The religionist is conscious of universe citizenship and aware of contact with the supernatural. UB 100:6.3
The most amazing earmarks of religion are dynamic peace and cosmic poise. UB 100:6.6
Genuine religious experience is evidenced by twelve characteristics.
Causes ethics and morals to progress despite inherent animalistic tendencies.
Produces sublime trust in the goodness of God in the face of bitter disappointment and crushing defeat.
Generates profound courage and confidence despite natural adversity and physical calamity.
Exhibits inexplicable poise and sustaining tranquility notwithstanding baffling diseases and acute physical suffering.
Maintains a mysterious composure of personality in the face of maltreatment and the rankest injustice.
Maintains a divine trust in ultimate victory in spite of the cruelties of seemingly blind fate and the apparent utter indifference of natural forces to human welfare.
Persists in the unswerving belief in God despite all contrary demonstrations of logic and successfully withstands all other intellectual sophistries.
Exhibits undaunted faith in the soul’s survival regardless of the deceptive teachings of false science and the persuasive delusions of unsound philosophy.
Lives and triumphs irrespective of the crushing overload of the complex and partial civilizations of modern times.
Contributes to the survival of altruism in spite of human selfishness, social antagonisms, industrial greeds, and political maladjustments.
Steadfastly adheres to a sublime belief in universe unity and divine guidance regardless of the perplexing presence of evil and sin.
Goes right on worshipping God in spite of anything and everything. Declares: “Even though he slay me, yet will I serve him.” UB 101:3.4
Religious experience can never be fully understood by the material mind. UB 5:5.6
Religious experience ranges from the primitive to the superb consciousness of sonship with God. UB 101:0.1
Avoid allowing your religious experience to become egocentric. UB 103:1.3
Spiritual birth may be either complacent or “stormy.” UB 103:2.1
The experiencing of God may be valid, even when its theology is fallacious. UB 103:8.2
The reality of religious experience transcends reason, science, philosophy, and wisdom. UB 103:9.12
Personal religious experience is an efficient solvent for most mortal difficulties. UB 196:3.1
Religious experience knows God as a Father, and man as a brother. UB 99:5.1
Dynamic religion transforms the mediocre individual into a person of idealistic power. UB 100:0.1
Religion is the experience of experiencing the reality of believing in God. UB 101:1.4
Reason and logic can never validate the values of religious experience. UB 101:10.6
In the triumphant struggle of the faith son, “Even time itself becomes but the shadow of eternity cast by Paradise realities upon the moving panoply of space.” UB 101:10.9
Religionists live as if already in the presence of the Eternal. UB 102:2.3