“You are sons of spiritual promise, faith sons; you have accepted the status of sonship. You believe in the reality of your sonship, and thus does your sonship with God become eternally real.” [UB, 40:6.4]
“Organized religion has proved to be conservatively tardy. The prophets have usually led the people in religious development; the theologians have usually held them back.” [UB, 102:8.6]
Thought Adjuster: “This quote made you pause, as it nails down what impairs sound religious development.
“When a wise man understands the inner impulses of his fellows, he will love them. And when you love your brother, you have already forgiven him. [. . .] The child, being immature and lacking in the fuller understanding of the depth of the child-father relationship, must frequently feel a sense of guilty separation from a father’s full approval, but the true father is never conscious of any such separation. Sin is an experience of creature consciousness; it is not a part of God’s consciousness. [UB, 174:1.4]
“God, being eternal, universal, absolute, and infinite, does not grow in knowledge nor increase in wisdom. God does not acquire experience, as finite man might conjecture or comprehend, but he does, within the realms of his own eternal personality, enjoy those continuous expansions of self-realization which are in certain ways comparable to, and analogous with, the acquirement of new experience by the finite creatures of the evolutionary worlds.” [UB, 1:5.14]
“Nevertheless, [Jesus] did show man the best way of living, and no generation is exempt from the labor of discovering how best to adapt Jesus’ life to its own problems. But never make the mistake of identifying Jesus’ teachings with any political or economic theory, with any social or industrial system.” [UB, 140:8.10]
“Nevertheless, [Jesus] did show man the best way of living, and no generation is exempt from the labor of discovering how best to adapt Jesus’ life to its own problems. But never make the mistake of identifying Jesus’ teachings with any political or economic theory, with any social or industrial system.” [UB, 140:8.10]
“Slavery to tradition produces stability and co-operation by sentimentally linking the past with the present, but it likewise stifles initiative and enslaves the creative powers of the personality.” [UB, 66 :6.2]
Thought Adjuster: "In your world, traditions and handed-down belief systems have morphed into handicaps that impair the full expression of human personalities, depriving them of the lifegiving oxygen injected by innovative initiatives.
Thought Adjuster: “In a perfect world, love leads two individuals to form a partnership—the building block of a good family. The only right the Father confers to each spouse is to love and cherish their mate, thus creating a favorable environment for the next generation of eternal souls.
Sadly, partners butt heads in many relationships. They weaponize their words, criticize or misunderstand their mate, and self-righteously mete out physical or emotional punishment—a far cry from fulfilling their fiduciary duties.
“The Dalamatia teachers [. . .] did not derange human society, but they did markedly accelerate its normal and natural revolution by revelation. The human race had spent ages in acquiring the little religion and morals it had, and these supermen knew better than to rob mankind of these few advances by the confusion and dismay which always result when enlightened and superior beings undertake to uplift the backward races by overteaching and overenlightenment. [UB, 66 :6.6]