Thoughts to Ponder
Daily Quotes from The Urantia Book
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For the week starting Sunday, December 31, 2006
For the week ending Sunday, January 28, 2007
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December 31
When all is said and done, the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God. [The Urantia Book, p. 2097, par. 3]
January 1
The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God
[The Urantia Book, p. 22, par. 5]
January 2
The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction.
God can be realized only in the realms of human experience [The Urantia Book, p. 24, par. 2]
January 3
Those who know God have experienced the fact of his presence; such God-knowing mortals hold in their personal
experience the only positive proof of the existence of the living God which one human being can offer to another. [The Urantia Book, p. 24, par. 3]
January 4
It is not necessary to see God with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faith-vision of the
spiritualized mind. [The Urantia Book, p. 25, par. 3]
January 5
The more completely man understands himself and appreciates the personality values of his fellows, the more he
will crave to know the Original Personality, and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human will strive to become like the
Original Personality. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 6
You can argue over opinions about God, but experience with him and in him exists above and beyond all human controversy
and mere intellectual logic. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
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For the week starting Sunday, January 10, 2007
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January 7
The God-knowing man describes his spiritual experiences, not to convince unbelievers, but for the edification
and mutual satisfaction of believers. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 8
To assume that the universe can be known, that it is intelligible, is to assume that the universe is mind made
and personality managed. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 6]
January 9
If man's personality can experience the universe, there is a divine mind and an actual personality somewhere
concealed in that universe. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 6]
January 10
The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him. [The Urantia Book, p. 38, par. 2]
January 11
Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love. [The Urantia Book, p. 38, par. 4]
January 12
Though you cannot find God by searching, if you will submit to the leading of the indwelling spirit, you will
be unerringly guided, step by step, life by life, through universe upon universe, and age by age, until you finally stand
in the presence of the Paradise personality of the Universal Father. [The Urantia Book, p. 39, par. 4]
January 13
The experience of loving is very much a direct response to the experience of being loved. [The Urantia Book, p. 39, par. 7]
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For the week starting Sunday, January 14, 2007
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January 14
For, as a father, a real father, a true father, loves his children, so the Universal Father loves and forever
seeks the welfare of his created sons and daughters. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 1]
January 15
God is love, but love is not God. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 2]
January 16
When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 4]
January 17
Love is the dominant characteristic of all God's personal dealings with his creatures. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 4]
January 18
In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth,
but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 5]
January 19
Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 5]
January 20
Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. [The Urantia Book, p. 42, par. 7]
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For the week starting Sunday, January 21, 2007
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January 21
Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor. [The Urantia Book, p. 42, par. 7]
January 22
Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. [The Urantia Book, p. 43, par. 5]
January 23
Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates
grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 5]
January 24
Is altruism -- service of one's fellows -- desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations
of social inequality. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 6]
January 25
Is hope -- the grandeur of trust -- desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities
and recurrent uncertainties. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 7]
January 26
Is faith -- the supreme assertion of human thought -- desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that
troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 8]
January 27
Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world
where error is present and falsehood always possible. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 9]
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For the week starting Sunday, January 28, 2007
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January 28
Is idealism -- the approaching concept of the divine -- desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of
relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 10]
January 29
Is loyalty -- devotion to highest duty -- desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal
and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 11]
January 30
Is unselfishness -- the spirit of self-forgetfulness -- desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with
the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 12]
January 31
Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving
hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 12]
February 1
Is pleasure -- the satisfaction of happiness -- desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative
of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 13]
February 2
Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. The source of the streams of universe life and of the
cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestation. [The Urantia Book, p. 53, par. 1]
February 3
The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man's mind can be
truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. [The Urantia Book, p. 53, par. 1]
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