May 1

Prayer has been the ancestor of much peace of mind, cheerfulness, calmness, courage, self-mastery, and fair-mindedness in the men and women of the evolving races. [The Urantia Book, p. 998, par. 3]

May 2

If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing some friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change of attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life. [The Urantia Book, p. 998, par. 6]

May 3

Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Deity and to revere truth, beauty, and goodness without form and ritual. [The Urantia Book, p. 999, par. 3]

May 4

Prayer has turned many an irritable and complaining invalid into a paragon of patience and made him an inspiration to all other human sufferers. [The Urantia Book, p. 999, par. 5]

May 5

Do not be so slothful as to ask God to solve your difficulties, but never hesitate to ask him for wisdom and spiritual strength to guide and sustain you while you yourself resolutely and courageously attack the problems at hand. [The Urantia Book, p. 999, par. 8]

May 6

Pray as Jesus taught his disciples--honestly, unselfishly, with fairness, and without doubting. [The Urantia Book, p. 999, par. 9]

May 7

God answers the soul's attitude, not the words. [The Urantia Book, p. 1002, par. 4]

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May 8

Prayer is not a technique of escape from conflict but rather a stimulus to growth in the very face of conflict. [The Urantia Book, p. 1002, par. 5]

May 9

Pray only for values, not things; for growth, not for gratification. [The Urantia Book, p. 1002, par. 5]

May 10

Civilization, science, and advanced religions must deliver mankind from those fears born of the dread of natural phenomena. [The Urantia Book, p. 1013, par. 6]

May 11

Man's greatest spiritual jeopardy consists in partial progress, the predicament of unfinished growth: forsaking the evolutionary religions of fear without immediately grasping the revelatory religion of love. [The Urantia Book, p. 1090, par. 4]

May 12

Any religious belief which is effective in spiritualizing the believer is certain to have powerful repercussions in the social life of such a religionist. [The Urantia Book, p. 1091, par. 5]

May 13

Religious experience unfailingly yields the "fruits of the spirit" in the daily life of the spirit-led mortal. [The Urantia Book, p. 1091, par. 5]

May 14

Religion inspires man to live courageously and joyfully on the face of the earth; it joins patience with passion, insight to zeal, sympathy with power, and ideals with energy. [The Urantia Book, p. 1093, par. 1]

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May 15

Religion ennobles the commonplace drudgery of daily living. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 2]

May 16

Some persons are too busy to grow and are therefore in grave danger of spiritual fixation. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 4]

May 17

The chief inhibitors of growth are prejudice and ignorance. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 4]

May 18

Give every developing child a chance to grow his own religious experience; do not force a ready-made adult experience upon him. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 5]

May 19

Growth is not truly indicated by mere products but rather by progress. Real educational growth is indicated by enhancement of ideals, increased appreciation of values, new meanings of values, and augmented loyalty to supreme values. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 5]

May 20

Children are permanently impressed only by the loyalties of their adult associates; precept or even example is not lastingly influential. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 6]

May 21

Live loyally today--grow--and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole. [The Urantia Book, p. 1094, par. 6]

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May 22

Religion cannot be bestowed, received, loaned, learned, or lost. It is a personal experience which grows proportionally to the growing quest for final values. [The Urantia Book, p. 1095, par. 2]

May 23

Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values. [The Urantia Book, p. 1095, par. 6]

May 24

Spirit-born individuals are so remotivated in life that they can calmly stand by while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash. [The Urantia Book, p. 1096, par. 5]

May 25

Religion is not a technique for attaining a static and blissful peace of mind; it is an impulse for organizing the soul for dynamic service. [The Urantia Book, p. 1096, par. 6]

May 26

Love thus grows; it cannot be created, manufactured, or purchased; it must grow. [The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 4]

May 27

New meanings only emerge amid conflict; and conflict persists only in the face of refusal to espouse the higher values connoted in superior meanings. [The Urantia Book, p. 1097, par. 5]

May 28