Friday, December 12, 2008

Thoughts to Ponder

Thoughts to Ponder

Daily Quotes from The Urantia Book
Courtesy of Urantia Foundation


For the week starting Sunday, December 14th:

December 14

Moral convictions based on spiritual enlightenment and rooted in human experience are just as real and certain as mathematical deductions based on physical observations, but on another and higher level. [The Urantia Book, p. 2077, par. 8]

December 15

Secularism can never bring peace to mankind. Nothing can take the place of God in human society. [The Urantia Book, p. 2081, par. 6]

December 16

In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion [The Urantia Book, p. 2084, par. 5]

December 17

Of all human knowledge, that which is of greatest value is to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it. [The Urantia Book, p. 2090, par. 4]

December 18

It should not be the aim of kingdom believers literally to imitate the outward life of Jesus in the flesh but rather to share his faith; to trust God as he trusted God and to believe in men as he believed in men. [The Urantia Book, p. 2091, par. 1]

December 19

You may preach a religion about Jesus, but, perforce, you must live the religion of Jesus. [The Urantia Book, p. 2091, par. 3]

December 20

The progressive comprehension of reality is the equivalent of approaching God. [The Urantia Book, p. 2094, par. 2]

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