Delay
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Also: delays, postponement.
Shortsighted and time-bound mortal minds should be slow to criticize the time delays of the farseeing and all-wise administrators of universe affairs. 54:6.8
On Paradise, disappointment is never regarded as defeat; postponement is never looked upon as disgrace; the apparent failures of time are never confused with the significant delays of eternity. 26:8.3-4
The mansonia life early teaches the young morontia pupils that postponement is in no sense avoidance. 48:5.8
In the Urantia Book
Wisdom of delay
- between reasons for delay are: 54:4-5
- # Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude
- # Supreme justice is dominated by a Father’s love
- # No affectionate father is ever precipitate in visiting punishment
- # wisdom and love admonish the upright children to bear with an erring brother
- # it is required an unqualified sovereignty to exercise summary jurisdiction
- # The Ancients of Days seldom execute wrongdoers without a full hearing.
- # it is better to stay away from the rebels and allow the rebellion to take its natural course of self-destruction
- # it is better to allow the rebels free course to the end that all sympathy for these evildoers should be the sooner uprooted in the heart
- # it is needed to foster full opportunity for every living creature to mature a deliberate choice in any matter
- # full disclosure and unlimited opportunity for sin-expression is the quickest technique of achieving the perfect and final cure of the plague of evil and sin.
- # at least three times the number of beings are led astray if arbitrary or summary methods of suppression are attempted.
- # Time, even in a universe of time, is relative. Sometimes time is shorter than we think
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