NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 944

 

• ·       “Jesus always insisted that true goodness must be unconscious, in bestowing charity not allowing the left hand to know what the right hand does.”

  ·       “While the Isle of Paradise contains certain places of worship, it is more nearly one vast sanctuary of divine service.”

  ·       "Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strengths." ~ Corrie Ten Boom

  ·       “An almost endless variety of creature life and other living manifestations characterizes the countless worlds of space.”

  ·       “Intelligence may control the mechanism of civilization, wisdom may direct it, but spiritual idealism is the energy which really uplifts and advances human culture from one level of attainment to another.”

  ·       “Ever will Urantia physicists and chemists progress in their understanding of the protoplasmic forms of vegetable and animal life, but never will they be able to produce living organisms.”

  ·       “He never ceased to warn his disciples against the evil practice of retaliation; he made no allowance for revenge, the idea of getting even. He deplored the holding of grudges.”

  ·       “The normal urges of animal beings and the natural appetites and impulses of the physical nature are not in conflict with even the highest spiritual attainment except in the minds of ignorant, mistaught, or unfortunately overconscientious persons.”

  ·       “The doctrine of a personal devil on Urantia, though it had some foundation in the planetary presence of the traitorous and iniquitous Caligastia, was nevertheless wholly fictitious in its teachings that such a “devil” could influence the normal human mind against its free and natural choosing.”

  ·       “In the spiritual world there is no such thing as menial work; all service is sacred and exhilarating; neither do the higher orders of beings look down upon the lower orders of existence.”