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> [“Persecuting religious minorities is always ill-advised, every single time it occurs in history. I have never in my research found an instance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-wright/persecuting-religious-minorities-is-always-ill-advised-every-single/)

[Jennifer Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-wright/)

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> [I'm a spiritual man and I've always felt connected to Rastafari. I'm not a Rastafarian but I've got so much respect for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/snoop-dogg/i-m-a-spiritual-man-and-i-ve-always-felt-connected-to-rastafari-i-m/)

[Snoop Dogg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/snoop-dogg/)

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> [“Try to relax. Slow, deep breaths. Let go of your physical shell. Reach out to grasp the threads that bind us, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shiala/try-to-relax-slow-deep-breaths-let-go-of-your-physical-shell-reach/)

[Shiala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shiala/)

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> [Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/casting-an-eye-on-the-education-of-children-from-whence-i-can-make-a/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

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> [To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/to-read-well-that-is-to-read-true-books-in-a-true-spirit-is-a-noble-5/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“I am in another world, a world where faith and prayer are instinctive and universal, where not to pray, not to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-torday/i-am-in-another-world-a-world-where-faith-and-prayer-are-instinctive/)

[Paul Torday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-torday/)

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> [“In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-d-woodard/in-order-to-witness-clearly-the-march-of-humanity-from-its-inception/)

[Roger D. Woodard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-d-woodard/)

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> [“The test of man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but 'How have I loved?'. The final test of religion is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-test-of-man-then-is-not-how-have-i-believed-but-how-have-i-loved/)

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

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> [“What does relative religion say? Within the relative (dependent), look for that which is free from dependency. If nature’s grace befalls upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/what-does-relative-religion-say-within-the-relative-dependent-look/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-cerin/is-enough-to-look-at-the-middle-ages-at-the-inquisition-and-on-the/)

[Sorin Cerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sorin-cerin/)

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> [It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-snow/it-is-no-accident-that-hitler-lenin-pol-pot-and-other-butchers-of/)

[Tony Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-snow/)

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> [What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-cameron/what-i-would-say-is-jesus-came-to-save-lost-sinners-like-you-and-me/)

[Kirk Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-cameron/)

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> [The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/the-theme-of-cosmology-which-is-the-basis-of-all-religions-is-the/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-of-kronstadt/if-you-wish-to-get-pure-air-into-your-room-or-if-you-go-for-a-walk-in/)

[John of Kronstadt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-of-kronstadt/)

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> [“What is considered as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self)? It is when there is a sense of independence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/what-is-considered-as-purusharth-real-spiritual-effort-to-progress-as/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [“easy thing for a spirit to get used to. It is very confining, very limiting. So the child will cry out at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/easy-thing-for-a-spirit-to-get-used-to-it-is-very-confining-very/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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> [When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-taylor/when-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-was-framed-and-adopted/)

[John Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-taylor/)

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> [It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-heiser/it-s-important-for-people-in-the-church-to-realize-that-the-way-they/)

[Michael S. Heiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-heiser/)

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> [Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/jesus-becomes-the-captive-of-the-hysterically-religious-the/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/if-i-want-to-put-a-christmas-tree-in-my-yard-or-three-crosses-for-the/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letoya-luckett/i-trust-god-s-timing-i-m-a-very-spiritual-person-and-a-lot-of-times/)

[LeToya Luckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/letoya-luckett/)

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> [I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cornforth/i-was-born-on-7-september-1917-at-sydney-in-australia-my-father-was/)

[John Cornforth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cornforth/)

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> [Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-taylor/peace-is-the-gift-of-god-do-you-want-peace-go-to-god-do-you-want-2/)

[John Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-taylor/)

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> [I don't think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is un-American. It is not good. What the president…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-haley/i-don-t-think-we-should-ever-ban-anyone-based-on-their-religion-that/)

[Nikki Haley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-haley/)

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> [“When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/when-a-religion-is-good-i-conceive-that-it-will-support-itself-and/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [“Far more serious still is the division between the Church of Rome and evangelical Protestantism in all its forms. Yet how great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-gresham-machen/far-more-serious-still-is-the-division-between-the-church-of-rome-and/)

