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title: "Timeless Religion Sayings"
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> [I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/i-have-never-in-all-my-life-not-for-one-moment-been-tempted-toward/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [“If you have found the secret of immortality, don't take a megaphone and announce it to the whole world! Give this secret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/if-you-have-found-the-secret-of-immortality-don-t-take-a-megaphone/)

[Mehmet Murat ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [“Was all that we called culture, spirit, soul, all that we called beautiful and sacred, nothing but a ghost long dead, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hesse-hermann/was-all-that-we-called-culture-spirit-soul-all-that-we-called/)

[Hesse Hermann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hesse-hermann/)

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> [“Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or "way," an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcy-sheiner/novel-writing-is-not-so-much-a-profession-as-a-yoga-or-way-an/)

[Marcy Sheiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcy-sheiner/)

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> [“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliza-lynn-linton/progress-had-not-invaded-science-had-not-enlightened-the-little/)

[Eliza Lynn Linton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliza-lynn-linton/)

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> [“Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-e-goodrich/love-is-years-of-devotion-sacrifice-commitment-loyalty-trust-faith/)

[Richelle E. Goodrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-e-goodrich/)

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> [“This is because Marxism looks at things as a whole and in relation to each other—or tries to, but its limitations are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/this-is-because-marxism-looks-at-things-as-a-whole-and-in-relation-to/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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> [To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/to-know-the-cross-is-not-merely-to-know-our-own-sufferings-for-the/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/due-to-his-own-original-special-nature-the-jew-cannot-possess-a/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-coltrane/during-the-year-1957-i-experienced-by-the-grace-of-god-a-spiritual/)

[John Coltrane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-coltrane/)

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> [You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-yonggi-cho/you-could-remove-the-powerful-preaching-from-our-church-and-it-would/)

[David Yonggi Cho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-yonggi-cho/)

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> [Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-butterworth/religious-teachings-and-teachers-have-conditioned-us-to-think-of/)

[Eric Butterworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-butterworth/)

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> [Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/mankind-is-notoriously-too-dense-to-read-the-signs-that-god-sends/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [“It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/it-is-not-at-all-surprising-that-the-disciples-imagined-that-the-law/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Most evangelical Christian conservatives I know would at least be uneasy about the prospect of the government picking up the slack of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-loesch/most-evangelical-christian-conservatives-i-know-would-at-least-be/)

[Dana Loesch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-loesch/)

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> [“It is under Ashoka’s aegis that Indian civilisation, in the sense of a shared culture embracing everything from administration to art and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-allen/it-is-under-ashoka-s-aegis-that-indian-civilisation-in-the-sense-of-a/)

[Charles Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-allen/)

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> [I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/i-believe-that-it-is-truly-important-for-everyone-to-confront-in/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [ “Pray deliver me," said a sinner to Sang Tsung (So-san).\[FN#261\] "Who ties you up?" was the reply. You tie yourself up day… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/pray-deliver-me-said-a-sinner-to-sang-tsung-so-san-fn-261-who-ties/)

[Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/)

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> [“The challenges to the clarity of Scripture start out small. They sound humble and practical at first. But in the end, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/the-challenges-to-the-clarity-of-scripture-start-out-small-they-sound/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [“In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: “Blessed are the poor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luigi-giussani/in-the-gospel-there-is-a-sentence-that-expresses-the-same-ethical/)

[Luigi Giussani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luigi-giussani/)

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> [Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-de-bono/explaining-belief-has-alwayas-been-difficult-how-do-you-explain-a/)

[Edward de Bono](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-de-bono/)

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> [“He always perceives this world as outside himself, for this is crucial to his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-perry/he-always-perceives-this-world-as-outside-himself-for-this-is-crucial/)

[Robert Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-perry/)

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> [“Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-murray/whether-we-speak-of-the-death-to-self-or-a-sinking-down-in-humility/)

[Andrew Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-murray/)

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> [“There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-h-white/there-was-just-such-a-man-when-i-was-young-an-austrian-who-invented-a/)

[T.H. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-h-white/)

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> [“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baron-d-holbach-2/if-we-go-back-to-the-beginning-we-shall-find-that-ignorance-and-fear/)

[Baron D. Holbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baron-d-holbach-2/)

