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> [I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maysoon-zayid/i-think-religion-is-very-personal-i-definitely-identify-as-muslim-i/)

[Maysoon Zayid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maysoon-zayid/)

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> [An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/an-unexamined-faith-is-not-worth-having-for-fundamentalism-and/)

[Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/)

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> [“Pundits and politicians have rightly questioned whether conservatism can successfully appeal to secular Americans. It is not a certainty, however, that conservatism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-hawley/pundits-and-politicians-have-rightly-questioned-whether-conservatism/)

[George Hawley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-hawley/)

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> [Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-graham/rather-than-seeking-to-stem-the-tide-our-educators-politicians-and/)

[Franklin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-graham/)

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> [“As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/birute-m-f-galdikas/as-i-sit-my-back-leaning-against-a-damp-moss-covered-tree-trunk-my/)

[Birute M.F. Galdikas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/birute-m-f-galdikas/)

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> [Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kami-garcia/blood-of-my-heart-protection-is-thine-life-of-my-life-taking-yours/)

[Kami Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kami-garcia/)

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> [Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-taft-benson/youth-is-the-spirit-of-adventure-and-awakening-it-is-a-time-of/)

[Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-taft-benson/)

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> [“As a concerned American colleague writes to me: 'Europeans need to know there is a traveling theo-freak show which actually advocates reinstatement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/as-a-concerned-american-colleague-writes-to-me-europeans-need-to-know/)

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

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> [Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-w-kimball/undaunted-faith-can-stop-the-mouths-of-lions-make-ineffective-the/)

[Spencer W. Kimball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-w-kimball/)

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> [In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-maxwell/in-my-leadership-conferences-pastors-ask-do-you-have-a-vision-for-my/)

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

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> [“while popularity is a snare that few are not caught by, a more subtle and dangerous snare is to be famed for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bonar-andrew-a/while-popularity-is-a-snare-that-few-are-not-caught-by-a-more-subtle/)

[Bonar, Andrew A](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bonar-andrew-a/)

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> [Only he who is capable of a genuine encounter with the other is capable of an authentic encounter with himself, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-hadot/only-he-who-is-capable-of-a-genuine-encounter-with-the-other-is/)

[Pierre Hadot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-hadot/)

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> [“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-g-riddle/science-lacks-something-very-important-that-religion-provides-a-moral/)

[A.G. Riddle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-g-riddle/)

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> [“Ava never used the phrase “have a dog.” A relationship with a dog was a mutual one, with no ownership. Most human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-maynard/ava-never-used-the-phrase-have-a-dog-a-relationship-with-a-dog-was-a/)

[Joyce Maynard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-maynard/)

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> [“The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-whole-point-of-seeing-through-something-is-to-see-something/)

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

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> [“ 'Shoot the wounded ... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-dove/shoot-the-wounded-what-we-do-to-people-who-are-the-most-vulnerable-we/)

[Lynn Dove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-dove/)

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> [Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-f-schulz/religion-that-is-imposed-upon-its-recipients-turns-out-to-engender/)

[William F. Schulz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-f-schulz/)

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> [“In conclusion, those who, like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/his-holiness-the-dalai-lama/in-conclusion-those-who-like-myself-consider-themselves-to-be/)

[His Holiness the Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/his-holiness-the-dalai-lama/)

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> [Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-bondfield/broadly-speaking-i-learned-to-recognize-sin-as-the-refusal-to-live-up/)

[Margaret Bondfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-bondfield/)

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> [Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/jesus-didn-t-do-it-all-jesus-didn-t-meet-every-need-he-left-people/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-muller/the-world-s-major-religions-in-the-end-all-want-the-same-thing-even/)

[Robert Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-muller/)

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> [“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-masudi/the-sciences-were-financially-supported-honoured-everywhere/)

[Al Masudi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-masudi/)

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> [“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-mccormick/1-myth-without-god-life-has-no-meaning-there-are-1-2-billion-chinese/)

[Matt McCormick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-mccormick/)

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> [Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/let-reverence-for-the-laws-be-breathed-by-every-american-mother-to/)

[Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/)

