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> [There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-was-no-place-in-the-land-where-the-seeker-could-not-find-some/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [ It \[slavery\] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lloyd-garrison/it-slavery-has-exercised-absolute-mastery-over-the-american-church/)

[William Lloyd Garrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lloyd-garrison/)

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> [In the 16th and 17th centuries, most people in Britain lived in small village communities. They knew all their neighbours. They dressed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-colley/in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries-most-people-in-britain-lived-in-small/)

[Linda Colley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-colley/)

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> [“It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/it-s-long-been-a-point-of-mine-that-the-freedom-of-religion-which/)

[John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/)

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> [“Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/some-people-have-a-warped-idea-of-living-the-christian-life-seeing/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tsongas/seven-and-half-years-ago-i-began-my-own-journey-for-me-and-my-family/)

[Paul Tsongas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tsongas/)

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> [“Anticipating the collapse of secular reason, Hamann thus brings us to a decidedly postmodern crossroads, at which point one can take the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-edward-veith-jr/anticipating-the-collapse-of-secular-reason-hamann-thus-brings-us-to/)

[Gene Edward Veith Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-edward-veith-jr/)

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> [“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/we-must-see-god-not-as-a-him-some-linear-rewarding-fellow-but-an-it-a/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [“Cosmopolitan discourse emphasizes the \_cosmic belonging\_ of all individual human beings as the ground of our hospitality, solidarity, justice and neighbor-love. Cosmopolitan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-discourse-emphasizes-the-cosmic-belonging-of-all/)

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

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> [When I was growing up my mother made certain that I was exposed to people of all races and religions who were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michaela-deprince/when-i-was-growing-up-my-mother-made-certain-that-i-was-exposed-to/)

[Michaela DePrince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michaela-deprince/)

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> [“Alevi religion has basic characteristics to it. It does not give prime importance to religion, but believes in being a good human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raj-doctor/alevi-religion-has-basic-characteristics-to-it-it-does-not-give-prime/)

[Raj Doctor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raj-doctor/)

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> [I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-nye/i-really-believe-in-science-it-is-a-faith-it-is-a-reverence-akin-to/)

[Bill Nye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-nye/)

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> [“many religious folks call a “spiritual hospital” (church) for the “spiritually sick,” usually ends up being a place where everyone looks healthy?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-tongol/many-religious-folks-call-a-spiritual-hospital-church-for-the/)

[Joshua Tongol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-tongol/)

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> [“If we would rise into that region of light and power plainly beckoning us through the Scriptures of truth we must break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/if-we-would-rise-into-that-region-of-light-and-power-plainly/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [“(...) niegdyś wierzył nawet w to, że nad całym bytem panuje wszechmocna, dobroczynna istota. A świerszcze grają po to, by pomóc nam…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/niegdy-wierzy-nawet-w-to-e-nad-ca-ym-bytem-panuje-wszechmocna/)

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

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> [Snoop Dogg has always held me up. He's always held me above the fray, and that keeps me relevant. Wherever he goes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-d-o-c/snoop-dogg-has-always-held-me-up-he-s-always-held-me-above-the-fray/)

[The D.O.C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-d-o-c/)

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> [“A crying need for wisdom and discernment emerges in an era of too much information. What do we discover as we attempt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-detweiler/a-crying-need-for-wisdom-and-discernment-emerges-in-an-era-of-too/)

[Craig Detweiler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-detweiler/)

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> [I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-mean-by-intellectual-integrity-the-habit-of-deciding-vexed/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kentetsu-takamori/some-nonreligious-people-are-disgruntled-by-the-word-faith-feeling/)

[Kentetsu Takamori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kentetsu-takamori/)

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> [“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-ghazali/know-o-beloved-that-man-was-not-created-in-jest-or-at-random-but/)

[Al-Ghazali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-ghazali/)

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> [“Being truly biblical means that my counsel reflects what the entire Bible is about. The Bible is a narrative, a story of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-david-tripp/being-truly-biblical-means-that-my-counsel-reflects-what-the-entire/)

[Paul David Tripp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-david-tripp/)

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> [“spirit of monopoly…the great enemy of Democracy…The passing events of the day show how immense a power is exercised by corporations. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-wasserman/spirit-of-monopoly-the-great-enemy-of-democracy-the-passing-events-of/)

[Adam Wasserman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-wasserman/)

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> [Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/merlin-stone/yet-rather-than-calling-the-earliest-religions-which-embraced-such-an/)

[Merlin Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/merlin-stone/)

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> [Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-godwin/religion-is-the-most-important-of-all-things-the-great-point-of/)

[William Godwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-godwin/)

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> [“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/life-is-tragic-simply-because-the-earth-turns-and-the-sun-inexorably-2/)

[James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/)

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> [The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallas-willard/the-revolution-of-jesus-is-in-the-first-place-and-continuously-a/)

