tactics

• work is less important than way it is done

39:4.13To the in­hab­ited worlds the quick­en­ers of moral­ity por­tray mor­tal life as an un­bro­ken chain of many links. Your short so­journ on Uran­tia, on this sphere of mor­tal in­fancy, is only a sin­gle link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across uni­verses and through the eter­nal ages. It is not so much what you learn in this first life; it is the ex­pe­ri­ence of liv­ing this life that is im­por­tant. Even the work of this world, paramount though it is, is not nearly so im­por­tant as the way in which you do this work. There is no ma­te­rial re­ward for righ­teous liv­ing, but there is pro­found sat­is­fac­tion—con­scious­ness of achieve­ment—and this tran­scends any con­ceiv­able ma­te­rial re­ward.

• woman early learned to trade upon sex charms

84:3.5Among the more ad­vanced races, women are not so large or so strong as men. Woman, be­ing the weaker, there­fore be­came the more tact­ful; she early learned to trade upon her sex charms. She be­came more alert and con­ser­va­tive than man, though slightly less pro­found. Man was woman’s su­pe­rior on the bat­tle­field and in the hunt; but at home woman has usu­ally out­gen­eraled even the most prim­i­tive of men.

• Jesus would not serve evil that worship of God might presumably derive therefrom

136:9.3You can hardly imag­ine what would have hap­pened on Uran­tia had this God-man, now in po­ten­tial pos­ses­sion of all power in heaven and on earth, once de­cided to un­furl the ban­ner of sov­er­eignty, to mar­shal his won­der-work­ing bat­tal­ions in mil­i­tant ar­ray! But he would not com­pro­mise. He would not serve evil that the wor­ship of God might pre­sum­ably be de­rived there­from. He would abide by the Fa­ther’s will. He would pro­claim to an on­look­ing uni­verse, “You shall wor­ship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.”

• Jesus never resorted to ignoble

149:4.5It was not so much what Je­sus taught about the bal­anced char­ac­ter that im­pressed his as­so­ciates as the fact that his own life was such an elo­quent ex­em­pli­fi­ca­tion of his teach­ing. He lived in the midst of stress and storm, but he never wa­vered. His en­e­mies con­tin­u­ally laid snares for him, but they never en­trapped him. The wise and learned en­deav­ored to trip him, but he did not stum­ble. They sought to em­broil him in de­bate, but his an­swers were al­ways en­light­en­ing, dig­ni­fied, and fi­nal. When he was in­ter­rupted in his dis­courses with mul­ti­tudi­nous ques­tions, his an­swers were al­ways sig­nif­i­cant and con­clu­sive. Never did he re­sort to ig­no­ble tac­tics in meet­ing the con­tin­u­ous pres­sure of his en­e­mies, who did not hes­i­tate to em­ploy ev­ery sort of false, un­fair, and un­righ­teous mode of at­tack upon him.

• Jesus never resorted to ignoble

173:2.7In em­ploy­ing this method of deal­ing with his ad­ver­saries, Je­sus did not mean to dodge the ques­tion. At first it may seem that he was guilty of a mas­terly eva­sion, but it was not so. Je­sus was never dis­posed to take un­fair ad­van­tage of even his en­e­mies. In this ap­par­ent eva­sion he re­ally sup­plied all his hear­ers with the an­swer to the Phar­isees’ ques­tion as to the au­thor­ity be­hind his mis­sion. They had as­serted that he per­formed by au­thor­ity of the prince of dev­ils. Je­sus had re­peat­edly as­serted that all his teach­ing and works were by the power and au­thor­ity of his Fa­ther in heaven. This the Jew­ish lead­ers re­fused to ac­cept and were seek­ing to cor­ner him into ad­mit­ting that he was an ir­reg­u­lar teacher since he had never been sanc­tioned by the San­hedrin. In an­swer­ing them as he did, while not claim­ing au­thor­ity from John, he so sat­is­fied the peo­ple with the in­fer­ence that the ef­fort of his en­e­mies to en­snare him was ef­fec­tively turned upon them­selves and was much to their dis­credit in the eyes of all pres­ent.