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title: "Top Religion Thoughts"
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> [Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/southern-culture-has-fostered-a-type-of-imagination-that-has-been/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [“Whereas the will is made of titanium and steel, the human spirit is a million times more delicate. It reflects the self-concept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-dobson/whereas-the-will-is-made-of-titanium-and-steel-the-human-spirit-is-a/)

[James C. Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-c-dobson/)

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> [“Faith is not something you have to work up. Faith is not something achieved by psychological striving, or by logical reasoning. Faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-ford/faith-is-not-something-you-have-to-work-up-faith-is-not-something/)

[Desmond Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-ford/)

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> [“Whether you realize it or not, you are a theologian. You come to a book like this with a working theology, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-horton/whether-you-realize-it-or-not-you-are-a-theologian-you-come-to-a-book/)

[Michael S. Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-horton/)

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> [Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/waris-dirie/many-friends-have-expressed-concern-that-a-religious-fanatic-will-try/)

[Waris Dirie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/waris-dirie/)

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> [It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-kingsley/it-has-been-said-that-true-religion-will-make-a-man-a-more-thorough/)

[Charles Kingsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-kingsley/)

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> [Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayya-khema/trying-to-achieve-something-in-the-spiritual-world-is-just-as-foolish/)

[Ayya Khema](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayya-khema/)

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> [“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/the-doctrine-of-immortality-is-the-final-doctrine-of-religion-it/)

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

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> [President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denis-mcdonough/president-obama-understands-that-as-a-nation-founded-by-those-who/)

[Denis McDonough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denis-mcdonough/)

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> [“But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/but-what-is-worship-thought-i-do-you-suppose-now-ishmael-that-the/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-knox/all-men-who-have-ideals-live-by-some-kind-of-faith-by-committing/)

[Ronald Knox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-knox/)

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> [How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orison-swett-marden/how-true-it-is-that-if-we-are-cheerful-and-contented-all-nature/)

[Orison Swett Marden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orison-swett-marden/)

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> [“In cities we will also meet a lot of people who hold to other religions or to no religion who are wiser,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/in-cities-we-will-also-meet-a-lot-of-people-who-hold-to-other/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [“The Roman church’s unmistakable claim is that there is only one church and only one faith and that Christendom needs a visible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/the-roman-church-s-unmistakable-claim-is-that-there-is-only-one/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kent-nerburn/the-human-being-is-a-surprisingly-resilient-organism-we-are-impelled/)

[Kent Nerburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kent-nerburn/)

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> [As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/as-christians-we-are-tempted-to-make-unnecessary-concessions-to-those/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzy-kassem/black-and-white-i-was-born-into-a-religion-of-light-but-with-so-many/)

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

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> [Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-brown-taylor/salvation-is-a-word-for-the-divine-spaciousness-that-comes-to-human/)

[Barbara Brown Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-brown-taylor/)

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> [If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/if-we-only-identify-with-the-mortal-world-then-we-identify-with-a-2/)

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

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> [I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don't mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/assata-shakur/i-think-that-spirituality-is-important-for-all-people-to-develop-i/)

[Assata Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/assata-shakur/)

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> [“But to follow Jesus is not to imitate him, for following him does not mean becoming a Jesus oneself. Nor does it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-rgen-moltmann/but-to-follow-jesus-is-not-to-imitate-him-for-following-him-does-not/)

[Jurgen Moltmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-rgen-moltmann/)

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> [“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-r-ambedkar-2/islam-is-a-close-union-of-the-spiritual-and-the-temporal-it-is-the/)

[B.R. Ambedkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-r-ambedkar-2/)

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> [Faith in God, is not blind faith. It is not an uneducated person wishing blindly for nirvana. You have to have faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/faith-in-god-is-not-blind-faith-it-is-not-an-uneducated-person/)

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

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> [The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reza-aslan/the-religiously-observant-is-lumped-in-with-the-nominal-muslim-the/)

[Reza Aslan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reza-aslan/)

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> [Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-monroe/of-the-liberty-of-conscience-in-matters-of-religious-faith-of-speech/)

[James Monroe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-monroe/)

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> [I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennon/i-suppose-if-i-had-said-television-was-more-popular-than-jesus-i/)

[John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennon/)

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> [“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/prayer-does-not-blind-us-to-the-world-but-it-transforms-our-vision-of/)

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

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> [You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-harner/you-are-human-whether-your-ancestors-come-from-europe-asia-africa-or/)

[Michael Harner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-harner/)

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> [“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-lawrence/we-wrap-up-our-violent-and-mysterious-world-in-a-pretense-of/)

[Mark Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-lawrence/)

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> [“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-tomlin/isn-t-it-interesting-that-in-acts-11-at-the-end-of-verse-26-it-says/)

[Chris Tomlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-tomlin/)

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> [I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bethany-hamilton/i-guess-my-faith-in-jesus-christ-is-what-kept-me-going-day-by-day-i/)

[Bethany Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bethany-hamilton/)

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> [“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/so-we-find-that-the-three-possible-solutions-of-the-great-problem-of-2/)

[Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/)

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> [Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/religions-contradict-one-another-on-small-matters-such-as-whether-we/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [“I have no respect to merchants and preachers; as far as I’m concerned, their only talent is coming up with the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/knut-hamsun/i-have-no-respect-to-merchants-and-preachers-as-far-as-i-m-concerned/)

[Knut Hamsun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/knut-hamsun/)

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> [ It \[the Holocaust\] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-irving/it-the-holocaust-is-something-like-a-religion-the-intellectual/)

[David Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-irving/)

