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> [“While living at a boarding school during her teen years, she experienced a deep sense of loneliness that was exacerbated because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/while-living-at-a-boarding-school-during-her-teen-years-she/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sun-myung-moon/i-would-not-be-standing-here-today-if-my-skin-were-white-or-my/)

[Sun Myung Moon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sun-myung-moon/)

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> [As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/as-long-as-i-can-remember-i-feel-i-have-had-this-great-creative-and/)

[Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/)

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> [“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/rituals-are-the-kindergarten-of-religion-they-are-absolutely/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/faith-based-organizations-also-need-a-guarantee-they-will-not-be/)

[George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/)

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> [The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-goodenough/the-religious-naturalist-is-provisioned-with-tales-of-natural/)

[Ursula Goodenough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-goodenough/)

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> [“Six months of waiting. Six months of understanding the inner workings of faith and the outer spheres of the world. Six months…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tishani-doshi/six-months-of-waiting-six-months-of-understanding-the-inner-workings/)

[Tishani Doshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tishani-doshi/)

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> [“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-stetzer/it-s-not-enough-for-christians-merely-to-recognize-that-the-world-isn/)

[Ed Stetzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-stetzer/)

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> [“But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-cooper/but-those-men-who-know-anything-at-all-about-the-light-also-know-that/)

[Susan Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-cooper/)

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> [At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/at-the-center-of-the-christian-faith-is-the-affirmation-that-there-is/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/religious-doctrines-would-do-well-to-withdraw-their-pretension-to-be/)

[George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/)

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> [When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-owen/when-someone-sets-his-affections-upon-the-cross-and-the-love-of/)

[John Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-owen/)

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> [So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-ali/so-when-i-heard-that-we-don-t-have-our-names-we-don-t-speak-our-true/)

[Muhammad Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-ali/)

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> [“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God." "It is like that for me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pam-houston/for-the-people-of-my-country-renato-said-water-is-everything-love/)

[Pam Houston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pam-houston/)

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> [“The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/the-world-will-brin-its-condemnation-they-may-even-put-their-sword/)

[John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/)

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> [The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutherford-b-hayes/the-gloomy-theology-of-the-orthodox-the-calvinists-i-do-not-i-cannot/)

[Rutherford B. Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutherford-b-hayes/)

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> [America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-bauer/america-used-to-have-a-strong-moral-safety-net-for-its-people-today/)

[Gary Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-bauer/)

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> [“Anyone who has truly practiced a religion knows very well that it is \[the set of regularly repeated actions that make up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-durkheim/anyone-who-has-truly-practiced-a-religion-knows-very-well-that-it-is/)

[Émile Durkheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-durkheim/)

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> [“Guilt was—it was the agony of spirit that made every day bleak. The fear that you might not live up to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-todd/guilt-was-it-was-the-agony-of-spirit-that-made-every-day-bleak-the/)

[Charles Todd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-todd/)

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> [The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-lawlor/the-religious-training-inspired-in-me-a-desire-for-learning-in-fact-i/)

Leonard Lawlor

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> [On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-portis/on-his-deathbed-he-asked-for-a-priest-and-became-a-catholic-that-was/)

[Charles Portis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-portis/)

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> [ The experience of \[the African\] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-experience-of-the-african-bishops-is-that-evangelization-itself/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-have-no-doubt-that-faith-is-only-pure-when-it-does-not-negate-the/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [“Some skeptics assert that there is no other vital energy in the world but physical force, while contrary to their assertions, thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-a-torrey-2/some-skeptics-assert-that-there-is-no-other-vital-energy-in-the-world/)

[R.A. Torrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-a-torrey-2/)

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> [“No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-wilder-lane/no-one-who-sees-the-plain-fact-that-all-moral-and-spiritual-values-of/)

[Rose Wilder Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-wilder-lane/)

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> [The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-pagels/the-efforts-of-the-majority-to-destroy-every-trace-of-heretical/)

[Elaine Pagels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-pagels/)

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> [I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-suppose-that-one-reason-i-have-always-detested-religion-is-its-sly/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/the-religious-man-will-constantly-look-for-the-proof-of-heaven-and/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-greek-word-euangelizo-means-to-gospelize-to-tell-people-the-good/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [“Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-herbert/religion-began-as-a-female-monopoly-wrested-from-them-only-after-its/)

[Frank Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-herbert/)

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> [“The critical question is whether preachers are supposed to help people “find their stories in the Bible” or are supposed to call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-g-long/the-critical-question-is-whether-preachers-are-supposed-to-help/)

