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> [“Rules of faith and creeds are like the guard rails on the side of the highway, which prevent you from skidding off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/rules-of-faith-and-creeds-are-like-the-guard-rails-on-the-side-of-the/)

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

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> [“Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have the strength to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-sarah/many-fervent-christians-who-are-moved-by-the-passion-and-death-of/)

[Robert Sarah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-sarah/)

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> [“The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/the-woods-that-i-loved-as-a-child-are-entirely-gone-the-woods-that-i-2/)

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

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> [I really love New York. I just love the aesthetics and the spirit of New York. I've just always loved the energy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirk-franklin/i-really-love-new-york-i-just-love-the-aesthetics-and-the-spirit-of/)

[Kirk Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirk-franklin/)

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> [“Kashmir Shaivism also developed an integrated and effective method of spiritual practice that includes intense devotion, the study of correct knowledge, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/balajinnatha-pandita/kashmir-shaivism-also-developed-an-integrated-and-effective-method-of/)

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

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> [The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keshub-chandra-sen/the-true-object-of-religion-is-to-bind-mankind-together-and-to-bind/)

[Keshub Chandra Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keshub-chandra-sen/)

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> [What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilbur-moorehead-smith/what-sort-of-man-is-this-who-over-and-over-again-gave-numerous/)

[Wilbur Moorehead Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilbur-moorehead-smith/)

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> [“There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/there-are-a-whole-lot-of-religious-people-in-america-including-the/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/for-years-i-thought-my-assignment-or-the-church-s-assignment-was-to/)

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

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> [“Each one of us is longing only for health and happiness, in search of a way of living in the world that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodson-merrell/each-one-of-us-is-longing-only-for-health-and-happiness-in-search-of/)

[Woodson Merrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodson-merrell/)

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> [There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/there-is-absolutely-no-difference-between-religion-and-politics-at/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

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> [Whenever you're on television, there's a responsibility to look timeless. I worked with the masters of film, fashion and beauty. I took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diahann-carroll/whenever-you-re-on-television-there-s-a-responsibility-to-look/)

[Diahann Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diahann-carroll/)

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> [ “They \[the Mormons\] are a set of horse thieves, liars, and counterfeiters. They'll swear a false oath on any occasion to save… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fawn-m-brodie/they-the-mormons-are-a-set-of-horse-thieves-liars-and-counterfeiters/)

[Fawn M. Brodie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fawn-m-brodie/)

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> [Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/scientists-can-have-their-judgment-clouded-by-their-professional/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and said, 'This is better than we thought! The universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/how-is-it-that-hardly-any-major-religion-has-looked-at-science-and-3/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [“Let us put it the other way, the Lutheran or Protestant church versus the Catholic. The Catholic is the girl that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/djuna-barnes/let-us-put-it-the-other-way-the-lutheran-or-protestant-church-versus/)

[Djuna Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/djuna-barnes/)

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> [“The argument was this: a civilization shackled to the strictures of excessive control on its populace, from choice of religion through to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/the-argument-was-this-a-civilization-shackled-to-the-strictures-of/)

[Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-erikson/)

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> [I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/i-say-that-a-christian-congregation-can-survive-and-often-appear-to/)

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

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> [Saving faith is not just believing that Jesus lived and died. Faith that saves is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-macarthur/saving-faith-is-not-just-believing-that-jesus-lived-and-died-faith/)

[John Macarthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-macarthur/)

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> [“You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?" „I believe in them all.” Vin frowned. „None of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-sanderson/you-said-their-prayer-is-this-the-religion-you-believe-in-then-i/)

[Brandon Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandon-sanderson/)

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> [My mind has two opposite ends of the spectrum as it's priority points. Spiritual enlightenment and financial prosperity. My goal is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karishma-brahmbhatt/my-mind-has-two-opposite-ends-of-the-spectrum-as-it-s-priority-points/)

[Karishma Brahmbhatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karishma-brahmbhatt/)

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> [Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/belief-is-always-most-desired-most-pressingly-needed-where-there-is-a/)

