All too oftens

The phrase "all too _____" occurs 28 times in The Urantia Book, and in most cases it is an observation of something unfortunate and negative in the affairs of the evolutionary universe that need not be that way if only a personality could know and choose better.

All too often

All too often...

• [9:5.7] "...you mar your minds by insincerity and sear them with unrighteousness; you subject them to animal fear and distort them by useless anxiety..."

• [50:5.6 3] "...(An of of the material-comfort era is) characterized by tyranny, intolerance, gluttony, and drunkenness.

• [56:10.3] "...you limit (the pursuit of beauty—cosmology) to the study of man’s crude artistic endeavors."

• [69:2.7] "...(you attribute) success which accrue(s) from patient practice...to charms." Though ostensibly about early humans and their early foresight, surely we resemble this still today.

• [70:9.16] the weak and the inferior insist the state remedy deficiencies that "...are the natural result of their own indifference and indolence."

• [94:3.8] Brahmanic philosophy has "fallen victim to the error of failing to differentiate between the several levels of reality, such as absolute, transcendental, and finite."

• [102:1.3] revelation of (unchanging) truth has "been mixed up with the statements of partial and transient cosmologies (teaching about the physical world)."

• [103:3.3] "religion is (helpless) to change man’s environment" even though it is really designed to do so.

• [117:6.9] men "...forget that God is the greatest experience in human existence."

• [118:10.7] "...the product of (man's) own imagination, the fortuitous juxtaposition of the circumstances of chance" are called providence.

• [122:4.4] "The early followers of Jesus...succumbed to the temptation to make all the olden prophetic utterances appear to find fulfillment in the life of their Lord and Master."

• [123:4.2] "Jewish children in the times of Jesus played at the more serious things they observed their elders doing" but had "few organized games, such as children of later days so much enjoy."

• [140:5.7] "...happiness has been associated with the idea of the possession of wealth." Midwayer commentary on the Sermon on the Mount.

• [148:5.4] Said Jesus: "...there has prevailed a tendency to ascribe to God the responsibility for everything which ignorant man fails to understand."

• [156:5.4] Said Jesus: "...men are all led into temptation by the urge of their own selfishness and by the impulses of their animal natures."

• [160:3.4] Observed Rodan: "...when we battle for the right, it turns out that both the victor and the vanquished have sustained defeat...We engage in a fight merely to convince ourselves that we are not afraid."

• [165:4.6] Said Jesus: "...the love of riches obscures and even destroys the spiritual vision...wealth (becomes) not your servant, but your master.”

• [184:2.12] "...one’s own mind tends to justify continuance in the path of error when once it is entered upon." Midwayers commenting on the need for great and noble character to own up to being on a wrong path.

All too...

• [4:3.1] All too long has man thought of God as one like himself.

• [96:6.3] Joshua's people were "all too willing to believe their old and native religion but unwilling to go forward in the religion of faith and righteousness." Hence this Old Testament prophet spoke a stern message.

• [149:5.3] "All too many of man’s troubles take origin in the fear soil of his own natural heart."

• [166:4.3] Said Jesus: "All too long have your fathers believed that prosperity was the token of divine approval; that adversity was the proof of God’s displeasure."

• [170:5.15] The early Christians (and all too many of the later ones) generally lost sight of the Father-and-son idea embodied in Jesus’ teaching of the kingdom, while they substituted therefor the well-organized social fellowship of the church.

Other

Not strictly negative observations.

• [54:4.7] "While it is all too true that good cannot come of evil to the one who contemplates and performs evil, it is equally true that all things (including evil, potential and manifest) work together for good to all beings who know God, love to do his will, and are ascending Paradiseward according to his eternal plan and divine purpose."

• [94:5.4] "But it is all too true that, by the time the Melchizedek missionaries had penetrated to the lands of the yellow race, their original message had become considerably changed from the simple doctrines of Salem in the days of Machiventa."

• [95:6.4] "All too true, (Zoroaster's) later followers did both reverence and worship this symbolic fire" even though Zoroaster never taught this.

• [138:9.2] (Jesus' family) "...simply could not fathom his philosophy nor grasp his teaching; it was all too much for those of his own flesh and blood."

• [195:10.14] It is all too true that such a church would not have survived unless there had been men in the world who preferred such a style of worship. Many spiritually indolent souls crave an ancient and authoritative religion of ritual and sacred traditions.