Thomas G. Long

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> [There are two sorts of hypocrites: one that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; many of whom are professed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-edwards/there-are-two-sorts-of-hypocrites-one-that-are-deceived-with-their/)

[Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-edwards/)

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> [“With the spirit of her people those who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mitchell/with-the-spirit-of-her-people-those-who-would-not-know-defeat-even/)

[Margaret Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mitchell/)

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> [“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/throughout-history-religions-and-ideologies-did-not-sanctify-life/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-quintero/a-lot-of-times-people-say-that-people-read-to-escape-but-i-think-if/)

[Sofia Quintero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sofia-quintero/)

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> [“Russian bolshevism, replacing eastern Christendom by the grim religiosity of Marx, produced a caricature of the evangelical counsels with many a diabolical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/russian-bolshevism-replacing-eastern-christendom-by-the-grim/)

[Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-von-kuehnelt-leddihn/)

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> [“According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chogyam-trungpa/according-to-the-buddhist-tradition-the-spiritual-path-is-the-process/)

[Chögyam Trungpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chogyam-trungpa/)

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> [The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langdon-brown-gilkey/the-first-amendment-is-important-not-only-to-guarantee-the-rights-of/)

[Langdon Brown Gilkey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langdon-brown-gilkey/)

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> [Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/surya-das/well-neither-of-us-were-buddhists-then-because-it-was-new-to-us-we/)

[Surya Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/surya-das/)

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> [When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruhollah-khomeini/when-anyone-studies-a-little-or-pays-a-little-attention-to-the-rules/)

[Ruhollah Khomeini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruhollah-khomeini/)