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

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> [“Your spirit shouldn’t be ‘fine.’ It should be effervescent.” The “spirit” in question wasn’t the soul. Nothing so abstract. It was spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laini-taylor/your-spirit-shouldn-t-be-fine-it-should-be-effervescent-the-spirit-in/)

[Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laini-taylor/)

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> [You have to be able to connect to the world of archetypes. That is not so easy, and most people in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-svoboda/you-have-to-be-able-to-connect-to-the-world-of-archetypes-that-is-not/)

[Robert Svoboda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-svoboda/)

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> [“The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-leithart/the-cross-is-the-crux-the-crossroads-the-twisted-knot-at-the-center/)

[Peter Leithart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-leithart/)

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> [Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luther-burbank/those-who-would-legislate-against-the-teaching-of-evolution-should/)

[Luther Burbank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luther-burbank/)

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> [“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-idea-of-seeking-help-in-her-difficulty-in-religion-was-as-remote/)

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

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> [It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheldon-vanauken/it-is-not-possible-to-be-incidentally-a-christian-the-fact-of/)

[Sheldon Vanauken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheldon-vanauken/)

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> [The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-brunner/the-more-that-man-is-able-to-distinguish-himself-from-the-rest-of/)

[Emil Brunner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-brunner/)

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> [A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-vincent-peale/a-very-real-barrier-to-faith-is-this-feeling-of-self-sufficiency-this/)

[Norman Vincent Peale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-vincent-peale/)

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> [I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-casey-jr/i-do-think-there-s-a-difference-between-what-a-religious-leader-says/)

[Bob Casey, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-casey-jr/)

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> [What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walker-percy/what-she-didn-t-understand-she-being-spiritual-and-seeing-religion-as/)

[Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walker-percy/)

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> [“Today, four to six million Canadians—about one-fifth of the population—claim a Tory ancestor. Many Canadians believe that their nation’s traditional devotion to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-allen/today-four-to-six-million-canadians-about-one-fifth-of-the-population/)

[Thomas B. Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-allen/)

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> [“Whatever response we draw, we’ve got to know this: evangelism is not easy. It’s not supposed to be. It’s challenging to tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-strachan/whatever-response-we-draw-we-ve-got-to-know-this-evangelism-is-not/)

[Owen Strachan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-strachan/)

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> [“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/people-whose-history-and-future-were-threatened-each-day-by/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-j-christensen/a-ten-point-plan-for-increased-spirituality-1-read-scriptures-daily-2/)

[Joe J. Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-j-christensen/)

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> [Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-wallerstein/truth-as-a-cultural-ideal-has-functioned-as-an-opiate-perhaps-the/)

[Immanuel Wallerstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-wallerstein/)

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> [Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epicurus/accustom-yourself-to-believe-that-death-is-nothing-to-us-for-good-and/)

[Epicurus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epicurus/)

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> [Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-wolcott/knowledge-and-liberty-are-so-prevalent-in-this-country-that-i-do-not/)

[Oliver Wolcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-wolcott/)

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> [I agree with those who argue that it is possible to distil from the religions of the world their common values and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-robinson/i-agree-with-those-who-argue-that-it-is-possible-to-distil-from-the/)

[Mary Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-robinson/)

