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> [Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ignatius-bryanchaninov/prayer-by-its-nature-is-communion-and-union-of-man-with-god-by-its/)

[Ignatius Bryanchaninov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ignatius-bryanchaninov/)

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> [ “You're right \[Joshua\], I have taught you nothing. I could teach you nothing. Everything that you needed to know was already there.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-moore/you-re-right-joshua-i-have-taught-you-nothing-i-could-teach-you/)

[Christopher Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-moore/)

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> [Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-schemm/religion-and-race-belong-together-german-man-can-only-assimilate/)

Hans Schemm

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> [And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/and-a-lot-of-times-the-religious-discussion-is-almost-a-masquerade/)

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

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> [“There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khushwant-singh/there-are-many-ways-of-attaining-godhood-say-teachers-of-religion/)

[Khushwant Singh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khushwant-singh/)

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> [I think there is always new people that have never heard the gospel before that need to have it because the gospel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-laurie/i-think-there-is-always-new-people-that-have-never-heard-the-gospel/)

[Greg Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-laurie/)

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> [“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-s-haraburda/i-have-a-problem-with-a-church-that-has-its-main-mission-aimed-at/)

[Scott S. Haraburda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-s-haraburda/)

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> [“Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miguel-serrano/words-are-really-a-mask-he-said-they-rarely-express-the-true-meaning/)

[Miguel Serrano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miguel-serrano/)

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> [When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-chandler/when-you-blow-it-god-still-celebrates-his-son-in-you-the-litmus-test/)

[Matt Chandler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-chandler/)

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> [“For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-graham/for-those-who-have-already-experienced-the-grace-of-almighty-god/)

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

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> [If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pema-ch-dr-n/if-you-look-back-at-history-or-you-look-at-any-place-in-the-world/)

[Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pema-ch-dr-n/)

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> [A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-a-wallace/a-fascist-is-one-whose-lust-for-money-or-power-is-combined-with-such/)

[Henry A. Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-a-wallace/)

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> [Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-southey/among-the-poor-the-approach-of-dissolution-is-usually-regarded-with-a/)

[Robert Southey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-southey/)

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> [Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steel/faith-healing-is-peculiar-enough-at-the-best-of-times-but-applying-it/)

[Mark Steel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steel/)

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> [A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-pagels/a-good-simulation-be-it-a-religious-myth-or-scientific-theory-gives/)

[Heinz Pagels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-pagels/)

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> [Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-davenant/praise-and-prayer-praise-is-devotion-fit-for-mighty-minds-the-diff/)

[William Davenant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-davenant/)

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> [You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/you-gave-me-health-that-i-might-serve-you-and-so-often-i-failed-to/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/a-zeal-for-different-opinions-concerning-religion-concerning/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

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> [Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/religion-begins-in-story-yes-it-does-because-religion-is-an-attempt/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/i-hope-and-believe-my-co-religionists-understand-and-admit-that-i/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

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> [Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorenzo-snow/our-being-edified-at-conference-depends-on-us-it-becomes-necessary/)

[Lorenzo Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorenzo-snow/)

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> [I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-vincent/i-grew-up-around-a-lot-of-various-religions-so-it-s-a-part-of-my/)

[St. Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-vincent/)

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> [The word "spiritual" normally means something that's distinct from the fleshly or the material. It's not of the world. But that version…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/the-word-spiritual-normally-means-something-that-s-distinct-from-the/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

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> [“God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-a-boyd/god-took-on-our-humanity-our-sin-and-the-just-punishment-that-sin/)

[Gregory A. Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-a-boyd/)

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> [“They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/they-scold-their-own-hearts-but-it-actuates-no-real-change-only/)

[Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/)

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> [The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-abramovic/the-brother-of-my-grandfather-was-the-patriarch-of-the-orthodox/)

[Marina Abramovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-abramovic/)

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> [The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/the-older-i-grow-and-the-more-i-abandon-myself-to-god-s-will-the-less/)

[Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/)

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> [“May heaven’s richest blessings rest upon you, my beloved associates. May faith grow in your hearts. May there be love and peace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/may-heaven-s-richest-blessings-rest-upon-you-my-beloved-associates/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [Theatre requires devotion that is all-consuming. When we started out, we didn't mind working 12 hours a day. We didn't mind going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenne-headly/theatre-requires-devotion-that-is-all-consuming-when-we-started-out/)

[Glenne Headly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenne-headly/)

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> [“Gross circumstances (that which can be seen) are illusory, subtle (sookshma) circumstances are mechanical, and circumstances of the speech are in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/gross-circumstances-that-which-can-be-seen-are-illusory-subtle/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-the-word-of-the-cross-is-folly-to-those-who-are-perishing-but-to/)

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

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> [I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rand-paul/i-m-not-for-profiling-people-on-the-color-of-their-skin-or-on-their/)

[Rand Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rand-paul/)

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> [Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy line of separation of faith:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-lieberman/let-us-break-through-some-of-the-inhibitions-that-have-existed-to/)

[Joe Lieberman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-lieberman/)

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> [“What would have happened if Einstein had advanced something equally new in the sphere of religion or politics? English people would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/what-would-have-happened-if-einstein-had-advanced-something-equally/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/nothing-has-contributed-so-much-to-the-obscuring-of-christian-truth/)

