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title: "Top Religion Quotations"
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> [Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/eternal-spirit-of-the-chainless-mind-brightest-in-dungeons-liberty/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-marx-hubbard/whenever-a-few-people-are-gathered-with-a-spiritual-impulse-to/)

[Barbara Marx Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-marx-hubbard/)

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> [“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bangambiki-habyarimana/it-s-impossible-to-do-science-without-faith-sometimes-scientists/)

[Bangambiki Habyarimana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bangambiki-habyarimana/)

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> [There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-trigell/there-are-very-good-evolutionary-reasons-for-having-religion-from/)

[Jonathan Trigell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-trigell/)

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> [There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilford-woodruff/there-is-absolutely-nothing-in-the-mormon-s-religion-inconsistent/)

[Wilford Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilford-woodruff/)

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> [“I'd like to start this week with a request, and this one goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-brigstocke/i-d-like-to-start-this-week-with-a-request-and-this-one-goes-out-to/)

[Marcus Brigstocke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-brigstocke/)

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> [“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/human-desire-is-the-criterion-of-all-truth-and-all-good-truth-does/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-shelton/i-believe-in-the-church-of-baseball-i-ve-tried-all-the-major/)

[Ron Shelton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-shelton/)

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> [“Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-mcgowan/spirituality-is-about-being-awake-it-s-the-attempt-to-transcend-the/)

[Dale McGowan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-mcgowan/)

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> [“Those who respond in trust or faith to the faith of Christ are moved into Christ, into the sphere of his life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-gorman/those-who-respond-in-trust-or-faith-to-the-faith-of-christ-are-moved/)

[Michael J. Gorman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-gorman/)

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> [Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/certainly-i-see-the-scientific-view-of-the-world-as-incompatible-with/)

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

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> [“While cap-stoning what humanists were already doing in school, leading humanist John Dunphy stated in 1983: I am convinced that the battle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ham/while-cap-stoning-what-humanists-were-already-doing-in-school-leading/)

[Ken Ham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ham/)

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> [God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-redpath/god-will-never-plant-the-seed-of-his-life-upon-the-soil-of-a-hard/)

[Alan Redpath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-redpath/)

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> [Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/religion-if-it-is-genuine-is-so-profoundly-interwoven-with-individual/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [“Global warming is a religion in the sense that it's a series of propositions that can't be refuted. It's very ironic that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-f-will/global-warming-is-a-religion-in-the-sense-that-it-s-a-series-of/)

[George F. Will](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-f-will/)

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> [In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-roose/in-some-of-the-classes-especially-the-introductory-religion-courses-i/)

[Kevin Roose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-roose/)

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> [“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-sheffield/at-camp-don-bosco-there-were-bibles-all-over-the-place-mostly-1970s/)

[Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-sheffield/)

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> [Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/many-expressions-in-the-new-testament-come-naturally-to-the-lips-of/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/perhaps-the-most-telling-witness-against-the-claim-of-accurate/)

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

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> [We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernd-heinrich/we-are-social-animals-we-like-to-feel-a-part-of-something-of-beauty/)

[Bernd Heinrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernd-heinrich/)

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> [The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-aurobindo/the-seers-of-ancient-india-had-in-their-experiments-and-efforts-at/)

[Sri Aurobindo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-aurobindo/)

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> [That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robertson-davies/that-s-the-nub-of-the-thing-you-see-seriousness-of-spirit-it-doesn-t/)

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

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> [God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-brennert/god-didn-t-give-man-wings-he-gave-him-the-brains-and-the-spirit-to/)

[Alan Brennert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-brennert/)

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> [“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-gregory-lewis/man-of-an-hard-heart-hear-me-proud-stern-and-cruel-you-could-have/)

[Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-gregory-lewis/)

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> [“The reason it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would uphold a religious exemption for vaccinations or blood transfusions is not something intrinsic to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-reason-it-s-unlikely-the-supreme-court-would-uphold-a-religious/)

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

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> [“At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/at-one-time-the-state-of-culture-in-czechoslovakia-was-described/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