[J. Gresham Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-gresham-machen/)

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> [I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessye-norman/i-am-deeply-spiritual-i-revel-in-those-things-that-make-for-good-the/)

[Jessye Norman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessye-norman/)

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> [“You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-woodman/you-know-that-feeling-of-invincibility-you-sometimes-get-especially/)

[Jay Woodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-woodman/)

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> [ With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal \[Jesus\] did not give them something to think about together when… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-brown-taylor/with-all-the-conceptual-truths-in-the-universe-at-his-disposal-jesus/)

[Barbara Brown Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-brown-taylor/)

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> [Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-de-mello/everybody-was-talking-about-the-religious-man-who-committed-suicide/)

[Anthony de Mello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-de-mello/)

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> [“You will live in the midst of economic, political, and spiritual instability. When you see these signs---unmistakable evidences that his coming is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-taft-benson/you-will-live-in-the-midst-of-economic-political-and-spiritual/)

[Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-taft-benson/)

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> [As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/as-in-1925-creationists-are-not-battling-for-religion-they-have-been/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [“Faith taints or at worst removes our curiosity about the world, what we should value, and what type of life we should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-boghossian/faith-taints-or-at-worst-removes-our-curiosity-about-the-world-what/)

[Peter Boghossian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-boghossian/)

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> [It is true, these Roman Catholics, priests and all, impress me as a people who have fallen far behind the significance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-true-these-roman-catholics-priests-and-all-impress-me-as-a/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-mckendree-bounds/prayer-is-the-lungs-through-which-holiness-breathes-prayer-is-not/)

[Edward McKendree Bounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-mckendree-bounds/)

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> [In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emanuel-swedenborg/in-the-spiritual-body-moreover-man-appears-such-as-he-is-with-respect/)

[Emanuel Swedenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emanuel-swedenborg/)

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> [Purity of the spirit is important. A lot of people don't focus on what's going on inside, and no matter what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lamman-rucker/purity-of-the-spirit-is-important-a-lot-of-people-don-t-focus-on-what/)

[Lamman Rucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lamman-rucker/)

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> [Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/religion-any-religion-no-matter-what-sort-of-wonderful-religion-never/)

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

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> [My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siobhan-fallon-hogan/my-faith-has-cost-me-a-lot-of-money-because-i-do-creative-roles-and-i/)

[Siobhan Fallon Hogan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siobhan-fallon-hogan/)

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> [“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/when-there-is-abuse-by-itself-it-s-scary-enough-when-there-is-abuse-2/)

[Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/)