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

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> [“Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/let-me-speak-plainly-the-united-states-of-america-is-and-must-remain/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-reuben-clark/we-may-first-observe-that-communism-and-socialism-which-we-shall/)

[J. Reuben Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-reuben-clark/)

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> [ “\[The haggadah\] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geraldine-brooks/the-haggadah-was-made-to-teach-and-it-will-continue-to-teach-and-it/)

[Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geraldine-brooks/)

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> [It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-l-larsen/it-is-not-enough-for-us-to-know-what-is-right-and-to-believe-it-is/)

[Dean L. Larsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-l-larsen/)

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> [I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/i-think-it-s-perfectly-possible-to-explain-how-the-universe-came/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-vincent-benet/grant-us-a-common-faith-that-we-shall-know-bread-and-peace-that-we/)

[Stephen Vincent Benet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-vincent-benet/)

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> [Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohsin-hamid/most-muslims-do-not-choose-islam-in-the-way-that-they-choose-to/)

[Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohsin-hamid/)

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> [When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-ali/when-i-was-a-kid-i-got-mad-enough-to-want-to-kill-somebody-but-as-you/)

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

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> [“In our self-government, family government and circles of influence are we building and promoting a culture of life-giving edification or pursuing a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-yarbrough/in-our-self-government-family-government-and-circles-of-influence-are/)

[Tim Yarbrough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-yarbrough/)

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> [“Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yevgeny-zamyatin/ever-since-he-repented-of-religion-and-shaved-off-his-clerical-beard/)

[Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yevgeny-zamyatin/)

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> [“And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-carlin/and-here-s-something-else-another-problem-you-might-have-suppose-your/)

[George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-carlin/)

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> [“We must seek out that which invigorates us, and engage it at all fronts. Art, music, literature, conversation, travel, nature—whatever it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-browning/we-must-seek-out-that-which-invigorates-us-and-engage-it-at-all/)

[L.M. Browning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-browning/)

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> [I'm looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-warren/i-m-looking-for-a-second-reformation-the-first-reformation-of-the/)

[Rick Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-warren/)

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> [Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-pattison/sartre-is-one-example-of-someone-who-does-just-this-every-text-is/)

[George Pattison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-pattison/)

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                        "text": "“A crying need for wisdom and discernment emerges in an era of too much information. What do we discover as we attempt to see through technology, to assess the promises it offers? Technology has become an alternative religion. It has distinct values, celebrated saints, and rites of passage. We sacrifice our privacy in exchange for services. Our passions become quantifiable, often reducing us to a target market or a call to monitor. This conclusion will focus on the eschatology of technology. What does all the efficiency point to? Where does a world of smaller, faster, and smarter gadgets lead?”",
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                        "text": "I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.",
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                        "text": "“Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word \"faith,\" feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, \"faith\" does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We have faith in our life, for example, believing we will live to see tomorrow, or in our health, believing we have years of healthy life ahead of us. Husbands and wives, parents and children have faith in one another.”",
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                        "text": "“Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvellously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine”",
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                        "text": "“Being truly biblical means that my counsel reflects what the entire Bible is about. The Bible is a narrative, a story of redemption, and its chief character is Jesus Christ. He is the main theme of the narrative, and he is revealed in every passage in the book. This story reveals how God harnessed nature and controlled history to send his Son to rescue rebellious, foolish, and self-focused men and women. He freed them from bondage to themselves, enabled them to live for his glory, and gifted them with an eternity in his presence, far from the harsh realities of the Fall.”",
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                        "text": "“spirit of monopoly…the great enemy of Democracy…The passing events of the day show how immense a power is exercised by corporations. They are weapons in the hand of the Money Power, capable of being wielded with dreadful effect, in its warfare with the Producing Power.”",
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                        "text": "Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.",
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                        "text": "Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses.",
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                        "text": "“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.”",
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                        "text": "The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means",
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                        "text": "“Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. Our very unity has been strengthened by this pluralism. That's how we began; this is how we must always be. The ideals of our country leave no room whatsoever for intolerance, anti-Semitism, or bigotry of any kind -- none. The unique thing about America is a wall in our Constitution separating church and state. It guarantees there will never be a state religion in this land, but at the same time it makes sure that every single American is free to choose and practice his or her religious beliefs or to choose no religion at all. Their rights shall not be questioned or violated by the state. -- Remarks at the International Convention of B'nai B'rith, 6 September 1984”",
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                        "text": "We may first observe that communism and socialism--which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism--cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State…",
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                        "text": "“[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story.\" What do you mean?\" Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that.”",
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                        "text": "It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. When we have the courage and faith to live up to the best we know, we fulfill the purpose for which we came to this earth, and we provide an incentive for others to do the same.",
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                        "text": "Grant us a common faith that we shall know bread and peace-that we shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do our best not only in our own lands, but throughout the world. And in that faith let us march toward the clean world our hands can make.",
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                        "text": "When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.",
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