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> [“People say to someone they love: I'd die for you. They don't expect to, of course, have no plans to. They may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nora-roberts/people-say-to-someone-they-love-i-d-die-for-you-they-don-t-expect-to/)

[Nora Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nora-roberts/)

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> [“If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-brown/if-there-is-no-laughter-jesus-has-gone-somewhere-else-if-there-is-no/)

[Steve Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-brown/)

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> [As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/as-your-consciousness-becomes-more-settled-all-your-life-patterns/)

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

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> [Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-d-roosevelt/where-freedom-of-religion-has-been-attacked-the-attack-has-come-from/)

[Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-d-roosevelt/)

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> [I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-think-there-in-a-great-deal-to-be-said-for-religious-education-in/)

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

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> [“At least this is a nation, with a religion, a head, a status, a policy. Not a damned Noah's ark: a chicken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-dunnett/at-least-this-is-a-nation-with-a-religion-a-head-a-status-a-policy/)

[Dorothy Dunnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-dunnett/)

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> [I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/i-do-not-believe-in-god-but-i-believe-god-is-man-s-greatest-idea/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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> [This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-west/this-is-one-thing-that-s-very-interesting-how-the-people-on-the-left/)

[Allen West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-west/)

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> [I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marian-wright-edelman/i-grew-up-in-a-very-religious-family-and-it-is-the-motivating-force-2/)

[Marian Wright Edelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marian-wright-edelman/)

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> [I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-mckenna/i-get-frustrated-with-people-who-say-that-a-drug-experience-can-have/)

[Dennis McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-mckenna/)

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> [“A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one’s feet and then beat a quick retreat to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bhikkhu-bodhi/a-spiritual-tradition-is-not-a-shallow-stream-in-which-one-can-wet/)

[Bhikkhu Bodhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bhikkhu-bodhi/)

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> [If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-cady-stanton/if-all-those-magnificent-cathedrals-with-their-valuable-lands-in/)

[Elizabeth Cady Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-cady-stanton/)

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> [There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/empedocles/there-is-an-utterance-of-necessity-an-ancient-decree-of-the-gods/)

[Empedocles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/empedocles/)

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> [ ...Thomas did not believe the resurrection \[John 20:25\], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/thomas-did-not-believe-the-resurrection-john-20-25-and-as-they-say/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tariq-ramadan/muslims-must-speak-out-and-explain-who-they-are-what-they-believe-in/)

[Tariq Ramadan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tariq-ramadan/)

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> [I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/i-came-with-the-notion-of-perhaps-saying-something-for-monks-and-to/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/this-is-the-good-and-happy-news-that-christ-has-paid-for-our-sin-and/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [I know people who are both extremely wealthy, people who are middle class and people with little material wealth. Whatever their circumstance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/radhanath-swami/i-know-people-who-are-both-extremely-wealthy-people-who-are-middle/)

[Radhanath Swami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/radhanath-swami/)

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> [There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/there-is-no-way-that-the-fourth-gospel-was-written-by-john-zebedee-or/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [“Self proclamation of authoritative titles is a common phenomenon among religious and/or occult sect leaders. A cursory survey of this primarily 20th…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zeena-schreck/self-proclamation-of-authoritative-titles-is-a-common-phenomenon/)

[Zeena Schreck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zeena-schreck/)

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> [“The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-american-revolution-is-sometimes-said-to-have-brought-about-the/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [“Any government that use a dictatorship uses its powers and propaganda to control its own people, for example Sharia-Law have nothing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zybejta-beta-metani-marashi/any-government-that-use-a-dictatorship-uses-its-powers-and-propaganda/)

[Zybejta Beta Metani'Marashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zybejta-beta-metani-marashi/)

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> [I do understand that America is a predominantly Christian country. A lot of morals and values are based in Christianity as opposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lupe-fiasco/i-do-understand-that-america-is-a-predominantly-christian-country-a/)

[Lupe Fiasco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lupe-fiasco/)

