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title: "Best Religion Quotations"
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> [“In the same way as some illiterate, if he saw an open book, would notice the figures, but would not comprehend the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-of-saint-victor/in-the-same-way-as-some-illiterate-if-he-saw-an-open-book-would/)

[Hugh of Saint Victor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-of-saint-victor/)

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> [It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/it-s-all-too-easy-to-turn-the-fight-of-faith-into-sanctification-by/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [“Before I knew anything about church, I'd assumed that most Christians spoke the same language, shared a sense of fellowship, and beyond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-miles/before-i-knew-anything-about-church-i-d-assumed-that-most-christians/)

[Sara Miles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-miles/)

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> [Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/religious-people-should-be-very-active-if-they-believe-that-the-world/)

[Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/)

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> [“Christ, and after that everything is “automatic.” This is because of our failure to lay a scriptural emphasis in our evangelical preaching.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/christ-and-after-that-everything-is-automatic-this-is-because-of-our/)

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

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> [“If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes—as George says—at least we did wrong only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-r-stewart/if-there-is-a-god-who-made-us-and-we-did-wrong-before-his-eyes-as/)

[George R. Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-r-stewart/)

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> [I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/i-would-hope-that-wherever-i-go-i-bring-good-news-that-s-what-that/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-carnegie/praise-is-like-sunlight-to-the-warm-human-spirit-we-cannot-flower-and/)

[Dale Carnegie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-carnegie/)

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> [At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/at-the-end-of-one-millennium-and-nine-centuries-of-christianity-it/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marine-le-pen/i-do-not-stop-repeating-it-to-french-jews-not-only-is-the-national/)

[Marine Le Pen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marine-le-pen/)

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> [We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-graham/we-certainly-love-the-muslim-people-but-that-is-not-the-faith-of-this/)

[Franklin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-graham/)

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> [“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/man-is-timid-and-apologetic-he-is-no-longer-upright-he-dares-not-say-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/of-course-we-carry-inside-of-ourselves-our-parents-even-when-they-are-2/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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> [So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-bridges/so-often-we-try-to-develop-christian-character-and-conduct-without/)

[Jerry Bridges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-bridges/)

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> [“No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/no-honor-no-heart-no-religion-a-corrupt-woman-i-always-knew-it-and/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/to-see-and-feel-one-s-beloved-naked-for-the-first-time-is-one-of-life/)

[Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/)

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> [The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/watchman-nee/the-system-of-fathers-of-the-world-church-the-clergy-system-of-the/)

[Watchman Nee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/watchman-nee/)

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> [Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-held-evans/evangelicalism-is-like-my-religious-mother-tongue-i-revert-to-it/)

[Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-held-evans/)

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> [“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr-2/one-of-the-great-tragedies-of-life-is-that-men-seldom-bridge-the-gulf-2/)

[Martin Luther King Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr-2/)

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> [“Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/contrary-to-what-the-west-seems-to-think-it-is-not-poverty-that/)

[Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/)

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> [“Love must correct. Lloyd John Ogilvie writes, "Affirmation of people does not have to mean advocacy for their wrongful lifestyle or behavior."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-crabtree/love-must-correct-lloyd-john-ogilvie-writes-affirmation-of-people/)

[Sam Crabtree](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-crabtree/)

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> [You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-henri-lacordaire/you-saw-me-vacillating-between-error-and-truth-loving-them-equally/)

[Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baptiste-henri-lacordaire/)

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> [ But ripped out of context, \["Who am I to judge?" phrase\] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/but-ripped-out-of-context-who-am-i-to-judge-phrase-has-become-an-all/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

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> [Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-bernstein/many-argue-that-christianity-is-different-from-other-religions-that/)

[Andrew Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-bernstein/)

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> [I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-connelly/i-wasn-t-brought-up-with-any-religion-at-all-at-school-and-in-my/)

[Jennifer Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-connelly/)

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> [God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-miller/god-does-not-give-his-grace-as-he-gives-his-sunshine-pouring-it-out/)

[J.R. Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-miller/)

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> [It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-stirner/it-would-be-foolish-to-assert-that-there-is-no-power-above-mine-only/)

[Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-stirner/)

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> [Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-harvey/adoration-is-not-some-fervent-spiritual-or-poetic-exercise-reserved/)

[Andrew Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-harvey/)

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> [The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/the-foundations-of-our-national-policy-will-be-laid-in-the-pure-and/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [“Spiritual Murder It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/spiritual-murder-it-may-be-an-infinitely-less-evil-to-murder-a-man/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [“The ancient sages of Kashmir Shaivism did not look for the truth only in logic and intellectual speculation. They relied much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/balajinnatha-pandita/the-ancient-sages-of-kashmir-shaivism-did-not-look-for-the-truth-only/)

[Balajinnatha Pandita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/balajinnatha-pandita/)

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> [“They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/they-had-got-an-english-bible-and-to-conceal-and-secure-it-it-was/)

