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> [Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-davies/imagine-a-civilisation-that-s-way-in-advance-of-us-wants-to/)

[Paul Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-davies/)

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> [“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-bullough/the-soviet-state-was-in-fact-almost-perfectly-designed-to-make-people/)

[Oliver Bullough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-bullough/)

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> [“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlena-de-blasi/they-all-know-the-truth-that-there-are-only-three-subjects-worth/)

[Marlena De Blasi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlena-de-blasi/)

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> [“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/history-i-believe-furnishes-no-example-of-a-priest-ridden-people-3/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [“Divine power . . . what mom would turn it down? Jesus, who is God, full of power and might has poured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobbie-wolgemuth/divine-power-what-mom-would-turn-it-down-jesus-who-is-god-full-of/)

[Bobbie Wolgemuth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobbie-wolgemuth/)

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> [We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanislav-grof/we-have-to-recognize-that-spirituality-is-a-legitimate-dimension-in/)

[Stanislav Grof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanislav-grof/)

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> [“Incompatible religious doctrines have Balkanised our world and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/incompatible-religious-doctrines-have-balkanised-our-world-and-these/)

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

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> [According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/according-to-hindu-cosmology-we-re-in-the-kali-yuga-a-dark-period/)

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

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> [“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-owen/the-holy-spirit-is-promised-of-god-to-be-given-to-us-to-do-this-work-2/)

[John Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-owen/)

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> [An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-j-carroll/an-old-joke-puts-its-thus-when-a-man-speaks-to-a-god-its-prayer-when/)

[Peter J. Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-j-carroll/)

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> [“Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gudjon-bergmann/ever-since-the-enlightenment-era-in-the-17th-and-18th-centuries-which/)

[Gudjon Bergmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gudjon-bergmann/)

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> [“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brewster/thus-identified-with-astronomy-in-proclaiming-truths-supposed-to-be/)

[David Brewster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brewster/)

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> [In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marmaduke-pickthall/in-the-eyes-of-history-religious-toleration-is-the-highest-evidence/)

[Marmaduke Pickthall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marmaduke-pickthall/)

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> [“Little minds instinctively seek to circumscribe the things around them, to pull in the walls to the size of their own small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amatu-l-bah-r-h-yyih-khanum/little-minds-instinctively-seek-to-circumscribe-the-things-around/)

[Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khanum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amatu-l-bah-r-h-yyih-khanum/)

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> [God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/god-satan-paradise-and-hell-all-vanished-one-day-in-my-fifteenth-year/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bible/for-this-cause-we-also-since-the-day-we-heard-it-do-not-cease-to-pray/)

[Bible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bible/)

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> [Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-brown/faith-is-universal-our-specific-methods-for-understanding-it-are/)

[Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-brown/)

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> [It Will Rain If you ever leave me, baby, Leave some morphine at my door 'Cause it would take a whole lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-will-rain-if-you-ever-leave-me-baby-leave-some-morphine-at-my-door/)

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

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> [“Faith gives man a peculiar sense of his own dignity … The believer finds himself distinguished above other men, exalted above natural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/faith-gives-man-a-peculiar-sense-of-his-own-dignity-the-believer/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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> [Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/through-the-influence-of-real-art-aided-by-science-guided-by-religion/)

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

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> [“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hafiz-shirazi/when-shall-i-get-to-kiss-thee-i-asked-by-all-means-you-can-forever/)

[Hafiz Shirazi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hafiz-shirazi/)

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> [“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-collins/to-get-our-universe-with-all-of-its-potential-for-complexities-or-any/)

[Francis Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-collins/)

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> [The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-spirit-of-god-like-the-sun-always-gives-all-its-light-at-once-the/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [“The saying goes, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness", which is true across all religions. But there is one thing more dear and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darwies-soeker/the-saying-goes-cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness-which-is-true-across/)

[Darwies Soeker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darwies-soeker/)

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> [My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-blair/my-faith-foundation-works-to-bring-about-a-greater-respect-and/)

[Tony Blair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-blair/)

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> [From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matilda-joslyn-gage/from-augustine-down-theologians-have-tried-to-compel-people-to-accept/)

[Matilda Joslyn Gage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matilda-joslyn-gage/)

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> [“You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/you-can-all-supply-your-own-favorite-most-nauseating-examples-of-the/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [“They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kinley-macgregor/they-travel-through-the-night-on-the-wings-of-heavenly-stallions/)

[Kinley MacGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kinley-macgregor/)

