NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 124

·        “Always reward your long hours of labor surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.”—Og Mandino

• ·        "We are not blind to the fact that religion often acts unwisely, even irreligiously, but it acts. Aberrations of religious conviction have led to bloody persecutions, but always and ever religion does something; it is dynamic!"
  ·        "Urantia belongs to a local universe whose sovereign is the God-man of Nebadon, Jesus of Nazareth and Michael of Salvington. And all of Michael's plans for this local universe were fully approved by the Paradise Trinity before he ever embarked upon the supreme adventure of space."
  ·        "A Miracle is a service. It is the maximal service you can render to another. It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. You recognize your own and your neighbor's worth simultaneously.
  ·        Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu
  ·        “Peace begins with a smile.” —Mother T
  ·        "Personal religious experience consists in two phases: discovery in the human mind and revelation by the indwelling divine spirit."
  ·        “We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.”—Dorothy Day
  ·        "In knowledge alone there can never be absolute certainty, only increasing probability of approximation; but the religious soul of spiritual illumination knows, and knows now."
  ·        “Choose love and peace will follow. Choose peace and love will follow.”—Mary Helen Doyle
  ·        "Mankind can never discover divinity except through the avenue of religious experience and by the exercise of true faith."