NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 96

• "Pray always for more laborers to be sent forth into the gospel harvest. [Jesus] explained that, when one so prays, he will the more likely say, 

• 'Here am I; send me.' "
• • “Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• • “A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”—Saint Basil the Great
• • "Obedience to the will of the Father, yielding the fruits of the spirit in one's personal life, is the law of the kingdom."
• • "If you fail, will you rise indomitably to try anew? If you succeed, will you maintain a well-balanced poise - a stabilized and spiritualized attitude - throughout every effort in the long struggle to break the fetters of material inertia, to attain the 
• freedom of spirit existence?" 
• • “We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is Divine Love and that is infinite.”
• • "Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. 
• The real miracle is the love that inspires them. 
• In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle."
• • "Of his divine free-willness, the Universal Father has given you your creature personalities. You have been endowed with a measure of that divine spontaneity of freewill action which God shares with all who may become his sons."
• • “You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.”—Joe E. Lewis
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• • "On those worlds where a Paradise Son has lived a bestowal life, God is generally known by some name indicative of personal relationship, tender affection, and fatherly devotion ... Those who know God through the revelations of the bestowals of the Paradise Sons, eventually yield to the sentimental appeal of the touching relationship of the creature-Creator association and refer to God as 'our Father.' "