~ 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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Hi Tootsie,

Today's quotes offer more beautiful thoughts from the Master, also ones that buy nothing---except cosmic assurance of the endless ministry of truth and divine affection. Of what value is that for avoiding skint knees :?:

Lotsa love, Rick

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

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Sequential Quote:

"...As my Father has given me of his spirit, so will I give you of my spirit. And this Spirit of Truth which I will bestow upon you shall guide and comfort you and shall eventually lead you into all truth...." p1948

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

Complementary Quote:

...In the gospel of the kingdom there resides the mighty Spirit of Truth, and presently I will pour out this same spirit upon all flesh.... p1930

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

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Sequential Quote:

...The new helper which Jesus promised to send into the hearts of believers, to pour out upon all flesh, is the Spirit of Truth. This divine endowment is not the letter or law of truth, neither is it to function as the form or expression of truth. The new teacher is the conviction of truth, the consciousness and assurance of true meanings on real spirit levels.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...The coming of the Spirit of Truth purifies the human heart and leads the recipient to formulate a life purpose single to the will of God and the welfare of men.... p2065

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

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Sequential Quote:

...And this new teacher is the spirit of living and growing truth, expanding, unfolding, and adaptative truth.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...This new teacher was bestowed upon mankind, and every soul received him in accordance with the love for truth and the capacity to grasp and comprehend spiritual realities.... p2063

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

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Sequential Quote:

...Divine truth is a spirit-discerned and living reality. Truth exists only on high spiritual levels of the realization of divinity and the consciousness of communion with God.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

"...What Heaven appoints is without error. Truth is real and divine...." p1452

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

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Sequential Quote:

...You can know the truth, and you can live the truth; you can experience the growth of truth in the soul and enjoy the liberty of its enlightenment in the mind, but you cannot imprison truth in formulas, codes, creeds, or intellectual patterns of human conduct.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...Man tends to crystallize science, formulate philosophy, and dogmatize truth because he is mentally lazy in adjusting to the progressive struggles of living, while he is also terribly afraid of the unknown.... p1459

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

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Sequential Quote:

...When you undertake the human formulation of divine truth, it speedily dies. The post-mortem salvage of imprisoned truth, even at best, can eventuate only in the realization of a peculiar form of intellectualized glorified wisdom.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...Static concepts may represent a certain knowledge, but they are deficient in wisdom and devoid of truth.... p1436

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

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Sequential Quote:

...Static truth is dead truth, and only dead truth can be held as a theory. Living truth is dynamic and can enjoy only an experiential existence in the human mind.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...Truth is relative and expanding; it lives always in the present, achieving expression in each generation of men--even in each human life.... p888

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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 a spiritual reality value experienced only by spirit-endowed beings who function upon supermaterial levels of universe consciousness, and who, after the realization of truth, permit its spirit of activation to live and reign within their souls.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...Reason alone can never validate the values and goodnesses of religious experience. But it will always remain true: Whosoever wills to do the will of God shall comprehend the validity of spiritual values.... p1116

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

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Sequential Quote:

...The God-knowing individual is constantly elevating wisdom to the living-truth levels of divine attainment; the spiritually unprogressive soul is all the while dragging the living truth down to the dead levels of wisdom and to the domain of mere exalted knowledge.... p1949

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

Complementary Quote:

...Knowledge pertains to things observed, but truth transcends such purely material levels in that it consorts with wisdom and embraces such imponderables as human experience, even spiritual and living realities.... p1459

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

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Sequential Quote:

...But the highest realization and the truest interpretation of the golden rule consists in the consciousness of the spirit of the truth of the enduring and living reality of such a divine declaration. The true cosmic meaning of this rule of universal relationship is revealed only in its spiritual realization.... p1950

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

Complementary Quote:

...The golden rule, when divested of the superhuman insight of the Spirit of Truth, becomes nothing more than a rule of high ethical conduct.... p1949

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

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Sequential Quote:

...This same philosophy of the living flexibility and cosmic adaptability of divine truth to the individual requirements and capacity of every son of God, must be perceived before you can hope adequately to understand the Master's teaching and practice of nonresistance to evil. The Master's teaching is basically a spiritual pronouncement.... p1950

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

Complementary Quote:

...Truth is inconcussible--forever exempt from all transient vicissitudes, albeit never dead and formal, always vibrant and adaptable--radiantly alive.... p1297

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

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Sequential Quote:

...The spirit of the Master's injunction consists in the nonresistance of all selfish reaction to the universe, coupled with the aggressive and progressive attainment of righteous levels of true spirit values: divine beauty, infinite goodness, and eternal truth--to know God and to become increasingly like him.... p1950

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

Complementary Quote:

...Godlikeness--the experiential blending in the evolutionary experience of eternal truth, universal beauty, and divine goodness.... p507

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

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Sequential Quote:

...Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living readaptative interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the Spirit of Truth. Love must thereby grasp the ever-changing and enlarging concepts of the highest cosmic good of the individual who is loved.... p1950

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

Complementary Quote:

"...This new teacher is the Spirit of Truth who will live with each one of you, in your hearts, and so will all the children of light be made one and be drawn toward one another...." p1949

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

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Sequential Quote:

...The old religion was motivated by fear-consciousness; the new gospel of the kingdom is dominated by truth-conviction, the spirit of eternal and universal truth.... p1951

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

Complementary Quote:

...the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth provides for the everlasting expansion and endless growth of the religion which he lived and the gospel which he proclaimed.... p2064

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