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> [“I, myself, searched for Sham-bha-la for eleven years. I am perhaps a little wiser than I was, but it may be I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/talbot-mundy/i-myself-searched-for-sham-bha-la-for-eleven-years-i-am-perhaps-a/)

[Talbot Mundy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/talbot-mundy/)

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> [The media challenged me. 'You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-roberts/the-media-challenged-me-you-re-not-going-to-bring-atheists-into-the/)

[Pat Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-roberts/)

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> [“if he had said otherwise. To admit that a thermonuclear catastrophe would be the end of civilization and of the biosphere would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/if-he-had-said-otherwise-to-admit-that-a-thermonuclear-catastrophe/)

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

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> [I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pedro-sanchez/i-am-an-atheist-and-i-believe-that-religion-should-not-be-in-the/)

[Pedro Sanchez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pedro-sanchez/)

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> [“The will of God is revealed as you listen to the Spirit of God in the Word of God. The precepts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archie-parrish/the-will-of-god-is-revealed-as-you-listen-to-the-spirit-of-god-in-the/)

[Archie Parrish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archie-parrish/)

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> [“teach them how to know God." "Why?" "So that they will be saved. Because it was Christ's command that His disciples should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-livingston-hill/teach-them-how-to-know-god-why-so-that-they-will-be-saved-because-it/)

[Grace Livingston Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-livingston-hill/)

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> [It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-william-robertson/it-is-not-the-number-of-books-you-read-nor-the-variety-of-sermons/)

[Frederick William Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-william-robertson/)

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> [The cross, back in the days of Jesus, was the worst punishment a criminal could get. Being on a cross is shameful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angel-of-god/the-cross-back-in-the-days-of-jesus-was-the-worst-punishment-a/)

[Angel\_of\_God](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angel-of-god/)

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> [“Yes indeed, both Muslim and Jewish!I, her father, am Muslim, at least on paper; her mother is Jewish, at least in theory.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amin-maalouf/yes-indeed-both-muslim-and-jewish-i-her-father-am-muslim-at-least-on/)

[Amin Maalouf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amin-maalouf/)

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> [So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-gompers/so-long-as-we-have-held-fast-to-voluntary-principles-and-have-been/)

[Samuel Gompers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-gompers/)

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> [Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. There are so many religions because immature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peace-pilgrim/religion-is-not-an-end-in-itself-one-s-union-with-god-is-the-ultimate/)

[Peace Pilgrim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peace-pilgrim/)

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> [“In the new covenant, God is calling forth a spiritual nation made up of Jews and Gentiles, and all of them are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-washer/in-the-new-covenant-god-is-calling-forth-a-spiritual-nation-made-up/)

[Paul Washer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-washer/)

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> [Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/nothing-guarantees-that-reasonable-people-will-agree-about-everything/)

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

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> [If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-look-at-indian-society-it-s-a-society-made-up-of-minorities/)

[Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/)

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> [Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/spirituality-is-the-sacred-center-out-of-which-all-life-comes/)

[Christina Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-baldwin/)

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> [“The will of life and death, never share the same motivation... we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/unauthor/the-will-of-life-and-death-never-share-the-same-motivation-we-all/)

