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title: "Best Religion Sayings"
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> [Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theophan-the-recluse/every-christian-is-chosen-chosen-for-similar-deeds-namely-to-be-with/)

[Theophan the Recluse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theophan-the-recluse/)

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> [To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-stearns/to-be-a-disciple-means-forsaking-everything-to-follow-jesus/)

[Richard Stearns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-stearns/)

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> [Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-p-young/religion-and-anger-has-gone-together-a-lot-historically-my-father/)

[William P. Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-p-young/)

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> [Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzan-lori-parks/be-bold-envision-yourself-living-a-life-that-you-love-believe-even-if/)

[Suzan-Lori Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzan-lori-parks/)

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> [“I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-schmemann/i-said-that-the-question-about-death-and-more-precisely-the-confusion/)

[Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-schmemann/)

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> [To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-medawar/to-abdicate-from-the-rule-of-reason-and-substitute-for-it-an/)

[Peter Medawar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-medawar/)

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> [“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/if-a-person-leads-an-active-life-as-wiggs-had-if-a-person-has-goals/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [“Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a régime. Genuine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rousseau-jean-jacques/christianity-preaches-only-servitude-and-dependence-its-spirit-is-so/)

[Rousseau Jean-Jacques](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rousseau-jean-jacques/)

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> [“It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-bryan-smith/it-seems-that-i-always-am-and-always-have-been-an-outsider-i-ve-never/)

[James Bryan Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-bryan-smith/)

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> [Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/genesis-p-orridge/art-and-life-really-are-the-same-and-both-can-only-be-about-a/)

[Genesis P-Orridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/genesis-p-orridge/)

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> [“As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-cardinal-pell/as-well-as-being-essential-to-theological-study-philosophy-is-an/)

[George Cardinal Pell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-cardinal-pell/)

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> [Recall when the Congress-led government was in power; then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had talked about who had rights to the country's resources.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yogi-adityanath/recall-when-the-congress-led-government-was-in-power-then-prime/)

[Yogi Adityanath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yogi-adityanath/)

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> [All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/all-of-history-is-moving-toward-one-great-goal-the-white-hot-worship/)

[John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/)

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> [For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-finkelstein/for-as-jews-the-problem-happens-to-be-more-urgent-and-vital-than-for/)

[Louis Finkelstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-finkelstein/)

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> [The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-piper/the-missionary-question-is-not-where-are-there-unbelievers-and-then/)

[John Piper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-piper/)

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> [Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paramahansa-yogananda/those-who-are-unconquered-in-spirit-are-the-real-successes-in-life-if/)

[Paramahansa Yogananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paramahansa-yogananda/)

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> [Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rami-m-shapiro/interspirituality-is-the-world-music-of-religion-borrowing-fusing/)

[Rami M. Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rami-m-shapiro/)

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> [“Of course men can’t know you when you’re unclean,’ said Hilda. ‘It says so in the Bible. That’s why it’s called the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fay-weldon/of-course-men-can-t-know-you-when-you-re-unclean-said-hilda-it-says/)

[Fay Weldon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fay-weldon/)

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> [I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-d-smith/i-ve-done-a-number-of-things-in-the-spirit-of-employee-motivation-i/)

[Brad D. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-d-smith/)

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> [It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/it-is-either-all-of-christ-or-none-of-christ-i-believe-we-need-to/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/at-the-level-of-spirit-everything-is-always-unfolding-perfectly-and/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [“there are several serious flaws in the pietistic indifference to culture. First, many have promoted the pietistic stance by arguing that increasing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/there-are-several-serious-flaws-in-the-pietistic-indifference-to/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-kempis/some-people-are-tempted-most-strongly-at-the-beginning-of-their/)

[Thomas a Kempis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-kempis/)

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> [“Memory Verse Study Guide Jesus’ mission statement for the church is to make disciples. These pivotal verses (Matthew 28:18-20) are commonly referred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-ogden/memory-verse-study-guide-jesus-mission-statement-for-the-church-is-to/)

[Greg Ogden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-ogden/)

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> [“There have been thousands of different religions through time. And the followers of each of these religions believe that their founders received…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-e-richards/there-have-been-thousands-of-different-religions-through-time-and-the/)

[Douglas E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-e-richards/)

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> [To make the sign of the cross is to pronounce a visible and public yes to him who died for us and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/to-make-the-sign-of-the-cross-is-to-pronounce-a-visible-and-public/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [“The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-down-cycle-is-absolutely-essential-for-spiritual-realization-you/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [ \[F\]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gouverneur-morris/f-or-avoiding-the-extremes-of-despotism-or-anarchy-the-only-ground-of/)

[Gouverneur Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gouverneur-morris/)

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> [Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fethullah-gulen/tolerance-a-term-which-we-sometimes-use-in-place-of-the-words-respect/)

[Fethullah Gulen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fethullah-gulen/)

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> [“The tyrant-father of Heaven, the one who created, hated and drove out the first woman, yoked men with a horrible curse, far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-s-belcher/the-tyrant-father-of-heaven-the-one-who-created-hated-and-drove-out/)

[R.S. Belcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-s-belcher/)

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> [“For now, I look to God, for I know He will respond to my questions. For I believe, in the deepest part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandra-silber/for-now-i-look-to-god-for-i-know-he-will-respond-to-my-questions-for/)

[Alexandra Silber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandra-silber/)

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> [“We often get distracted with this thing called our body and our physical being. That just holds your spirit. And your spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rhonda-byrne/we-often-get-distracted-with-this-thing-called-our-body-and-our/)

[Rhonda Byrne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rhonda-byrne/)

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> [“When we speak with others about our experience in Christ, it sharpens our attentiveness to the voice and will of the Father.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-a-macchia/when-we-speak-with-others-about-our-experience-in-christ-it-sharpens/)

