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title: "Best Religion Lines"
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> [“I am not saying all of this in the spirit of “provocation,” I hope, but merely to try out these reflections on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-cowdell/i-am-not-saying-all-of-this-in-the-spirit-of-provocation-i-hope-but/)

[Scott Cowdell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-cowdell/)

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> [“The task of these emerging churches, they contend, is one of "dismantling first and then...rebuilding." They realize that this makes the traditional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-belcher/the-task-of-these-emerging-churches-they-contend-is-one-of/)

[Jim Belcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-belcher/)

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> [“When we use our intelligence to comprehend and implement Gita wisdom, then it forms a bridge that takes us from the visible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chaitanya-charan-das/when-we-use-our-intelligence-to-comprehend-and-implement-gita-wisdom/)

[Chaitanya Charan Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chaitanya-charan-das/)

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> [“Try this receipt, O believer, whenever thou art sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit: forget thyself and thy little concerns,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-h-spurgeon/try-this-receipt-o-believer-whenever-thou-art-sad-of-heart-and-in/)

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

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> [And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/and-this-i-believe-that-the-free-exploring-mind-of-the-individual-4/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/unease-anxiety-tension-stress-worry-all-forms-of-fear-are-caused-by/)

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

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> [ We call the one side \[of humanity\] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/we-call-the-one-side-of-humanity-religion-and-we-call-the-other/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-a-schumpeter/the-spirit-of-a-people-its-cultural-level-its-social-structure-the/)

[Joseph A. Schumpeter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-a-schumpeter/)

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> [“The existance of many gods conveys true complexity of mortal life. Conversely, the assertion of but one god leads to a denial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/the-existance-of-many-gods-conveys-true-complexity-of-mortal-life/)

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

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> [Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/faith-is-a-state-of-openness-or-trust-in-other-words-a-person-who-is/)

[Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/)

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> [“All religions have core beliefs that confound these innate expectations about the world, such as faith in physically powerful but essentially bodiless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-atran/all-religions-have-core-beliefs-that-confound-these-innate/)

[Scott Atran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-atran/)

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> [“Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-versey/christianity-true-christianity-is-experienced-when-we-crucify-the/)

[Jason Versey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-versey/)

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> [Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/golden-rule-lies-at-the-heart-of-every-religious-and-of-every-ethical/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [“What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-girard/what-is-the-basis-of-imitating-jesus-it-cannot-be-his-ways-of-being/)

[René Girard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-girard/)

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> [Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-de-certeau/political-organizations-have-slowly-substituted-themselves-for-the/)

[Michel de Certeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-de-certeau/)

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> [This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-milton/this-having-learnt-thou-hast-attained-the-sum-of-wisdom-hope-no/)

[John Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-milton/)

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> [“Purpose transcends personality. It is important for supportive ministers to serve based on their awareness of God's purpose. His purpose is foundational…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-cooke/purpose-transcends-personality-it-is-important-for-supportive/)

[Tony Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-cooke/)

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> [Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-nichols/those-who-embrace-belief-in-christ-jesus-are-bound-together-in-him-in/)

[Vincent Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-nichols/)

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> [Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-myss/every-choice-we-make-contains-the-energy-of-either-faith-or-fear-and/)

[Caroline Myss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-myss/)

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> [This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-chilton-moore/this-religion-teaches-that-6-000-years-ago-god-made-the-first-man-out/)

[Charles Chilton Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-chilton-moore/)

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> [“It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robby-gallaty/it-is-this-personal-knowledge-that-is-the-basis-of-discipleship-and/)

[Robby Gallaty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robby-gallaty/)

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> [Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/religion-is-not-an-imitation-of-jesus-or-mohammed-even-if-an/)

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

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> [“Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well. You turn the eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-murray-mccheyne/some-of-you-seek-for-faith-much-in-the-same-way-as-you-would-dig-for/)

[Robert Murray McCheyne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-murray-mccheyne/)

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> [One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-buckingham/one-reason-there-are-so-many-unhappy-christians-is-they-feel-god/)

[Jamie Buckingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-buckingham/)

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> [Our faith is what inspires us to reach out and volunteer to help others. As a child my parents taught me the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-carlson/our-faith-is-what-inspires-us-to-reach-out-and-volunteer-to-help/)

[Gretchen Carlson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-carlson/)

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> [“Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tiffany-madison/perhaps-the-creator-of-this-strange-place-knows-us-better-than-we/)

[Tiffany Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tiffany-madison/)

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> [“The vocation to the priesthood, according to your memoirs, ‘naturally matured within me without any grand conversion experiences’. If there was nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-vocation-to-the-priesthood-according-to-your-memoirs-naturally/)

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

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> [Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis/without-our-faith-we-wouldn-t-have-been-able-to-succeed-on-many/)

