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The Urantia Book Fellowship

Our purpose is connecting people together as brothers & sisters to share truths of The Urantia Book.

Our mission is to facilitate the worldwide spread of The Urantia Book and its teachings, to stimulate study, support individual spiritual growth, connect truth seekers, and ensure that reliable resources about The Urantia Book and related communities are available to people everywhere. Our vision: A global community promoting spiritual transformation by sharing a revelation of living truth.

09/30/2026

Religion lives and prospers, then, not by sight and feeling, but rather by faith and insight. It consists not in the discovery of new facts or in the finding of a unique experience, but rather in the discovery of new and spiritual meanings in facts already well known to mankind. The highest religious experience is not dependent on prior acts of belief, tradition, and authority; neither is religion the offspring of sublime feelings and purely mystical emotions. It is, rather, a profoundly deep and actual experience of spiritual communion with the spirit influences resident within the human mind, and as far as such an experience is definable in terms of psychology, it is simply the experience of experiencing the reality of believing in God as the reality of such a purely personal experience.~101:1.4~

09/29/2026

Religion is so vital that it persists in the absence of learning. It lives in spite of its contamination with erroneous cosmologies and false philosophies; it survives even the confusion of metaphysics. In and through all the historic vicissitudes of religion there ever persists that which is indispensable to human progress and survival: the ethical conscience and the moral consciousness. ~101:3.1~

09/28/2026

No matter what upheavals may attend the social and economic growth of civilization,
religion is genuine and worth while if it fosters in the individual an experience
in which the sovereignty of truth, beauty, and goodness prevails,
for such is the true spiritual concept of supreme reality.
And through love and worship this becomes meaningful as fellowship with man and sonship with God. ~99:4.4~

09/27/2026

Modern man is confronted with the task of making more readjustments of human values in one generation than have been made in two thousand years. And this all influences the social attitude toward religion, for religion is a way of living as well as a technique of thinking. ~92:7.14~

09/26/2026

Religion is only an exalted humanism until it is made divine by the discovery of the reality of the presence of God in personal experience. ~195:10.1~

09/25/2026

Religion must ever be its own critic and judge; it can never be observed, much less understood, from the outside. Your only assurance of a personal God consists in your own insight as to your belief in, and experience with, things spiritual. To all of your fellows who have had a similar experience, no argument about the personality or reality of God is necessary, while to all other men who are not thus sure of God no possible argument could ever be truly convincing.
~101:2.16~

09/24/2026

Jesus founded the religion of personal experience in doing the will of God and serving the human brotherhood; Paul founded a religion in which the glorified Jesus became the object of worship and the brotherhood consisted of fellow believers in the divine Christ. In the bestowal of Jesus these two concepts were potential in his divine-human life, and it is indeed a pity that his followers failed to create a unified religion which might have given proper recognition to both the human and the divine natures of the Master as they were inseparably bound up in his earth life and so gloriously set forth in the original gospel of the kingdom. ~196:2.6~

09/23/2026

Science deals with facts; religion is concerned only with values. Through enlightened philosophy the mind endeavors to unite the meanings of both facts and values, thereby arriving at a concept of complete reality. Remember that science is the domain of knowledge, philosophy the realm of wisdom, and religion the sphere of the faith experience. ~101:5.2~

09/22/2026

The purpose of religion is not to satisfy curiosity about God but rather to afford intellectual constancy and philosophic security, to stabilize and enrich human living by blending the mortal with the divine, the partial with the perfect, man and God.
It is through religious experience that man's concepts of ideality are endowed with reality.
~101:10.5~

09/21/2026

The highest evidence of the reality and efficacy of religion consists in the fact of human experience; namely, that man, naturally fearful and suspicious, innately endowed with a strong instinct of self-preservation and craving survival after death, is willing fully to trust the deepest interests of his present and future to the keeping and direction of that power and person designated by his faith as God. That is the one central truth of all religion. As to what that power or person requires of man in return for this watchcare and final salvation, no two religions agree; in fact, they all more or less disagree.
~102:8.1~

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