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The Urantia Book presents love as the dominant reality of the universe — the very nature of God and the highest relationship. These 20 passages reveal the depth and breadth of the Urantia Papers’ teachings on love.

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On the Nature of Divine Love

“God is love, but love is not God.” — Paper 2:5.10
“Love is the desire to do good to others.” — Paper 56:10.21
“The Father’s love can become real to mortal man only by passing through that man’s personality as he in turn bestows this love upon his fellows.” — Paper 117:6.10
“In the true meaning of the word, love connotes mutual regard of whole personalities.” — Paper 112:2.7
“Love is the secret of beneficial association between personalities.” — Paper 12:9.2

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On God’s Love for Humanity

“The love of God is an intelligent and farseeing parental affection.” — Paper 2:6.2
“God is divinely kind to sinners. When rebels return to righteousness, they are mercifully received.” — Paper 2:5.4
“The infinite love of God is not secondary to anything in the divine nature. It is wrong to think of God as being coaxed into loving his children.” — Paper 2:6.9
“When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good.” — Paper 2:6.2
“The affectionate heavenly Father, whose spirit indwells his children on earth, is not a divided personality — one of justice and one of mercy.” — Paper 2:6.6

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On Human Love and Relationships

“Love is the greatest of all spirit realities. Truth is a liberating revelation, but love is the supreme relationship.” — Paper 143:1.4
“You cannot truly love your fellows by a mere act of the will. Love is only born of thoroughgoing understanding of your neighbor’s motives and sentiments.” — Paper 100:4.6
“Love, unselfishness, must undergo a constant and living readaptative interpretation of relationships in accordance with the leading of the Spirit of Truth.” — Paper 180:5.10
“It is not so important to love all men today as it is that each day you learn to love one more human being.” — Paper 100:4.6
“When a wise man understands the inner impulses of his fellows, he will love them. And when you love your brother, you have already forgiven him.” — Paper 174:1.5

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On Love in Action

“Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful.” — Paper 192:2.1
“If you learn to love only those who love you, you are destined to live a narrow and circumscribed life.” — Paper 156:5.11
“The religion of Jesus demands living and spiritual experience, not merely intellectual beliefs or conventional morals.” — Paper 160:5.12
“Service — purposeful service, not slavery — produces the highest satisfaction and is expressive of the divinest dignity.” — Paper 28:6.17
“Spiritual growth is mutually stimulated by intimate association with other religionists. Love supplies the soil for religious growth.” — Paper 100:0.2

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