True Christianity: The Portable New Century Edition, Volume 1

truth, and love for our neighbor come from nowhere else. Love for our neighbor, then, has a heavenly origin. It is the same thin ...

and words come from their higher mind, which is spiritual, through their lower mind, which is earthly. (As people generally know ...

when an opportunity occurs, they culminate in actions and become embodied in them (§§ 375 – 376 ). Goodwill Itself Is Acting Jus ...

way to do this is through practicing goodness and justice in our position and work and with the people with whom we have any int ...

above. “Acts of kindness,” however, refers to helpful acts that are done outside of our work. They are called acts of kindness b ...

ple do the same acts of kindness but abstain from the evils just listed because these evils are the enemies of goodwill. Neverth ...

Doing an act of kindness for an evildoer is like giving bread to a devil; the devil will turn it into poison. All bread that is ...

country or church as their neighbor, on the other hand, perform their tax-paying obligations unwillingly and with resistance. As ...

deceitful than if they are good, well behaved, and careful; such parents love children who are useless to the public more than c ...

goodwill, the conversations would entail goodwill and its forms of joy and happiness. The spiritual atmosphere that prevailed du ...

witness to love for others, a seductive ploy to place others under obliga- tion, and an indulgence in physical pleasures, especi ...

superficially polished and beautifully colored, which are offered for sale as precious stones. Briefly put, these good deeds wou ...

on her face, wears gorgeous clothing, and makes an effort to be attrac- tive by saying nice things and paying compliments? The n ...

have apparent power, none of us could fight against the flesh and its crav- ings, although we have all been ordered to do so. In ...

The Lord teaches in Luke that we are not supposed to do good for the purpose of getting a reward: If you benefit people who bene ...

It is completely different for people who focus on getting a reward as 441 the primary goal of what they do. They are like those ...

442 It is extremely important to realize that goodwill is closely linked to faith in the Lord. The quality of the faith determin ...

learn to add the exercise of rationality, and we use that rationality to enhance the morality of our life. The moral life in you ...

444 When our moral life is also spiritual, it is a life of goodwill, because the practices involved in a moral life and in a lif ...

Therefore people who live by both sets of laws as one law are truly moral and live a life of goodwill. Anyone who wants to grasp ...