48:7.17 15. Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to appear rich.
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48:7.18 16. You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity.
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9. Limited access to social services and support networks
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48:7.23 21. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.
“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.”
34:7.7 (383.1)
“Why are you so slow to learn that the secret of greatness in the spiritual kingdom is not like the methods of power in the material world?”
Jesus, 179:3.8 (1939.6)
“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.”
36:6.1 (403.6)
The Divine Family
This very love of God for the individual brings into being the divine family of all individuals, the universal brotherhood of the freewill children of the Paradise Father. 12:7.10
A Dominant Faith
"...believe with a whole heart; your faith shall dominate the combined attitudes of body, mind, and spirit." ~Jesus~ 155:6.17
“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.”
81:6.27 (909.8)
A Thought to Ponder from The Urantia Book