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> [“Some NT commentators view Jesus predominantly as a religious figure with little or no concern about the politics and culture of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-alan-streett/some-nt-commentators-view-jesus-predominantly-as-a-religious-figure/)

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

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> [“In 1857 a revival swept over this country in the east and on to the western cities, clear over to the Pacific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-l-moody/in-1857-a-revival-swept-over-this-country-in-the-east-and-on-to-the/)

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

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> [“We can learn an important lesson from Peter: Don’t question the Lord’s will or work, and don’t try to change it. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-w-wiersbe/we-can-learn-an-important-lesson-from-peter-don-t-question-the-lord-s/)

[Warren W. Wiersbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-w-wiersbe/)

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> [I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom religion is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shila-amzah/i-was-very-offended-as-this-damages-my-reputation-as-a-muslim-and-a/)

Shila Amzah

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> [There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/there-are-millions-of-americans-who-belong-by-nature-in-movie/)

[Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/)

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> [I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loung-ung/i-think-living-in-the-west-we-live-in-a-culture-where-everybody/)

[Loung Ung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loung-ung/)

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> [“Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, never traitor stand, Not a surge of worry, not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havergal/hidden-in-the-hollow-of-his-blessed-hand-never-foe-can-follow-never/)

Havergal

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> [Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-chapman/women-who-are-the-prime-victims-of-religion-and-perhaps-in-some/)

Matthew Chapman

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> [“The Christian faith has become a cheap faith because we too often live as if it has no value. We complain when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/the-christian-faith-has-become-a-cheap-faith-because-we-too-often/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [“Regarding Christians who feel they have a free pass on being criticized; When the blind worship of an invisible being and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelli-jae-baeli/regarding-christians-who-feel-they-have-a-free-pass-on-being/)

[Kelli Jae Baeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelli-jae-baeli/)

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> [“This also leads Bonhoeffer to assert that the efficacy of preaching occurs only because it pleases God, who in the ministry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-schnasa-jacobsen/this-also-leads-bonhoeffer-to-assert-that-the-efficacy-of-preaching/)

[David Schnasa Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-schnasa-jacobsen/)

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> [“If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cameron-adams/if-as-max-weber-contended-science-modernity-and-rationalism-have/)

[Cameron Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cameron-adams/)

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> [“Organized religion is horseshit. Spirituality -- the spirituality that I've come to know and experience -- has nothing to do with religion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-fante/organized-religion-is-horseshit-spirituality-the-spirituality-that-i/)

[Dan Fante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-fante/)

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> [“It was a mark of Constantine's political genius and flexibility that he realized it was better to utilize a religion(Christianity) that already…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-freeman/it-was-a-mark-of-constantine-s-political-genius-and-flexibility-that/)

Charles Freeman

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> [The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rita-levi-montalcini/the-four-of-us-enjoyed-a-most-wonderful-family-atmosphere-filled-with/)

[Rita Levi-Montalcini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rita-levi-montalcini/)

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> [“Evangelicals usually fail to challenge the system not just out of concern for evangelism, but also because they support the American system…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-smith/evangelicals-usually-fail-to-challenge-the-system-not-just-out-of/)

[Christian Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-smith/)

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> [Jesus has given me ample resources to meet the spiritual needs of others because He has given me Himself and He has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-graham-lotz/jesus-has-given-me-ample-resources-to-meet-the-spiritual-needs-of/)

[Anne Graham Lotz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-graham-lotz/)