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                        "text": "“In conclusion, those who, like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other religious traditions, I would like to say, ‘Please practice your own religion seriously and sincerely.’ And to non-believers, I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness. As I have mentioned before, taking care of others actually benefits you. Continuing on this path, you will also begin to appreciate the value of human life, how precious it is, and the fact that as human beings we are capable of reflecting on these questions and following a spiritual practice. Then you will really appreciate a point emphasized again and again by many great Tibetan masters: that we should not waste the opportunity offered to us in this life, because human life is so precious and so difficult to achieve. As life is valuable it is important to do something meaningful with it right now, since, by its very nature, it is also transient. This shows how you can bring all the elements of the various spiritual practices together so that they have a cumulative effect on your daily practice.”",
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                        "text": "Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.",
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                        "text": "Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.",
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                        "text": "The world's major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet.",
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                        "text": "“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.”",
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                        "text": "“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people in India who are predominantly Hindu. And 65% of Japan's 127 million people claim to be non-believers. It is laughable to suggest that none of these billions of people are leading meaningful lives. 2. Myth: Prayer works. Studies have now shown that inter-cessionary prayer has no effect whatsoever of the health or well-being of the subject. 3. Myth: Atheists are immoral. There are hundreds of millions of non-believers on the planet living normal, decent, moral lives. They love their children, care about others, obey laws, and try to keep from doing harm to others just like everyone else. In fact, in predominantly non-believing countries such as in northern Europe, measures of societal health such as life expectancy at birth, adult literacy, per capita income, education, homicide, suicide, gender equality, and political coercion are better than they are in believing societies. 4. Myth: Belief in God is compatible with science. In the past, every supernatural or paranormal explanation of phenomena that humans believed turned out to be mistaken; science has always found a physical explanation that revealed that the supernatural view was a myth. Modern organisms evolved from lower life forms, they weren't created 6,000 years ago in the finished state. Fever is not caused by demon possession. Bad weather is not the wrath of angry gods. Miracle claims have turned out to be mistakes, frauds, or deceptions. We have every reason to conclude that science will continue to undermine the superstitious worldview of religion. 5. Myth: We have immortal souls that survive death. We have mountains of evidence that makes it clear that our consciousness, our beliefs, our desires, our thoughts all depend upon the proper functioning of our brains our nervous systems to exist. So when the brain dies, all of these things that we identify with the soul also cease to exist. Despite the fact that billions of people have lived and died on this planet, we do not have a single credible case of someone's soul, or consciousness, or personality continuing to exist despite the demise of their bodies. 6. Myth: If there is no God, everything is permitted. Consider the billions of people in China, India, and Japan above. If this claim was true, none of them would be decent moral people. So Ghandi, the Buddha, and Confucius, to name only a few were not moral people on this view. 7. Myth: Believing in God is not a cause of evil. The examples of cases where it was someone's belief in God that was the justification for their evils on humankind are too numerous to mention. 8. Myth: God explains the origins of the universe. All of the questions that allegedly plague non-God attempts to explain our origins still apply to the faux explanation of God. The suggestion that God created everything does not make it any clearer to us where it all came from, how he created it, why he created it, where it is all going. In fact, it raises even more difficult mysteries: how did God, operating outside the confines of space, time, and natural law 'create' or 'build' a universe that has physical laws? We have no precedent and maybe no hope of answering or understanding such a possibility. What does it mean to say that some disembodied, spiritual being who knows everything and has all power, 'loves' us, or has thoughts, or goals, or plans? 9. Myth: There's no harm in believing in God. Religious views inform voting, how they raise their children, what they think is moral and immoral, what laws and legislation they pass, who they are friends and enemies with, what companies they invest in, where they donate to charities, who they approve and disapprove of, who they are willing to kill or tolerate, what crimes they are willing to commit, and which wars they are willing to fight.”",
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                        "text": "Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.",
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                        "text": "“I, myself, searched for Sham-bha-la for eleven years. I am perhaps a little wiser than I was, but it may be I am only lazy and afraid. At any rate, it seems to me a waste of energy to try to learn what is beyond my understanding. I don't even understand my own religion. How shall I understand that of individuals whose thinking is said to comprehend all religions and philosophies and all the problems of the human race?”",
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                        "text": "The media challenged me. 'You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, 'Yes, they are.'",
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                        "text": "“if he had said otherwise. To admit that a thermonuclear catastrophe would be the end of civilization and of the biosphere would be, in religious terms, profane and defeatist. All religions must, at their core, look forward to the end of this world and”",
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                        "text": "I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.",
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                        "text": "“The will of God is revealed as you listen to the Spirit of God in the Word of God. The precepts and promises of the Bible teach us what to pray. They teach us what grace to ask for and for what work we need strength. On every page of the Bible there is subject matter for prayer. B. F. Westcott, a renowned nineteenth-century English Bible scholar, observed: “The petitions of true disciples are echoes (so to speak) of Christ’s words. As He has spoken so they speak. Their prayer is only some fragment of His teaching transformed into a supplication, and so it will necessarily be heard.”[50]   One way to pray more effectively is to echo God’s Word back to Him as you pray. We align our hearts with His heart as we pray His Words from our hearts.”",
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