I do not cling to faith in God as would a struggling soul at war with the universe and at death grips with a hostile and sinful world; I do not resort to faith merely as a consolation in the midst of difficulties or as a comfort in threatened despair; my faith is not just an illusory compensation for the unpleasant realities and the sorrows of living.
In the very face of all the natural difficulties and the temporal contradictions of mortal existence, I experience the tranquillity of supreme and unquestioned trust in God and feel the tremendous thrill of living, by faith, in the very presence of the heavenly Father.
And this triumphant faith is a living experience of actual spirit attainment which each and all shall achieve in their evolutionary advancement.
Michael Of Nebadon
The Urantia Papers