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> [“Over the years I've found it much more helpful to follow the advice of Sister Liebert and seek to treat each young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-yaconelli/over-the-years-i-ve-found-it-much-more-helpful-to-follow-the-advice/)

[Mark Yaconelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-yaconelli/)

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> [The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/the-united-states-is-no-more-a-christian-nation-because-most-of-its/)

[John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/)

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> [“us to take our place within the crowd, to hear Jesus preach and see him perform mighty deeds, when we open up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-ruszala-2/us-to-take-our-place-within-the-crowd-to-hear-jesus-preach-and-see/)

[Michael J Ruszala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-ruszala-2/)

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> [ Francis \[Collins\] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/francis-collins-keeps-saying-things-like-from-the-perspective-of-a/)

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

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> [“In the 1970s, the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Rose famously said that he believed that there was a spirit in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-stephen-damick/in-the-1970s-the-russian-orthodox-hieromonk-fr-seraphim-rose-famously/)

[Andrew Stephen Damick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-stephen-damick/)

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> [“Jesus came to bring life more abundantly. He came to save the soulsick, to deliver those bound up in sin, to break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-schultz/jesus-came-to-bring-life-more-abundantly-he-came-to-save-the-soulsick/)

[Teresa Schultz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-schultz/)

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> [“Judaism was a legal religion in the Roman Empire; Christianity was not until the first Christian emperor ascended the throne in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-f-cantor/judaism-was-a-legal-religion-in-the-roman-empire-christianity-was-not/)

[Norman F. Cantor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-f-cantor/)

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> [“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/it-is-a-tedious-clich-and-unlike-many-clich-s-it-isn-t-even-true-that/)

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

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> [I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/queen-rania-of-jordan/i-don-t-think-people-by-nature-are-extremists-you-will-never-find-a/)

[Queen Rania of Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/queen-rania-of-jordan/)

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> [“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/every-advance-in-human-life-every-scrap-of-knowledge-and-wisdom-and-2/)

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

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> [ “If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,\[85\] they… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-s-keener/if-the-early-christian-accounts-of-dramatic-signs-make-these-works/)

[Craig S. Keener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-s-keener/)

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> [“It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-griffin/it-seems-to-me-that-the-greatest-triumph-of-any-human-rights-movement/)

[Kate Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-griffin/)

