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> [“Thomas Merton said it was actually dangerous to put the Scriptures in the hands of people whose inner self is not yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/thomas-merton-said-it-was-actually-dangerous-to-put-the-scriptures-in/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“The scant pieces of the common approach to the gods suggest an entirely different, low-tech, more transactional relationship. A similar ethos informs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/the-scant-pieces-of-the-common-approach-to-the-gods-suggest-an/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

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> [The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-impious-presumption-of-legislators-and-rulers-civil-as-well-as/)

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

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> [For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horst-seehofer/for-people-who-must-fear-for-their-lives-because-of-their-religion-or/)

[Horst Seehofer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horst-seehofer/)

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> [And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dillet-freeman/and-the-faith-that-grows-out-of-questioning-is-stronger-than-the/)

[James Dillet Freeman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-dillet-freeman/)

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> [Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-millman/faith-is-our-direct-link-to-universal-wisdom-reminding-us-that-we/)

[Dan Millman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-millman/)

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> [Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-a-moore/isn-t-it-strange-that-religious-prejudices-beliefs-none-possess-not/)

[George A. Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-a-moore/)

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> [“Khomeini espoused a militant religious doctrine rejecting not only the Middle Eastern political order, but also the contemporary international system since both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/efraim-karsh/khomeini-espoused-a-militant-religious-doctrine-rejecting-not-only/)

[Efraim Karsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/efraim-karsh/)

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> [“There is probably something good in every religion, the important thing is how you practice it. And this is when I found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lars-von-trier/there-is-probably-something-good-in-every-religion-the-important/)

[Lars Von Trier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lars-von-trier/)

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> [I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessie-j/i-remember-while-i-was-at-school-some-of-my-muslim-friends-talked/)

[Jessie J](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessie-j/)

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> [“Father, I pray for an outpouring of your Holy Spirit on our church family. Let us have done with “lesser things” that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scotty-smith/father-i-pray-for-an-outpouring-of-your-holy-spirit-on-our-church/)

[Scotty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scotty-smith/)

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> [The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/the-greatest-thing-a-human-soul-ever-does-in-this-world-is-to-see-2/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/merlin-stone/many-questions-come-to-mind-how-influenced-by-contemporary-religions/)

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

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> [the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillie-devereux-blake/the-most-grievous-wrong-of-that-day-was-to-be-found-in-the/)

[Lillie Devereux Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillie-devereux-blake/)

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> [A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/a-faithful-person-sees-life-from-the-perspective-of-trust-not-fear/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-kennedy/i-understand-what-justice-is-and-i-understand-what-freedom-is-and-all/)

[Tim Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-kennedy/)

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> [I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-harris/i-personally-am-not-religious-i-think-put-into-the-wrong-hands-it-s/)

[Jared Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-harris/)

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> [“If there is no infallible Scripture "there can exist only a subjective and purely individual notion of what belongs to Christian faith."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-bavinck/if-there-is-no-infallible-scripture-there-can-exist-only-a-subjective/)

[Herman Bavinck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-bavinck/)

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> [“May you—in spite of your critics—move forward in faith. May God’s song over your life drown out every lesser voice. May you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susie-larson/may-you-in-spite-of-your-critics-move-forward-in-faith-may-god-s-song/)

[Susie Larson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susie-larson/)

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> [I'm not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism's 'social naturalism' (the claim that all beliefs have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/i-m-not-sure-that-liberation-theology-has-ever-satisfactorily/)

[Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/)

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> [“Listen! Listen to stories! For spirituality itself is conveyed by stories, which use words in ways that go beyond words to speak…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-kurtz/listen-listen-to-stories-for-spirituality-itself-is-conveyed-by/)

[Ernest Kurtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-kurtz/)

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> [I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-would-only-believe-in-a-god-who-could-dance-and-when-i-saw-my-devil/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/any-attempt-to-speak-without-speaking-any-particular-language-is-not/)

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

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> [“You are good ground The seeds are sown Nurture them with faith Guard them with prayer Keep the crows away with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maisie-a-smikle/you-are-good-ground-the-seeds-are-sown-nurture-them-with-faith-guard/)

[Maisie A. Smikle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maisie-a-smikle/)

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> [This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-is-the-most-profound-spiritual-truth-i-know-that-even-when-we-re/)

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

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> [“262The Gospel is so rich, and the salvation purchased by Christ contains so many and diverse benefits, that the most varied needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-bavinck/262the-gospel-is-so-rich-and-the-salvation-purchased-by-christ/)

[Herman Bavinck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-bavinck/)

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> [“Whatever their imagined source, the doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/whatever-their-imagined-source-the-doctrines-of-modern-religions-are/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [“But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bren-brown/but-after-spending-countless-hours-collecting-stories-about-joy-and/)

[Brené Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bren-brown/)

