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title: "Famous Religion Words"
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> [So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/so-the-history-of-discovery-particularly-cosmic-discovery-but/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darrel-ray/we-acquire-both-the-language-and-religious-concepts-from-our/)

[Darrel Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darrel-ray/)

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> [“When God wants to test us, he sometimes takes away what we are craving the most. For reasons only he knows, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-i-smith/when-god-wants-to-test-us-he-sometimes-takes-away-what-we-are-craving/)

[A.I. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-i-smith/)

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> [“But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love, since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-joyce/but-he-could-no-longer-disbelieve-in-the-reality-of-love-since-god/)

[James Joyce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-joyce/)

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> [Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-thompson/nothing-is-plainer-than-that-if-the-principles-of-the-church-of-rome/)

[Richard Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-thompson/)

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> [“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-benner/paying-attention-is-being-open-and-awake-ready-to-be-seized-by/)

[David G. Benner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-g-benner/)

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> [“People believe in something, they themselves don’t know what it is, it isn’t a good thing, but it stands for a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-davidow/people-believe-in-something-they-themselves-don-t-know-what-it-is-it/)

[Michael Davidow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-davidow/)

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> [“to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-murray/to-the-child-the-father-all-for-the-child-we-shall-understand-how/)

[Andrew Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-murray/)

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> [“Then in a moment, in that vast space of rocks and sky and scorching sun, I understood that he had not meant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-torday/then-in-a-moment-in-that-vast-space-of-rocks-and-sky-and-scorching/)

[Paul Torday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-torday/)

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> [“If your mind and spirit are seduced by images of windswept ridge tops, flutters of aspen leaves caressed by a canyon breeze…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reid-lance-rosenthal/if-your-mind-and-spirit-are-seduced-by-images-of-windswept-ridge-tops/)

[Reid Lance Rosenthal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reid-lance-rosenthal/)

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> [“Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-a-kempis/pardon-me-also-and-deal-mercifully-with-me-as-often-as-i-think-of/)

[Thomas à Kempis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-a-kempis/)

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> [There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mustafa-akyol/there-are-strengths-in-islamic-tradition-islam-actually-as-a/)

[Mustafa Akyol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mustafa-akyol/)

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> [“To reside in the place which makes you forget worldly life, and to move away from the place that entangles you further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/to-reside-in-the-place-which-makes-you-forget-worldly-life-and-to/)

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

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> [“But as men farther exalt their idea of their divinity, it is their notion of his power and knowledge only, not of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/but-as-men-farther-exalt-their-idea-of-their-divinity-it-is-their/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noah-webster/it-is-alleged-by-men-of-loose-principles-or-defective-views-of-the-2/)

[Noah Webster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noah-webster/)

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> [The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-doudney/the-pure-the-beautiful-the-bright-that-stirred-our-hearts-in-youth/)

[Sarah Doudney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-doudney/)

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> [“Religion is, as I say, something universal and something human, and something impossible to eradicate, nor would I want to eradicate it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/religion-is-as-i-say-something-universal-and-something-human-and/)

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

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> [“Show me a population that is deeply religious, and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, contumely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hubert-h-harrison/show-me-a-population-that-is-deeply-religious-and-i-will-show-you-a/)

[Hubert H. Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hubert-h-harrison/)

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> [“..:Seek wisdom about the good life, yet, remain innocent when it comes to evil… Pursue a life that creates peace and builds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafael-garcia/seek-wisdom-about-the-good-life-yet-remain-innocent-when-it-comes-to/)

[Rafael Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rafael-garcia/)

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> [“art is question without answer; religion is question and answer, where the answer cannot be explained but only repeated; science is question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/efraim-podoksik/art-is-question-without-answer-religion-is-question-and-answer-where/)

[Efraim Podoksik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/efraim-podoksik/)

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> [I've always had a knowing that being kind is a lot more effective than being angry. And being generous has always been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/i-ve-always-had-a-knowing-that-being-kind-is-a-lot-more-effective/)

[Wayne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-dyer/)

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> [“Do all that you can to make your baptismal services a spiritual, Christ-centered experience. A new convert deserves to have this be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-r-holland/do-all-that-you-can-to-make-your-baptismal-services-a-spiritual/)

[Jeffrey R. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-r-holland/)

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> [If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/if-we-rely-on-anything-else-besides-faith-to-maintain-the-practice-of/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/in-any-discussion-of-religion-and-personality-integration-the/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [“So we do not read the Bible simply to fill our minds, but to change our hearts. We do not read the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-chester-steve-timmis/so-we-do-not-read-the-bible-simply-to-fill-our-minds-but-to-change/)