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                        "text": "“The Soviet state was, in fact, almost perfectly designed to make people unhappy. It denied its citizens not just hope, but also trust. Every activity had to be sanctioned by the state. Any person could be an informant. No action could be guaranteed to be without consequence. Father Dmitry preached friendship and warmth and belief to his parishioners, and inspired a generation to live as humans and not as parts of a machine.”",
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                        "text": "“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts,\" he says, \"The weather, which, as they're farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of both people and animals. And what we eat - this last item comprising what we ate the day before and what we're planning to eat tomorrow. And all three of these major subjects encompass, in one way or another, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, the physical sciences, history, art, literature, and religion. We get around to sparring about all that counts in life but we usually do it while we're talking about food, it being a subject inseparable from every other subject. It's the table and the bed that count in life. And everything else we do, we do so we can get back to the table, back to the bed.”",
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                        "text": "“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. { Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt , 6 December, 1813 }”",
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                        "text": "“Divine power . . . what mom would turn it down? Jesus, who is God, full of power and might has poured down and lavished on us everything we need to live and serve God. Everything? What kind of resources are we talking about here? The blessings Jesus gives transcend physical things, so take a look at the spiritual blessings He pours out. Start with faith. It’s a gift. How happy can you be if all your anxieties are lifted by Someone you can trust? Because God is good and full of glory, He tells us to give all our worries to Him (1 Peter 5:7) and to worry about nothing (Philippians 4:6); and He promises to pour down peace (Philippians 4:7). He calls us His own, and gives us “very great and precious promises”—gifts of His Spirit, blessings of greater worth than anything money can buy. He gives salvation, eternal life, and the ability, while we’re earthbound, to “share in God’s nature.” Jesus’ Spirit is our companion, so we are never without a friend. He also protects us from spiritual defeat that rises from the evil surrounding us. We have all this available to us daily as we focus on the Person of Jesus. Today, we can pray, “Lord Jesus, thank You that You pour on me everything I need to live the life that pleases You. I want to be infused with Your mighty strength and to stay under the faucet of Your provision today.”",
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                        "text": "We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.",
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                        "text": "“Incompatible religious doctrines have Balkanised our world and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews v Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians v Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians v Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants v Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims v Hindus), Sudan (Muslims v Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims v Christians) and Iran and Iraq (Shia v Sunni) are merely a few cases in point. These are places where religion has been the explicit cause of millions of deaths in the past decade.”",
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                        "text": "According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.",
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                        "text": "“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebelliuos, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the workd of mortification that we treat of.”",
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                        "text": "An old joke puts its thus, \"when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia\"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.",
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                        "text": "“Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries—which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one)—interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree.”",
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                        "text": "“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin sisters of terrestrial and celestial physics have thus been joint-heirs of intolerance and persecution—unresisting victims in the crusade which ignorance and fanaticism are ever waging against science. When great truths are driven to make an appeal to reason, knowledge becomes criminal, and philosophers martyrs. Truth, however, like all moral powers, can neither be checked nor extinguished. When compressed, it but reacts the more. It crushes where it cannot expand—it burns where it is not allowed to shine. Human when originally divulged, it becomes divine when finally established. At first, the breath of a rage—at last it is the edict of a god. Endowed with such vital energy, astronomical truth has cut its way through the thick darkness of superstitious times, and, cheered by its conquests, Geology will find the same open path when it has triumphed over the less formidable obstacles of a civilized age.”",
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                        "text": "In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture.",
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                        "text": "“Little minds instinctively seek to circumscribe the things around them, to pull in the walls to the size of their own small existence, to get everything squared off to their own scale so they can feel safe and snug. This process invariably means that a lot of the material used in their walls is from the last house they lived in, is very much what they were accustomed to before they moved, so to speak. Big minds, on the contrary, push the horizons further away, create new frontiers, leave room for growth.”",
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                        "text": "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were cre",
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                        "text": "Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.",
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                        "text": "It Will Rain If you ever leave me, baby, Leave some morphine at my door 'Cause it would take a whole lot of medication To realize what we used to have, We don't have it anymore. There's no religion that could save me No matter how long my knees are on the floor So keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm makin' To keep you by my side To keep you from walkin' out the door. 'Cause there'll be no sunlight If I lose you, baby There'll be no clear skies If I lose you, baby Just like the clouds My eyes will do the same, if you walk away Everyday it'll rain, rain, ra-a-a-ain",
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                        "text": "Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.",
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                        "text": "“When shall I get to kiss thee?’ I asked. ‘By all means you can forever ask,’ she answered. ‘Your lips ask a heavy price,’ I said. ‘It’s a fair exchange of one so fair,’ she said. ‘What lips are worthy for your mouth and lips?’ I asked. ‘Only the discerning can this secret know,’ she answered. ‘Don’t worship idols, be with the Truth,’ I said. ‘In the Way of Love, both are allowed,’ she said. I said, ‘The tavern helps to heal the heart.’ ‘Blessed are those who heal the lonely heart,’ she answered. ‘It’s not religion, the priestly robe, the wine,’ I said. ‘But to the gnostic both lead to the Divine,’ she answered. ‘What use to an old man of youthful lips?’ I asked. ‘By such sweet kissing, he grows young!’ she answered. ‘When shall the bridegroom embrace the bride?’ ‘When the stars are that way inclined.’ I said, ‘The prayer of Hafiz is for His glory.’ ‘This is the prayer of angels too, in heaven,’ she answered.”",
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                        "text": "The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.",
