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> [“Knowledge.Grace. True union with the divine. I find that sort of prayer so much more difficult than the other, because it requires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-jarzab/knowledge-grace-true-union-with-the-divine-i-find-that-sort-of-prayer/)

[Anna Jarzab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-jarzab/)

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> [“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/citizens-the-nineteenth-century-is-grand-but-the-twentieth-century/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [“One night, after hours, you are alone and running your hands under the hot water when the voice asks if you aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-dewitt/one-night-after-hours-you-are-alone-and-running-your-hands-under-the/)

[Patrick deWitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-dewitt/)

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> [It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-ax/it-s-hard-not-to-hate-people-things-institutions-when-they-break-your/)

[J-Ax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-ax/)

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> [“Thus, Christ making His human divine and taking it into heaven is the central event of all time. It is the miracle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-sanchez/thus-christ-making-his-human-divine-and-taking-it-into-heaven-is-the/)

[Steve Sanchez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-sanchez/)

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> [“The fact is that men encounter more complicity in their woman companions than the oppressor usually finds in the oppressed; and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/the-fact-is-that-men-encounter-more-complicity-in-their-woman/)

[Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/)

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> [“All those bickering worshippers, each one convinced their version is the right one. Imagine getting prayers from ten million believers, not one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/all-those-bickering-worshippers-each-one-convinced-their-version-is/)

[Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-erikson/)

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> [Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooke-fraser/those-who-have-had-the-most-impact-and-influence-throughout-history/)

[Brooke Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooke-fraser/)

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> [A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/a-vile-imagination-once-indulged-gets-the-key-of-our-minds-and-can/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/but-in-reading-all-of-the-passages-in-which-jesus-uses-the-word-hell/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-lionel-kendrick/there-is-a-difference-in-just-attending-the-temple-and-having-a-rich/)

[L. Lionel Kendrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-lionel-kendrick/)

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> [“However, once the freedom of private judgment was enshrined in the American Constitution, nothing could stop the avalanche of new denominations: Mormons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-m-seghers/however-once-the-freedom-of-private-judgment-was-enshrined-in-the/)

[James M. Seghers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-m-seghers/)

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> [Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/love-is-the-source-of-our-greatest-errors-but-when-it-is-even/)

[Iris Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-murdoch/)

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> [Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/calvin-coolidge/our-government-rests-upon-religion-it-is-from-that-source-that-we/)

[Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/calvin-coolidge/)

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> [“The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immortal, therefore he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/the-essence-of-faith-is-the-idea-that-that-which-man-wishes-actually/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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> [“The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/the-time-and-space-in-which-i-have-been-working-on-this-cosmopolitan/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramakrishna/with-sincerity-and-earnestness-one-can-realize-god-through-all/)

[Ramakrishna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramakrishna/)

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> [“1:8 The apostles’ mission of spreading the gospel was the major reason the Holy Spirit empowered them. This event dramatically altered world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-macarthur/1-8-the-apostles-mission-of-spreading-the-gospel-was-the-major-reason/)

[John MacArthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-macarthur/)

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> [The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-dangers-is-that-every-religion-including-the-catholic-one-says-i/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/our-culture-is-not-unacquainted-with-the-idea-of-food-as-a/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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> [I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-nicholson/i-resist-all-established-beliefs-my-religion-basically-is-to-be/)

[Jack Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-nicholson/)

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> [Some people go too church and shout 'amen' louder than everyone else, thinking it proves how spiritual they are. In reality, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hagee/some-people-go-too-church-and-shout-amen-louder-than-everyone-else/)

[John Hagee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hagee/)

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> [Because the Holy Spirit is God, we feel Him as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. When He does that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-r-swindoll/because-the-holy-spirit-is-god-we-feel-him-as-he-controls-our/)

[Charles R. Swindoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-r-swindoll/)

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> [What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-hamel/what-s-true-for-churches-is-true-for-other-institutions-the-older-and/)

[Gary Hamel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-hamel/)

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> [The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-time-must-come-inevitably-when-mankind-shall-surmount-the/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [“Ephesians bids us to shod our feet with the preparation of the gospel. One of my aims as a young man was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-davis/ephesians-bids-us-to-shod-our-feet-with-the-preparation-of-the-gospel/)

[Patrick Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-davis/)

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> [“But why is that so? These days many people feel disconnected from the religion of their childhood. I know many people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-richmond/but-why-is-that-so-these-days-many-people-feel-disconnected-from-the/)