[John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis/)

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> [I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-h-peterson/i-get-asked-what-do-you-miss-most-about-being-a-pastor-i-think-it-s/)

[Eugene H. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-h-peterson/)

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> [“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it's a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rita-golden-gelman/my-spirit-gets-nourished-in-faraway-places-sometimes-i-wonder-if-it-s/)

[Rita Golden Gelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rita-golden-gelman/)

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> [Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-eagleman/our-ignorance-of-the-cosmos-is-too-vast-to-commit-to-atheism-and-yet/)

[David Eagleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-eagleman/)

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> [“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/it-is-generally-argued-that-our-experience-of-free-will-presents-a/)

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

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> [This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/this-new-large-scale-spiritual-awakening-is-occurring-primarily-not/)

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

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> [Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryant-h-mcgill/through-spiritual-maturity-you-will-see-new-ways-to-avoid-unnecessary-2/)

[Bryant H. McGill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryant-h-mcgill/)

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> [From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-g-walker/from-a-biological-viewpoint-patriarchal-religion-denied-women-the/)

[Barbara G. Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-g-walker/)

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> [Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-goldsmith/religion-does-what-philosophy-could-never-do-it-shows-the-equal/)

[Oliver Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith/)

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> [Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/faith-and-feelings-are-the-warm-marrow-of-evil-unlike-reason-faith/)

[Terry Goodkind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-goodkind/)

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> [“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/if-i-were-to-believe-in-god-enough-to-call-him-a-murderer-then-i/)

[Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/)

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> [Mother Meera: It is not necessary to devote or believe in me. If you are sincere to your guru, master, God, Absolute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-meera/mother-meera-it-is-not-necessary-to-devote-or-believe-in-me-if-you/)

[Mother Meera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-meera/)

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> [The Bible in itself is not the Word of God. The Word of God is a person. Neither does the Bible have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-d-brinsmead/the-bible-in-itself-is-not-the-word-of-god-the-word-of-god-is-a/)

[Robert D. Brinsmead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-d-brinsmead/)

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                        "text": "“When we use our intelligence to comprehend and implement Gita wisdom, then it forms a bridge that takes us from the visible to the invisible, from the material to the spiritual, from the mundane to the divine. In that invisible, non-material, divine realm, our potential for personality and relationships blossoms fully in our loving connection with Krishna. ”",
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                        "text": "“Try this receipt, O believer, whenever thou art sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit: forget thyself and thy little concerns, and seek the welfare and prosperity of Zion. When thou bendest thy knee in prayer to God, limit not thy petition to the narrow circle of thine own life, tried though it be, but send out thy longing prayers for the church's prosperity, \"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,\" and thine own soul shall be refreshed.”",
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                        "text": "And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.",
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                        "text": "“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible. And yet this is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future but right here and now.”",
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                        "text": "We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.",
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                        "text": "The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.",
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                        "text": "“The existance of many gods conveys true complexity of mortal life. Conversely, the assertion of but one god leads to a denial of complexity, and encourages the need to maek the world simple. Not the fault of the god, but a crime commited by its believers.”",
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                        "text": "Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.",
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                        "text": "“All religions have core beliefs that confound these innate expectations about the world, such as faith in physically powerful but essentially bodiless deities. These beliefs grab attention, activate intuition, and mobilize inference in ways that facilitate their social transmission, cultural selection, and historical persistence. New experiments suggest that such beliefs, in small doses, are optimal for memory. This greatly favors their cultural survival. Mature”",
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                        "text": "“Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. -Jason Neville Versey”",
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                        "text": "Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.",
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                        "text": "“What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about that in the Gospels. Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas a Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ, as admirable as that work may be. What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed: to resemble God the Father as much as possible.”",
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                        "text": "Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.",
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                        "text": "“Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well. You turn the eye inward upon yourself and search amidst the depths of your polluted heart to find if faith is there; you search amid all your feelings at sermons and sacraments to see if faith is there; and still you find nothing but sin and disappointment. Learn Martha's plan. She looked full in the face of Jesus; she saw his dust-soiled feet and sullied garment, and his eye of more than human tenderness. She drank in his word: 'I am the resurrection and the life'; and in spite of all she saw and all she felt, she could not but believe. The discovery that Jesus made of his love and power, as the head of dead believers and the head of living believers, revived her fainting soul, and she cried: 'Yea, Lord, I believe.' Faith comes by hearing the voice of Jesus.”",
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                        "text": "Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.",
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                        "text": "“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it's a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me. Other times I think that my compulsion to settle into communities that are different from the ones I know is related to my passion for experiential learning. I learn best and most happily by doing, touching, sharing, tasting. When I'm somewhere I've never been before, learning goes on all day, every day.”",
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