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> [I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/i-do-a-certain-amount-of-work-in-religious-communities-on-these/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-barclay/so-long-as-we-judge-ourselves-by-human-comparisons-there-is-plenty-of/)

[William Barclay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-barclay/)

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> [“The key to understnading masculinity is Jesus Christ. Jesus was tough with religious blockheads, false teachers, the proud, and bullies. Jesus was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-driscoll/the-key-to-understnading-masculinity-is-jesus-christ-jesus-was-tough/)

[Mark Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-driscoll/)

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> [“I was asked by a concerned church-goer: "Is your relationship with God okay?" and I answered "My relationship with God is far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/i-was-asked-by-a-concerned-church-goer-is-your-relationship-with-god/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [ Moses warned them \[Israelites\] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the \[promise\] land would be forgetting the Lord.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-anders/moses-warned-them-israelites-that-the-leading-spiritual-danger-they/)

[Max Anders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-anders/)

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> [The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kage-baker/the-leaf-that-spreads-in-the-light-is-the-only-holiness-there-is-i/)

[Kage Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kage-baker/)

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> [I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angelina-jolie/i-respect-all-religions-what-i-don-t-respect-is-when-people-use/)

[Angelina Jolie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angelina-jolie/)

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> [“Our problem in evangelism is not that we don’t have enough information—it is that we don’t know how to be ourselves. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-manley-pippert/our-problem-in-evangelism-is-not-that-we-don-t-have-enough/)

[Rebecca Manley Pippert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-manley-pippert/)

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> [Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-collins/science-is-a-powerful-way-indeed-to-study-the-natural-world-science/)

[Francis Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-collins/)

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> [“You know, the thing that makes the Bible the Bible is the fact that somebody had an interview with God! Somebody heard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-g-lake/you-know-the-thing-that-makes-the-bible-the-bible-is-the-fact-that/)

[John G. Lake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-g-lake/)

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> [“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donal-ryan/how-would-i-know-what-jesus-would-have-done-that-fella-was-a-mass-of/)

[donal ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donal-ryan/)

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> [Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-baker-eddy/audible-prayer-can-never-do-the-works-of-spiritual-understanding-2/)

[Mary Baker Eddy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-baker-eddy/)

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> [“The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/the-purpose-of-a-spiritual-discipline-is-to-give-us-a-way-to-stop-the/)

[Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/)

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> [People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-t-max/people-are-always-invoking-evolutionary-psychology-for-everything-why/)

[D. T. Max](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-t-max/)

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> [“We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-a-bednar/we-begin-the-process-of-being-born-again-through-exercising-faith-in-2/)

[David A. Bednar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-a-bednar/)

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> [The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sheaffer/the-priest-invents-and-encourages-every-kind-of-suffering-and/)

[Robert Sheaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sheaffer/)

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> [Nothing less than the majesty of God, and the powers of the world to come, can maintain the peace and sanctity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-martineau/nothing-less-than-the-majesty-of-god-and-the-powers-of-the-world-to/)

[James Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-martineau/)

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> [Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/concord-is-just-as-idiotic-as-ever-in-relation-to-the-spirits-and/)

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

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> [The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-mckendree-bounds/the-life-giving-preacher-is-a-man-of-god-whose-heart-is-ever-athirst/)

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

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> [At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-welwood/at-any-moment-whatever-we-are-experiencing-only-one-of-two-things-is/)

[John Welwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-welwood/)

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> [The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-a-carson/the-new-testament-writers-i-think-conceive-of-their-inspired/)

[D. A. Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-a-carson/)

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> [Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arno-c-gaebelein/following-him-is-walking-in-the-light-and-not-in-darkness-man-on/)

[Arno C. Gaebelein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arno-c-gaebelein/)

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> [Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/change-is-always-subjective-all-through-evolution-you-find-that-the/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [“Lack of Faith" Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-kamienska/lack-of-faith-yes-even-when-i-don-t-believe-there-is-a-place-in-me/)

[Anna Kamieńska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-kamienska/)

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> [“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/intellectual-work-sometimes-spiritual-work-certainly-artistic-work/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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> [Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutherford-b-hayes/have-been-reading-genesis-several-sundays-not-as-a-christian-reads/)

[Rutherford B. Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutherford-b-hayes/)

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> [Religion sees death as a journey to a surreal paradise. I see death as the end of all good and evil. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-limn/religion-sees-death-as-a-journey-to-a-surreal-paradise-i-see-death-as/)

[Jeremy Limn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-limn/)

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> [“Cultivating Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think Cultivating Self-Compassion: Letting Go of Perfectionism Cultivating a Resilient Spirit: Letting Go of Numbing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/cultivating-authenticity-letting-go-of-what-people-think-cultivating/)

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

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> [“For the early scholars of Islam, there would have been no conflict between religion and science. The early thinkers were quite clear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-al-khalili/for-the-early-scholars-of-islam-there-would-have-been-no-conflict/)

[Jim Al-Khalili](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-al-khalili/)

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> [I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-a-dembski/i-think-the-opportunity-to-deal-with-students-and-getting-them/)

[William A. Dembski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-a-dembski/)

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> [“I mean, I ignore plenty of stuff, like school spirit days and the dirty looks I get from the Detentionheads while I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-king/i-mean-i-ignore-plenty-of-stuff-like-school-spirit-days-and-the-dirty/)

[A.S. King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-king/)

