Thoughts to Ponder
Daily Quotes from The Urantia Book
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For the week starting Sunday, January 25th:
January 25
Is hope — the grandeur of trust — desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 7]
January 26
Is faith — the supreme assertion of human thought — desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 8]
January 27
Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 9]
January 28
Is idealism — the approaching concept of the divine — desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 10]
January 29
Is loyalty — devotion to highest duty — desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 11]
January 30
Is unselfishness — the spirit of self-forgetfulness — desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 12]
January 31
Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 12]
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For the week starting Sunday, January 18th:
January 18
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. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 5]
January 19
Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 5]
January 20
Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. [The Urantia Book, p. 42, par. 7]
January 21
Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor. [The Urantia Book, p. 42, par. 7]
January 22
Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. [The Urantia Book, p. 43, par. 5]
January 23
Is courage — strength of character — desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 5]
January 24
Is altruism — service of one's fellows — desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 6]
For the week starting Sunday, January 4th:
January 4
It is not necessary to see God with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faith-vision of the spiritualized mind. [The Urantia Book, p. 25, par. 3]
January 5
The more completely man understands himself and appreciates the personality values of his fellows, the more he will crave to know the Original Personality, and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human will strive to become like the Original Personality. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 6
You can argue over opinions about God, but experience with him and in him exists above and beyond all human controversy and mere intellectual logic. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 7
The God-knowing man describes his spiritual experiences, not to convince unbelievers, but for the edification and mutual satisfaction of believers. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 8
To assume that the universe can be known, that it is intelligible, is to assume that the universe is mind made and personality managed. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 6]
January 9
If man's personality can experience the universe, there is a divine mind and an actual personality somewhere concealed in that universe. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 6]
January 10
The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him. [The Urantia Book, p. 38, par. 2]
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