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> [It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/it-seems-to-me-there-is-less-meanness-in-atheism-by-a-good-measure-it/)

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

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> [“I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henryk-stanczyk/i-know-not-how-the-christians-order-their-own-lives-but-i-know-that/)

[Henryk Stanczyk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henryk-stanczyk/)

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> [As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-webb/as-you-know-the-south-is-known-for-its-hospitality-traditions/)

[Katherine Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-webb/)

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> [When adversity strikes and you are gripped with fear; overwehlmed by grief... Do not conform! GOD has not giving you a spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vanessa-colbert/when-adversity-strikes-and-you-are-gripped-with-fear-overwehlmed-by/)

[Vanessa Colbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vanessa-colbert/)

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> [“Ohhh what precious life energy and safety one will spend and risk for a lifeless precious metal that the living attribute such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracey-bond/ohhh-what-precious-life-energy-and-safety-one-will-spend-and-risk-for/)

[Tracey Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracey-bond/)

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> [“I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/i-implore-the-atheist-not-to-judge-the-religious-and-i-implore-the/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [“Possessiveness isn’t unprecedented.’ ‘On the contrary – it’s as common as mud. But to recognise it in one’s self and chuck it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/possessiveness-isn-t-unprecedented-on-the-contrary-it-s-as-common-as/)

[Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/)

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> [I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-hathaway/i-disagree-with-a-couple-of-the-stances-of-the-catholic-church-my/)

[Anne Hathaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-hathaway/)

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> [Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-o-neill/did-you-not-look-upon-the-world-this-morning-and-imagine-it-as-the/)

[Jamie O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-o-neill/)

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> [“Preaching will foster true contact by helping people to discern the varying capacities of all things that vie for their attention. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zack-eswine/preaching-will-foster-true-contact-by-helping-people-to-discern-the/)

[Zack Eswine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zack-eswine/)

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> [I wasn't really too hyped on religion. I don't really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nle-choppa/i-wasn-t-really-too-hyped-on-religion-i-don-t-really-believe-in-a/)

[NLE Choppa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nle-choppa/)

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> [“Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-andersen/protestantism-has-been-that-it-gave-a-self-righteous-oomph-to/)

[Kurt Andersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-andersen/)

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> [There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/there-is-no-way-to-have-a-real-relationship-without-becoming/)

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

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> [Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-hawley/despite-what-one-might-gather-from-the-shrill-rantings-of-the-leftist/)

[Josh Hawley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-hawley/)

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> [“The requirement to obey and acknowledge God and Jesus Christ has caused the teachings of the Christian tradition to stray from morality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-mcafee/the-requirement-to-obey-and-acknowledge-god-and-jesus-christ-has/)

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

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> [It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arianna-huffington/it-is-the-fourth-instinct-the-spirit-rj-that-urges-us-to-exceed/)

[Arianna Huffington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arianna-huffington/)

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> [Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/both-kant-and-fichte-thought-of-traditions-of-revealed-religion-as/)

[Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/)

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> [“There are some great mysteries here and I believe that each one of us is better placed to understand them than any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-mellor/there-are-some-great-mysteries-here-and-i-believe-that-each-one-of-us/)

[John Mellor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-mellor/)

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> [“Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-d-forbes/religion-is-in-reality-living-our-religion-is-not-what-we-profess-or/)

[Jack D. Forbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-d-forbes/)

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> [“Science, not religion, became the driving force for human development and world discovery and exploitation. It is the unwise use of science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-sanderson/science-not-religion-became-the-driving-force-for-human-development/)

[Alan Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-sanderson/)

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> [Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-denver/music-does-bring-people-together-it-allows-us-to-experience-the-same/)

[John Denver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-denver/)

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> [I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-allen-overstreet/i-may-safely-predict-that-the-education-of-the-future-will-be/)

[Harry Allen Overstreet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-allen-overstreet/)

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> [Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/our-time-on-this-earth-is-sacred-and-we-should-celebrate-every-moment-2/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/amory-sorry-for-them-was-still-not-sorry-for-himself-art-politics/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-leonard-schawlow/but-the-context-of-religion-is-a-great-background-for-doing-science/)

[Arthur Leonard Schawlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-leonard-schawlow/)

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> [Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-douthat/independent-of-the-critique-i-m-making-i-m-just-trying-to-paint-a/)

[Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-douthat/)

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> [And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chaim-potok/and-these-two-elements-are-at-odds-with-one-another-because-freud-is/)

[Chaim Potok](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chaim-potok/)

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> [Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-chirac/anything-that-can-hurt-the-convictions-of-another-particularly/)

[Jacques Chirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-chirac/)

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> [Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-owen/some-relate-that-the-eagle-tries-the-eyes-of-her-young-by-turning/)

[John Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-owen/)

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> [It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/it-is-christ-himself-not-the-bible-who-is-the-true-word-of-god-the/)

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

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> [It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/it-is-easy-to-forget-since-the-catholic-church-is-now-the-only-large/)

[Susan Jacoby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-jacoby/)

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> [What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tertullian/what-is-nobler-than-to-tread-under-foot-the-gods-of-the-nations-to/)

[Tertullian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tertullian/)

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> [When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-adams/when-the-congress-first-met-mr-cushing-made-a-motion-that-it-should/)

[John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-adams/)

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> [A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-winwood-reade/a-religion-so-cheerless-a-philosophy-so-sorrowful-could-never-have/)

[William Winwood Reade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-winwood-reade/)

