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> [“Anger, resentment, and bitterness stunt our spiritual growth. Would you bathe in impure water? Then why do we bathe our spirits with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-b-wirthlin/anger-resentment-and-bitterness-stunt-our-spiritual-growth-would-you/)

[Joseph B. Wirthlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-b-wirthlin/)

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> [“The medicine wheel represents the circle of all life. When you sit in the wheel and evoke the sacred, all life comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-harrod-buhner/the-medicine-wheel-represents-the-circle-of-all-life-when-you-sit-in/)

[Stephen Harrod Buhner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-harrod-buhner/)

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> [The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-moment-the-doctrine-of-the-immortality-is-separately-taught-man/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corrie-ten-boom/we-are-up-against-the-unseen-power-that-controls-this-dark-world-and/)

[Corrie Ten Boom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corrie-ten-boom/)

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> [The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cameron/the-driving-force-behind-today-s-terrorist-threat-is-islamist/)

[David Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cameron/)

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> [“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natasha-pulley/raphael-looked-like-he-might-have-laughed-if-he-d-been-younger-and/)

[Natasha Pulley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natasha-pulley/)

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> [“on this Earth, and when people from the lost world see the dwellings of God in each one of us. 4 The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ana-mendez-ferrell/on-this-earth-and-when-people-from-the-lost-world-see-the-dwellings/)

[Ana Mendez Ferrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ana-mendez-ferrell/)

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> [We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-john-paul-ii/we-christians-joyfully-recognize-the-religious-values-we-have-in/)

[Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-john-paul-ii/)

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> [To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-schleiermacher/to-be-a-religions-man-and-to-pray-are-really-one-and-the-same-thing/)

[Friedrich Schleiermacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-schleiermacher/)

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> [And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/savitri-devi/and-the-greatest-praise-to-india-is-this-not-only-are-her-people/)

[Savitri Devi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/savitri-devi/)

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> [The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallas-willard/the-greatest-issue-facing-the-world-today-with-all-its-heartbreaking/)

[Dallas Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallas-willard/)

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> [Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/those-who-have-little-interest-in-spirituality-shouldn-t-think-that-2/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/contact-with-the-sacred-occurs-in-the-stillness-of-the-heart-and-mind/)

[Christina Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-baldwin/)

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> [“But complex and fanciful religions have been founded upon such simple and deceptive experiences, giving mythical names to vague entities, and creating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/but-complex-and-fanciful-religions-have-been-founded-upon-such-simple/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [“By diverting the Dionysian impulse into special rites on special days, the orgy kept it under control, preventing it from surfacing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/by-diverting-the-dionysian-impulse-into-special-rites-on-special-days/)

[Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/)

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> [Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/curiosity-restores-is-a-state-of-heightened-awareness-culturally-this/)

[Christina Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-baldwin/)

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> [“Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.' 'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-brown/omnipotent-benevolent-simply-means-that-god-is-all-powerful-and-well/)

[Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-brown/)

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> [“If America upholds God's eternal standards and follows His unchanging ways, then it will be blessed with His favor...His protection...His prosperity…But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-cahn/if-america-upholds-god-s-eternal-standards-and-follows-his-unchanging/)

[Jonathan Cahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-cahn/)

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> [If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-theodore-tuttle/if-you-would-be-a-better-teacher-teach-by-the-spirit-that-is-the/)

[A. Theodore Tuttle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-theodore-tuttle/)

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> [“I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/i-haven-t-lost-my-faith-but-i-ve-lost-my-religion-i-still-believe-in/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [“All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/all-love-tends-to-become-like-that-which-it-loves-god-loved-man/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-dennett/there-could-be-talking-bunny-rabbits-spiders-who-write-english/)

[Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-dennett/)

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> [Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bradlaugh/is-poverty-of-spirit-the-chief-amongst-virtues-that-jesus-gives-it/)

[Charles Bradlaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bradlaugh/)

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> [“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-k-hayes/unfortunately-religion-often-works-to-shrink-and-tame-the-very-wild/)

[Stephen K. Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-k-hayes/)

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> [If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cs-lewis/if-you-think-of-this-world-as-a-place-intended-simply-for-our/)

[CS Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cs-lewis/)

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> [Throughout life, people will try to shake your faith in yourself. When this happens, remind yourself that the only way they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherry-argov/throughout-life-people-will-try-to-shake-your-faith-in-yourself-when/)

[Sherry Argov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherry-argov/)

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> [We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-v-raman/we-need-a-spirit-of-victory-a-spirit-that-will-carry-us-to-our/)

[C. V. Raman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-v-raman/)

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> [Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/eating-and-sleeping-are-not-like-loving-and-breathing-washing-is-not/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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> [“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bart-d-ehrman/one-of-the-most-amazing-and-perplexing-features-of-mainstream/)

[Bart D. Ehrman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bart-d-ehrman/)

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> [“The seeker has no beliefs, he is open and trusts his feelings. His religion is life, his God is life, he makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chobo/the-seeker-has-no-beliefs-he-is-open-and-trusts-his-feelings-his/)

[Chobo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chobo/)

