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Quotations From a Divine

Revelation of Truth February 2019

Monthly Slide Presentations of Quotations

February 1st

That which the enlightened and reflective human imagination of spiritual teaching and leading wholeheartedly and unselfishly wants to do and be, becomes measurably creative in accordance with the degree of mortal dedication to the divine doing of the Father's will. When man goes in partnership with God, great things may, and do, happen.   132:7.9

February 2nd

Always respect the personality of man. Never should a righteous cause be promoted by force; spiritual victories can be won only by spiritual power. This injunction against the employment of material influences refers to psychic force as well as to physical force. Overpowering arguments and mental superiority are not to be employed to coerce men and women into the kingdom.   159:3.2  

February 3rd

Make your appeals directly to the divine spirit that dwells within the minds of men. 159:3.2 

February 4th

Overpowering arguments and mental superiority are not to be employed to coerce men and women into the kingdom. Man's mind is not to be crushed by the mere weight of logic or overawed by shrewd eloquence. 159:3.2 

February 5th

Make not the mistake of only condemning the wrongs in the lives of your pupils; remember also to accord generous recognition for the most praiseworthy things in their lives. Forget not that I will stop at nothing to restore self-respect to those who have lost it, and who really desire to regain it. 159.3.3

February 6th

The world is filled with hungry souls who famish in the very presence of the bread of life; men die searching for the very God who lives within them. Men seek for the treasures of the kingdom with yearning hearts and weary feet when they are all within the immediate grasp of living faith.   159:3.8 

February 7th

Faith is to religion what sails are to a ship; it is an addition of power, not an added burden of life. There is but one struggle for those who enter the kingdom, and that is to fight the good fight of faith. The believer has only one battle, and that is against doubt -- unbelief.159:3.8 

February 8th

In preaching the gospel of the kingdom, you are simply teaching friendship with God. And this fellowship will appeal alike to men and women in that both will find that which most truly satisfies their characteristic longings and ideals. 159:3.9 

February 9th

You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision. 91:9.5 4. 

February 10th

Truth, beauty, and holiness are powerful and effective aids to true worship. 167:6.6 

February 11th

Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience.101:8.1 

February 12th

You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in order spiritually to be alike. 141:5.1

February 13th

"You are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and be led to glorify your Father who is in heaven. 140:3.13 

February 14th

Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God.2:6.1 

February 15th

Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul's contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with him. 5:0.1

February 16th

Self-maintenance originates society, while excessive self-gratification destroys civilization. 68:2.2 

February 17th

God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man's eternal destination. 5:4.3 

February 18th

Your planet is a member of an enormous cosmos; you belong to a well-nigh infinite family of worlds, but your sphere is just as precisely administered and just as lovingly fostered as if it were the only inhabited world in all existence. 15:14.9 

February 19th

...God thus loves every individual; he is no respecter of persons, and the universality of his love brings into being a relationship of the whole, the universal brotherhood. 12.7.8

February 20th

Almost everything of lasting value in civilization has its roots in the family.  68.2.8

February 21st

And God-consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self with the universe, and on its highest levels of spiritual reality. 196:3.32

February 22nd

True essence... In its true essence, religion is a faith-trust in the goodness of God. 2:6.1

February 23rd

The Experience of Loving
The experience of loving is very much a direct response to the experience of being loved. 2:5.8

February 24th

Dwell In Love "You are of God" because "he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him." 3:1.5

February 25th

The citadel of the spirit. When the flood tides of human adversity... beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable... 100:2.7

February 26th

Service -- more service, increased service, difficult service, adventurous service, and at last divine and perfect service -- is the goal of time and the destination of space. 28:6.17

February 27th

The portal of eternity opens only in response to the freewill choice of the freewill sons of the God of free will.  5:6.12 

February 28th

Hope Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity. 48:6.25