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                        "text": "As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.",
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                        "text": "“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.”",
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                        "text": "Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own faith as the price of competing for federal money. If we want this program to be effective and to save lives, people have got to say interfacing with government will not cause me to lose my mission.",
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                        "text": "The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.",
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                        "text": "“Six months of waiting. Six months of understanding the inner workings of faith and the outer spheres of the world. Six months of time: hundreds and millions of awakening seconds and sleeping minutes. Six months of aching stretched out like the Sahara: lickety-split, snippety-snip, jiggity-jig Six months of fading and blooming, stopping and starting. Six months of love: a breath, a deluge, an eternity; a single flake of snow.”",
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                        "text": "“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn’t have to suffer.” Instead, our “sorrow and indignation” should prompt us to act in ways that “subvert” that brokenness.”",
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                        "text": "“But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun.\" Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. \"At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else. You are like fanatics. Your masters, at any rate. Like the old Crusaders -- oh, like certain groups in every belief, though this is not a matter of religion, of course. At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame, just as at the centre of the Dark there is a great black pit bottomless as the Universe.\" His warm, deep voice ended, and there was only the roar of the engine. Will looked out over the grey-misted fields, silent. \"There was a great long speech, now,\" John Rowlands said awkwardly. \"But I was only saying, be careful not to forget that there are people in this valley who can be hurt, even in the pursuit of good ends.”",
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                        "text": "At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values…In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.",
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                        "text": "Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.",
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                        "text": "When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.",
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                        "text": "So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam, our true religion, and we've been made deaf, dumb, and blind in slavery.And Elijah Muhammad was taught by Allah, who we refer to as God, to teach us the truth that will free us.And when I heard it, I've been free ever since. I have no racial problems, I don't go where I'm not wanted.",
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                        "text": "“For the people of my country,\" Renato said, \"water is everything: love, life, religion... even God.\" \"It is like that for me too,\" I said. \"In English we call that a metaphor.\" \"Of course,\" said Renato, \"and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.”",
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                        "text": "The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.",
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                        "text": "On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.",
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                        "text": "The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known, believed in and loved, and that hearts must be converted if progress is to be made on social issues and reconciliation is to begin, and if - for example - AIDS is to be combated by realistically facing its deeper causes and the sick are to be given the loving care they need. Social issues and the Gospel are inseparable.",
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                        "text": "I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.",
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                        "text": "“Some skeptics assert that there is no other vital energy in the world but physical force, while contrary to their assertions, thousands and tens of thousands who can not possibly be deceived have been quickened into spiritual life by a power neither physical or mental. Men who were dead in sins - drunkards who lost their will, blasphemers who lost their purity, libertines sunk in beastliness, infidels who published their shame to the world, have in numberless instances become the subjects of the Spirit's power and are now walking in the true nobility of Christian manhood, separated by an infinite distance from their former life. Let others reject, if they will, at their own peril, this imperishable truth. I believe, and am growing more into this belief, that divine, miraculous creative power resides in the Holy Ghost. Above and beyond all natural law, yet in harmony with it, creation, providence, the Divine government, and the upbuilding of the Church of God are presided over by the Spirit of God.”",
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                        "text": "“No one who sees the plain fact that all moral and spiritual values of human life are in the individual, can possibly see any spiritual value in war. War comes from the individual’s ignorance of his own nature, from his placing responsibility for the moral values of his own life in a fantasy, in a pagan god which he imagines exists outside himself and superior to him and controlling him—an Immortal Italy, a German Race, a Nation, a State.”",
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                        "text": "I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.",
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                        "text": "“The religious man will constantly look for the proof of Heaven and Hell; while the atheist man will constantly look to disprove Heaven and Hell. And they go on like that, locked-head in battle, both battling for beliefs that really cannot be proven. Neither the existence nor the non-existence of Heaven and Hell can be proven. And soon they will all be dead. And nobody will know where they go to, except they themselves who die. And so the battle continues, as it always has. And why should I join either side? If there is a God Almighty, I should imagine Him not needing human beings made out of carbon to believe in Him. What use to God would our species be? If He loves us, then He will love us because He chooses to love us. Never because He needs us to believe in Him. It wouldn't make any difference whatsoever, to an Almighty God, if carbon species breathing oxygen believed in Him or not. If He wanted to love the species then He just would. Regardless of their own persuasions. And if there is not an Almighty God, then it would not matter if I joined such a battle, either. Either way, why would I join such a cursed downward spiral? The truth that we do know for sure, is that it is our responsibility and it is in our best interest, to live our lives in such a way that creates Heaven on Earth and puts Hell on Earth far away.”",
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                        "text": "“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the book of Acts literally everyone in the early church does it. Not only the apostles (5:42) but every Christian (8:4) did evangelism — and they did so endlessly. Passages such as Romans 15:14; Colossians 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:6–10; Hebrews 3:13; and 1 John 2:20, 27 indicate that every Christian was expected to evangelize, follow up, nurture, and teach people the Word.”",
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                        "text": "“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently quite tolerant of death. Indeed, some of them have been downright fond of the Grim Reaper. Because Christianity, Islam and Hinduism insisted that the meaning of our existence depended on our fate in the afterlife, they viewed death as a vital and positive part of the world. Humans died because God decreed it, and their moment of death was a sacred metaphysical experience exploding with meaning. When a human was about to breathe his last, this was the time to call priests, rabbis and shamans, to draw out the balance of life, and to embrace one’s true role in the universe. Just try to imagine Christianity, Islam or Hinduism in a world without death – which is also a world without heaven, hell or reincarnation. Modern science and modern culture have an entirely different take on life and death. They don’t think of death as a metaphysical mystery, and they certainly don’t view death as the source of life’s meaning. Rather, for modern people death is a technical problem that we can and should solve. How exactly do humans die? Medieval fairy tales depicted Death as a figure in a hooded black cloak, his hand gripping a large scythe. A man lives his life, worrying about this and that, running here and there, when suddenly the Grim Reaper appears before him, taps him on the shoulder with a bony finger and says, ‘Come!’ And the man implores: ‘No, please! Wait just a year, a month, a day!’ But the hooded figure hisses: ‘No! You must come NOW!’ And this is how we die. In”",
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                        "text": "A lot of times, people say that people read to escape. But I think if you come from any community that is underrepresented, in any kind of media, whether that's around race, around class, or sexual orientation, religion, whatever it may be, sometimes you read to be affirmed. To have your humanity rendered complexly. And sometimes seeing yourself on the page is affirming. And we know that for some young people, that can also be life-saving.",
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                        "text": "“Russian bolshevism, replacing eastern Christendom by the grim religiosity of Marx, produced a caricature of the evangelical counsels with many a diabolical aspect. There is a good deal of “communism” in monasteries and convents, yet this is based upon a voluntary renunciation of perfect human rights. On account of our free will we can make supreme sacrifices which ennobles our very existence. Bolshevism on the other hand forces us brutally into a parody of monastic life amidst fellow monks and fellow nuns who hate their habit and sigh under the ferocious tyranny of their pseudo-abbot. This evil distortion of an otherwise Christian ideal is more satanic than wanton, a thoroughly pagan and diabolic opposition to Christian existence. This explains also the reason why the Vatican has found stronger words against “altruistic” bolshevism than against egoistic capitalism”",
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                        "text": "“According to the Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of mind. When the awakened state of mind is crowded in by ego and its attendant paranoia, it takes on the character of an underlying instinct. So it is not a matter of building up the awakened state of mind, but rather of burning out the confusions which obstruct it. In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment.”",
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