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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
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I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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