UBQ Scroll 3

Perfection Is Our Goal

We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not strange that everything does not work in perfection; our universe was not created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin.

Hope that Transcends Fear

And throughout every trial and in the presence of every hardship, spirit-born souls are sustained by that hope which transcends all fear because the love of God is shed abroad in all hearts by the presence of the divine Spirit.

The Power of an Idea

In influencing the expanding evolutionary mind, the power of an idea lies not in its reality or reasonableness but rather in its vividness and the universality of its ready and simple application.

Goodness, Beauty, and Truth

The sincere pursuit of goodness, beauty, and truth leads to God.

Service

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.

Greatness

Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength.

The Privilege of Service

The privilege of service immediately follows the discovery of trustworthiness. Nothing can stand between you and opportunity for increased service except your own untrustworthiness, your lack of capacity for appreciation of the solemnity of trust.

Trustworthiness

Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character.

Achievement

Your actual achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward.

A Heart Dominated by Love

Let your hearts be so dominated by love that your spirit guide will have little trouble in delivering you from the tendency to give vent to those outbursts of animal anger which are inconsistent with the status of divine sonship.

Time

You all have time in which to insure your survival; and time is fatally squandered only when it is buried in neglect... Failure to improve one's time to the fullest extent possible does not impose fatal penalties; it merely retards the pilgrim of time in his journey of ascent.

Mercy requires...

Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude regarding his evil thoughts and sinful acts.

The Educated Person

Truly educated persons are not satisfied with remaining in ignorance of the lives and doings of their fellows.

Regrettable Experiences

Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity.

Opportunity

What you begin in time you will assuredly finish in eternity -- if it is worth finishing.

Ambition

Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it.

Love your Enemies

Love your enemies -- remember the moral claims of human brotherhood.

Heroism

Mind bravery is a higher type of human courage, but the highest and supreme is uncompromising loyalty to the enlightened convictions of profound spiritual realities. And such courage constitutes the heroism of the God-knowing man.

Change without Growth

Change without growth, expansion of meaning and exaltation of value, is valueless -- is potential evil.

Acts of Goodness

No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of its motivation.

Hardships of Life

When thinking men and women look upon Jesus as he offers up his life on the cross, they will hardly again permit themselves to complain at even the severest hardships of life, much less at petty harassments and their many purely fictitious grievances.

Divine Love

The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil.

Life's Opportunities

Ability is the practical measure of life's opportunities. You will never be held responsible for the accomplishment of that which is beyond your abilities.

Graciousness

You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul.

Exhibiting Mercy

You should realize that there is a great reward of personal satisfaction in being first just, next fair, then patient, then kind. And then, on that foundation, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and really show mercy; but you cannot exhibit mercy in and of itself.

Love Others

If you love people, they will draw near you -- you will have no difficulty in winning them.

Love

Love is the desire to do good to others.

Evil

The possibility of evil is necessary to moral choosing, but not the actuality thereof....Evil becomes a reality of personal experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice.

Living Truth

Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service.

Faith and Fear

Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul.

Triumphant Faith

Belief may not be able to resist doubt and withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is both positive and living.

Fatherly Love

Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it always looks for the best in man; that is the attitude of a true parent.

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.

Prejudice Blinds the Soul

Prejudice blinds the soul to the recognition of truth, and prejudice can be removed only by the sincere devotion of the soul to the adoration of a cause that is all-embracing and all-inclusive of one's fellow men.

A Philosophy of Living

An effective philosophy of living is formed by a combination of cosmic insight and the total of one’s emotional reactions to the social and economic environment.

Human Rights

Every human right is associated with a social duty; group privilege is an insurance mechanism which unfailingly demands the full payment of the exacting premiums of group service.

Things Spiritual

Your only assurance of a personal God consists in your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual.

Our Earthly Goal

At first life was a struggle for existence; now, for a standard of living; next it will be for quality of thinking, the coming earthly goal of human existence.

Our Relationships

The relationships between personalities are never scaffolding; mortal memory of personality relationships has cosmic value and will persist.

Dangers of Pride

Of all the dangers which beset man's mortal nature and jeopardize his spiritual integrity, pride is the greatest. Courage is valorous, but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.

Personality

If this were a mechanistic universe . . . there would be no disagreement; there would be no friction. But in our evolving universe of relative perfection and imperfection we rejoice that disagreement and misunderstanding are possible, for thereby is evidenced the fact and the act of personality in the universe.

Afflictions

Man should not blame God for those afflictions which are the natural result of the life which he chooses to live; neither should man complain of those experiences which are a part of life as it is lived on this world.

Perfection

We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not strange that everything does not work in perfection; our universe was not created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin.

Humor

Humor functions as an automatic safety valve to prevent the building up of excessive pressures due to the monotony of sustained and serious self-contemplation..

Effective Praying

You must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.

A Victorious Human Life

The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is born of that creature faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of existence when confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it.!

