NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 150

• "Throughout Orvonton it is believed that a new type of creation is in process, an order of universes destined to become the scene of the future activities of the assembling Corps of the Finality; and if our conjectures are correct, then the endless future may hold for all of you the same enthralling spectacles that the endless past has held for your 

• seniors and predecessors."
• • "Never did [Jesus] employ the negative mode of teaching derived from the ancient taboos. He refrained from placing emphasis on evil by forbidding it, while he exalted the good by commanding its performance."
• • "If you are willing to become fellow servants with me in doing the Father's will, in the kingdom to come you shall sit with me in power, still doing the Father's will in future glory."
• • "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.' "
• • “We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.”—Jim Wallis
• • "Only the spirit-indwelt man can realize the divine presence and seek to attain a fuller experience in and with this 
• foretaste of divinity."
• • “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”—George Washington Carver
• • “We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.”—Jim Wallis
• • "While the mortals of the realms had salvation even before Jesus lived and died on Urantia, it is nevertheless a fact that his bestowal on this world greatly illuminated the way of salvation; his death did much to make forever plain the certainty of mortal survival after death in the flesh."