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> [Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-collins/phil-gramm-had-a-stump-speech-about-how-his-mother-s-devotion-kept/)

[Gail Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-collins/)

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> [It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/it-may-not-be-easy-in-every-possible-case-to-trace-the-line-of-2/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

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> [The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-w-hunter/the-ability-to-stand-by-one-s-principles-to-live-with-integrity-and/)

[Howard W. Hunter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-w-hunter/)

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> [The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/the-idea-of-a-spiritual-heart-transplant-is-a-vivid-image-to-me-once/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/god-never-estimates-what-we-give-from-impulse-we-are-given-credit-for/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/we-are-not-built-for-the-mountains-and-the-dawns-and-aesthetic/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-w-dyer/having-been-exposed-to-a-variety-of-religious-experiences-in-the/)

[Wayne W. Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-w-dyer/)

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> [“But all of what Jesus says in this chapter should be read in light of the opening few verses: “Do whatever they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-desilva/but-all-of-what-jesus-says-in-this-chapter-should-be-read-in-light-of/)

[David Desilva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-desilva/)

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> [I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-pitt/i-was-very-curious-about-the-world-even-at-a-young-age-and-i-don-t-2/)

[Brad Pitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-pitt/)

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> [Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-quarles/wouldst-thou-know-the-lawfulness-of-the-action-which-thou-desirest-to/)

[Francis Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-quarles/)

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> [The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/the-credit-belongs-to-those-who-are-actually-in-the-arena-who-strive/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-needleman/what-is-most-necessary-for-people-and-what-is-given-us-in-great/)

[Jacob Needleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-needleman/)

