impossibilities

• none with God

2:1.2“There is but one God, the in­fi­nite Fa­ther, who is also a faith­ful Cre­ator.” “The di­vine Cre­ator is also the Uni­ver­sal Dis­poser, the source and des­tiny of souls. He is the Su­preme Soul, the Pri­mal Mind, and the Un­lim­ited Spirit of all cre­ation.” “The great Con­trol­ler makes no mis­takes. He is re­splen­dent in majesty and glory.” “The Cre­ator God is wholly de­void of fear and en­mity. He is im­mor­tal, eter­nal, self-ex­is­tent, di­vine, and boun­ti­ful.” “How pure and beau­ti­ful, how deep and un­fath­omable is the su­per­nal An­ces­tor of all things!” “The In­fi­nite is most ex­cel­lent in that he im­parts him­self to men. He is the be­gin­ning and the end, the Fa­ther of ev­ery good and per­fect pur­pose.” “With God all things are pos­si­ble; the eter­nal Cre­ator is the cause of causes.”

• none with God

3:2.2Within the bounds of that which is con­sis­tent with the di­vine na­ture, it is lit­er­ally true that “with God all things are pos­si­ble.” The long-drawn-out evo­lu­tion­ary pro­cesses of peo­ples, plan­ets, and uni­verses are un­der the per­fect con­trol of the uni­verse cre­ators and ad­min­is­tra­tors and un­fold in ac­cor­dance with the eter­nal pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, pro­ceed­ing in har­mony and or­der and in keep­ing with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one law­giver. He up­holds the worlds in space and swings the uni­verses around the end­less cir­cle of the eter­nal cir­cuit.

• none with God

26:5.3That, then, is the pri­mary or el­e­men­tary course which con­fronts the faith-tested and much-trav­eled pil­grims of space. But long be­fore reach­ing Ha­vona, these as­cen­dant chil­dren of time have learned to feast upon un­cer­tainty, to fat­ten upon dis­ap­point­ment, to en­thuse over ap­par­ent de­feat, to in­vig­o­rate in the pres­ence of dif­fi­cul­ties, to ex­hibit in­domitable cour­age in the face of im­men­sity, and to ex­er­cise un­con­quer­able faith when con­fronted with the chal­lenge of the in­ex­pli­ca­ble. Long since, the bat­tle cry of these pil­grims be­came: “In li­ai­son with God, noth­ing—ab­so­lutely noth­ing—is im­pos­si­ble.”

• none with God

107:4.7Can you re­ally re­al­ize the true sig­nif­i­cance of the Ad­juster’s in­dwelling? Do you re­ally fathom what it means to have an ab­so­lute frag­ment of the ab­so­lute and in­fi­nite De­ity, the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, in­dwelling and fus­ing with your fi­nite mor­tal na­tures? When mor­tal man fuses with an ac­tual frag­ment of the ex­is­ten­tial Cause of the to­tal cos­mos, no limit can ever be placed upon the des­tiny of such an un­prece­dented and unimag­in­able part­ner­ship. In eter­nity, man will be dis­cov­er­ing not only the in­fin­ity of the ob­jec­tive De­ity but also the un­end­ing po­ten­tial­ity of the sub­jec­tive frag­ment of this same God. Al­ways will the Ad­juster be re­veal­ing to the mor­tal per­son­al­ity the won­der of God, and never can this su­per­nal rev­e­la­tion come to an end, for the Ad­juster is of God and as God to mor­tal man.

• none with God

131:10.2“The Lord our God is one Lord, and you should love him with all your mind and heart while you do your very best to love all his chil­dren as you love your­self. This one God is our heav­enly Fa­ther, in whom all things con­sist, and who dwells, by his spirit, in ev­ery sin­cere hu­man soul. And we who are the chil­dren of God should learn how to com­mit the keep­ing of our souls to him as to a faith­ful Cre­ator. With our heav­enly Fa­ther all things are pos­si­ble. Since he is the Cre­ator, hav­ing made all things and all be­ings, it could not be oth­er­wise. Though we can­not see God, we can know him. And by daily liv­ing the will of the Fa­ther in heaven, we can re­veal him to our fel­low men.

• none with God

163:3.2When Pe­ter and the apos­tles heard these words, they were as­ton­ished ex­ceed­ingly, so much so that Pe­ter said: “Who then, Lord, can be saved? Shall all who have riches be kept out of the king­dom?” And Je­sus replied: “No, Pe­ter, but all who put their trust in riches shall hardly en­ter into the spir­i­tual life that leads to eter­nal prog­ress. But even then, much which is im­pos­si­ble to man is not be­yond the reach of the Fa­ther in heaven; rather should we rec­og­nize that with God all things are pos­si­ble.”

• none with God

182:3.2The Mas­ter re­mained in a prayer­ful at­ti­tude for a few mo­ments, and then, go­ing over to the three apos­tles, he found them sound asleep, for their eyes were heavy and they could not re­main awake. As Je­sus awoke them, he said: “What! can you not watch with me even for one hour? Can­not you see that my soul is ex­ceed­ingly sor­row­ful, even to death, and that I crave your com­pan­ion­ship?” Af­ter the three had aroused from their slum­ber, the Mas­ter again went apart by him­self and, falling down on the ground, again prayed: “Fa­ther, I know it is pos­si­ble to avoid this cup—all things are pos­si­ble with you—but I have come to do your will, and while this is a bit­ter cup, I would drink it if it is your will.” And when he had thus prayed, a mighty an­gel came down by his side and, speak­ing to him, touched him and strength­ened him.