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                        "text": "I'm a spiritual man and I've always felt connected to Rastafari. I'm not a Rastafarian but I've got so much respect for the lifestyle and religion, and I'm so thankful I was able to meet some of the most influential Rastafarians during my Jamaica trip. They taught me so much and really helped me evolve into who I am today.",
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                        "text": "“Try to relax. Slow, deep breaths. Let go of your physical shell. Reach out to grasp the threads that bind us, one to another. Every action sends ripples across the galaxy. Every idea must touch another mind to live. Each emotion must mark another's spirit. We are all connected. Every living being united in a single glorious existence. Open yourself to the universe. Embrace eternity!”",
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                        "text": "Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.",
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                        "text": "To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.",
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                        "text": "“In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has held encounter with the divine as central is crucial. Ancient humanity provides us with an excellent laboratory for gaining such an understanding.”",
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                        "text": "“The test of man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but 'How have I loved?'. The final test of religion is not religiousness, but love: not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. Sins of commission in that awful indictment are not even referred to. By what we have not done, by sins of omission, we are judged. It could not be otherwise. For the withholding of love is the negation of the Spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain. Pastor Henry Drummond, 1890”",
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                        "text": "“What does relative religion say? Within the relative (dependent), look for that which is free from dependency. If nature’s grace befalls upon you, then from the relative, the vision flow of the stream of right belief (self realization) will burst forth.”",
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                        "text": "Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make an enemy of and have to eliminate everything that goes against them. This leads to the exacerbation of dictatorial Evil, to the most monstrous images that can be reflected in the mirror of Knowledge by this world with Destiny. Since this world has a Destiny, it means that everything occurred only once before our world was under the Print of our Creating Factor and everything we see already existed before we did, except for the fact that they occurred in the same Accidental Occurrence, while in our world with destiny they happen in successions of Intended Occurrences. There is a big difference through, because they determine a frontier between Illusion and the Image of this Illusion, on one side and the Print that was reflected in the Mirror of Knowledge, on the other side. This difference, that accepts the succession of events of",
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                        "text": "It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.",
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                        "text": "What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.",
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                        "text": "The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.",
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                        "text": "...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.",
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                        "text": "“What is considered as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self)? It is when there is a sense of independence (swatantrapanu), there is Self-dependency (Swa-dhin), there is no dependency on external factors (paradhin). Whereas here, work is only done when other circumstances come together. That which happens subject to scientific circumstantial evidences is prarabdh (an effect of past life karma).”",
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                        "text": "“easy thing for a spirit to get used to. It is very confining, very limiting. So the child will cry out at suddenly being so limited. Hear this cry. Understand it. And give your children as much of a sense of “unlimitedness” as you possibly can. Next, introduce them to the world you have created with gentleness and care. Be full of care—that is to say, be careful—of what you put into their memory storage units. Children remember everything they see, everything they experience. Why do you spank your children the moment they exit the womb? Do you really imagine this is the only way to get their engines going? Why do you take your babies away from their mothers minutes after they have been separated from the only life-form they have known in all of their present existence? Will not the measuring and the weighing and the prodding and the poking wait for just a moment while the newly born experience the safety and the comfort of that which”",
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                        "text": "When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.",
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                        "text": "It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about it - and I'm including \"Bible-believing\" scholars there. There is a wide gap between the work of biblical scholars, whose business it is to read the text of the Bible in its own worldview context, and what you hear in church.",
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                        "text": "Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.",
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                        "text": "If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.",
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                        "text": "I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.",
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                        "text": "I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children.",
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                        "text": "Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.",
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                        "text": "I don't think we should ever ban anyone based on their religion. That is un-American. It is not good. What the president is doing, everybody needs to realize that what he's doing is saying, 'Let's take a step back. Let's temporarily pause.'",
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                        "text": "“When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.”",
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                        "text": "“Far more serious still is the division between the Church of Rome and evangelical Protestantism in all its forms. Yet how great is the common heritage which unites the Roman Catholic Church, with its maintenance of the authority of Holy Scripture and with its acceptance of the great early creeds, to devout Protestants today! We would not indeed obscure the difference which divides us from Rome. The gulf is indeed profound. But profound as it is, it seems almost trifling compared to the abyss which stands between us and many ministers of our own Church. The Church of Rome may represent a perversion of the Christian religion; but naturalistic liberalism is not Christianity at all.”",
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                        "text": "I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!",
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                        "text": "“You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come into this world to live a life, to experience it, from somewhere else, some other plane, but we are programmed by all around us to deny or forget this - until one day we may remember again. That feeling of blissful reconnection with our source can be invoked through nature, beautiful writing or art or music, any detailed craft or work of discovery or personal dedication, meditation or other mentally balancing practice, or even through religious experience if there is a pure communion (not a pretence of it). But we should not yearn to return too soon, we should accept that we have come here for the duration of each life, and revel in the chance to learn and grow on this splendid planet. We can draw a deep sense of being-ness. peace, and love from this connection, which will sustain us through any trial. Once nurtured, this becomes stronger than any other connection, so of course our relationships here are most joyful when they allow us the personal freedom to spend time developing and celebrating that connection. Our deepest friendships form with those we can share such time and experiences with - discussing, meditating, immersing ourselves in nature, or creating our music, art, written or other works. Our journeys here are voyages of discovery, opening out the wonders within and all around. What better companions could we have than those who are able to fully share in such delights with us?”",
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                        "text": "With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... \"Do this\" He said - not believe this but do this - \"in remembrance of me.",
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