the next life, service in eternity--all these are achieved (in spirit) now when the creature personality consents--chooses--to subject the creature will to the Father's will.
The Urantia Book, p. 1221, par. 5
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July 10
A human being can find truth in his inner experience, but he needs a clear knowledge of facts to apply his personal discovery of truth to the ruthlessly practical demands of everyday life.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 6
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July 11
Only religious confidence--living faith--can sustain man amid such difficult and perplexing problems.
The Urantia Book, p. 1222, par. 7
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July 12
Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
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For the week starting Sunday, July 13th
July 13
Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
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July 14
Man's ability to transcend himself is the one thing which distinguishes him from the animal kingdom.
The Urantia Book, p. 1223, par. 1
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July 15
Man consciously grows from the material toward the spiritual by the strength, power, and persistency of his own decisions
The Urantia Book, p. 1282, par. 1
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July 16
Men all too often forget that God is the greatest experience in human existence.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 2
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July 17
When men search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they have found everything.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 2
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July 18
All true love is from God, and man receives the divine affection as he himself bestows this love upon his fellows.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 19
Love is dynamic. It can never be captured; it is alive, free, thrilling, and always moving.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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For the week starting Sunday, July 26th
July 20
Man can never take the love of the Father and imprison it within his heart.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 21
The Father's love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man's personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 22
The great circuit of love is from the Father, through sons to brothers, and hence to the Supreme.
The Urantia Book, p. 1289, par. 3
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July 23
Things are time conditioned, but truth is timeless.
The Urantia Book, p. 1297, par. 3
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July 24
Much of what a mortal would call good luck might really be bad luck; the smile of fortune that bestows unearned leisure and undeserved wealth may be the greatest of human afflictions
The Urantia Book, p. 1305, par. 4
July 25
The apparent cruelty of a perverse fate that heaps tribulation upon some suffering mortal may in reality be the tempering fire that is transmuting the soft iron of immature personality into the tempered steel of real character.
The Urantia Book, p. 1305, par. 4
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July 26
When a great truth seeker and a great truth giver meet, the result is a great and liberating enlightenment born of the experience of new truth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1428, par. 1
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For the week starting Sunday, July 27th
July 27
It is a marvelous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness.
The Urantia Book, p. 1430, par. 2
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July 28
The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner.
The Urantia Book, p. 1433, par. 2
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July 29
The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man on earth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1437, par. 3
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July 30
Why waste words upon one who cannot perceive the meaning of what you say?
The Urantia Book, p. 1440, par. 4
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July 31
We gain knowledge from the experience of man, but we derive wisdom from the contemplation of the Most High.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 0
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August 1
In your lives overthrow error and overcome evil by the love of the living truth. In all your relations with men do good for evil.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 3
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August 2
If the faith of the Most High has entered your heart, then shall you abide free from fear throughout all the days of your life.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 5
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For the week starting Sunday, August 3rd
August 3
Fret not yourself because of the prosperity of the ungodly; fear not those who plot evil; let the soul turn away from sin and put your whole trust in the God of salvation.
The Urantia Book, p. 1443, par. 5
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August 4
Make no apology for evil; make no excuse for sin. By your efforts to make amends for past sins you acquire strength to resist future tendencies thereto.
The Urantia Book, p. 1446, par. 5
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August 5
No man can rob you of the liberty of your own mind.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 1
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August 6
No religionist may hope to attain the enlightenment of immortal wisdom who persists in being slothful, indolent, feeble, idle, shameless, and selfish.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 2
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August 7
He is the greatest of warriors who overcomes and subdues himself.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 3
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August 8
Contentment is the greatest wealth.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 3
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August 9
Let not anger and hate master you.
The Urantia Book, p. 1447, par. 3
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For the week starting Sunday, August 3rd
August 10
Pride obscures God. If you would obtain heavenly help, put away your pride; every hair of pride shuts off saving light, as it were, by a great cloud.
The Urantia Book, p. 1451, par. 3
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August 11
If you are not right on the inside, it is useless to pray for that which is on the outside.
The Urantia Book, p. 1451, par. 3
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August 12
True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 1
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August 13
He is a wise man who regards all parts from the point of view of the whole.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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August 14
Relate yourself to every man as if you were in his place.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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August 15
Recompense injury with kindness.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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August 16
If you love people, they will draw near you--you will have no difficulty in winning them.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 2
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For the week starting Sunday, August 17th
August 17
Always remember that God does not reward man for what he does but for what he is; therefore should you extend help to your fellows without the thought of rewards.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 3
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August 18
Do good without thought of benefit to the self.
The Urantia Book, p. 1452, par. 3
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August 19
We cannot search out God by knowledge, but we can know him in our hearts by personal experience.
The Urantia Book, p. 1453, par. 5
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August 20
Revealed truth, personally discovered truth, is the supreme delight of the human soul.
The Urantia Book, p. 1459, par. 4
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August 21
Upon the impartiality, fairness, and integrity of its courts the endurance of a nation depends. Civil government is founded on justice, even as true religion is founded on mercy.
The Urantia Book, p. 1462, par. 1
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August 22
You must first recognize man as your brother, and if you honestly desire to do by him as you would have him do by you, the commonplace dictates of justice, honesty, and fairness will guide you...
The Urantia Book, p. 1464, par. 4
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August 23
If we know God, our real business on earth is so to live as to permit the Father to reveal himself in our lives...
The Urantia Book, p. 1466, par. 2
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I got the following from Joer1*
Do It Anyway
Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical,
And self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
Of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
False friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank;
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,
and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis
it is between you and God
It was never between you and them anyway
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I agree that it is wrong to try to tell someone else how to worship God. God said to worship Him in sprit and in truth. Other than that People are not the ones to say you have to worship my way or no way.
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