THE LOVE NEED

The less of love in any creature’s nature, the greater the love need. . .

To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality. And as this love comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression in the lives of God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity:  intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual joy, and cosmic wisdom. Advanced mortals have learned that love is the greatest thing in the univers— and they know that God is love.

Human nature may tend toward evil, but it is not inherently sinful. 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.  But you can lighten your burdens of soul by speedily acquiring a long-distance view of your destiny, a universe expansion of your career.

Make not the mistake of estimating the soul’s worth by the imperfections of the mind or by the appetites of the body.  Judge not the soul nor evaluate its destiny by the standard of a single unfortunate human episode.  Your spiritual destiny is conditioned only by your spiritual longings and purposes.

Religion is the exclusively spiritual experience of the evolving immortal soul of the God-knowing man, but moral power and spiritual energy are mighty forces which may be utilized in dealing with difficult social situations and in solving intricate economic problems.  These moral and spiritual endowments make all levels of human living richer and more meaningful. Love is the desire to do good to others; 

You are destined to live a narrow and mean life if you learn to love only those who love you.  Human love may indeed be reciprocal, but divine love is outgoing in all its satisfaction-seeking.  The less of love in any creature’s nature, the greater the love need, and the more does divine love seek to satisfy such need.  Love is never self-seeking, and it cannot be self-bestowed.  Divine love cannot be self-contained; it must be unselfishly bestowed.
                                                   —Jesus

THE URANTIA BOOK
PAPER 156:   THE SOJOURN AT TYRE AND SIDON
SECTION 5:  JESUS’ TEACHING AT TYRE