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> [“Seen theologically, then, walking is an act of faith. Walking is, after all, interrupted falling.We see, we listen, we speak, and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesmyn-ward/seen-theologically-then-walking-is-an-act-of-faith-walking-is-after/)

[Jesmyn Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesmyn-ward/)

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> [A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-true-religion-will-have-the-humbleness-to-admit-that-only-a-few/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [“He felt his faith deeply, and above all out of doors, where the vaulted sky was his cathedral nave and the oaks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-perry/he-felt-his-faith-deeply-and-above-all-out-of-doors-where-the-vaulted/)

[Sarah Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-perry/)

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> [Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/here-in-india-it-is-religion-that-forms-the-very-core-of-the-national/)

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

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> [The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-maitlis/the-hour-or-so-i-spent-with-the-ninety-year-old-david-attenborough/)

[Emily Maitlis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-maitlis/)

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> [The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacqueline-novogratz/the-human-spirit-is-extraordinary-if-we-give-the-3-billion-people-who/)

[Jacqueline Novogratz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacqueline-novogratz/)

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> [ \[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology\] it isn't that \[through… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/when-a-young-person-loses-faith-in-his-religion-because-he-begins-to/)

[Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/)

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> [There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flemming-rose/there-is-no-society-that-protects-freedom-of-religion-more-than/)

[Flemming Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flemming-rose/)

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> [“Many people talk of the “god-shaped void” in their lives that had been waiting to be filled by faith. Always in born-again…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-highland/many-people-talk-of-the-god-shaped-void-in-their-lives-that-had-been/)

[Gordon Highland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-highland/)

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> [The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallin-h-oaks/the-commandment-to-honor-our-parents-echoes-the-sacred-spirit-of/)

[Dallin H. Oaks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallin-h-oaks/)

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> [Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/deep-religious-beliefs-stemming-from-the-old-and-new-testaments-of/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mother-teresa/faith-is-a-gift-of-god-without-it-there-would-be-no-life-and-our-work/)

[Mother Teresa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mother-teresa/)

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> [“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-henry-dawson/the-events-of-the-last-forty-years-have-inflicted-such-a-blow-to-the-2/)

[Christopher Henry Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-henry-dawson/)

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> [The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-jerome/the-best-advice-that-i-can-give-you-is-this-church-traditions/)

[St. Jerome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-jerome/)

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> [“You want religion?” Finn pushed back a lock of my hair. “Then I’ll get on my knees and worship you for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-m-frazier/you-want-religion-finn-pushed-back-a-lock-of-my-hair-then-i-ll-get-on/)

[T.M. Frazier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-m-frazier/)

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> [“Take the great bow of the sacred scriptures, Place on it the arrow of devotion; Then draw the bowstring of meditation And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/take-the-great-bow-of-the-sacred-scriptures-place-on-it-the-arrow-of/)

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

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> [Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/work-unto-death-i-am-with-you-and-when-i-am-gone-my-spirit-will-work/)

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

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> [The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/the-american-journalist-barbara-ehrenreich-has-written-about-this-in/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

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> [“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/but-in-every-church-there-are-people-who-for-reasons-which-seem/)

[Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robertson-davies/)

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> [To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigham-young/to-gain-the-spiritual-ascendancy-over-ourselves-and-the-influences/)

[Brigham Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigham-young/)

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> [“When a puppy reaches maturity is becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when twelve months have been used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-szandor-lavey/when-a-puppy-reaches-maturity-is-becomes-a-dog-when-ice-melts-it-is/)

[Anton Szandor LaVey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-szandor-lavey/)

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> [Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-william-howitt/unlike-all-other-founders-of-a-religious-faith-christ-had-no/)

Alfred William Howitt

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> [“Authentic spiritual friendships: Most of what we know about ourselves, truth or falsehood, has been reflected back to us from others. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-thomas-ashbrook/authentic-spiritual-friendships-most-of-what-we-know-about-ourselves/)

[R. Thomas Ashbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-thomas-ashbrook/)

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> [I'm never surprised when there's dark stuff in the church because the church is made up of people and people are dark,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/griff/i-m-never-surprised-when-there-s-dark-stuff-in-the-church-because-the/)

[Griff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/griff/)

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> [The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/the-religions-whose-theology-is-least-preoccupied-with-events-in-time/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-blass/i-have-a-firm-belief-in-such-things-as-you-know-the-water-the-earth/)

[Bill Blass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-blass/)

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> [“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/krista-tippett/spirituality-doesn-t-look-like-sitting-down-and-meditating/)

[Krista Tippett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/krista-tippett/)

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> [“That’s good,” said Jacquel. “So, yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/that-s-good-said-jacquel-so-yeah-jesus-does-pretty-good-over-here-but/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/morality-has-been-conceived-up-to-the-present-in-a-very-narrow-spirit/)

[Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/)

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> [Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/tell-me-there-is-a-god-in-the-serene-heavens-that-will-damn-his/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzy-kassem/each-time-a-person-passes-by-you-and-you-say-hello-imagine-that/)

[Suzy Kassem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzy-kassem/)

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> [To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/to-the-extent-we-are-perceiving-anyone-s-guilt-choosing-to-focus-on/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [“What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein-the-world-as-i-see-it/what-is-the-meaning-of-human-life-or-of-organic-life-altogether-to/)

Albert Einstein The World As I See It

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> [When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-fargo/when-we-speak-our-words-to-god-with-thanksgiving-and-release-them/)

[Donna Fargo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-fargo/)

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> [“I find it very worrying that we don’t talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-schaller/i-find-it-very-worrying-that-we-don-t-talk-about-nature-anymore-we/)

[George Schaller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-schaller/)

