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> [ Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he \[man\] concentrated on technical and material values and lost… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/having-lost-religious-faith-and-the-humanistic-values-bound-up-with/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

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> [I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-bennis/i-ve-become-more-and-more-aware-of-the-promise-and-struggle-to-teach/)

[Warren Bennis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-bennis/)

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> [The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-wilhelm-friedrich-schlegel/the-most-important-thing-in-love-is-the-sense-for-one-another-and-the/)

[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-wilhelm-friedrich-schlegel/)

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> [“I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-lawson/i-would-like-to-be-able-to-say-that-i-threw-myself-into-the-spirit-of/)

[Mary Lawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-lawson/)

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> [“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/something-that-happens-almost-always-with-women-who-maintain-their/)

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/)

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> [“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-think-that-when-you-consider-the-beauty-of-the-world-and-you-wonder/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ole-hallesby/if-we-pray-for-anything-according-to-the-will-of-god-we-already-have/)

[Ole Hallesby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ole-hallesby/)

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> [Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-maddow/americans-are-incredibly-religious-as-a-nation-and-we-have-gotten/)

[Rachel Maddow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-maddow/)

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> [“Up until the 1950s the subject of the missionary movement was referred to as "missions" in the plural form. In fact, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-c-kaiser-jr/up-until-the-1950s-the-subject-of-the-missionary-movement-was/)

[Walter C. Kaiser Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-c-kaiser-jr/)

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> [“Concerning Attis, apologist Weigall remarks: Then again, there was the worship of Attis, a very popular religion which must have influenced the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-m-murdock/concerning-attis-apologist-weigall-remarks-then-again-there-was-the/)

[D.M. Murdock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-m-murdock/)

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> [Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/some-volumes-against-deism-fell-into-my-hands-they-produced-an-effect/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-robertson/people-think-we-didn-t-have-theatres-in-scotland-for-centuries/)

[James Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-robertson/)

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> [“When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/when-can-it-be-said-that-one-has-entered-into-spirituality/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/people-who-think-they-can-just-do-a-non-stop-flight-to-mystical-non/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“You live in days when a lingering, Lot-like religion abounds. The stream of profession is far broader than it once was, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-ryle-2/you-live-in-days-when-a-lingering-lot-like-religion-abounds-the/)

[J.C. Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-ryle-2/)

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> [“The idea is that human culture as broadly defined--art, politics, technology, religion, and so on--evolves in much the way biological species evolve:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-wright/the-idea-is-that-human-culture-as-broadly-defined-art-politics/)

[Robert Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-wright/)

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> [Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/christianity-is-the-fastest-growing-religion-in-the-world-islam-is/)

[Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/)

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> [“Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-pearce/having-a-religion-doesn-t-make-a-person-love-or-not-love-others-it/)

[Dan Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-pearce/)

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> [“It doesn't matter what form she takes - a living spirit, an illusion - but you have to see her, have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/it-doesn-t-matter-what-form-she-takes-a-living-spirit-an-illusion-but-2/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [“Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-maudlin/theism-as-religious-people-typically-hold-it-does-not-merely-state/)

[Tim Maudlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-maudlin/)

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> [“The progressive religionists and those who are responsible human beings or those who do not want to spoil their valuable human lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/satsvarupa-dasa-goswami/the-progressive-religionists-and-those-who-are-responsible-human/)

[Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/satsvarupa-dasa-goswami/)

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> [Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/of-all-the-major-religions-or-lack-thereof-the-atheist-s-is-one-of/)

[Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/)

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> [“In his brief theology of sleep, Scottish pastor John Baillie writes that in Christ, we “wake up better men than when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tish-harrison-warren/in-his-brief-theology-of-sleep-scottish-pastor-john-baillie-writes/)

[Tish Harrison Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tish-harrison-warren/)

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> [The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-strachan/the-legislature-of-lower-canada-consisting-chiefly-of-roman-catholics/)

[John Strachan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-strachan/)

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> [The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-perkins-gilman/the-religious-need-of-the-human-mind-remains-alive-never-more-so-but/)

[Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman/)

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> [I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-love-religion-i-could-make-up-religions-all-day-i-sort-of-think/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/i-m-simply-saying-that-there-is-a-way-to-be-sane-i-m-saying-that-you/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-burpo/being-a-pastor-of-course-obviously-people-would-say-it-shouldn-t-have/)

[Todd Burpo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-burpo/)

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> [“You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-k-morrow/you-speak-of-sorcery-it-so-happens-that-in-the-investigations-leading/)

[James K. Morrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-k-morrow/)

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> [The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-latour/the-only-shibboleth-the-west-has-is-science-it-is-the-premise-of/)

[Bruno Latour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-latour/)

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> [“It is not just that secularists happen to reject and oppose religion; it's that there is nothing more to their creed than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-feser/it-is-not-just-that-secularists-happen-to-reject-and-oppose-religion/)

[Edward Feser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-feser/)

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> [The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/delbert-l-stapley/the-natural-inclination-of-man-is-to-rely-solely-upon-himself-and-to/)

[Delbert L. Stapley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/delbert-l-stapley/)

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> [“I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-bronte/i-am-seldom-otherwise-than-happy-while-watching-in-the-chamber-of/)

[Emily Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-bronte/)

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> [“Truth is the world and falseness is man who lives within his mind world which has copied the world of Truth. Therefore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woo-myung/truth-is-the-world-and-falseness-is-man-who-lives-within-his-mind/)

[Woo Myung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woo-myung/)

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> [“Instead of using our platforms and influence to persuade other people of faith to take a moral stand against secular ethics, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-sauls/instead-of-using-our-platforms-and-influence-to-persuade-other-people/)

[Scott Sauls](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-sauls/)

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> [As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/duane-elgin/as-my-spiritual-growth-expanded-and-developed-voluntary-simplicity/)

[Duane Elgin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/duane-elgin/)

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> [We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis/we-live-in-a-country-where-we-re-supposed-to-have-freedom-of-the/)

[John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis/)

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> [The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/the-period-of-catholic-ascendancy-was-on-the-whole-one-of-the-most/)

[William Edward Hartpole Lecky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-edward-hartpole-lecky/)

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> [When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/when-a-man-s-heart-is-right-with-god-the-mysterious-utterances-of-the/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-katie/i-am-a-lover-of-what-is-not-because-i-m-a-spiritual-person-but-2/)

[Byron Katie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-katie/)