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                        "text": "“At least this is a nation, with a religion, a head, a status, a policy. Not a damned Noah's ark: a chicken here, a lamb there, a family of wolves in the next field. I suppose you are proud of your French Queen, playing dice with Scots knucklebones for the greater glory of her native land?”",
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                        "text": "I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.",
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                        "text": "I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs",
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                        "text": "If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened…I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.",
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                        "text": "...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.",
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                        "text": "I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are",
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                        "text": "This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.",
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                        "text": "I know people who are both extremely wealthy, people who are middle class and people with little material wealth. Whatever their circumstance may be, they are every bit as renounced as monks because they have that spirit. The spirit of charity on a spiritual platform. The Bhagavad Gita explains that real wisdom is when we see every living being with equal vision. When we love God, we naturally love our neighbor as our self, as the Bible also tells us.",
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                        "text": "There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.",
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                        "text": "“Self proclamation of authoritative titles is a common phenomenon among religious and/or occult sect leaders. A cursory survey of this primarily 20th century phenomenon will instantly reveal a multitude of self-declared Masters, High Priests, gurus, Ipsissimi, Bhaghwani, etc.. I am pleased that I cannot count myself among such types. Legitimate religious teachers and scholars know that a genuine spiritual leader is one whose calling to lead is first noticed by those outside of him or herself based on certain qualities, abilities, and actions and then must subsequently be accepted by the individual in question as his or her destiny. This contrasts with those whose will to lead is born simply out of the mundane wish to be a leader. In such cases the goal being to reap the rewards a title brings without the hard work and the innate, manifest qualities which validate the position; in short what might be considered a 'false prophet'.\" --“From the Eye of the Storm” (Zeena's column for the SLM) Volume II – Winter Issue (2003): “One Year Later...”",
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                        "text": "“The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations, but after 1776 they adopted taxes that forced everyone to support Christian teachings. William G. McLoughlin, quoting Supreme Court Justice David Brewer in 1892 that “this is a Christian nation,” says of the separation of church and state in the Revolution that it “was neither conceived of nor carried out. . . . Far from being left to itself, religion was imbedded into every aspect and institution of American life.”",
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                        "text": "“Any government that use a dictatorship uses its powers and propaganda to control its own people, for example Sharia-Law have nothing to do with religion. Sharia is just another man-made law that is used to dictate over women's, and infidels. ― Zybejta Beta Metani'Marashi”",
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                        "text": "I do understand that America is a predominantly Christian country. A lot of morals and values are based in Christianity as opposed to Buddhism, which it's not, or Judaism, which it's not, or Islam, which it's definitely not. So I'm not going to lie to myself and just be like, 'Well you know, everybody's equal.' Because we're not.",
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                        "text": "“Some NT commentators view Jesus predominantly as a religious figure with little or no concern about the politics and culture of his day. Such an interpretation results when one anachronistically presupposes that the idea of separation between church and state existed during NT times. The first-century Roman world had no such concept or custom. Religion and politics, whether Roman or Jewish, were interwoven into a single fabric.”",
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                        "text": "“In 1857 a revival swept over this country in the east and on to the western cities, clear over to the Pacific coast. It was God calling the nation to Himself. Half a million people united with the Church at that time. Then the war broke out. We were baptized with the Holy Ghost in 1857, and in 1861 we were baptized in blood. It was a call of mercy, preceding judgment.”",
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                        "text": "“We can learn an important lesson from Peter: Don’t question the Lord’s will or work, and don’t try to change it. He knows what He is doing. Peter had a difficult time accepting Christ’s ministry to him because Peter was not yet ready to minister to the other disciples. It takes humility and grace to serve others, but it also takes humility and grace to allow others to serve us. The beautiful thing about a submissive spirit is that it can both give and receive to the glory of God.”",
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                        "text": "I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom religion is most important.This I cannot apologize for. I’m sorry but it is unacceptable to watch my mother crying because of this. I think everyone who has a family will understand the pain we are going through now.If you don’t like me, you can just tell me to my face. Don’t come near my parents.",
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                        "text": "There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.",
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                        "text": "I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit, skin, hair, nails. Perfect happiness would be a constant state of bliss, which doesn't exist. Growing up and going through the loss I went through, I never had a moment where I believed a constant state of bliss was possible. Instead, I tried to create many moments. But, I didn't know how to get there. Because of what I went through, I have a natural tendency towards darkness. Though it may be in my DNA as well.",
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                        "text": "“Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, never traitor stand, Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there. Stayed upon God, hearts are fully blest, Finding as God promised, perfect peace and rest.”",
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