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"I have come into the world…"
'I have come into the world to put love in the place of fear, joy in the place of sorrow, confidence in the place of dread, loving service and appreciative worship in the place of slavish bondage and meaningless ceremonies.'
'You do well to be meek before God and self-controlled before men; but let your meekness be of spiritual origin and not the self-deceptive display of a self-conscious sense of self-righteous superiority. My Father disdains pride, loathes hypocrisy, and abhors iniquity.'
'The Father has sent me into the world to show how he desires to indwell and guide all his earthly children; and I have so lived this life in the flesh as to inspire everybody likewise ever to seek to know and do the will of the indwelling Spirit of the heavenly Father.'
Jesus' kingdom is founded on love, proclaimed in mercy, and established by unselfish service.
"Let me emphatically state…"
'Let me emphatically state this eternal truth: if you, by truth coordination learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, your acquaintances will then seek after you that they may gain what you have acquired.'
'The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness. The extent to which you have to go with your message to the people is, in a way, the measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous life, the truth coordinated life.'
'Many souls can best be led to love the unseen God by first being taught to love their brothers and sisters whom they can see.'
'When religion is wholly spiritual in motive, it makes all of life more worthwhile, filling it with high purposes, dignifying it with transcendent values, inspiring it with superb motives, all the while comforting the human soul with a sublime and sustaining hope.'
'The most thrilling and inspiring of all possible human experiences is the personal quest for truth, the determination to explore the realities of personal religious experience, and the exhilaration of facing the perils of intellectual discovery. It is the supreme satisfaction of experiencing the personal victory of spiritual faith over intellectual doubt as it is honestly won in that supreme adventure of all human existence--man seeking God for himself, of himself, and as himself--and finding him.'
'The religion of the spirit means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress.'
Jesus continued: 'We will shortly begin the bold proclamation of a new religion--a religion that makes its chief appeal to the divine spirit of my Father that resides in the mind of man--a religion that shall derive its authority from the fruits of its acceptance.'
God seeking
'I have called upon you to discover the supernal experience of finding God for yourself, in yourself, and of yourself and as a fact of your own experience. The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the Spirit may take you.'
'The supreme experience of human existence is: finding God for yourselves and knowing him in your own souls.'
'Never forget there is only one adventure that is more satisfying than the attempt to discover the will of God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do the divine will.'
'Spiritual destiny is dependent on faith, love and devotion to truth--hunger and thirst for righteousness--the whole hearted desire to find God and to be like him.'
'You are destined to live a narrow and mean life if you learn to love only those who love you. The less of love in any person's nature the greater their love need--and the more does divine love seek to satisfy such need.'
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