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> [“For the commentator to stay as closely as possible to home, that is, to the text of the Gospel itself, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-ridderbos/for-the-commentator-to-stay-as-closely-as-possible-to-home-that-is-to/)

[Herman Ridderbos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-ridderbos/)

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> [“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-neo-cons-or-some-of-them-decided-that-they-would-back-clinton/)

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

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> [Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/believing-in-religion-is-an-insult-to-god-because-god-means-high/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [“Even harsh karma, when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest catalyst for spiritual unfoldment. Performing daily sādhana, keeping good company, pilgrimaging to holy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/satguru-sivaya-subramuniyaswami/even-harsh-karma-when-faced-in-wisdom-can-be-the-greatest-catalyst/)

[Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/satguru-sivaya-subramuniyaswami/)

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> [“A state of scepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-gibbon/a-state-of-scepticism-and-suspense-may-amuse-a-few-inquisitive-minds/)

[Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-gibbon/)

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                        "text": "Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.",
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                        "text": "It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.",
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                        "text": "Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.",
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                        "text": "President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.",
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                        "text": "“But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.”",
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                        "text": "All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.",
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                        "text": "How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.",
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                        "text": "“In cities we will also meet a lot of people who hold to other religions or to no religion who are wiser, kinder, and more thoughtful than we are, because even after growth in grace, many Christians are weaker people than many non-Christians. When this surprises you, reflect on it. If the gospel of grace is true, why would we think that Christians are a better kind of person than non-Christians? These living examples of common grace may begin to show us that even though we intellectually understand the doctrine of justification by faith alone, functionally we continue to assume that salvation is by moral goodness and works. Early in Redeemer’s ministry, we discovered it was misguided for Christians to feel pity for the city, and it was harmful to think of ourselves as its “savior.” We had to humbly learn from and respect our city and its people. Our relationship with them had to be a consciously reciprocal one. We had to be willing to see God’s common grace in their lives. We had to learn that we needed them to fill out our own understanding of God and his grace, just as they needed us.”",
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                        "text": "“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I know which ONE Is right? Is it not My birthright To seek out the light? To find Truth After surveying all the proof, Am I supposed To love Or fight? And why do all those who Try to guide me, Always start by dividing And multiplying me – From what they consider Wrong or right? I thought, There were no walls For whoever beams truth and light. And how can one speak on Light's behalf, lf all they do Is act black, But talk WHITE?”",
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                        "text": "Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.",
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                        "text": "If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.",
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                        "text": "Faith in God, is not blind faith. It is not an uneducated person wishing blindly for nirvana. You have to have faith in God to explain it. But, it is impossible to explain it to someone who chooses not to experience it. It is a choice, which in itself excludes blindness. It is a choice that has profound consequences. Faith, is not to be confused with religion.",
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                        "text": "Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms… If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.",
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                        "text": "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.",
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                        "text": "“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray 'in spirit and in truth' enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which is at work behind the complexities and the intricacies of human existence. This does not mean fabricating for ourselves pious rationalizations to explain everything that happens. It involves no surreptitious manipulation of the hard truths of life.”",
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                        "text": "You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it.'",
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                        "text": "“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids of our comprehension with science and religion, and make believe that order has been imposed. And, for the most of it, the fiction works. We skim across the surfaces, heedless of the depths below. Dragonflies flitting over a lake, miles deep, pursuing erratic paths to pointless ends. Until that moment when something from the cold unknown reaches up to take us. The biggest lies we save for ourselves. We play a game in which we are gods, in which we make choices, and the current follows in our wake. We pretend a separation from the wild. Pretend that a man’s control runs deep, that civilization is more than a veneer, that reason will be our companion in dark places.”",
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                        "text": "I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way.",
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                        "text": "“So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work. Many a year I have thought and pondered, lost myself in speculations and theories, considering man as a mass moved by a force, viewing his inexplicable movement in the light of a mechanical one, and applying the simple principles of mechanics to the analysis of the same until I arrived at these solutions, only to realize that they were taught to me in my early childhood. These three words sound the key-notes of the Christian religion. Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement. These are the only three solutions which are possible of that great problem, and all of them have one object, one end, namely, to increase human energy. When we recognize this, we cannot help wondering how profoundly wise and scientific and how immensely practical the Christian religion is, and in what a marked contrast it stands in this respect to other religions. It is unmistakably the result of practical experiment and scientific observation which have extended through the ages, while other religions seem to be the outcome of merely abstract reasoning. Work, untiring effort, useful and accumulative, with periods of rest and recuperation aiming at higher efficiency, is its chief and ever-recurring command. Thus we are inspired both by Christianity and Science to do our utmost toward increasing the performance of mankind. This most important of human problems I shall now specifically consider.”",
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                        "text": "Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.",
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                        "text": "It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation - that in a few years time no one will believe this particular legend anymore. They will say, as I do, that atrocities were committed. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, but there were no factories of death. All that is a blood libel against the German people.",
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                        "text": "“For the commentator to stay as closely as possible to home, that is, to the text of the Gospel itself, there is much to be said in favor of the practice, followed by Bultmann in his famous commentary, of plunging immediately — without the typical \"introduction\" — into the text and dealing with disputed issues ad hoc, that is where particular passages occasion such discussion.”",
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                        "text": "Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!",
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                        "text": "“Even harsh karma, when faced in wisdom, can be the greatest catalyst for spiritual unfoldment. Performing daily sādhana, keeping good company, pilgrimaging to holy places, seeing to others’ needs—these evoke the higher energies, direct the mind to useful thoughts and avoid the creation of troublesome new karmas.”",
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