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> [ “\[Jacob\] Hamblin arranged to make a trip across the Colorado River in search of a child who might be missing. The motive… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juanita-brooks/jacob-hamblin-arranged-to-make-a-trip-across-the-colorado-river-in/)

[Juanita Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juanita-brooks/)

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> [“The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What's best for me and what is worst for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-booth/the-danger-of-delusion-was-made-worse-by-the-love-of-delusion-what-s/)

[Mark Booth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-booth/)

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> [“15 If you love Me, keep My Commandments (His Commandments can be kept only in one way; the Believer must ever make Christ…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-swaggart/15-if-you-love-me-keep-my-commandments-his-commandments-can-be-kept/)

[Jimmy Swaggart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-swaggart/)

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> [“In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kingsley-amis/in-it-a-film-peter-saw-a-sadistic-sergeant-broke-the-spirit-of/)

[Kingsley Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kingsley-amis/)

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> [I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eve/i-worship-god-religion-and-worship-are-two-different-things-to-me/)

[Eve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eve/)

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> [I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-think-that-the-scienti-c-way-of-looking-at-the-world-and-the/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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> [On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buddha/on-the-contrary-subhuti-those-bodhisattvas-who-when-these-words-of/)

[Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/buddha/)

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> [The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chogyam-trungpa/the-meditator-develops-new-depths-of-insight-through-direct/)

[Chogyam Trungpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chogyam-trungpa/)

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> [“For another thing, people's notions of the really big scriptural Subject can be quite beside the point. Suppose, by way of illustration,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-farrar-capon/for-another-thing-people-s-notions-of-the-really-big-scriptural/)

[Robert Farrar Capon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-farrar-capon/)

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> [But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/but-christ-could-certainly-not-have-established-the-church-that-is/)

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

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> [“When we survey the whole field of religion, we find a great variety in the thoughts that have prevailed there; but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/when-we-survey-the-whole-field-of-religion-we-find-a-great-variety-in/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wesley/on-every-occasion-of-uneasiness-we-should-retire-to-prayer-that-we/)

[John Wesley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wesley/)

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> [“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-badiou/christianity-grasped-perfectly-that-there-is-an-element-in-the/)

[Alain Badiou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-badiou/)

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> [We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-b-wirthlin/we-have-no-middle-ground-no-foggy-gray-area-where-we-can-sin-a-little/)

[Joseph B. Wirthlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-b-wirthlin/)

