NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 66

• "The morontia life, extending as it does over the various stages of the local universe career, is the only possible approach whereby material mortals could attain the threshold of the spirit world."

• • “Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.”—Robert S. Wieder
• • "Jesus' devotion to the Father's will and the service of man was even more than mortal decision and human determination; it was a wholehearted consecration of himself to such an unreserved bestowal of love."
• • "The prayer of the material being can many times be answered only when such an individual has progressed to the spirit level."
• • Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply – Stephen Covey
• • The only good on pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. – Booth Tarkington
• • "Religion is now confronted by the challenge of a new age of scientific minds and materialistic tendencies. In this gigantic struggle between the secular and the spiritual, the religion of Jesus will eventually triumph."
• • “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• • "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live. In truth, whosoever lives and believes in me shall never really die." – Jesus
• • “Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.” — Mark Twain
• • “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”—Anaïs Nin
• • "The teachers of the religion of Jesus should approach other religions with the recognition of the truths which are held in common (many of which come directly or indirectly from Jesus' message) while they refrain from placing so much emphasis on the differences."
• • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”—Lao Tzu
• • “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• • "At last all creatures become conscious of the fact that God and all the divine hosts of a well-nigh limitless universe are on their side in the supernal struggle to attain eternity of life and divinity of status."
• • "It is the Adjuster who creates within man that unquenchable yearning and incessant longing to be like God, to attain Paradise, and there before the actual person of Deity to worship the infinite source of the divine gift."
• • “It's never too late to be what you might have been.”—George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]
• • “The greatest difficulty is the mental resistance to things that arise, and the underlying assumption that they should not.” -  Eckhart Tolle
• • “I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”—Diane Ackerman
• • There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable. H.W. Shaw