Brotherhood

Brotherhood constitutes a fact of relationship between every personality in universal existence. No person can escape the benefits or the penalties that may come as a result of relationship to other persons. The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man augments the tribulation of all men.

Unexpected Situations

The mortal personality, never sure as to which will next be encountered, through humor swiftly grasps... the unexpected nature of the situation be it fact or be it truth.

Our Future and Past

The future signifies struggle and advancement; it bespeaks work, effort, and achievement; but the past savors of things already mastered and achieved.

Peace on Earth

Without God, neither freedom and liberty, nor property and wealth will lead to peace.

Unremitting Service

Jesus taught men to place a high value upon themselves in time and in eternity. Because of this high estimate which Jesus placed upon men, he was willing to spend himself in the unremitting service of humankind.

Uncertainty

When the clouds gather overhead, your faith should accept the fact of the presence of the indwelling Spirit Adjuster, and thus you should be able to look beyond the mists of mortal uncertainty into the clear shining of the sun of eternal righteousness ...

Misguided Conscience

A misguided conscience can become responsible for much conflict, worry, sorrow, and no end of human unhappiness.

Spiritual Loyalty and Wealth

Riches have nothing directly to do with entrance into the kingdom of heaven, but the love of wealth does. The spiritual loyalties of the kingdom are incompatible with servility to materialistic mammon. Man may not share his supreme loyalty to a spiritual ideal with a material devotion.

Freewill Choice

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

Courage

Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.

Pressure

Man is not saved or ennobled by pressure...Spiritual growth is greatest where all external pressures are at a minimum.

Providence

When men pray for providential intervention in the circumstances of life, many times the answer to their prayer is their own changed attitudes toward life.

Mind - The Referee

The mind of evolutionary man is ever confronted with the intricate problem of refereeing the contest between the natural expansion of emotional impulses and the moral growth of unselfish urges predicated on spiritual insight.

Partnership with God

...When man and God enter into partnership, no limitation can be placed upon the future possibilities of such a partnership.

Truth

The more truth you know, the more truth you are, the more of the past you can understand and of the future you can comprehend.

The Sincere Religionist

The sincere religionist is conscious of universe citizenship and is aware of making contact with sources of superhuman power.

Genuine Religion

Genuine religion renders the religionist socially fragrant and creates insights into human fellowship.

Genuine Prayer

Genuine prayer adds to spiritual growth, modifies attitudes, and yields that satisfaction which comes from communion with divinity.

Effective Prayer

If you engage in effective praying, you must make a wholehearted choice of the divine will. You must obliterate the dead center of indecision.

An Eternal Quest

Knowledge is an eternal quest; always are you learning, but never are you able to arrive at the full knowledge of absolute truth.

Love

Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.

True Religion

Always keep in mind: True religion is to know God as your Father and man as your brother.

Greatness

To be great is to be Godlike.

Egoistic Desires

Jesus seemed to be utterly free from all egoistic desire to win an argument merely to experience logical triumph over his fellows, being interested supremely in just one thing: to proclaim everlasting truth ...

Eternal Life

When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of the spirit as children of light and life, even the eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of finding God the Father on Paradise.

Work

Have faith in God to the end of your days on earth. Never forget that, when you are a faith son of God, all upright work of the realm is sacred. Nothing which a son of God does can be common. Do your work, therefore, from this time on, as for God.

Tact and Tolerance

You cannot hope for a large measure of success in either secular or religious work unless you can learn how to persuade your fellows.... You simply must have tact and tolerance.

True Believer

The true believer does not grow weary in well-doing just because he is thwarted. Difficulty whets the ardor of the truth lover, while obstacles only challenge the exertions of the undaunted kingdom builder.

Every Moral Choice

Every time man makes a reflective moral choice, he immediately experiences a new divine invasion of his soul.

God Concious Mortal

The God-conscious mortal is certain of salvation; he is unafraid of life; he is honest and consistent. He knows how bravely to endure unavoidable suffering; he is uncomplaining when faced by inescapable hardship.

Religious Faith

Religious faith is available alike to the learned and the unlearned.

God's Will

Never forget there is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that divine will.

Jesus' Religious Life

The secret of Jesus' unparalleled religious life was a consciousness of the presence of God; and he attained it by intelligent prayer and sincere worship ...

Fatherly Love

Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it always looks for the best in man...

Fear and Anger

Fear and anger weaken character and destroy happiness.

Effective Praying

You must qualify as a potent prayer by sincerely and courageously facing the problems of universe reality. You must possess cosmic stamina.

Moral and Spiritual Adjustments

Only moral and spiritual adjustments can be made on the spur of the moment, and even these require the passing of time for the full outworking of their material and social repercussions.

Values

You can best discover values in your associates by discovering their motivation. If someone irritates you, causes feelings of resentment, you should sympathetically seek to discern his viewpoint, his reasons for such objectionable conduct.

Our Father Within Us

Do not allow the magnitude of the infinity, the immensity of the eternity, and the grandeur and glory of the matchless character of God to overawe, stagger, or discourage you; for the Father is not very far from any one of you; he dwells within you...