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> [“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/truths-turn-into-dogmas-the-instant-that-they-are-disputed-thus-every-2/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [Only he shall visit the mosques of Allah who believes in Allah and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quran/only-he-shall-visit-the-mosques-of-allah-who-believes-in-allah-and/)

[Quran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quran/)

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> [“The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-end-of-friendship-is-a-commerce-the-most-strict-and-homely-that/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-drucker/the-company-is-not-and-must-never-claim-to-be-home-family-religion/)

[Peter Drucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-drucker/)

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> [“There's a kind of science defense lobby or evolution defense lobby in particular . They are mostly atheist, but they are desperately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/there-s-a-kind-of-science-defense-lobby-or-evolution-defense-lobby-in/)

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

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> [Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-d-eisenhower/here-in-america-we-are-descended-in-blood-and-in-spirit-from/)

[Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-d-eisenhower/)

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> [The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-moody/the-dying-often-have-the-sensation-of-rising-up-and-floating-above/)

[Raymond Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-moody/)

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> [One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-of-the-purest-souls-ever-to-live-on-this-fallen-planet-was/)

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

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> [The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/the-varieties-of-religious-belief-are-an-advantage-since-all-faiths/)

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

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> [“We have talked about the manner and mode of preaching, but contextualization also has much to do with the content. A sermon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/we-have-talked-about-the-manner-and-mode-of-preaching-but/)

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

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> [As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/as-a-result-of-changes-which-over-the-last-century-have-modified-our/)

[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/)

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> [“This is the perfect time to discuss the common deception that, “Everything God does must be found in Scripture.” I understand the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-guerin/this-is-the-perfect-time-to-discuss-the-common-deception-that/)

[Brian Guerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-guerin/)

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> [Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayaan-hirsi-ali/let-us-recognize-that-we-can-no-longer-tolerate-violent-oppression-of/)

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayaan-hirsi-ali/)

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> [Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-m-davies/searching-pondering-and-applying-the-words-of-christ-as-taught-in-the/)

[Dean M. Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-m-davies/)

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> [Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hazrat-inayat-khan/our-spirit-is-the-real-part-of-us-the-body-but-its-garment-a-man/)

[Hazrat Inayat Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hazrat-inayat-khan/)

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> [About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madalyn-murray-o-hair/about-six-years-ago-life-magazine-ran-an-article-on-the-historicity/)

[Madalyn Murray O'Hair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madalyn-murray-o-hair/)

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> [The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-greeley/the-men-who-were-running-the-church-in-the-late-60s-and-70s-panicked/)

[Andrew Greeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-greeley/)

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> [“We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cass-r-sunstein/we-can-believe-in-hierarchy-we-can-believe-the-universe-was-made-just/)

[Cass R. Sunstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cass-r-sunstein/)

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> [But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/but-a-somewhat-more-liberal-and-sympathetic-examination-of-mankind/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hardy/a-cathedral-fa-ade-at-midnight-along-the-sculptures-of-the-western/)

[Thomas Hardy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hardy/)

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> [“The first task of discernment, then, is not a closing off but an opening up, what we might call responsive discernment. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-r-guthrie/the-first-task-of-discernment-then-is-not-a-closing-off-but-an/)

[Steven R. Guthrie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-r-guthrie/)

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> [“Beginning with the Psalms and continuing with Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, Luther dug into Scripture, and it was these years of study,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-derusha/beginning-with-the-psalms-and-continuing-with-romans-galatians-and/)

[Michelle DeRusha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-derusha/)

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> [“It is not that someday Jesus will do this, that, and the other thing, and then the Kingdom will come. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-farrar-capon/it-is-not-that-someday-jesus-will-do-this-that-and-the-other-thing/)

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

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> [The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-james/the-gifts-of-the-master-are-these-freedom-life-hope-new-direction/)

[Steven James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-james/)

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> [ \[On art:\] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abby-aldrich-rockefeller/on-art-i-believe-that-it-not-only-enriches-the-spiritual-life-but/)

[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abby-aldrich-rockefeller/)

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> [“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eva-hope/she-was-painfully-shy-but-physically-she-was-brave-to-a-surprising/)

[Eva Hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eva-hope/)

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> [Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/both-faith-and-terror-are-instruments-for-the-elimination-of/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

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> [“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/religion-invents-a-problem-where-none-exists-by-describing-the-wicked-2/)

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

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> [“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-shah/freedom-of-religion-has-both-private-and-public-dimensions-it-is-the/)

[Timothy Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-shah/)

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> [I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-rush/i-have-always-considered-christianity-as-the-strong-ground-of-2/)

[Benjamin Rush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-rush/)

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> [Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fearless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-w-stewart/possess-the-spirit-of-independence-the-americans-do-and-why-should/)

[Maria W. Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-w-stewart/)

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> [Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dieter-f-uchtdorf/looking-back-i-am-grateful-for-so-many-friends-who-helped-me-in-my/)

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

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> [The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-door-of-faith-acts-14-27-is-always-open-for-us-ushering-us-into/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [“Joseph Campbell, the renowned scholar of religion and mythology, eloquently summed up, “This is it. This is Eden. When you see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-robinson/joseph-campbell-the-renowned-scholar-of-religion-and-mythology/)

