True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

we are deeper still in this love if we have a burning desire for revenge against our neighbors and long for their destruction. I ...

beyond all limits. This is particularly the case with people who extend their domain into heaven and transfer all the Lord’s div ...

[ 10 ] (j) The evil qualities generally found in people who love them- selves are contempt for others, jealousy, unfriendliness ...

physical world is where people are. Because we have been created that way, we have been given an inner and an outer level: an in ...

to realize, however. When we are thinking and willing good things in relation to the Lord and all that is the Lord’s, and when w ...

People who are merely earthly and sense-oriented. 402 Only a few know what “sense-oriented people” are and what they are like, ...

each other, and falsity and truth in collision as well. This makes it clear what “the grinding” or “gnashing of teeth” means in ...

sense impressions have the highest priority and are in control. This type of person can truly be called sense-oriented. [ 20 ] ( ...

and other goods to achieve those useful things, and their sense-oriented self carries them out as part of its position and deriv ...

Love for the world or for wealth comes in many forms, however. It gets worse the closer it approaches to miserliness. At the poi ...

[ 3 ] If we have a love for power that comes from loving ourselves, we also have evils that accompany that love. They are genera ...

There is a common saying that we are all neighbor to ourselves. The body of teaching on goodwill, however, shows how we should u ...

so doing the judges are straightening out the wrongdoers and are caring for people in the area by preventing the wrongdoers from ...

persecuting you, so that you may be children of your Father who is in the heavens. (Matthew 5 : 43 , 44 , 45 ) To Peter, who was ...

[ 3 ] Nevertheless, since these degrees are within people’s inner selves and these are rarely obvious to the world, it is enough ...

Surely everyone understands that loving many people in a group involves more love for our neighbor than loving an individual mem ...

like the difference between the person who traded with two talents and the person who traded with ten (Matthew 25 : 14 – 30 ). I ...

the Lord’s kingdom love the Lord, since the Lord is everything to all his kingdom. On an Even Higher Level, the Neighbor We Are ...

and on earth is the Lord’s body. They are in the Lord and the Lord is in them. Loving the Lord’s kingdom, then, is fully loving ...

downward and look at the ground, while people look at the sky in all directions, their faces lifted up. From these points we can ...