~ GoodThots ~ Daily Quotes on Truth, Beauty and Goodness

rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...The child should be introduced to worship in nature's outdoors and later accompany his parents to public houses of religious assembly which are at least as materially attractive and artistically beautiful as the home in which he is daily domiciled.... p1840

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Complementary Quote:

...The supreme beauty, the height of finite art, is the drama of the unification of the vastness of the cosmic extremes of Creator and creature.... p646

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...The righteousness of any act must be measured by the motive; the highest forms of good are therefore unconscious.... p1862

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Complementary Quote:

...Truth hunger. The thirst for righteousness, a change of mind, the acquirement of the motive to be like God and to find God.... p1861

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...Jesus spread good cheer everywhere he went. He was full of grace and truth. His associates never ceased to wonder at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul.... p1874

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
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Complementary Quote:

...He would pause in the midst of a profound discourse that he might go out in the road to speak good cheer to a passing woman laden with her burden of body and soul.... p1546

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tootsie · **Posted:** Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:26 am +0000

Thank you Rick for your continued good works...

God bless you today on your path...

rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

Hi Tootsie!

Thanks for the blessing, it worked. :!:

Good to hear things are going swimmingly there~

Lotsa love, Rick

rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...Goodness always compels respect, but when it is devoid of grace, it often repels affection. Goodness is universally attractive only when it is gracious. Goodness is effective only when it is attractive.... p1874

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
http://www.urantia.org/papers/index.html

Complementary Quote:

...To be great is to be Godlike. And since the quality of greatness is wholly determined by the content of goodness, it follows that, even in your present human estate, if you can through grace become good, you are thereby becoming great.... p317

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

"...My Father requires all his children to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth. You who know these truths must yield the increase of the fruits of the spirit and manifest a growing devotion to the unselfish service of your fellow servants...." p1917

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Complementary Quote:

"...And all those who know the way of truth and enjoy the assurance of knowing God should esteem it a privilege, not a duty, to offer guidance to their fellows in their efforts to find the satisfactions of living...." p1465

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service.... p1917

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
http://www.urantia.org/papers/index.html

Complementary Quote:

...The fruits of the spirit, your sincere and loving service, are the mighty social lever to uplift the races of darkness, and this Spirit of Truth will become your power-multiplying fulcrum.... p1930

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...You are not given truth to crystallize into settled, safe, and honored forms. Your revelation of truth must be so enhanced by passing through your personal experience that new beauty and actual spiritual gains will be disclosed to all who behold your spiritual fruits and in consequence thereof are led to glorify the Father.... p1917

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
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Complementary Quote:

"...Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and be led to glorify your Father who is in heaven...." p1570

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...Only those faithful servants who thus grow in the knowledge of the truth, and who thereby develop the capacity for divine appreciation of spiritual realities, can ever hope to "enter fully into the joy of their Lord...." p1917

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
http://www.urantia.org/papers/index.html

Complementary Quote:

...He would "have all men be saved by coming into the knowledge of the truth." He is "not willing that any should perish...." p39

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...In accordance with the truth committed to your hands will the Master of truth require a reckoning.... p1918

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
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Complementary Quote:

"...God will bring every man's work to judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil...." p1445

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

"...Freely have you received; therefore freely should you give of the truth of heaven, and in the giving will this truth multiply and show forth the increasing light of saving grace, even as you minister it...." p1918

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
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Complementary Quote:

"...The truth which you have given to me I have revealed to them. These, my friends and ambassadors, have sincerely willed to receive your word...." p1965

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...You must not seek to promulgate truth nor to establish righteousness by the power of civil governments or by the enaction of secular laws. You may always labor to persuade men's minds, but you must never dare to compel them.... p1931

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
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Complementary Quote:

"...By the spirit fruits of your lives impel souls to believe the truth that man is a son of God, and that all men are brethren...." p2057

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rick warren · **Joined:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:03 am +0000 **Posts:** 569

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Sequential Quote:

...Do not forget that you are commissioned to go forth preaching only the good news. You are not to attack the old ways; you are skillfully to put the leaven of new truth in the midst of the old beliefs. Let the Spirit of Truth do his own work. Let controversy come only when they who despise the truth force it upon you. But when the willful unbeliever attacks you, do not hesitate to stand in vigorous defense of the truth which has saved and sanctified you.... p1932

Truth, Beauty & Goodness in The Urantia Book
http://www.urantia.org/papers/index.html

Complementary Quote:

"...And when you go abroad to tell all nations the good news of this gospel, I will go before you, and my Spirit of Truth shall abide in your hearts...." p2054

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tootsie · **Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:52 am +0000

I love this one....course I love them all but when Jesus said you are not attack the old ways...that doesn't buy us anything does it...

May the light shine brightly on our path today so that we may not stumble...and scrape our knees... :wink:

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