[Lewis Richmond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-richmond/)

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> [“Following the Lord's authority, one of the distinctives of Christian cultural understanding is that it also is minimally concerned with politics. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-wilson/following-the-lord-s-authority-one-of-the-distinctives-of-christian/)

[Douglas Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-wilson/)

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> [When I learned to cook, I was in my early 20s, and my granny and my mom and my aunt would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tabitha-brown/when-i-learned-to-cook-i-was-in-my-early-20s-and-my-granny-and-my-mom/)

[Tabitha Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tabitha-brown/)

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> [“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dr-mawde-royden/muhammad-introduced-the-concept-of-such-glorious-and-omnipotent-god/)

[Dr. Mawde Royden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dr-mawde-royden/)

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> [It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-webster-leadbeater/it-has-not-been-the-fashion-to-be-scientific-about-religion-but-it-is/)

[Charles Webster Leadbeater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-webster-leadbeater/)

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> [A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-bavinck/a-theologian-is-a-person-who-makes-bold-to-speak-about-god-because-he/)

[Herman Bavinck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-bavinck/)

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> [The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-r-mcconkie/the-holy-ghost-a-personage-of-spirit-is-their-minister-who-has-been/)

[Bruce R. McConkie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-r-mcconkie/)

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> [“As societies trivialize traditional values, we witness a flow of immense suffering. We anguish, for instance, over what happens to the unborn,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-a-maxwell/as-societies-trivialize-traditional-values-we-witness-a-flow-of/)

[Neal A. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-a-maxwell/)

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> [“Be still,25 and know that I am God, saith the Scripture. Excuse thyself from talking many idle words: neither backbite, nor lend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyril-of-jerusalem/be-still-25-and-know-that-i-am-god-saith-the-scripture-excuse-thyself/)

[Cyril of Jerusalem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyril-of-jerusalem/)

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> [If you look at the young people today, they are passionate about all kinds of courses. We have dog-lovers, nature-lovers, those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-hsien-loong/if-you-look-at-the-young-people-today-they-are-passionate-about-all/)

[Lee Hsien Loong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-hsien-loong/)

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> [“Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/courtesy-not-control-that-was-his-means-just-as-he-requested-the/)

[Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/)

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> [A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who's going to hell and who's going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-d-mclaren/a-lot-of-arguments-happen-among-religious-and-non-religious-people/)

[Brian D. McLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-d-mclaren/)

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> [May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/may-it-not-also-be-that-the-cause-of-civilization-itself-will-be/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-wright/churches-are-tax-exempt-because-they-are-supposed-to-provide-a-public/)

[Lawrence Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-wright/)