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> [The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jan-smuts/the-mountain-is-not-something-eternally-sublime-it-has-a-great/)

[Jan Smuts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jan-smuts/)

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> [“Saul is a devout believer only in himself, and he was convinced that the religious faith of others, if manipulated skillfully, was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rysa-walker/saul-is-a-devout-believer-only-in-himself-and-he-was-convinced-that/)

[Rysa Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rysa-walker/)

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> [“hold that believers who have to see the same God in others that they see in themselves, must be able to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/hold-that-believers-who-have-to-see-the-same-god-in-others-that-they/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [“swear if I get home I’ll go to church,” Britney promised. “I don’t know which church yet. It needs to be spiritual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-j-box/swear-if-i-get-home-i-ll-go-to-church-britney-promised-i-don-t-know/)

[C.J. Box](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-j-box/)

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> [“In my travels on the surface, I once met a man who wore his religious beliefs like a badge of honor upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-a-salvatore/in-my-travels-on-the-surface-i-once-met-a-man-who-wore-his-religious/)

[R.A. Salvatore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-a-salvatore/)

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> [This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-agatho/this-apostolic-church-never-turned-from-the-way-of-truth-nor-held-any/)

[Pope Agatho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-agatho/)

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> [I don't belong to any religion, but I like knowing and thinking that my life is connected to the life of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-rohrwacher/i-don-t-belong-to-any-religion-but-i-like-knowing-and-thinking-that/)

[Alice Rohrwacher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-rohrwacher/)

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> [“Have patience . . . It is difficult to get people to understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-vanier/have-patience-it-is-difficult-to-get-people-to-understand-that-the/)

[Jean Vanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-vanier/)

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> [I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-trevino/i-remember-the-first-time-going-to-st-jude-i-didn-t-like-going-there/)

[Lee Trevino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-trevino/)

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> [A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/a-wonderful-area-for-speculative-academic-work-is-the-unknowable/)

[Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/)

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> [Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-mitchell/suddenly-from-behind-the-rim-of-the-moon-in-long-slow-motion-moments/)

[Edgar Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-mitchell/)

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> [“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,      because the LORD has anointed me      to preach good news to the poor.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-moore/the-spirit-of-the-sovereign-lord-is-on-me-because-the-lord-has/)

[Beth Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-moore/)

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> [Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/holiness-is-nothing-else-but-the-habitual-and-predominant-devotion/)

[Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/)

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> [“Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce’s family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-j-gaines/then-he-spoke-of-james-joyce-he-told-about-joyce-s-family-his/)

[Ernest J. Gaines](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-j-gaines/)

