NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 69

• "Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and 

• shapes the mode of living."
• • “We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. We are the movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems. ”—Arthur O' Shaughnessy
• • "God is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity."
• • “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
• • "The essence of [Jesus'] teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are 
• likewise serving God the Father."
• • “Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”—Frances Wright
• • "Mortal men have something from God himself which actually dwells within them; their bodies are the temples thereof."
• • "Even though heaven and earth shall pass away, my words of truth shall not." – Jesus
• • “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” — Abraham Maslow
• • “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.”—Kofi Annan
• • “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”—Jimmy Carter
• • "Mortal man is neither a helpless slave of the inflexible sovereignty of an all-powerful God nor the victim of the hopeless fatality of a mechanistic cosmic determinism. Man is most truly the architect of his own eternal destiny."
• • “As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.”—Harper Lee
• • "The fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance."
• • "What Jesus is now about to do, submit to death on the cross, he does of his own free will. In foretelling this experience, he said: 'The Father loves and sustains me because I am willing to lay down my life. But I will take it up again. No one takes my life away from me-I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up. I have received such a commandment from my Father.' "
• • “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.”—Osho
• • "On millions of inhabited worlds, tens of trillions of evolving creatures who may have been tempted to give up the moral struggle and abandon the good fight of faith, have taken one more look at Jesus on the cross and then have forged on ahead, inspired by the sight of God's laying down his incarnate life in devotion to the unselfish service of man."
• • "The true evidences of the resurrection of Michael are spiritual in nature, albeit this teaching is corroborated by the testimony of many mortals of the realm who met, recognized, and communed with the resurrected morontia Master. He became a part of the personal experience of almost one thousand human beings before he finally took leave of Urantia."