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                        "text": "“Many fervent Christians who are moved by the Passion and death of Christ on the Cross no longer have the strength to weep or to utter a cry of pain to the priests and bishops who make their appearance as entertainers and set themselves up as the main protagonists of the Eucharist. These believers tell us nevertheless: \"We do not want to gather with men around a man! We want to see Jesus! Show him to us in the silence and humility of your prayer!”",
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                        "text": "“The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they’re full of bicycle trails. And this is happening to the world, and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work. But it is. What does that mean? [from 'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver for NPR Books ]”",
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                        "text": "I really love New York. I just love the aesthetics and the spirit of New York. I've just always loved the energy of it. When you're flying into New York and you look out of the window, it's like you're flying into another planet. I've never stopped being amazed at it.",
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                        "text": "“Kashmir Shaivism also developed an integrated and effective method of spiritual practice that includes intense devotion, the study of correct knowledge, and a special type of yoga unknown to other systems of practical philosophy. These three approaches are meant to be carefully integrated to produce a strong and vibrant practice. Yoga is the main path that leads to Self-realization, theoretical knowledge saves yogins from getting caught at some blissful but intermediary level of spiritual progress, and devotion provides them the strength and focus with which to digest correctly the powerful results of yoga and so avoid their misuse. This is a practice for both the mind and the heart. The teachings offers offer a fresh and powerful understanding of life that develops the faculties of the mind, while the devotional aspects of Kashmir Shaivism expand the faculties of a student’s heart. Combined together, both faculties help students reach the highest goal to which Shaiva yoga can dead them. The yoga system of Kashmir Shaivism is known as the Trika system. It includes many methods of yoga, which have been classified into three groups known as sambhava, sakta, and anava. Sambhava yoga consists of practices in direct realization of the truth, without making any effort at meditation, contemplation, or the learning of texts. The emphasis is on correct being, free from all aspects of becoming. This yoga transcends the use of mental activity. Sakta yoga consists of many types of practices in contemplation on the true nature of one’s real Self. Anava yoga includes various forms of contemplative meditation on objects other than one’s real Self, such as the mind, the life-force along with its five functions (the five pranas), the physical form along with its nerve-centers, the sounds of breathing, and different aspects of time and space. Trika yoga teaches a form of spiritual practice that is specific to Kashmir Shaivism. This system, along with its rituals, has been discussed in detail in Abhinavagupta’s voluminous Tantraloka, which is one of the world’s great treatises on philosophy and theology. Unlike many other forms of yoga, the Trika system is free from all types of repression of the mind, suppression of the emotions and instincts, and starvation of the senses. It eliminates all self-torturing practices, austere vows or penance, and forcible renunciation. Shaiva practitioners need not leave their homes, or roam as begging monks. Indifference (vairagya) to worldly life is not a precondition to for practicing Trika yoga. Sensual pleasures automatically become dull in comparison with the indescribable experience of Self-bliss. This is a transforming experience that naturally gives rise to a powerful form of spontaneous indifference to worldly pleasures. Finally, regardless of caste, creed, and sex, Trika yoga is open to all people, who through the Lord’s grace, have developed a yearning to realize the truth, and who become devoted to the Divine. — B. N. Pandit, Specific Principles of Kashmir Shaivism (3rd ed., 2008), p. xxiii-xxiv”",
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                        "text": "The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in the name of religion, men, instead of promoting peace on earth and good-will among men, are trying to show their antagonism and animosity towards each other, then certainly we must stand forward with our voice of protest, and say that religion is defeating its own legitimate object.",
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                        "text": "What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.",
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                        "text": "“There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse—when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome—others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends.”",
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                        "text": "For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.",
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                        "text": "“Each one of us is longing only for health and happiness, in search of a way of living in the world that will let us appreciate our bodies, make good use of our minds, and fulfill our spirits. To treat my patients well, I needed to treat them as souls rather than symptoms. I needed to help them learn how to live and live well.”",
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                        "text": "There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.",
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                        "text": "Whenever you're on television, there's a responsibility to look timeless. I worked with the masters of film, fashion and beauty. I took their words into my soul, like a kind of religion that I exhibited to the world to all of our benefit. To this day, it takes a great deal of time to do my makeup the way I feel comfortable. At 82, it's still a part of what I do. I enjoy it.",
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                        "text": "“They [the Mormons] are a set of horse thieves, liars, and counterfeiters. They'll swear a false oath on any occasion to save another Mormon. They are thieves and knaves and dupes in the bargain, and no property is safe in Daviess County if they continue to pour into this area. If you suffer the Mormons to vote in this election, it will mean the end of your suffrage.”",