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> [“As the stone which has been kicked by generations of clowns may come by curious little links of effect under the eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/as-the-stone-which-has-been-kicked-by-generations-of-clowns-may-come/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/but-the-philosophical-and-scientific-process-which-i-call/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

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> [“We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dieter-f-uchtdorf/we-are-created-in-the-image-of-our-heavenly-parents-we-are-god-s-2/)

[Dieter F. Uchtdorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dieter-f-uchtdorf/)

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> [“The Savior's message was essential to our salvation, but his personal exposition of it was not. President J. Reuben Clark Jr. gave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tad-r-callister/the-savior-s-message-was-essential-to-our-salvation-but-his-personal/)

[Tad R. Callister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tad-r-callister/)

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> [“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists. A religion that recognises the legitimacy of other faiths implies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/monotheists-have-tended-to-be-far-more-fanatical-and-missionary-than-2/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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                        "text": "The hour or so I spent with the ninety-year-old David Attenborough was one of the most beatific of my life. An oddly religious term, I know, for a man who doesn't have much truck with religion, but it was the serenity of that time that will stay with me most.",
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                        "text": "The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to \"save\" these people - with an emphasis on \"these people\" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.",
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                        "text": "[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of real knowledge that] he knows it all, but he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know it all.",
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                        "text": "“Many people talk of the “god-shaped void” in their lives that had been waiting to be filled by faith. Always in born-again hindsight, this is. Of course, in present tense, the void is usually first tested with drug- and carnality-shaped pieces until the person’s jigsawed chi bottoms out and settles for spirituality in the bonus round.”",
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                        "text": "The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families",
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                        "text": "Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.",
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                        "text": "Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based.",
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                        "text": "“The events of the last forty years have inflicted such a blow to the self confidence of Western civilization and to the belief in progress which was so strong during the nineteenth century, that men tend to go too far in the opposite direction: in fact the modern world is experiencing the same kind of danger which was so fatal to the ancient world--the crisis of which Gilbert Murray writes in his Four Stages of Greek Religion as \"The Loss of Nerve.”",
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                        "text": "“You want religion?” Finn pushed back a lock of my hair. “Then I’ll get on my knees and worship you for the rest of my life. You want to save someone? You’ve already done it. You saved me. You want heaven?” His hand skated up the back of my skirt. I shivered. His deep voice hummed in my ear. “I’ll take you there right now.”",
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                        "text": "“Take the great bow of the sacred scriptures, Place on it the arrow of devotion; Then draw the bowstring of meditation And aim at the target, the Lord of Love. 4 The mantram is the bow, the aspirant Is the arrow, and the Lord the target. Now draw the bowstring of meditation, And hitting the target be one with him.”",
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                        "text": "Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!",
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                        "text": "The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.",
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                        "text": "“But in every church there are people who, for reasons which seem sufficient to them, do not approve of their pastor and seek to harry him and bully him into some condition pleasing to themselves. The democracy which the Reformation brought into the Christian Church rages in their bosoms like a fire; they would deny that they regard their clergyman as their spiritual hired hand, whom they boss and oversee for his own good, but that is certainly the impression they give to observers.”",
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                        "text": "To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.",
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                        "text": "“When a puppy reaches maturity is becomes a dog; when ice melts it is called water; when twelve months have been used up, we get a new calendar with the proper chronological name; when \"magic\" becomes scientific fact we refer to it as medicine, astronomy, etc. When one name is no longer appropriate for a given thing it is only logical to change it to a new on which better fits the subject. Why, then, do we not follow suit in the area of religion? Why continue to call a religion the same name when the tenets of that religions no longer fit the original one? Or, if the religion does preach the same things that it always has, but its followers practice nearly none of its teachings, why do they continue to call themselves by the name given to followers of that religion?”",
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                        "text": "Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.",
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                        "text": "“Authentic spiritual friendships: Most of what we know about ourselves, truth or falsehood, has been reflected back to us from others. It is vital that we have close brothers and sisters in Christ with whom we can be open and vulnerable and who love us enough to tell us the truth.”",
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                        "text": "I'm never surprised when there's dark stuff in the church because the church is made up of people and people are dark, you know? It's heart-breaking when that's brought into church and the leadership. It's sad but not surprising. Humans are humans. Hillsong is Hillsong.",
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                        "text": "The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.",
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                        "text": "“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. Interviewer : You're not a religious man? No. And I do suppose that science has taken, to a large extent and for a number of people, has taken the place of religion. Interviewer : What do you mean by that? That one can have more belief in scientific cures or scientific miracles than you do in God miracles. It's inevitable that we will eventually diffuse into nothingness . . .”",
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                        "text": "“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family even though you’ve had a long day. Or even saying to them, “Listen, I’ve had such a long day, but it would be really wonderful if I could just fold these—I’d really love folding these towels quietly if you all are ready to go to bed without me,” or whatever it is. People often say to me, “I have so many things that take up my day. I don’t have time to take up a spiritual practice.” And the thing is, being a wise parent or a spiritual parent doesn’t take extra time. It’s enfolded into the act of parenting.”",
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                        "text": "“That’s good,” said Jacquel. “So, yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him hitchhiking by the side of the road in Afghanistan and nobody was stopping to give him a ride. You know? It all depends on where you are.”",
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                        "text": "Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight no battle and win no victory. The cultivated person has only to follow the delicious incline of his or her inner impulses. Be beautiful and then do at each moment whatever your heart may inspire you to do. This is the whole of morality.",
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                        "text": "Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.",
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                        "text": "When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we put ourselves in a position to receive. God does not change and nature's laws are absolute and impartial. Thus, prayer has the potential for changing us. It connects us with God's spirit, and it is the key to His kingdom. Whatever your religious persuasion, it's a good thing to start every day with prayer.",
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