Stagnation

True religion is alive and requires constant spiritual growth, intellectual expansion, and social service; for the crystallization of religious concepts leads to spiritual death. 102:2.7

In order to endure, economies, societies, and governments must evolve; stagnant conditions on a dynamic planet are indicative of decay. 71:4.1

In the eternal career, progress is driven by action and ethics, never encountering stagnation of personality. 28:6.18

The stagnant soul, devoid of moral thinking and spiritual activity, is a dying soul. 133:6.5

Stagnation terminates in inevitable death, but progress in the morontia and spirit worlds is gradual and upward. 39:4.12 112:5.20

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.

• Greatest be server of all 28:6.18 — Acts 20:35.
• Greatest be server of all (quotation) 28:6.18 — Mt 20:26-27; Mt 23:11-12; Mk 9:35; Mk 10:43-44; Lk 22:26.