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> [“The religious man renounces the joys of this world, but only that he may win in return the joys of heaven; ……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/the-religious-man-renounces-the-joys-of-this-world-but-only-that-he/)

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

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> [“We are like those oysters in many ways...Irritants, or foreign objects, infiltrate our lives in the form of bad choices, jealousy, fear,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-hawkins-adams/we-are-like-those-oysters-in-many-ways-irritants-or-foreign-objects/)

[Stacy Hawkins Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-hawkins-adams/)

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> [“For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/for-a-week-the-sun-had-been-nothing-but-a-puffy-seamless-sheet-of/)

[Geoffrey Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-wood/)

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> [There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-savage/there-s-a-big-mistake-the-left-has-made-with-talking-to-religious/)

[Dan Savage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-savage/)

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> [“cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/cosmopolitan-theology-that-longs-for-the-kindom-of-god-seeks-to/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [“I had just prayed, Oh God, please help me! I want to serve you, but I don't know how. I don't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-goldie/i-had-just-prayed-oh-god-please-help-me-i-want-to-serve-you-but-i-don/)

[Helen Goldie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-goldie/)

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                        "text": "As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.",
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                        "text": "When adversity strikes and you are gripped with fear; overwehlmed by grief... Do not conform! GOD has not giving you a spirit of fear, but of power! Overcome with hope; love; prayer and perserverance. Stay strong for you are not alone, we stand with you!",
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                        "text": "“Ohhh what precious life energy and safety one will spend and risk for a lifeless precious metal that the living attribute such precious value - almost worship, but then again history documents some have even fashion sacred calves from it...and to know this religion its exists in some hearts, I consciously drop my head.”",
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                        "text": "“I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be a good religious person, or be a good atheist person. How? By putting an end to faultfinding. All do what they believe in their best interest to do and with a little insight and understanding, all can see that the only way anyone can do any good service to the world, is by being thankful for what is been given him, by looking inwards to correct his own faults instead of the perceived faults of others, and by keeping his eye upon his own horizon; not upon the perceived horizons of anybody else.”",
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                        "text": "“Possessiveness isn’t unprecedented.’ ‘On the contrary – it’s as common as mud. But to recognise it in one’s self and chuck it overboard is – unusual. If you want to be a normal person, my girl, you should let it rip and give yourself and everybody else hell with it. And you should call it something else – devotion or self-sacrifice and that sort of thing. If you go on behaving with all this reason and generosity, everybody will think we don’t give a damn for one another.”",
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                        "text": "I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother.",
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                        "text": "Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist and the dew and the birdsong as elements not of a place or a time but of a spirit? And did you not envy the boy his spirit? For you know there can be no power over him who freely gives what another would take. Such a one has the capacity to love. Freely, naively, to say I do.",
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                        "text": "“Preaching will foster true contact by helping people to discern the varying capacities of all things that vie for their attention. The apostle John puts it this way: We want to “know him who is true” so as to keep ourselves from idols (1 John 5:20).”",
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                        "text": "I wasn't really too hyped on religion. I don't really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There's just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them.",
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                        "text": "“Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a sign of His grace. But it seems clear to me the deeper, broader, and more enduring influence of American Protestantism was the permission it gave to dream up new supernatural or otherwise untrue understandings of reality and believe them with passionate certainty.”",
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                        "text": "There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.",
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                        "text": "Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious difference in the United States has rarely led to serious social strife. That is no small achievement, and one that virtually no other Western democracy can boast.",
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                        "text": "Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).",
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                        "text": "“There are some great mysteries here and I believe that each one of us is better placed to understand them than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs. We are, each of us, on our own journey; and whilst that journey continually interacts with those of others, it always remains uniquely ours. To understand that journey, because it is ‘magical’, we must look at it with the eyes of a child. I hope the essential simplicity of ‘The 7 Gifts’ will encourage readers to do that.”",
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                        "text": "“Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream about, what we fantasize, what we think - all these things - twenty-four hours a day. One's religion, then, is ones life, not merely the ideal life but the life as it is actually lived. Religion is not prayer, it is not a church, it is not theistic, it is not atheistic, it has little to do with what white people call \"religion.\" It is our every act. If we tromp on a bug, that is our religion; if we experiment on living animals, that is our religion; if we cheat at cards, that is our religion; if we dream of being famous, that is our religion; if we gossip maliciously, that is our religion; if we are rude and aggressive, that is our religion. All that we do, and are, is our religion.”",
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                        "text": "“Science, not religion, became the driving force for human development and world discovery and exploitation. It is the unwise use of science, allied to the unfettered demands of a growing population, which is largely responsible for the present crisis. We need the new worldview to take us beyond the limitations of both science and religion.”",
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                        "text": "Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.",
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                        "text": "I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.",
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                        "text": "Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment. The importance of this has been completely forgotten: even religious holidays have been transformed into opportunities to go to the beach or the park or skiing. There are no more rituals. Ordinary actions can no longer be transformed into manifestations of the sacred. We cook and complain that it's a waste of time, when we should be pouring our love into making that food. We work and believe it's a divine curse, when we should be using our skills to bring pleasure and to spread the energy of the Mother.",
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                        "text": "“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe now, free from all hysteria - he could accept what was acceptable, roam, grow, rebel, sleep deep through many nights... There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth - yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. \"I know myself,\" he cried, \"but that is all.”",
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                        "text": "But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.",
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                        "text": "Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.",
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                        "text": "And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.",
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                        "text": "Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.",
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                        "text": "Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.",
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                        "text": "It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.",
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