Ambitions
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Abraham’s surrender of personal ambitions in behalf of Melchizedek is why three celestial beings appeared to him 93:6.7
man many times bows down before the idols of his selfish ambitions 4:3.1
thousands of men allow ambition to enslave them to debt 69:8.10
Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of personality credits established by the combined ministries of nature and grace. The majority of impoverished souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it. 48:7.6
Forceful ambition, intelligent judgment, and seasoned wisdom are the essentials of material success 156:5.7
ambition is futile without an audience to parade before 68:2.10
In the Urantia Book
Jesus repeatedly dashed his apostles’ ambitions (139:0.1)
- every human being should remember: Many ambitions to excel which tantalize mortals in the flesh will not persist with these same mortals in the morontia and spirit careers, but before ascending mortals leave the local universe to embark upon their spirit careers, they will be satiated respecting every intellectual, artistic, and social longing or true ambition 44:8.4-5
Ambitions may thwart maternal instinct (84:1.7)
Ambition is opposed by animal indolence (111:7.5)
- spirit-born individuals are so remotivated in life that they can calmly stand by while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash 100:2.8
- it is forever true: What we begin in time we will assuredly finish in eternity—if it is worth finishing. 111:3.7
Ambition in religiones
- belief in charms did much to destroy personal ambition and initiative 88:6.6
- mortal desire and human ambition were virtually destroyed by Vedic doctrines 94:2.4
- Buddhists taught all human striving distasteful 94:8.17
Dangers of ambition
- Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it. 48:7.19
- ambition can become dangerous when it is once wholly wedded to self-seeking and supremely motivated by sullen and long-suppressed vengeance 177:4.10
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Three celestials 93:6.7 — Gn 18:1-16.
- Fact and myth 93:6.7 — Gn 18:16-33; Gn 19:1-29.
- God is not manlike 4:3.1 — Nm 23:19; 1 Sam 15:29.
- God said to be jealous for 4:3.1 — Ezk 39:25; Jl 2:18; Zec 1:14; Zec 8:2. *God said to be jealous of*: Ex 20:5; Ex 34:14; Nah 1:2; Dt 4:24; Dt 5:9; Dt 6:15; Jos 24:19.
- Hunger for righteousness 156:5.7 — Mt 5:6; Lk 6:21.
Where it appears
Ambitions is linked in 1 paragraph of the text.