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                        "text": "I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.",
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                        "text": "The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.",
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                        "text": "“I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you’ve thought in a certain way for many years, if you’ve had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you’re bound to feel … disconnected”",
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                        "text": "“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart as they age. Let us add in parentheses that to maintain all this is the only way to preserve one’s beauty even in old age.”",
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                        "text": "“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is, you are naturally overwhelmed with a feeling of awe, a feeling of admiration and you almost feel a desire to worship something. I feel this, I recognise that other scientists such as Carl Sagan feel this, Einstein felt it. We, all of us, share a kind of religious reverence for the beauties of the universe, for the complexity of life. For the sheer magnitude of the cosmos, the sheer magnitude of geological time. And it’s tempting to translate that feeling of awe and worship into a desire to worship some particular thing, a person, an agent. You want to attribute it to a maker, to a creator. What science has now achieved is an emancipation from that impulse to attribute these things to a creator. -- God Delusion debate Professor Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox”",
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                        "text": "If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.",
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                        "text": "Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.",
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                        "text": "“Up until the 1950s the subject of the missionary movement was referred to as \"missions\" in the plural form. In fact, the term \"missions\" was first used in its current context by the Jesuits in the sixteenth century. But the International Missionary Council discussions in the 1950s on the missio- Dei convinced most that the mission of the Triune God was prior to any of the number of missions by Christians during the two millennia of church history. Consequently, since there was only one mission, the plural form has dropped out of familir usage and the singular form, \"mission,\" has replaced it for the most part. Nevertheless, most churches and lay-persons hang on the plural missions. For that reason, and to make our point clear here, we will refer to it in this work from time to time while alerting believers to the coming change.”",
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                        "text": "“Concerning Attis, apologist Weigall remarks: Then again, there was the worship of Attis, a very popular religion which must have influenced the early Christians. Attis was the Good Shepherd, the son of Cybele, the Great Mother, or alternatively, of the Virgin Nana, who conceived him without union with mortal man, as in the story of the Virgin Mary... In Rome the festival of his death and resurrection was annually held from March 22nd to 25th; and the connection of this religion with Christianity is shown by the fact that in Phrygia, Gaul, Italy and other countries where Attis-worship was powerful, the Christians adopted the actual date, March 25th, as the anniversary of our Lord's passion.258”",
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                        "text": "Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.",
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                        "text": "“People think we didn't have theatres in Scotland for centuries because the Church suppressed them. Well, perhaps. But you could also argue that we had theatres in every town and village in the land: they were called kirks, and every week folk packed in to see a one-man show about life, death and the universe.”",
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                        "text": "“When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.”",
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                        "text": "People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the process, are usually not right. That's airy-fairy thinking. They have to wait until they are hurt themselves, or they are cheated, or lied to or betrayed, and they will see that their non-dual thinking is not tested, or truly a gift of the spirit. It's simply fuzzy thinking.",
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                        "text": "“You live in days when a lingering, Lot-like religion abounds. The stream of profession is far broader than it once was, but far less deep in many places. A certain kind of Christianity is almost fashionable now. To belong to some party in the Church of England, and show a zeal for its interests--to talk about the leading controversies of the day--to buy popular religious books as fast as they come out, and lay them on your table--to attend meetings--to subscribe to Societies--to discuss the merits of preachers--to be enthusiastic and excited about every new form of sensational religion which crops up--all these are now comparatively easy and common attainments. They no longer make a person singular. They require little or no sacrifice. They entail no cross. But to walk closely with God--to be really spiritually-minded--to behave like strangers and pilgrims--to be distinct from the world in employment of time, in conversation, in amusements, in dress--to bear a faithful witness for Christ in all places--to leave a savour of our Master in every society--to be prayerful, humble, unselfish, good-tempered, quiet, easily pleased, charitable, patient, meek--to be jealously afraid of all manner of sin, and tremblingly alive to our danger from the world--these, these are still rare things! They are not common among those who are called true Christians, and, worst of all, the absence of them is not felt and bewailed as it should be.”",
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                        "text": "Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.",
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                        "text": "“The progressive religionists and those who are responsible human beings or those who do not want to spoil their valuable human lives should refrain from all the principles of irreligiosity, especially illicit connection with women. If a brāhmaṇa is not truthful, all his claims as a brāhmaṇa at once become null and void. If a sannyāsī is illicitly connected with women, all his claims as a sannyāsī at once become false. Similarly, if the king and the public leader are unnecessarily proud or habituated to drinking and smoking, certainly they become disqualified to discharge public welfare activities. Truthfulness is the basic principle for all religions. The four leaders of the human society, namely the sannyāsīs, the brāhmaṇa, the king and the public leader, must be tested crucially by their character and qualification. Before one can be accepted as a spiritual or material master of society, he must be tested by the above-mentioned criteria of character. Such public leaders may be less qualified in academic qualifications, but it is necessary primarily that they be free from the contamination of the four disqualifications, namely gambling, drinking, prostitution and animal slaughter. – Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.17.41, purport”",
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                        "text": "Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.",
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                        "text": "“In his brief theology of sleep, Scottish pastor John Baillie writes that in Christ, we “wake up better men than when we went to sleep.”16 If it is hard for us to believe that God is at work in us and in the world even while we sleep, it reveals who we truly think is the mover and maker of our lives and spiritual health.”",
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                        "text": "The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world.",
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                        "text": "I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.",
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                        "text": "“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty. That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”",
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                        "text": "“You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.”",
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