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> [Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/those-who-think-religion-has-nothing-to-do-with-politics-understand/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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                        "text": "“Novel-writing is not so much a profession as a yoga, or \"way,\" an alternative to ordinary life-in-the-world. Its benefits are quasi-religious—a changed quality of mind and heart, satisfactions no non-novelist can understand—and its rigors generally bring no profit except to the spirit. For those who are authentically called to the profession, spiritual profits are enough.--John Gardner”",
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                        "text": "“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical”",
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                        "text": "“This is because Marxism looks at things as a whole and in relation to each other—or tries to, but its limitations are not the point for the moment. A person who has been influenced by Marxism takes it for granted that an event in Siberia will affect one in Botswana. I think it is possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time [written in 1971], outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects and creeds. But it was an attempt.”",
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                        "text": "To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to know that we are saved by the sufferings of Christ; more, it is to know the love of Christ Who underwent suffering and death in order to save us. It is, then, to know Christ.",
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                        "text": "Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.",
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                        "text": "During the year 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly asked to be given the means and privilege to make others happy through music. I feel this has been granted through His grace. ALL PRAISE TO GOD.",
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                        "text": "You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.",
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                        "text": "Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present",
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                        "text": "Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.",
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                        "text": "“It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.”",
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                        "text": "Most evangelical Christian conservatives I know would at least be uneasy about the prospect of the government picking up the slack of caring for the poor due to Christians' abdication of their role in society as dictated by Scripture.",
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                        "text": "“It is under Ashoka’s aegis that Indian civilisation, in the sense of a shared culture embracing everything from administration to art and architecture, makes a great leap forward, with tolerance as its watchword. One of his edicts is entirely devoted to this subject, with the great emperor under his regnal name of Piyadasi calling on his subjects to respect all religions. It ends with these words: Whoever praises his own religion, due to excessive devotion, and condemns others with the thought ‘Let me glorify my own religion’, only harms his own religion.”",
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                        "text": "I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses it elicited. Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God. Together we can rejoice in the longing for unity which the Lord has awakened in our hearts, and which makes us look with hope to the future.",
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                        "text": "“Pray deliver me,\" said a sinner to Sang Tsung (So-san).[FN#261] \"Who ties you up?\" was the reply. You tie yourself up day and night with the fine thread of idle thoughts, and build a cocoon of environment from which you have no way of escape. 'There is no rope, yet you imagine yourself bound.' Who could put fetters on your mind but your mind itself? Who could chain your will but your own will? Who could blind your spiritual eyes, unless you yourself shut them up? Who could prevent you from enjoying moral food, unless you yourself refuse to eat? \"There are many,\" said Sueh Fung (Sep-po) on one occasion, \"who starve in spite of their sitting in a large basket full of victuals. There are many who thirst in spite of seating themselves on the shore of a sea.\" \"Yes, Sir,\" replied Huen Sha (Gen-sha), \"there are many who starve in spite of putting their heads into the basket full of victuals. There are many who thirst in spite of putting their heads into the waters of the sea.\"[FN#262] Who could cheer him up who abandons himself to self-created misery? Who could save him who denies his own salvation? [FN#260]”",
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                        "text": "“The challenges to the clarity of Scripture start out small. They sound humble and practical at first. But in the end, if we lose this attribute of Scripture—so plainly taught, if not simply assumed, in the pages of the Bible—we lose some of the most precious and hard-fought truths the church must have if it is to grow and flourish. There is a lot at stake with this doctrine.”",
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                        "text": "“In the Gospel, there is a sentence that expresses the same ethical imperative in a more fascinating way: “Blessed are the poor in spirit: the reign of God is theirs” (Matt. 5:3). But who are the poor? The poor are those who have nothing to defend, who are detached from those things that they seem to possess, so that their lives are not dedicated to affirming their own possession.”",
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                        "text": "Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.",
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                        "text": "“He always perceives this world as outside himself, for this is crucial to his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes this world, for there is no world outside of him. Everything you perceive as the outside world is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification. from: A Course In Miracles 12.III. 6.6 and 7.4 \"Forgiveness is an earthly form of love\" (W-pI.186.14:1). A Course In Miracles \"Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God.\" ACIM Chap 9.VIII.5.3 ACIM Chapter 2, Section V \"The Function of the Miracle Worker\" Paragraphs 8-18 Commentary by Robert Perry \"The only solution lies in being willing to look within, upon our own defiled altar. There is a place in our mind that was created to be totally devoted to God, but we have defiled this place with other devotions. We need to be willing to walk into the church of our mind and witness the desecrations on this altar. Only then will we really see \"the unequivocal fact that healing is necessary\" (8:1). Are we willing to look on the unequivocal fact that we need healing? Only then will we open up \"the real vision\" (8:4), which will allow us to see past what our physical eyes see and gaze on the light of purity beyond.”",
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                        "text": "“Whether we speak of the death to self or a sinking down in humility and meekness before God or faith in the Lamb of God, it all means one thing—a deliverance from self to find our liberty and our blessedness in the living sacrifice of ourselves for all around us. THE END”",