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                        "text": "“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will no longer have to fear, as now, a conquest, an invasion, a usurpation, a rivalry of nations with the armed hand, an interruption of civilisation depending on a marriage of kings, a birth in the hereditary tyrannies, a partition of the peoples by a Congress, a dismemberment by the downfall of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting head to head, like two goats of darkness, upon the bridge of the infinite; they will no longer have to fear famine, speculation, prostitution from distress, misery from lack of work, and the scaffold, and the sword, and the battle, and all the brigandages of chance in the forest of events. We might almost say: there will be no events more. Men will be happy. The human race will fulfil its law as the terrestrial globe fulfils its; harmony will be re-established between the soul and the star; the soul will gravitate about the truth like the star about the light.”",
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                        "text": "It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.",
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                        "text": "“All those bickering worshippers, each one convinced their version is the right one. Imagine getting prayers from ten million believers, not one of them believing the same thing as the one kneeling beside him or her. Imagine all those Holy Books, not one of them agreeing on anything, yet all of them purporting to be the word of that one god. Imagine two armies annihilating each other, both in that god's name. Who wouldn't be driven mad by that?”",
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                        "text": "A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.",
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                        "text": "“But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word \"hell,\" what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about \"beliefs\" as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the world.”",
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                        "text": "There is a difference in just attending the temple and having a rich spiritual experience. The real blessings of the temple come as we enhance our temple experience. To do so, we must feel a spirit of reverence for the temple and a spirit of worship.",
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                        "text": "“However, once the freedom of private judgment was enshrined in the American Constitution, nothing could stop the avalanche of new denominations: Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Theosophists, Spiritualists, Christian Scientists, Seventh-Day Adventists, and a host of others rapidly emerged.”",
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                        "text": "Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun.",
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                        "text": "Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government. There are only two main theories of government in the world. One rests on righteousness and the other on force. One appeals to reason, the other appeals to the sword. One is exemplified in a republic, the other is represented by a despotism. The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of men. Of course we can help to restrain the vicious and furnish a fair degree of security and protection by legislation and police control, but the real reform which society in these days is seeking will come as a result of religious convictions, or they will not come at all. Peace, justice, charity- these cannot be legislated into being. They a",
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                        "text": "“The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others, unconditional forgiveness, is itself a _prophetic call_ to which we all have to respond––as humans, as person of faith. The _real_ is always about calculation and conditionality, whereas the _ideal_ of cosmopolitan theology is about incalculability, unconditionality, and planetarity of the _world-as-it-ought-to-be_. Therefore, the disparity between the reality and the ideality is not a space for despair but a space where one's sense of prophetic call_ and passion for _the impossible_ must come in.”",
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                        "text": "“1:8 The apostles’ mission of spreading the gospel was the major reason the Holy Spirit empowered them. This event dramatically altered world history, and the gospel message eventually reached all parts of the earth (Matt. 28:19, 20). receive power. The apostles had already experienced the Holy Spirit’s saving, guiding, teaching, and miracle-working power. Soon they would receive His indwelling presence and a new dimension of power for witness (2:4; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph. 3:16, 20). witnesses. People who tell the truth about Jesus Christ (John 14:26; 1 Pet. 3:15). The Greek word means “one who dies for his faith” because that was commonly the price of witnessing. Judea. The region in which Jerusalem was located. Samaria. The region immediately to the north of Judea. Jesus Ascends to Heaven 9Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.”",
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                        "text": "“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Generally unacceptable reasons: environmental destruction, energy waste, the poisoning of workers. Acceptable: it's prohibited by a holy text. Set down a platter of country ham in front of a rabbi, an imam, and a Buddhist monk, and you may have just conjured three different visions of damnation. Guests with high blood pressure may add a fourth. Is it such a stretch, then, to make moral choices about food based on the global consequences of its production and transport?”",
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                        "text": "I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?",
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                        "text": "Because the Holy Spirit is God, we feel Him as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. When He does that, He uses us. He melts us in relationships. He molds us in the pursuit and the direction of His will. He fills us with power and the perseverance to keep at it. He uses as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. Ask the Spirit of God to use you, just as you are, with the gifts and abilities that He's given you. Secure in the confidence that God is in control of your life, you will be free to serve Him with joy and effectiveness.",
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                        "text": "What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.",
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                        "text": "The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking.",
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                        "text": "“Ephesians bids us to shod our feet with the preparation of the gospel. One of my aims as a young man was to commit large portions of the Bible to memory. This I did, and over the period of many years, I have memorized many great passages of scripture. But when we come to the Word, we really are coming to something which would teach us of the Infinite, and now with forty years of being a Christian, I have realized there are many gems to yet be appreciated within Bible study, and if I am to get them, I must dig diligently. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” says the Bible, and God has many treasures left for those of us who will search the scriptures. Shodding your feet is a lifelong process, and one I suspect may continue with us in the hereafter.”",
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                        "text": "“But why is that so? These days many people feel disconnected from the religion of their childhood. I know many people who think of Sunday morning as an ideal time to surf news sites, update their Facebook page, and catch up on their e-mails. At the same time, the latest Pew religion research polls show that millions of people are interested in spiritual matters, though they are adherents of no particular religion.”",
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                        "text": "“Following the Lord's authority, one of the distinctives of Christian cultural understanding is that it also is minimally concerned with politics. The restoration of the nations is not, in any important sense, a political process. Rather, the process is one of baptism and catechism. The means given for the conversion of the heathen were the waters of baptism and the words of instruction. When the lessons have been learned, there will of course be some political consequences. But they will be minimal for the simple reason that the state itself, in a nation that has come to repentance, will also be minimal. For the Christian, the political realm is a creature to be redeemed, sinful like the rest of us and with a long way to go before it retires to more biblical proportions.”",
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                        "text": "When I learned to cook, I was in my early 20s, and my granny and my mom and my aunt would have to tell me over the phone how to do certain things because I didn't know how to cook. They would just say, 'Look, just put enough in there to where you feel like it's all right, because that's your spirit.' You've got to trust your spirit.",
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