[Tim Chester Steve Timmis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-chester-steve-timmis/)

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> [“Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-schmemann/thus-the-whole-death-is-not-the-biological-phenomenon-of-death-but/)

[Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-schmemann/)

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> [A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-berg/a-rewarding-relationship-occurs-when-there-is-a-common-spiritual-goal/)

[Yehuda Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-berg/)

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> [At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-l-moody/at-a-certain-meeting-two-and-a-half-people-were-converted-to-christ-a/)

[Dwight L. Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-l-moody/)

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> [“impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible’s message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-h-walton/impose-our-own-cultural-ideas-on-the-text-without-thinking-the-bible/)

[John H. Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-h-walton/)

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> [“churches and denominations must be in the business of actively helping to create disciples. Disciples, people who are actively being transformed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-c-heath/churches-and-denominations-must-be-in-the-business-of-actively/)

[Emily C. Heath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-c-heath/)

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> [We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/we-talk-eloquently-about-our-commitment-to-the-principles-of/)

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

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> [Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/rather-than-bring-the-full-force-of-our-creativity-and-rationality-to/)

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

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> [“Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-alan-woods/being-that-reason-is-not-antithetical-to-faith-woods-and-that/)

[R. Alan Woods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-alan-woods/)

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> [The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-paul-vi/the-freedom-or-immunity-from-coercion-in-matters-religious-which-is/)

[Pope Paul VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-paul-vi/)

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> [“One of the greatest crimes committed by this present Christian generation is its neglect of the gospel, and it is from this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-washer/one-of-the-greatest-crimes-committed-by-this-present-christian/)

[Paul Washer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-washer/)

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> [“I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thea-bowman/i-don-t-try-to-make-sense-of-suffering-i-try-to-make-sense-of-life-i/)

[Thea Bowman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thea-bowman/)

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> [“Instead of protesting and cursing others because they write "X-Mas" instead of "Christmas"; try being Christmas. Live Christmas. Breathe Christmas. Act Christmas.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-chami-kassis/instead-of-protesting-and-cursing-others-because-they-write-x-mas/)

[Sandra Chami Kassis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-chami-kassis/)

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> [How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-a-smith/how-on-the-face-of-the-earth-could-a-man-enjoy-his-religion-when-he/)

[George A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-a-smith/)

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> [“This incarnation of the Son of God, this taking upon himself the very nature of man, this uniting himself through the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-a-hodge/this-incarnation-of-the-son-of-god-this-taking-upon-himself-the-very/)

[A.A. Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-a-hodge/)

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> [“Remember the faith you were raised in my child, and love not in word or in tongue, but in deed and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kearsley/remember-the-faith-you-were-raised-in-my-child-and-love-not-in-word/)

[Susanna Kearsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kearsley/)

