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> [“From the earliest days of Unitarianism and Universalism, these traditions have advocated for the compatibility of science and religion. Both traditions encourage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-w-harris/from-the-earliest-days-of-unitarianism-and-universalism-these/)

[Mark W. Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-w-harris/)

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> [The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-larcom/the-religion-of-our-fathers-overhung-us-children-like-the-shadow-of-a/)

[Lucy Larcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-larcom/)

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> [In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-verghese/in-america-we-have-always-taken-it-as-an-article-of-faith-that-we/)

[Abraham Verghese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-verghese/)

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> [The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evagrius-ponticus/the-holy-spirit-out-of-compassion-for-our-weakness-comes-to-us-even/)

[Evagrius Ponticus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evagrius-ponticus/)

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> [“It seems to me that few people walk their ways with deliberation, stopping every so often to delight in the seasons and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faith-baldwin/it-seems-to-me-that-few-people-walk-their-ways-with-deliberation/)

[Faith Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faith-baldwin/)

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> [“Only when Clark Nichols was not in the shop did the boys argue religion. Or at night up in the attic where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-wellman/only-when-clark-nichols-was-not-in-the-shop-did-the-boys-argue/)

[Sam Wellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-wellman/)

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> [“They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-khoury/they-don-t-understand-that-religion-and-science-are-there-to-serve/)

[Raymond Khoury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-khoury/)

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> [Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-heindel/music-is-intangible-and-ephemeral-but-it-comes-from-the-home-world-of/)

[Max Heindel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-heindel/)

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> [Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/jesus-lost-all-his-glory-so-that-we-could-be-clothed-in-it-he-was/)

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

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> [“Over one million people died in the orgy of religious killing that attended the partitioning of India and Pakistan. The two countries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/over-one-million-people-died-in-the-orgy-of-religious-killing-that/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-buechner/i-don-t-want-to-give-the-impression-that-i-m-a-great-bible-reader-i/)

[Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-buechner/)

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> [You can describe Christianity and you can also describe liberalism. Christianity has certain beliefs, tenets, doctrines. Not all Christians are always living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-coulter/you-can-describe-christianity-and-you-can-also-describe-liberalism/)

[Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-coulter/)

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> [These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-besen/these-ministries-have-merged-pseudo-science-with-religious-beliefs-to/)

[Wayne Besen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-besen/)

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> [If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/if-any-want-to-become-my-followers-jesus-says-following-him-is-not/)

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

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> [“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-lewis/you-are-to-make-up-your-mind-whether-it-is-to-be-god-or-man-whether/)

[Joseph Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-lewis/)

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> [Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/jesus-didn-t-really-die-someone-gave-him-a-long-drug-that-made-him/)

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

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> [Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/any-time-scientists-disagree-it-s-because-we-have-insufficient-data/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [“A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many writers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/a-saving-grace-of-the-human-condition-if-i-may-phrase-it-like-that-is/)

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

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> [Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/faith-was-intended-precisely-for-the-simple-but-the-quest-for/)

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

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> [I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-stuart/i-want-your-innocence-i-want-your-blind-unquestioning-devotion-to/)

[Anne Stuart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-stuart/)

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> [“There is no religion There is no reality or lack of reality There is no start or finish There is no me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-vai/there-is-no-religion-there-is-no-reality-or-lack-of-reality-there-is/)

[Steve Vai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-vai/)

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> [“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-schwalbe/but-the-thing-that-made-it-most-interesting-is-what-it-had-to-say/)

[Will Schwalbe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-schwalbe/)

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> [“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/tradition-means-giving-votes-to-the-most-obscure-of-all-classes-our/)

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

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> [My politics, and my religion as well, are based entirely on the loveliness and value of ordinary human lives. The creaky apparatus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/my-politics-and-my-religion-as-well-are-based-entirely-on-the/)

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

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> [“In short the problem is this: far too few who believe in the risen Christ actually believe in his revolutionary ideas. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-zahnd/in-short-the-problem-is-this-far-too-few-who-believe-in-the-risen/)

[Brian Zahnd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-zahnd/)

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> [“In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/in-religion-and-politics-on-the-contrary-though-there-is-as-yet/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brent-weeks/if-reality-is-hard-and-flat-and-unjust-then-it-s-better-to-adjust-to/)

[Brent Weeks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brent-weeks/)

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> [“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-wood/all-this-has-been-happening-around-them-all-the-days-of-their-lives/)

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

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> [Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-cabot/treasured-pagan-deities-were-misrepresented-and-distorted-by-the/)

[Laurie Cabot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-cabot/)

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> [The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-pius-xii/the-good-of-our-soul-is-more-important-than-that-of-our-body-and-we/)

[Pope Pius XII](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-pius-xii/)

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> [read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-e-richards/read-the-bible-to-the-children-until-they-are-old-enough-to-read-for/)

[Laura E. Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-e-richards/)

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> [My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bj-rn-ulvaeus/my-concern-is-to-keep-religion-and-the-state-separated-i-don-t-think/)

[Bjorn Ulvaeus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bj-rn-ulvaeus/)

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> [Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the world. Bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-j-duarte-bernhardt/good-religion-teaches-us-about-a-good-god-and-encourages-us-to-be/)

[Harold J Duarte-Bernhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-j-duarte-bernhardt/)

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> [My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/my-family-frankly-they-weren-t-folks-who-went-to-church-every-week-my/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/savo-heleta/i-realize-that-what-happened-in-bosnia-could-happen-anywhere-in-the/)

[Savo Heleta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/savo-heleta/)

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> [The saying goes, 'The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.' This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zhuangzi/the-saying-goes-the-sage-rests-truly-rests-and-is-at-ease-this/)

[Zhuangzi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zhuangzi/)

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> [Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-chua/genghis-khan-decreed-religious-tolerance-for-all-of-his-conquered/)

[Amy Chua](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-chua/)

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> [...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-b-ringger/rise-above-selfishness-this-includes-spiritual-selfishness-when-one/)

[Hans B. Ringger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-b-ringger/)

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> [The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/the-intellectual-content-of-religions-has-always-finally-adapted/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/to-sum-up-1-the-cosmos-is-a-gigantic-fly-wheel-making-10-000/)

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

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                        "text": "Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.",
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                        "text": "“Over one million people died in the orgy of religious killing that attended the partitioning of India and Pakistan. The two countries have since fought three official wars, suffered a continuous bloodletting at their shared border, and are now poised to exterminate one another with nuclear weapons simply because they disagree about \"facts\" that are every bit as fanciful as the names of Santa's reindeer. And their discourse is such that they are capable of mustering a suicidal level of enthusiasm for these subjects without evidence.”",
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                        "text": "I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.",
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                        "text": "I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.",
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                        "text": "“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks shows that every great religion shares a love of books, of reading, of knowledge. The individual books may be different, but reverence for books is what we all have in common. Books are what bring all the different people in the novel together, Muslims and Jews and Christians. That’s why everyone in the book goes to such lengths to save this one book—one book stands for all books. When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.”",
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                        "text": "...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith… But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.",
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