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                        "text": "“The saying goes, \"Cleanliness is next to Godliness\", which is true across all religions. But there is one thing more dear and closer to the Almighty than that, and that is JUSTICE. For to be just & to observe right conduct in the face of spite and hatred are nearest to piety and the love of the Almighty”",
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                        "text": "My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.",
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                        "text": "From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.",
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                        "text": "“You can all supply your own favorite, most nauseating examples of the commodification of love. Mine include the wedding industry, TV ads that feature cute young children or the giving of automobiles as Christmas presents, and the particularly grotesque equation of diamond jewelry with everlasting devotion. The message, in each case, is that if you love somebody you should buy stuff. A related phenomenon is the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb 'to like' from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse: from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial culture's substitution for loving.”",
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                        "text": "“They travel through the night on the wings of heavenly stallions bringing hope and new faith to those left behind. Even though they are free, they never forget their past and spend their lives trying to bring peace to others. (Brotherhood Chanson)”",
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                        "text": "“Over the years I've found it much more helpful to follow the advice of Sister Liebert and seek to treat each young person as a teacher from God, someone God has placed in my life in order to help me grow in faith. When I encounter a young person, I find it much more helpful to think that she (or he) may be the only Jesus I'll ever know. Perhaps by seeking to encounter the presence of Christ in young people, we'll find ourselves better able to see them, hear them, feel compassion for them, and respond in kindness.”",
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                        "text": "The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.",
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                        "text": "“us to take our place within the crowd, to hear Jesus preach and see him perform mighty deeds, when we open up the Gospels for ourselves. While no one today would say that Jesus is John the Baptist, Elijah, or Jeremiah, we will see for ourselves if we agree with our own contemporaries that Jesus of Nazareth was simply a great man, a noble teacher, a religious founder, and an unfortunate martyr. Or perhaps we agree with the sour-faced scholars who tell us that Jesus of Nazareth was a failed messiah who never intended to found a religion and that the religion bearing his name has done little to further the material progress of the world.   Pope Benedict XVI reflects in Jesus of Nazareth, “What did Jesus actually bring, if not world peace, universal prosperity, and a better world? What has he brought? The answer is very simple: God. He has brought God. He has brought the God who formerly unveiled his countenance gradually, first to Abraham, then to Moses and the Prophets…. He has brought God, and now we know his face, now we can call upon him. Now we know the path that we human beings have to take in this world. Jesus has brought God and with God the truth about our origin and destiny: faith, hope, and love.” The Story of a People Open to the beginning of the New Testament and the genealogy of Jesus is what you will find. Most skip over it while others bravely plough their way through it. But much like Matthew, the writer of the first Gospel, I too feel the need to express before anything else that the story of Jesus does not begin with Jesus of Nazareth. A great history is presupposed – a history that his fellow countrymen would have known as well as we know the names of our own grandparents. The only question is: how far back should we go? For Matthew, the answer was to go back to Abraham, the ancient father of the Jewish people, whom God had called out of the city of Ur in Mesopotamia in a journey of faith to the land of Canaan, later called Palestine. For Luke the Evangelist, the answer was Adam, the father of the human race, emphasizing that Jesus came for all peoples.   Very basically, the history presupposed is that of God’s intervention in human affairs, particularly those of the Chosen People, the Children of Israel. The Bible tells us that God spoke to Abraham, bringing him into a covenant with God alone as God, as opposed to the many false gods of his ancestors. As God promised, he made Abraham into a vast people, and that people was later liberated from slavery in Egypt by Moses. The Bible tells us that God spoke to Moses and made a covenant with Moses. And through Moses, God made the people a nation, replete with laws to govern them. Then there was David, the greatest king of Israel, a man “after God’s own heart.” And the Bible tells us that God spoke to David and made a covenant with him, promising that his kingdom”",
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                        "text": "Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like \"From the perspective of a believer.\" Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find yourself losing all of your natural skepticism and your scientific - really scientific - credibility. I'm sorry to be so blunt.",
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                        "text": "“In the 1970s, the Russian Orthodox hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Rose famously said that he believed that there was a spirit in the Charismatic movement (which was then having a small impact in a handful of places in Orthodoxy), but that he believed that it was not the Holy Spirit. That is, he suggested that its origins were demonic: The “charismatic” texts themselves make it quite clear that what is involved in these experiences—when they are genuine and not merely the product of suggestion—is not merely the development of some mediumistic ability, but actual possession by a spirit. These people would seem to be correct in calling themselves “spirit-filled”—but it is certainly not the Holy Spirit with which they are filled! (Fr. Seraphim Rose, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, 157)”",
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                        "text": "“Jesus came to bring life more abundantly. He came to save the soulsick, to deliver those bound up in sin, to break the chains of bondage and addiction. He came to heal the hurting, and comfort and restore the used, abused, bruised, battered, and broken. He came to forgive the worst sinner and to bring life to the lifeless. He came to reconcile us with God so we can have relationship with our Father.”",
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                        "text": "“Judaism was a legal religion in the Roman Empire; Christianity was not until the first Christian emperor ascended the throne in the fourth century A.D. There were periodic persecutions of the Christians by the imperial state and local officials. The resulting martyrs, often upper-class women of unusual devotion, only served to draw more attention and converts to the Church.”",
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                        "text": "“It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only theology is equipped to answer why questions. What on Earth is a why question? Not every English sentence beginning with the word 'why' is a legitimate question. Why are unicorns hollow? Some questions simply do not deserve an answer. What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope? The fact that a question can be phrased in a grammatically correct English sentence doesn't make it meaningful, or entitle it to our serious attention. Nor, even if the question is a real one, does the fact that science cannot answer it imply that religion can.”",
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                        "text": "I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.",
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                        "text": "“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.”",
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                        "text": "“If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.”",
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