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> [It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bashar-al-assad/it-started-partly-as-a-sectarian-war-in-some-areas-but-now-it-s-not/)

[Bashar al-Assad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bashar-al-assad/)

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> [The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-christian-god-can-easily-be-pictured-as-virtually-the-same-god-as/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [“And should any one be ashamed of this public profession and refuse to make it, Jesus clearly tells such an one that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-h-gerberding/and-should-any-one-be-ashamed-of-this-public-profession-and-refuse-to/)

[G.H. Gerberding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-h-gerberding/)

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> [One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/one-would-imagine-that-books-were-like-women-the-worse-for-being-old/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [“I, too, am a drum major for justice. I will continue to speak out-LOUD and PROUD- as long as gay youth are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-son-m-lee/i-too-am-a-drum-major-for-justice-i-will-continue-to-speak-out-loud/)

[J'son M. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-son-m-lee/)

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> [The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penn-jillette/the-one-kind-of-person-i-have-a-lot-of-trouble-understanding-is-the/)

[Penn Jillette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penn-jillette/)

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> [My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-stryker/my-hope-and-my-prayer-for-people-would-be-to-find-and-gather/)

[Rod Stryker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-stryker/)

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> [At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-kung/at-the-same-time-we-are-aware-that-our-various-religions-and-ethical/)

[Hans Kung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-kung/)

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> [there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mildred-cable/there-are-camels-which-have-the-quality-which-in-humans-is-called-the/)

[Mildred Cable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mildred-cable/)

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> [“We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/we-are-not-permitted-to-linger-even-with-what-is-most-intimate-from/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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                        "text": "“The medicine wheel represents the circle of all life. When you sit in the wheel and evoke the sacred, all life comes to sit in council. The human, only one member of the web of life, can use the ceremony of the wheel to restore contact with all the relations of life. The animal relations, plant relations, stone people, spirit relations, all things come to sit in council. Our connections with the world are thus restored and the healing of the Earth begins anew.”",
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                        "text": "The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.",
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                        "text": "We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the \"whole armour of God,\" that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.",
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                        "text": "The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.",
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                        "text": "“Raphael looked like he might have laughed if he'd been younger and more cheerful. 'Why are you using the Jesuit dictionary?' 'How do you know what I'm using? A d it's the only Quechua dictionary.' 'It's probably shrine,'I said, and then when Clem frowned, not understanding, 'not idol.' Raphael nodded to me and I smiled, because he was taking it so gently. I would have burst out laughing if someone had translated Christchurch as Heathen God Temple in front of me.”",
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                        "text": "“on this Earth, and when people from the lost world see the dwellings of God in each one of us. 4 The Operation and Manifestation of Iniquity If we could visualize the body of iniquity, it would resemble a twisted black cord in our spirit. It is made of hundreds of thick knots, with layer over layer that appear to be filthy rags, filled with lots of information and covenants that have been accumulated from generation to generation. It resembles a tailback or a shell that constantly blocks or hinders life, preventing it to flow from our spirit to our hearts and, eventually, to our minds. Iniquity produces Spiritual Deafness Many people have their spiritual ears obstructed and are unable to hear”",
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                        "text": "We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.",
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                        "text": "To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.",
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                        "text": "And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.",
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                        "text": "The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.",
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                        "text": "Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.",
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                        "text": "Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.",
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                        "text": "“But complex and fanciful religions have been founded upon such simple and deceptive experiences, giving mythical names to vague entities, and creating an enormous vehicle for compounded superstitious belief. Have not these religions been more evil than good?”",
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                        "text": "“By diverting the Dionysian impulse into special rites on special days, the orgy kept it under control, preventing it from surfacing in more insidious and perfidious ways. More than that, it transformed it into an invigorating and liberating—and, in that much, profoundly religious—celebration of life and the life force. It permitted people to escape from their artificial and restricted social roles to regress into a more authentic state of nature, which modern psychologists have associated with the Freudian id or unconscious. It appealed most to marginal groups, since it set aside the usual hierarchies of man over woman, master over slave, patrician over commoner, rich over poor, and citizen over foreigner. In short, it gave people a much-needed break—like modern holidays, but cheaper and more effective.”",
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                        "text": "“I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply. ... I've never really gotten past that quote from Anne Frank in her diary, where she says that people are really good at heart. But I feel like the Catholic Church — no — the Catholic hierarchy has been disinviting people like me, and especially women like me, for so many years that I finally took the hint.”",
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                        "text": "... there could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.",
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                        "text": "Is poverty of spirit the chief amongst virtues, that Jesus gives it prime place in his teachings? Is it even a virtue at all? Surely not. Manliness of spirit, honesty of spirit, fullness of rightful purpose, these are virtues; poverty of spirit is a crime.",
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                        "text": "“Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.”",
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                        "text": "If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic",
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                        "text": "Throughout life, people will try to shake your faith in yourself. When this happens, remind yourself that the only way they can succeed is if you allow it. When you walk down the street of life, always hold your head high and keep walking. Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.",
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                        "text": "We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.",
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                        "text": "Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.",
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                        "text": "“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary.”",
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