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## Top authors on Religion

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                        "text": "Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.",
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                        "text": "“It's impossible to do science without faith. Sometimes scientists build theories on the premises of faulty assumptions until they discover they were in error and begin again from square one until they discover the true theory. It's quite different with theologians, they build false theory upon false theory until they give you detailed descriptions of heaven and hell and construct dogmas to protect their errors and if you dare say they are in error they condemn you to eternal damnation they arrived at through false theories”",
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                        "text": "There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a perception of ourselves and in order for that to be a true perception we have to believe in a soul within us.",
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                        "text": "There is absolutely nothing in the Mormon's religion inconsistent with the most patriotic devotion to the government of the United States. Revelation and the commandments of the church require that the Constitution and the laws of the land be upheld. It is also part of our belief that the time will come when the country will be distracted and general lawlessness prevail. Then the Mormon people will step forward and take an active part in rescuing the nation from ruin.",
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                        "text": "“I'd like to start this week with a request, and this one goes out to the followers of the three Abrahamic religions: the Muslims, Christians, and Jews. It's just a little thing, really, but do you think that when you've finished smashing up the world and blowing each other to bits and demanding special privileges while you do it, do you think that maybe the rest of us could sort of have our planet back? I wouldn't ask, but I'm starting to think that there must be something written in the special books that each of you so enjoy referring to that it's ok to behave like special, petulant, pugnacious, pricks. Forgive the alliteration, but your persistent, power-mad punch-ups are pissing me off. It's mainly the extremists obviously, but not exclusively. It's a lot of 'main-streamers' as well. Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about. Muslims: listen up my bearded and veily friends! Calm down, ok? Stop blowing stuff up. Not everything that said about you is an attack on the prophet Mohammed and Allah that needs to end in the infidel being destroyed. Have a cup of tea, put on a Cat Stevens record, sit down and chill out. I mean seriously, what's wrong with a strongly-worded letter to The Times? Christians: you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules; either stick to them or abandon the faith. And stop persecuting and killing people you judge to be immoral. Oh, and stop pretending you're celibate -- it's a cover-up for being a gay or a nonce. Right, that's two ticked off. Jews! I know you're god's 'Chosen People' and the rest of us are just whatever, but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully and someone mentions it that doesn't make them antisemitic. And for the record, your troubled history is not a license to act with impunity now.”",
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                        "text": "“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...”",
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                        "text": "I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.",
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                        "text": "“Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap into the wonder of being a conscious and grateful thing in the midst of an astonishing universe. It doesn’t require religion. Religion can, in fact, and often does, blunt our awareness by substituting false (and dare I say inferior) wonders for real ones. It’s a fine joke on ourselves that most of what we call spirituality is actually about putting ourselves to sleep.”",
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                        "text": "“Those who respond in trust or faith to the faith of Christ are moved into Christ, into the sphere of his life. In that sphere, and there alone, is justification to be found. Simultaneously, those who move into Christ find that Christ has moved into them, so to speak.”",
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                        "text": "Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also incompatible with magic, but that also is not worth stressing. What is interesting about the scientific world view is that it is true, inspiring, remarkable and that it unites a whole lot of phenomena under a single heading.",
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                        "text": "“While cap-stoning what humanists were already doing in school, leading humanist John Dunphy stated in 1983: I am convinced that the battle for humankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level — preschool day care or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new — the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.”",
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                        "text": "God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.",
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                        "text": "Religion, if it is genuine, is so profoundly interwoven with individual thought and experience that it is no more exhaustible than consciousness itself. And fiction whose purpose is didactic is bad no matter whether the matter to be \"taught\" is Christianity or the world view of Ayn Rand. It seems often to be assumed by writers that religion is a pose, meant to deceive oneself or others, or that it is a bad patch on doubt or complexity. This is only convention, however. The writers I know have a much deeper engagement with the real issues of religion.",
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                        "text": "“Global warming is a religion in the sense that it's a series of propositions that can't be refuted. It's very ironic that the global warming alarmists say, \"We are the real defenders of science,\" and then they adopt the absolute reverse of the scientific attitude, which is openness to evidence. You cannot refute what they say.”",
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                        "text": "“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They had groovy titles like The Word or The Way, and translated the Bible into “contemporary English,” which meant Saul yelling at Jonathan, “You son of a bitch!” (I Samuel 20:30). Awesome! The King James version gave this verse as “Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman,” which was bogus in comparison. Maybe these translations went a bit far. I recall one of the Bibles translating the inscription over the cross, “INRI” (Iesus Nazaremus Rex Iudaeorum), as “SSDD” (Same Shit Different Day), and another describing the Last Supper — the night before Jesus’ death, a death he freely accepted — where Jesus breaks the bread, gives it to his disciples, and says, “It’s better to burn out than fade away,” but these memories could be deceptive.”",
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                        "text": "That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.",
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                        "text": "God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.",
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                        "text": "“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon!”",
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                        "text": "“The reason it’s unlikely the Supreme Court would uphold a religious exemption for vaccinations or blood transfusions is not something intrinsic to those claims; it’s simply that Alito finds them weird. Birth control is banned by the Bible? Sure. Blood transfusions are banned by the Bible? Don’t be silly.”",
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                        "text": "“[Jacob] Hamblin arranged to make a trip across the Colorado River in search of a child who might be missing. The motive behind this is clear… [I]n letters and in recorded speeches he had expressed an eagerness to labor among “the nobler branches of the race.” He had heard that the Hopis across the Colorado were a peaceful, agricultural people who had many skills… Thus, while his letters to Brigham Young and George A. Smith speak of this as a bona fide “mission” for the church, the records in the General Accounting Office in Washington D.C., show that he was paid $318 for expenses incurred while conducting a search for the purpose of finding a child, [al]though Jacob Hamblin knew well that no child had ever been in the hands of the Indians… ”",
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                        "text": "“Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It’s an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the “Almighty-Other”, without the “Great Other” of transcendence.”",
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