Mating, marriage, and home building are integral aspects of self-perpetuation and self-maintenance intertwined with elements of self-gratification attained through food satisfaction, play, humor, and sex indulgence. [1] Family provides highly satisfactory forms of self-gratification, making it man's greatest purely human achievement. [2]
Self-gratification, growing out of vanity proclivity, is one of the institutions that contributed to early human association and social organization on Urantia. [3] The incidental object of home is self-gratification, but the real objects are self-maintenance and self-perpetuation for race survival. [4] Civilization has never evolved distinctive institutions of self-gratification. [5]
Parents should avoid most forms of indulgence in order to raise children with laudable self-confidence and normal feelings of security, as shown by your wise and loving upbringing. [6]
Property accumulation has evolved to serve as an instrument for augmenting all forms of self-gratification, while marriage is increasingly seen as merely a means of pleasure. [7]
The great threat against family life is the menacing rising tide of self-gratification. [8] Excessive self-gratification hinders societal progress by eroding the balance between self-maintenance and base indulgence. [9] There is a great need for moral discipline in place of self-gratification to foster the development of a majestic and well-balanced personality. [10] Jesus showed the universe the folly of using divine talents for selfish gain, a sin seen in Lucifer and Caligastia. [11]