True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

They said, “Let’s go capture the city, drive out its inhabitants, and loot their possessions.” They came closer to the city, but ...

primary as there is between something superior and something inferior. In fact, if you are willing to believe it, there is as mu ...

which is actually a craving belonging to their flesh, comes back into play and thrusts out any thought of the truth. Afterward, ...

and earth, as he himself taught (Matthew 28 : 18 ), and to give up the teaching that faith justifies people without the works of ...

granted enlightenment from heaven; and with that enlightenment has come the perception that the church doesn’t even exist in the ...

to salvation is external and common. Travel it if you want, but you should keep in mind that everything good comes from God and ...

faith alone. Your views on faith and on everything spiritual that relates to the church and religion cause you to see people as ...

that direction. As I came closer, the roaring stopped and I heard a noise like a crowd of people. Then I noticed a house full of ...

people have no religion. Clearly, religion is doing good to our neighbor for the sake of God and therefore with God and from God ...

The conversation with the clergyman who had a faith that was sepa- rate from goodwill went like this: The angel said, “Friend, w ...

[ 3 ] The angel’s conversation with the clergyman who had a faith that was united to goodwill went like this: “Friend, who are y ...

Chapter 7 Goodwill (or Loving Our Neighbor) and Good Actions 392 H AVING addressed faith, we now turn to goodwill, because faith ...

be incomprehensible since, as I have said and shown in the previous chapter, faith without goodwill is not faith; goodwill witho ...

There Are Three Universal Categories of Love: Love for Heaven; Love for the World; and Love for Ourselves We are starting with t ...

As I have mentioned several times before [§§ 34 , 42 , 69 , 147 , 186 , 296 ], the human mind is divided into three regions. Fro ...

goodness and truth; love in general; love for the world and love for ourselves in specific; our outer and inner selves;and peopl ...

us our will is the underlying reality of our life and our intellect is the resulting manifestation of our life, because the good ...

relates to goodness and truth, so everything that is against the divine design relates to evil and falsity. As goodness loves to ...

more. When we do get more we are profoundly overjoyed. When we lose wealth we are profoundly grief-stricken. Our heart is in it. ...

[ 8 ] (h) The two types of love that originate all forms of goodness and truth, which are the types of love in heaven, open and ...