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                        "text": "Scientists can have their judgment clouded by their professional aspirations. And the pure truth of faith, which you can think of as this clear spiritual water, is poured into rusty vessels called human beings, and so sometimes the benevolent principles of faith can get distorted as positions are hardened.",
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                        "text": "“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and said, 'This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'?”",
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                        "text": "“Let us put it the other way, the Lutheran or Protestant church versus the Catholic. The Catholic is the girl that you love so much that she can lie to you, and the Protestant is the girl that loves you so much that you can lie to her, and pretend a lot that you do not feel.”",
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                        "text": "“The argument was this: a civilization shackled to the strictures of excessive control on its populace, from choice of religion through to the production of goods, will sap the will and the ingenuity of its people – for whom such qualities are no longer given sufficient incentive or reward. At face value, this is accurate enough. Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore, a kind of intransigence as fierce and nonsensical as its maternalistic counterpart. And so, in the clash of these two extreme systems, one is witness to brute stupidity and blood-splashed insensitivity; two belligerent faces glowering at each other across the unfathomed distance, and yet, in deed and in fanatic regard, they are but mirror reflections. This would be amusing if it weren’t so pathetically idiotic…”",
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                        "text": "I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!",
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                        "text": "Saving faith is not just believing that Jesus lived and died. Faith that saves is the confident, continuous confession of total dependence on, and trust in Jesus Christ to meet the requirements on your behalf to give you entrance into God's Eternal Kingdom. It's the surrender of your life in complete trust to Him to do what you cannot do.",
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                        "text": "“You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?\" „I believe in them all.” Vin frowned. „None of them contradict each other?” Sazed smiled. \"Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all – and I believe in the need for each one to be remembered”",
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                        "text": "My mind has two opposite ends of the spectrum as it's priority points. Spiritual enlightenment and financial prosperity. My goal is to find a balance but it's difficult when you work with people from both ends . Business minded people who tend to lack morallity, values, and emotions whereas spiritually enlightened people who tend to lack drive, structure and reliability. Should the goal be not to combine these two types of people, or combine these two types of people, risk credibility, and give them the benefit of the doubt, that people are capable of change? Equilibrium is a hell of a goal.",
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                        "text": "Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will.",
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                        "text": "“Your spirit shouldn’t be ‘fine.’ It should be effervescent.” The “spirit” in question wasn’t the soul. Nothing so abstract. It was spirit of the body—the clear fluid pumped by the second heart through its own network of vessels, subtler and more mysterious than the primary vascular system. Its function wasn’t properly understood by science. You could live even if your second heart stopped and the spirit hardened in your veins. But it did have some connection to vitality, or “passion,” as Master Hyrrokkin said, and those without it were emotionless, lethargic. Spiritless.”",
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                        "text": "You have to be able to connect to the world of archetypes. That is not so easy, and most people in the West have no clue, that that is necessary, because they have no clue of what that means. They see the image, they see Buddha here, but they don't see what the image represents. Its one thing to see with this physical eyes, it's another thing to see with this spiritual eye.",
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                        "text": "“The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows. By it we know all reality is cruciform—the love of God, the shape of creation, the labyrinth of human history.”",
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                        "text": "Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.",
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                        "text": "“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself, although she had never had doubts of the faith in which she had been brought up. She knew that the support of religion was possible only upon condition of renouncing what made up for her the whole meaning of life. She was not simply miserable, she began to feel alarm at the new spiritual condition, never experienced before, in which she found herself. She felt as though everything were beginning to be double in her soul, just as objects sometimes appear double to over-tired eyes. She hardly knew that times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened, or what was going to happen and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said.”",
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                        "text": "It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.",
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                        "text": "The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as subject, as an \"I\", to whom the whole world is Object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the Spirit of God.",
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                        "text": "A Ten-Point Plan for Increased Spirituality: 1. Read Scriptures Daily. 2. Pray Fervently and Sincerely. 3. Fast Meaningfully. 4. Retire Early and Get Up Early. 5. Be of Good Cheer. 6. Work Hard. 7. Overcome Pride. 8. Love Everyone, and Express Your Love. 9. Become One. (As in John 17) 10. Share Your Testimony.",
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