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

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> [“War is always more complex. Economics, history, religion all have a role, but not for the ones dodging the bullets. They just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-carter/war-is-always-more-complex-economics-history-religion-all-have-a-role/)

[Bill Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-carter/)

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> [For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/for-many-people-the-first-indication-of-a-spiritual-awakening-is-that/)

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

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> [Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-marie-moning/churches-crack-me-up-they-re-like-money-a-conspiracy-of-faith-like/)

[Karen Marie Moning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-marie-moning/)

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> [the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-a-johnson/the-way-in-which-a-faith-community-shapes-language-about-god/)

[Elizabeth A. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-a-johnson/)

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> [“In a pluralistic society it is not only wrong but unwise for Christians to shake their Bibles and arrogantly assert that “God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-w-colson/in-a-pluralistic-society-it-is-not-only-wrong-but-unwise-for/)

[Charles W. Colson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-w-colson/)

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> [“The Islamic faith and ideology is at another pivotal moment in its history. Having survived for a thousand years or more after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cal-sarwar-on-facebook/the-islamic-faith-and-ideology-is-at-another-pivotal-moment-in-its/)

[Cal Sarwar on facebook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cal-sarwar-on-facebook/)

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> [In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-islam-we-believe-that-it-is-god-himself-who-is-the-ultimate-guide/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

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> [Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-held-evans/millennials-aren-t-looking-for-a-hipper-christianity-we-re-looking/)

[Rachel Held Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-held-evans/)

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                        "text": "“Before I knew anything about church, I'd assumed that most Christians spoke the same language, shared a sense of fellowship, and beyond minor differences had a faith in common that could transcend political boundaries. But if I had imagined that, initiated as a Christian, I was going to achieve some kind of easy bond with other believers, that fantasy was soon shot. Just a few months after I began going to St. Gregory's, I found myself at a restaurant counter in the Denver airport, waiting for a flight home from a reporting trip. A woman—perhaps noticing the silver crucifix I had recently and self-consciously started to wear around my neck—caught my eye and smiled as she took the stool next to me. She had short blond hair and a cross of her own, and was wearing some kind of sexless denim jumper that reeked of piety. I smiled back, and we exchanged small talk about the weather and flight delays, and then she asked me what I was reading. I showed her the little volume of psalms that I'd borrowed from Rick Fabian. “From my church,” I said proudly. “What church is that?” the woman asked. She leaned forward, in a friendly way. “Saint Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, in San Francisco,” I said, as her face rearranged itself, froze, and closed. It may have been the “San Francisco,” I realized later, but the city's name was a reasonable stand-in, by that point, for everything conservative Christians had come to hate about the Episcopal Church as a whole: homosexuality; wealth; feminism; and morally relativist, decadent, rudderless liberalism. The church I'd unknowingly landed in turned out to be a scandal, a dirty joke at airport restaurants, a sign—in fact, thank God, a sure bet—that I was going to eat with sinners.”",
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                        "text": "Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.",
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                        "text": "I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.",
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                        "text": "Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.",
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                        "text": "At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.",
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                        "text": "We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.",
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                        "text": "“No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive myself to spare her,\" he said to himself. And it actually seemed to him that he always had seen it: he recalled incidents of their past life, in which he had never seen anything wrong before—now these incidents proved clearly that she had always been a corrupt woman. \"I made a mistake in linking my life to hers; but there was nothing wrong in my mistake, and so I cannot be unhappy. It's not I that am to blame,\" he told himself, \"but she. But I have nothing to do with her. She does not exist for me… ”",
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                        "text": "The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent churches are all the same in nature. They are all Nicolaitans. In the Bible there are only brothers. There is the gift of a pastor, but no system of pastors. The pastoral system is man's tradition. If the children of God are not willing to return to the position of that in the beginning, no matter what they do, it will not be right.",
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                        "text": "Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.",
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                        "text": "“Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.”",
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                        "text": "“Love must correct. Lloyd John Ogilvie writes, \"Affirmation of people does not have to mean advocacy for their wrongful lifestyle or behavior.\" Affirmation labors to earn a platform from which to challenge wrongful lifestyles and be heard in doing so. \"The Holy Spirit does not counsel us to have a flabby, indulgent attitude. Nor does He encourage us to buy into our age of appeasement and tolerance where everything is relative and there are no absolutes. However, the Holy Spirit shows us that any judgment of people's infractions of these absolutes must be done with indefatigable love and willingness to help them.”",
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                        "text": "You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.",
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                        "text": "But ripped out of context, [\"Who am I to judge?\" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.",
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                        "text": "Many argue that Christianity is \"different\" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.",
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                        "text": "I wasn't brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on - Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur'an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.",
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                        "text": "God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.",
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                        "text": "It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.",
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                        "text": "Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out and destroy nature if it does not learn again how to adore God, the God in all of us, God shining and living in nature, and learn again how to act from and in that spirit of adoration.",
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                        "text": "The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world.",
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