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                        "text": "We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.",
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                        "text": "“When God wants to test us, he sometimes takes away what we are craving the most. For reasons only he knows, he deprives us of our most beloved dreams. I believe that all people experience a time when they go to Calvary and carry the cross.\" \"My cross is the worst! It’s not made of wood but of the heaviest metal!\" \"All people believe that their own cross is the heaviest. The only thing that makes them feel better is looking at the suffering of others—seeing the pain of their fellow man. We all need to evaluate our old life and see how we have sinned and made God send us trials.”",
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                        "text": "“But he could no longer disbelieve in the reality of love, since God Himself had loved his individual soul with divine love from all eternity. Gradually, as his soul was enriched with spiritual knowledge, he saw the whole world forming one vast symmetrical expression of God's power and love. Life became a divine gift for every moment and sensation of which, were it even the sight of a single leaf hanging on the twig of a tree, his soul should praise and thank the Giver. The world for all its solid substance and complexity no longer existed for his soul save as a theorem of divine power and love and universality.”",
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                        "text": "Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They are in open and direct antagonism with the fundamental theory of our government and of all popular government everywhere.",
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                        "text": "“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment. This is why it is a foundation of prayer. Attentiveness is prayer because attention paid to anything is a doorway to the self-transcendent. It moves us beyond our self-preoccupations and opens us to that which is beyond our self. Regardless of how insignificant the object may seem, being truly aware of anything has enormous potential to aid our spiritual awakening. Prayerful attentiveness is not, therefore, reducible to thinking about God.”",
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                        "text": "“People believe in something, they themselves don’t know what it is, it isn’t a good thing, but it stands for a good thing. Because all belief stands for something that’s better. All belief comes from wanting to believe. People aren’t up to the real thing, though. So they substitute. And that harms them. It’s the problem of problems. I like it a lot.”",
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                        "text": "“to the child, the Father all for the child. We shall understand how Father and child, the Thine and the Our, are all one, and how the heart that begins its prayer with the God-devoted Thine, will have the power in faith to speak out the Our too. Such prayer will, indeed, be the”",
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                        "text": "“Then in a moment, in that vast space of rocks and sky and scorching sun, I understood that he had not meant religious faith, not exactly. He was not urging me to become a Muslim or to believe in one interpretation of God rather than another. He knew me for what I was, an old, cold, cautious scientist. That was what I was then. And he was simply pointing out to me the first step to take. The word he had used was faith, but what he meant was belief. The first step was simple: it was to believe in belief itself. I had just taken that step. At long last I understood. I had belief. I did not know, or for the moment care, what exactly it was I had to believe in. I only knew that belief in something was the first step away from believing in nothing, the first step away from a world which only recognised what it could count, measure, sell or buy. The people here still had that innocent power of belief: not the angry denial of other people’s belief of religious fanatics, but a quiet affirmation. That was what I sensed here, in this land and in this place, which made it so different from home. It was not the clothes, not the language, not the customs, not the sense of being in another century. It was none of these. It was the pervading presence of belief. I believed in belief. I didn’t exactly feel as if I was on the road to Damascus, and I was aware I could not think straight because of the power of the sun, but now I knew what the Yemen salmon project was all about. It had already worked its transformation on me. It would do the same for others.”",
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                        "text": "“If your mind and spirit are seduced by images of windswept ridge tops, flutters of aspen leaves caressed by a canyon breeze and the crimson tendrils of dying sun…if your fingers feel the silken pulse of a lover and your lips taste the deep kisses of building passion…if nostrils flare with the conjured scents of gunpowder and perfume, sage brush and pine, and your ears delight in the murmur of river current…if your heart pounds at the clash of good and evil and with each twist and turn of interwoven lives you feel a primal throb, then I have accomplished my mission.”",
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                        "text": "“Pardon me also, and deal mercifully with me, as often as I think of anything besides You in prayer. For I confess truly that I am accustomed to be very much distracted. Very often I am not where bodily I stand or sit; rather, I am where my thoughts carry me. Where my thoughts are, there am I; and frequently my thoughts are where my love is. That which naturally delights, or is by habit pleasing, comes to me quickly. Hence You Who are Truth itself, have plainly said: 'For where your treasure is, there is your heart also.' If I love heaven, I think willingly of heavenly things. If I love the world, I rejoice at the happiness of the world and grieve at its troubles. If I love the flesh, I often imagine things that are carnal. If I love the spirit, I delight in thinking of spiritual matters. For whatever I love, I am willing to speak and hear about.”",
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                        "text": "There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.",
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                        "text": "“To reside in the place which makes you forget worldly life, and to move away from the place that entangles you further in worldly life; the one who understands such discretion (vivek) will be able to accomplish his spiritual work.”",
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                        "text": "“But as men farther exalt their idea of their divinity, it is their notion of his power and knowledge only, not of his goodness, which is improved. On the contrary, in proportion to the supposed extent of his science and authority, their terrors naturally augment; while they believe, that no secrecy can conceal them from his scrutiny, and that even the inmost recesses of their breast lie open before him. They must then be careful not to form expressly any sentiment of blame and disapprobation. All must be applause, ravishment, extacy. And while their gloomy apprehensions make them ascribe to him measures of conduct, which, in human creatures, would be highly blamed, they must still affect to praise and admire that conduct in the object of their devotional addresses. Thus it may safely be affirmed, that popular religions are really, in the conception of their more vulgar votaries, a species of dæmonism; and the higher the deity is exalted in power and knowledge, the lower of course is he depressed in goodness and benevolence; whatever epithets of praise may be bestowed on him by his amazed adorers. Among idolaters, the words may be false, and belie the secret opinion: But among more exalted religionists, the opinion itself contracts a kind of falsehood, and belies the inward sentiment. The heart secretly detests such measures of cruel and implacable vengeance; but the judgment dares not but pronounce them perfect and adorable. And the additional misery of this inward struggle aggravates all the other terrors, by which these unhappy victims to superstition are forever haunted.”",
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                        "text": "The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.",
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                        "text": "If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.",
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