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                        "text": "“There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos. But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ. Perhaps we may assume that Jesus knew as much as the Austrian did about saving people. But the odd thing is that Jesus did not turn the disciples into storm troopers, burn down the Temple at Jerusalem, and fix the blame on Pontius Pilate. On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosopher was to make ideas available , and not to impose them on people.”",
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                        "text": "“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests.”",
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                        "text": "The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of life. Nay, more; it is the ladder of the soul and in a curious way the source of religion. From it came the Law, from it came the Gospel in the Sermon of the Mount. We may trul say that the highest religion is the Religion of the Mountain.",
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                        "text": "“Saul is a devout believer only in himself, and he was convinced that the religious faith of others, if manipulated skillfully, was an excellent path to the power he sought. He was studying religions of the world in order to pick up tips on how to build his own.”",
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                        "text": "“hold that believers who have to see the same God in others that they see in themselves, must be able to live amongst all with sufficient detachment. And the ability to live thus can be cultivated, not by fighting shy of unsought opportunities for such contacts, but by hailing them in a spirit of service”",
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                        "text": "“swear if I get home I’ll go to church,” Britney promised. “I don’t know which church yet. It needs to be spiritual, and healing, and forgiving. And without a lot of that religious baggage so many churches seem to have nowadays.” Joe’s”",
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                        "text": "“In my travels on the surface, I once met a man who wore his religious beliefs like a badge of honor upon the sleeves of his tunic. \"I am a Gondsman!\" he proudly told me as we sat beside eachother at a tavern bar, I sipping my wind, and he, I fear, partaking a bit too much of his more potent drink. He went on to explain the premise of his religion, his very reason for being, that all things were based in science, in mechanics and in discovery. He even asked if he could take a piece of my flesh, that he might study it to determine why the skin of the drow elf is black. \"What element is missing,\" he wondered, \"that makes your race different from your surface kin?\" I think that the Gondsman honestly believed his claim that if he could merely find the various elements that comprised the drow skin, he might affect a change in that pigmentation to make the dark elves more akin to their surface relatives. And, given his devotion, almost fanaticism, it seemed to me as if he felt he could affect a change in more than physical appearance. Because, in his view of the world, all things could be so explained and corrected. How could i even begin to enlighten him to the complexity? How could i show him the variations between drow and surface elf in the very view of the world resulting from eons of walking widely disparate roads? To a Gondsman fanatic, everything can be broken down, taken apart and put back together. Even a wizard's magic might be no more than a way of conveying universal energies - and that, too, might one day be replicated. My Gondsman companion promised me that he and his fellow inventor priests would one day replicate every spell in any wizard's repertoire, using natural elements in the proper combinations. But there was no mention of the discipline any wizard must attain as he perfects his craft. There was no mention of the fact that powerful wizardly magic is not given to anyone, but rather, is earned, day by day, year by year and decade by decade. It is a lifelong pursuit with gradual increase in power, as mystical as it is secular. So it is with the warrior. The Gondsman spoke of some weapon called an arquebus, a tubular missile thrower with many times the power of the strongest crossbow. Such a weapon strikes terror into the heart of the true warrior, and not because he fears that he will fall victim to it, or even that he fears it will one day replace him. Such weapons offend because the true warrior understands that while one is learning how to use a sword, one should also be learning why and when to use a sword. To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power. Of course, there are wizards and warriors who perfect their craft without learning the level of emotional discipline to accompany it, and certainly there are those who attain great prowess in either profession to the detriment of all the world - Artemis Entreri seems a perfect example - but these individuals are, thankfully, rare, and mostly because their emotional lacking will be revealed early in their careers, and it often brings about a fairly abrupt downfall. But if the Gondsman has his way, if his errant view of paradise should come to fruition, then all the years of training will mean little. Any fool could pick up an arquebus or some other powerful weapon and summarily destroy a skilled warrior. Or any child could utilize a Gondsman's magic machine and replicate a firebal, perhaps, and burn down half a city. When I pointed out some of my fears to the Gondsman, he seemed shocked - not at the devastating possibilities, but rather, at my, as he put it, arrogance. \"The inventions of the priests of Gond will make all equal!\" he declared. \"We will lift up the lowly peasant”",
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                        "text": "“Have patience . . . It is difficult to get people to understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of comes only after years and years of struggle, and even then only as flashes of grace and peace. Loving is not only a voluntary act which involves controlling and overcoming our own sensibilities - that is just the beginning. It also demands a purified heart and feelings which go out spontaneously to the other. These deep purifications can only come through a gift of God, a grace which springs from the deepest part of ourselves, where the Holy Spirit lives. \"I will give them a new heart, and put a new spirit within them; I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh\" (Ezekiel 11:19).”",
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                        "text": "I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.",
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                        "text": "A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.",
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                        "text": "“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,      because the LORD has anointed me      to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,      to proclaim freedom for the captives      and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the LORD'S favor      and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,      and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty      instead of ashes, the oil of gladness      instead of mourning, and a garment of praise      instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness,      a planting of the LORD      for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins      and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities      that have been devastated for generations. (Isa. 61:1–4)”",
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