[Stephen A. Macchia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-a-macchia/)

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> [“Have patience . . . We are not the masters of our own feelings of attraction or revulsion; these come from places…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-vanier/have-patience-we-are-not-the-masters-of-our-own-feelings-of/)

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

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> [“In connection with this, consider again the statement, ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-hill/in-connection-with-this-consider-again-the-statement-all-thoughts/)

[Napoleon Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-hill/)

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> [“Some people, even in worship, seem to think that they must say their 'Amen' in a particular way, or must say it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-martyn-lloyd-jones/some-people-even-in-worship-seem-to-think-that-they-must-say-their/)

[David Martyn Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-martyn-lloyd-jones/)

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> [For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/for-me-the-jewish-religion-like-all-others-is-an-incarnation-of-the/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging the status quo, the one who is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-godin/heretics-must-believe-more-than-anyone-else-in-an-organization-it-s/)

[Seth Godin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-godin/)

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> [“I don’t think it’s overstating it to say that my religion of choice became VHS rentals, and that its messages came in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-m-danforth/i-don-t-think-it-s-overstating-it-to-say-that-my-religion-of-choice/)

[Emily M. Danforth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-m-danforth/)

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> [In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/in-my-travels-i-have-found-two-peoples-the-tibetans-and-the-fijians/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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                        "text": "Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.",
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                        "text": "Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.",
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                        "text": "“I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding, and in the final analysis, the relation of man to life, that which we call his worldview, is ultimately determined by his relationship to death. All of civilization seems to be permeated with a passionate obsession to stifle this fear of death and the sense of the meaninglessness of life that oozes out of it like a slow-dripping poison. What is this intense conflict with religion, if nothing other than a mindless attempt to root out of human consciousness the memory and concern with death and consequently the question: why do I live in this brief and fragile life?”",
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                        "text": "To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.",
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                        "text": "“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then that person is distracted, temporarily, from paying a whole lot of attention to the heavy scimitar that hangs by a mouse hair just about his or her head. We, each of us, have a ticket to ride, and if the trip be interesting (if it’s dull, we have only ourselves to blame), then we relish the landscape (how quickly it whizzes by!), interact with our fellow travelers, pay frequent visits to the washrooms and concession stands, and hardly ever hold up the ticket to the light where we can read its plainly stated destination: The Abyss. Yet, ignore it though we might in our daily toss and tussle, the fact of our impending death is always there, just behind the draperies, or, more accurately, inside our sock, like a burr that we can never quite extract. If one has a religious life, one can rationalize one’s slide into the abyss; if one has a sense of humor (and a sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised), one can minimalize it through irony and wit. Ah, but the specter is there, night and day, day in and day out, coloring with its chalk of gray almost everything we do. And a lot of what we do is done, subconsciously, indirectly, to avoid the thought of death, or to make ourselves so unexpendable through our accomplishments that death will hesitate to take us, or, when the scimitar finally falls, to insure that we ‘live on’ in the memory of the lucky ones still kicking.”",
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                        "text": "“Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a régime. Genuine Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and don’t much mind: this short life counts for too little in their eyes.”",
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                        "text": "“It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.”",
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                        "text": "Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.",
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                        "text": "“As well as being essential to theological study, philosophy is an indispensable tool for communicating theology, for evangelization and catechesis. A faith based on how warm and comfortable you feel and how \"affirmed\" you are by your community is pleasant, but there is no guarantee that it is true. Fides et ratio make clear that philosophy's central tasks are to justify our grasp of reality, of truth, and to make cogent suggestions as to life's true meaning. Being able to say something compelling on these topics -- reality, truth, and life's meaning -- is critical in winning young and old alike to the faith. A theology that incorporates philosophy's work in these areas will be faithful to the teaching of the Church and able to stand up to the most rigorous secular arguments and the ideologies of the age.”",
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                        "text": "Recall when the Congress-led government was in power; then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had talked about who had rights to the country's resources. He had, taking the name of a religion, planted the seed of appeasement politics in the country. The result of Congress' appeasement policy is terrorism.",
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                        "text": "All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.",
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                        "text": "For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.",
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                        "text": "The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.",
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                        "text": "It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!",
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                        "text": "“there are several serious flaws in the pietistic indifference to culture. First, many have promoted the pietistic stance by arguing that increasing the numbers of Christians will somehow improve or change a society. But as James Hunter convincingly argues, numbers do not always equate to influence. Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts.14 The assumption that society will improve simply by more Christian believers being present is no longer valid. If you care about having an influence on society, evangelism is not enough.”",
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                        "text": "“Memory Verse Study Guide Jesus’ mission statement for the church is to make disciples. These pivotal verses (Matthew 28:18-20) are commonly referred to as the Great Commission. Putting it in context: Read Matthew 28. What key events precede Jesus’ giving the Great Commission, and how would this have affected the disciples? The memory verses are Matthew 28:18-20. Copy these verses verbatim. What do these verses teach us about Jesus? Why does Jesus stress his authority (v. 18) as a backdrop to his command to “make disciples”? How is disciplemaking to be carried out? When is a disciple made? How have these verses spoken to you this week?”",
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                        "text": "“There have been thousands of different religions through time. And the followers of each of these religions believe that their founders received the divine answer, and that the religious mythology of all other religions is delusional. Almost everyone agrees that all the other religions were invented by man, just not the particular one into which they were born.”",
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                        "text": "“The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure. In this world, which is to say on the level of form, everybody “fails” sooner or later, of course, and every achievement eventually comes to naught. All forms are impermanent.”",
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                        "text": "[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man towards God.",
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