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                        "text": "“Thomas Merton said it was actually dangerous to put the Scriptures in the hands of people whose inner self is not yet sufficiently awakened to encounter the Spirit, because they will try to use God for their own egocentric purposes. (This is why religion is so subject to corruption!) Now, if we are going to talk about conversion and penance, let me apply that to the two major groups that have occupied Western Christianity—Catholics and Protestants. Neither one has really let the Word of God guide their lives. Catholics need to be converted to giving the Scriptures some actual authority in their lives. Luther wasn’t wrong when he said that most Catholics did not read the Bible. Most Catholics are still not that interested in the Bible. (Historically they did not have the printing press, nor could most people read, so you can’t blame them entirely.) I have been a priest for 42 years now, and I would sadly say that most Catholics would rather hear quotes from saints, Popes, and bishops, the current news, or funny stories, if they are to pay attention. If I quote strongly from the Sermon on the Mount, they are almost throwaway lines. I can see Catholics glaze over because they have never read the New Testament, much less studied it, or been guided by it. I am very sad to have to admit this. It is the Achilles heel of much of the Catholic world, priests included. (The only good thing about it is that they never fight you like Protestants do about Scripture. They are easily duped, and the hierarchy has been able to take advantage of this.) If Catholics need to be converted, Protestants need to do penance. Their shout of “sola Scriptura” (only Scripture) has left them at the mercy of their own cultures, their own limited education, their own prejudices, and their own selective reading of some texts while avoiding others. Partly as a result, slavery, racism, sexism, classism, xenophobia, and homophobia have lasted authoritatively into our time—by people who claim to love Jesus! I think they need to do penance for what they have often done with the Bible! They largely interpreted the Bible in a very individualistic and otherworldly way. It was “an evacuation plan for the next world” to use Brian McLaren’s phrase—and just for their group. Most of Evangelical Protestantism has no cosmic message, no social message, and little sense of social justice or care for the outsider. Both Catholics and Protestants (Orthodox too!) found a way to do our own thing while posturing friendship with Jesus.”",
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                        "text": "“The scant pieces of the common approach to the gods suggest an entirely different, low-tech, more transactional relationship. A similar ethos informs this book. We are not here to found a sci-fi religion or roleplaying circle. Pick an ambivalent ally and move on.”",
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                        "text": "The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.",
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                        "text": "For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of the German constitution, the right to asylum, applies. Nobody is questioning that. Irrespective of that, there is immigration that must be regulated, to bring skilled personnel to Germany, for example. We have to establish criteria for that. Their affiliation with the Christian-Western culture should be one of them.",
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                        "text": "And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.",
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                        "text": "Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.",
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                        "text": "Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.",
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                        "text": "“Khomeini espoused a militant religious doctrine rejecting not only the Middle Eastern political order, but also the contemporary international system since both perpetuated an unjust order imposed on the ‘oppressed’ Muslims by the ‘oppressive’ great powers. It was bound to be replaced by an Islamic world order in which the territorial nation-state would be transcended by the broader entity of the umma (or the universal Muslim community); and since Iran was the only country where the ‘Government of God’ had been established, it had the sacred obligation to serve as the core of the umma and a springboard for the worldwide dissemination of Islam’s holy message. As he put it: ‘We will export our revolution throughout the world … until the calls “there is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God” are echoed all over the world.”",
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                        "text": "“There is probably something good in every religion, the important thing is how you practice it. And this is when I found out that the most beautiful thing is to be able to live with a religion. Not just by displaying it and going to church and all, but by really being able to live some of these thoughts in your everyday life. This is a good thought. My problem right now is—and I just went to a Catholic service in connection with my daughter's something-or-another—and I got so damn annoyed by the fact that every text was about humility in relation to God. That's annoying, and I keep on being annoyed by it. Granted, the texts were written by people and not by God, but it's still so annoying. I don't see the meaning of you being humble just because you've been created by God and He has created all this. You can be humble toward life and toward other human beings and toward creativity and everything—and you are—but being humble toward the man who has created the whole circus? Of course, but you shouldn't have to prostrate yourself, and you do that in many religions—you crawl in the dust before these gods. Why? I can see why some king down here on earth might enjoy seeing people crawling before him, but if this guy is that great, then he shouldn't care whether I bow down before him or whether I play around with my dick at night—he shouldn't care a bit about anything like that. As long as I don't do anything that will harm his creation, as long as I don't kill, say, too many fish—well, he's OK with fish, they eat them in the Bible. But this thing about throwing yourself on the floor and exclaiming, \"You're so great! You're so great!\"—that's completely illogical. If you believe in him, then he's the greatest anyhow. You look at a tiny leaf and you'll get humble—everyone will—even some stupid redneck in an ugly car. You really have to be stupid not to be able to appreciate a thing like that—a little leaf is like looking into eternity. It's totally amazing! And you don't have to stand around in church every day proclaiming that you're a little sinner and worth nothing and he is everything. That's annoying. Sorry, I must have made my point by now.”",
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                        "text": "I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.",
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                        "text": "“Father, I pray for an outpouring of your Holy Spirit on our church family. Let us have done with “lesser things” that we might more fully give ourselves to the things that matter the most to you. We’re spoiled; we’re dull; we’re bored and we’re boring. The main vision we need is a renewed vision of Jesus gathering his bride from the nations and making all things new. Free us from ourselves for yourself. Astonish us, Father; astonish us as you override our unbelief. I pray in Jesus’ exalted name. Amen.”",
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                        "text": "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.",
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                        "text": "“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people educated in this century think of classical Greece as the first major culture when written language was in use and great cities built at least twenty-five centuries before that time? And perhaps most important, why is it continually inferred that the age of the \"pagan\" religions, the time of the worship of female deities (if mentioned at all), was dark and chaotic, mysterious and evil, without the light of order and reason that supposedly accompanied the later male religions, when it has been archaeologically confirmed that the earliest law, government, medicine, agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, wheeled vehicles, ceramics, textiles and written language were initially developed in societies that worshiped the Goddess? We may find ourselves wondering about the reasons for the lack of easily available information on societies who, for thousands of years, worshiped the ancient Creatress of the Universe.”",
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                        "text": "A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.",
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                        "text": "“May you—in spite of your critics—move forward in faith. May God’s song over your life drown out every lesser voice. May you look up and rejoice because heaven rejoices over you. Remember who you are today! In Christ Jesus you possess all you need. Your name is written on His hand. Your desires are especially close to His heart. His call on your life fits you perfectly. Be watchful and thankful today Jesus is with you.”",
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                        "text": "I'm not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism's 'social naturalism' (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion's supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will).",
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                        "text": "“Listen! Listen to stories! For spirituality itself is conveyed by stories, which use words in ways that go beyond words to speak the language of the heart. Especially in a spirituality of imperfection, a spirituality of not having all the answers, stories convey the mystery and the miracle - and the adventure - of being alive.”",
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                        "text": "I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!",
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                        "text": "Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular… Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.",
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                        "text": "“You are good ground The seeds are sown Nurture them with faith Guard them with prayer Keep the crows away with the word of God Your seeds will grow and bear good fruits Of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”",
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                        "text": "This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. ...your spirits don't rise until you get way down. Maybe it's because this - the mud, the bottom - is where it all rises from. ...when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again.",
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                        "text": "“Whatever their imagined source, the doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast upon the scrap heap of mythology millennia ago; for there is no more evidence to justify a belief in the literal existence of Yahweh and Satan than there was to keep Zeus perched upon his mountain throne or Poseidon churning the seas.”",
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                        "text": "“But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who described living a joyful life or who described themselves as joyful, actively practiced gratitude and attributed their joyfulness to their gratitude practice. Both joy and gratitude were described as spiritual practices that were bound to a belief in human interconnectedness and a power greater than us. People were quick to point out the differences between happiness and joy as the difference between a human emotion that’s connected to circumstances and a spiritual way of engaging with the world that’s connected to practicing gratitude.”",
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