[John C. Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-robinson/)

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> [Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-stryker/yoga-s-supreme-objective-is-to-awaken-an-exalted-state-of-spiritual/)

[Rod Stryker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-stryker/)

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> [The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-frederic-amiel/the-spirit-of-sarcasm-lives-and-thrives-in-the-midst-of-universal/)

[Henri Frederic Amiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-frederic-amiel/)

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> [I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/radhanath-swami/i-came-to-the-conclusion-that-unless-i-found-myself-and-became-the/)

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

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> [Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-lloyd-wright/entering-into-the-spirit-of-this-interior-you-will-discover-the-best/)

[Frank Lloyd Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-lloyd-wright/)

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> [The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/the-divine-was-expansive-but-religion-was-reductive-religion/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/hope-is-not-attached-to-outcomes-but-is-a-state-of-mind-as-vaclav/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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                        "text": "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.",
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                        "text": "The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching it down below, while feeling comfortable. They experience the feeling of being in a spiritual body that appears to be a sort of living energy field.",
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                        "text": "One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.",
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                        "text": "The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.",
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                        "text": "“We have talked about the manner and mode of preaching, but contextualization also has much to do with the content. A sermon could be unengaging to a person because, though expressing accurate biblical truth, it does not connect biblical teaching to the main objections and questions people in that culture have about faith.”",
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                        "text": "As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the \"human religious ideal\" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the \"christian religious ideal\".",
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                        "text": "“This is the perfect time to discuss the common deception that, “Everything God does must be found in Scripture.” I understand the good intention behind this belief—trying to protect oneself from being deceived by making sure that everything must be found in Scripture. But by believing everything must be found in Scripture, you can actually find yourself falling into deception and limiting what God can do through your own life. It is absurd to think that the God of all the universe and creation can be limited in His performance and deeds to one small, carved-out section of eternity compiled into one book. The Bible, on the other hand, is by all means the complete and all-sufficient source for salvation and walking out a relationship with God. But if you’re going to actually fall under the limited, deceptive mindset that everything God has done and will ever do by supernatural performance must be already recorded in Scripture, you are sadly mistaken, my friend. The”",
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                        "text": "Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.",
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                        "text": "Searching, pondering, and applying the words of Christ as taught in the scriptures will bring wisdom and knowledge beyond our mortal understanding. This will strengthen our commitment and provide the spiritual reserves to do our best in all situations.",
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                        "text": "“We can believe in hierarchy. We can believe the universe was made just for us. Hierarchy and a major sense of entitlement are not insurmountable problems. The problem occurs when we treat those whom we believe lie beneath us as slaves. Religion once sustained human slavery. It was wrong then. When it blindly sanctions the slavery of every nonhuman animal, it is wrong now.”",
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                        "text": "But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.",
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                        "text": "“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if it hardly moved at all Inch by inch thinly peeping Round on the pious figures of freestone, brought And poised there when the Universe was wrought To serve its centre, Earth, in mankind’s thought. The lunar look skimmed scantly toe, breast, arm, Then edged on slowly, slightly, To shoulder, hand, face; till each austere form Was blanched its whole length brightly Of prophet, king, queen, cardinal in state, That dead men’s tools had striven to simulate; And the stiff images stood irradiate. A frail moan from the martyred saints there set Mid others of the erection Against the breeze, seemed sighings of regret At the ancient faith’s rejection Under the sure, unhasting, steady stress Of Reason’s movement, making meaningless.”",
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                        "text": "“Beginning with the Psalms and continuing with Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews, Luther dug into Scripture, and it was these years of study, exegesis, writing, teaching, and preaching that formed the foundation of his theology—a theology that not only informed the Ninety-five Theses and his belief in salvation through grace alone, but also saved Luther from his own spiritual despair.”",
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                        "text": "“It is not that someday Jesus will do this, that, and the other thing, and then the Kingdom will come. It is not, for example, that at some future date the dead will rise or that in some distant consummation we will reign with him. Rather, it is that we have already been buried with him in baptism, and that we are already risen with him through faith in the operation of God who raised him from the dead, and that we are now - in this and every moment - enthroned together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”",
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                        "text": "The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.",
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                        "text": "[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.",
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                        "text": "“She was painfully shy, but physically she was brave to a surprising degree. She loved few persons, but those few with a passion of self-sacrificing tenderness and devotion. To other people's failings she was understanding and forgiving, but over herself she kept a continual and most austere watch, never allowing herself to deviate for one instant from what she considered her duty. (On Emily Bronte)”",
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                        "text": "Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.",
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                        "text": "“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows of like mind and heart in the private practices of faith. But it is also the freedom to bear witness to one’s beliefs and commitments, to be visibly religious in public life, to associate freely on the basis of religion and peacefully to encounter others with differing views on a basis of equality. It is the freedom to organize and act politically, to vote, to make arguments about public policy, and to legislate, on the basis of one’s religious beliefs, consistent with principles of universal justice toward others.”",
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                        "text": "“Joseph Campbell, the renowned scholar of religion and mythology, eloquently summed up, “This is it. This is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated. That is the end of the world. The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.”",
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