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> [“It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship!' Without the religion, without the archaic and flawed holy texts, there wouldn’t be anything for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-mcafee/it-s-not-a-religion-it-s-a-relationship-without-the-religion-without/)

[David G. McAfee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-g-mcafee/)

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> [The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-clarke/the-bible-is-proved-to-be-a-revelation-from-god-by-the-reasonableness/)

[Adam Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-clarke/)

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> [“the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-grinder/the-ability-of-a-religious-or-business-leader-to-inspire-motivate/)

[John Grinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-grinder/)

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> [“You do not carry the cross. Instead you are all crucified on the timber of your sufficiency, which is given to you,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlo-michelstaedter/you-do-not-carry-the-cross-instead-you-are-all-crucified-on-the/)

[Carlo Michelstaedter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlo-michelstaedter/)

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> [“Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-kerrigan/then-thre-is-brian-it-s-been-a-slow-grow-love-with-its-roots-in-our/)

[Kate Kerrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-kerrigan/)

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> [We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-can-only-escape-from-the-world-by-outgrowing-the-world-death-may/)

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

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> [The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-batuman/the-novel-tradition-is-the-closest-thing-i-have-to-a-religion-and/)

[Elif Batuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-batuman/)

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> [Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/let-this-one-great-gracious-glorious-fact-lie-in-your-spirit-until-it/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, 'participation' language, and a great deal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/once-you-understand-how-first-century-jewish-covenant-theology/)

[N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright/)

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                        "text": "So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.",
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                        "text": "“I was asked by a concerned church-goer: \"Is your relationship with God okay?\" and I answered \"My relationship with God is far better than yours. You have to be in a certain place, with a certain group of people, pray at certain days of the week, read the Bible at certain times of the day; all in order to have a relationship with God. But I am with God from the moment I wake up, to the moment I fall asleep at night, I am with God wherever on this earth that I wander to, and whosoever I may be with! I may be sitting on the subway, and I am with God. I can assure you that I am closer to God than you are.”",
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                        "text": "Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.",
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                        "text": "The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky. Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.",
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                        "text": "I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill.  I don't consider them religious people.",
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                        "text": "“Our problem in evangelism is not that we don’t have enough information—it is that we don’t know how to be ourselves. We forget we are called to be witnesses to what we have seen and know, not to what we don’t know. The key on our part is authenticity and obedience, not a doctorate in theology. We haven’t grasped that it really is OK for us to be who we are when we are with seekers, even if we don’t have all the answers to their questions or if our knowledge of Scripture is limited.”",
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                        "text": "Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.",
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                        "text": "“You know, the thing that makes the Bible the Bible is the fact that somebody had an interview with God! Somebody heard from Heaven before there was any Bible. Then the conversation or the incident was recorded, and these became the Word of God.”",
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                        "text": "“How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and kicking over lads' market stalls. He says blessed are the meek and he goes around shouting and roaring the odds to everyone. He rises from the dead and then shags off a few weeks later and leaves his buddies in the shit.”",
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                        "text": "Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.",
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                        "text": "“The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding and gradual training. Ongoing spiritual practice can help us cultivate a new way of relating to life in which we let go of our battles. When”",
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                        "text": "People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. \"Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success,\" every damn thing - religion, art - it can all be explained by evolutionary psychology. But in our hearts we know that evolutionary psychology is only sort of accurate, because it really doesn't capture what's most interesting about our lives.",
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                        "text": "“We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion for the remission of sins by one having priesthood authority. 'Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life' (Romans 6:4). And after we come out of the waters of baptism, our souls need to be continuously immersed in and saturated with the truth and the light of the Savior's gospel. Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity. . . . Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.”",
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                        "text": "Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.",
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                        "text": "“Lack of Faith\" Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild grace, a stubborn preserve, impenetrable, pain untouched by the sleeping body, music that builds its nest in silence.”",
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                        "text": "“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel beyond the realm of the hour and the restraint of the habit. Nor can the actual work be well separated from the entire life. Like the knights of the Middle Ages, there is little the creatively inclined person can do but to prepare himself, body and spirit, for the labor to come — for his adventures are all unknown. In truth, the work itself is the adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with less than extraordinary energy and concentration. The extraordinary is what art is about.”",
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                        "text": "Have been reading \"Genesis\" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for \"spiritual consolation,\" \"instruction,\" etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.",
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                        "text": "“Cultivating Authenticity: Letting Go of What People Think Cultivating Self-Compassion: Letting Go of Perfectionism Cultivating a Resilient Spirit: Letting Go of Numbing and Powerlessness Cultivating Gratitude and Joy: Letting Go of Scarcity and Fear of the Dark Cultivating Intuition and Trusting Faith: Letting Go of the Need for Certainty Cultivating Creativity: Letting Go of Comparison Cultivating Play and Rest: Letting Go of Exhaustion as a Status Symbol and Productivity as Self-Worth Cultivating Calm and Stillness: Letting Go of Anxiety as a Lifestyle Cultivating Meaningful Work: Letting Go of Self-Doubt and “Supposed To” Cultivating Laughter, Song, and Dance: Letting Go of Being Cool and “Always in Control”",
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                        "text": "“For the early scholars of Islam, there would have been no conflict between religion and science. The early thinkers were quite clear abou their mission: the Qur'an required them to study alsamawat wal'arth (the skies and the earth) to find proof of their faith. The prophet himself had besought this discipline to seek knowledge 'from the cradle to the grave', no matter how far that search took them, for 'he who travels in search of knowledge, travels along Allah's path to paradise”",
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