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

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> [“The Musalman, remaining faithful to his religion, has not progressed; he has remained stationary in a world of swiftly moving modern forces.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-r-ambedkar-2/the-musalman-remaining-faithful-to-his-religion-has-not-progressed-he/)

[B.R. Ambedkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-r-ambedkar-2/)

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> [“Some of the things in the Bible take more study to understand than others, and people who haven't studied their Bibles (the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shank/some-of-the-things-in-the-bible-take-more-study-to-understand-than/)

[Michael Shank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shank/)

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> [“All Jains believed in one thing; what is worth worshipping? The answer is the right belief (samkit). There are endless reincarnations to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/all-jains-believed-in-one-thing-what-is-worth-worshipping-the-answer/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-coltrane/my-goal-is-to-live-the-truly-religious-life-and-express-it-in-my/)

[John Coltrane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-coltrane/)

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> [The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-t-shotwell/the-jews-emerge-into-history-not-a-nation-of-keen-spiritual/)

James T. Shotwell

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                        "text": "Religion and race belong together. German man can only assimilate religious faith and religious thought with a German mind and in a German way. We must not think we can come to God except through our Volk…Wherever our blood rises in protest we act immorally, even though others may try to prove it to be moral.",
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                        "text": "And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?",
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                        "text": "“There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse is the first step towards it. He maintains that religion as it is practised, is false, and its propagators are agents of Satan. They have degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.”",
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                        "text": "I think there is always new people that have never heard the gospel before that need to have it because the gospel - which is the death, resurrection of Christ and the message of his forgiveness - is the only hope for a person knowing that they will go to Heaven and then finding the meaning and purpose they search for in life.",
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                        "text": "“Words are really a mask,' he said. 'They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you can live in fantasy, then you don't need religion, since with fantasy you can understand that after death, man is reincorporated in the Universe. Once again I will say that it is not important to know whether there is something beyond this life. What counts is having done the right sort of work; if that is right, then everything else will be all right. The Universe, or Nature, is for me what God is for others. It is wrong to think that Nature is the enemy of man, something to be conquered. Rather, we should look upon Nature as a mother, and should peaceably surrender ourselves to it. If we take that attitude, we will simply feel that we are returning to the Universe as all other things do, all animals and plants. We are all just infinitesimal parts of the Whole. It is absurd to rebel; we must deliver ourselves up to the great current…”",
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                        "text": "When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when you fail. Do you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence? If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand the gospel.",
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                        "text": "“For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst for fellowship with the Lord of our souls, redeemed by his blood. By tapping into the channel by which we commune with the One who calls his children “friends,” we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life’s path.”",
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                        "text": "If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see - because you're not particularly invested in that particular argument - that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.",
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                        "text": "A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.",
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                        "text": "Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.",
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                        "text": "Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would God bother to perform a miracle that enabled Sol Campbell to yell Oh holy Jesus, now I can win the ball in the air. It's been five years since I could defend from corners, brothers and sisters, it's a miracle.",
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                        "text": "A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.",
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                        "text": "You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.",
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                        "text": "A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.",
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                        "text": "Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.",
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                        "text": "I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.",
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                        "text": "Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may be made by the speakers during the progress of the conference, which may be prompted by the Spirit of the Lord. I have thought, and still think, that our being edified does not so much depend upon the speaker as upon ourselves.",
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                        "text": "I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.",
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                        "text": "The word \"spiritual\" normally means something that's distinct from the fleshly or the material. It's not of the world. But that version of spirituality is bankrupt today. It had its use when the program of science divested matter from the spiritual qualities - - the qualities of a self, or of a being. When science divested the world of those qualities and made it into just a thing, rather than a self, it gave us license to treat it as just a thing, and not as something sacred, conscious, alive, intelligent. So this is tied into the whole trajectory of our civilization.",
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                        "text": "“God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!”",
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                        "text": "“They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up.”",
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                        "text": "The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.",
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                        "text": "The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.",
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                        "text": "“May heaven’s richest blessings rest upon you, my beloved associates. May faith grow in your hearts. May there be love and peace in your homes. May there be food upon your tables and clothing on your backs. May the smiles of heaven warm your hearts and bring comfort in times of trial.”",
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                        "text": "Theatre requires devotion that is all-consuming. When we started out, we didn't mind working 12 hours a day. We didn't mind going endlessly over and over a scene to make it right. I was the company's costumer for the first few years, and I remember the budget for 'Balm in Gilead' was $150.",
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                        "text": "“Gross circumstances (that which can be seen) are illusory, subtle (sookshma) circumstances are mechanical, and circumstances of the speech are in the form of a ‘record’. ‘We’ are only trying to say to the world that all actions of the mind, speech and body are scientific circumstantial evidences, and ‘You” (the Self) are independent. ‘You’ are separate from the inner intent (bhaav). Therefore, just change your inner intent (bhaav). Do not get distressed over the actions of the mind, speech and body; just change your inner intent.”",
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                        "text": "“All Jains believed in one thing; what is worth worshipping? The answer is the right belief (samkit). There are endless reincarnations to attain the right belief. Samkit (right belief) means the right vision, whereas this is the wrong vision. And this false belief (mithya darshan) of yours of ‘I am Chandubhai’ is your false faith (mithya shraddha).”",
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