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> [Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hazrat-inayat-khan/love-is-the-essence-of-all-religion-mysticism-and-philosophy-and-for/)

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

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> [“While the system of institutional churches of various stripes has been well established, the recovery of the independent assembly in homes, house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hon/while-the-system-of-institutional-churches-of-various-stripes-has/)

[Henry Hon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-hon/)

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> [Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-cameron/writing-is-a-spiritual-practice-in-that-people-that-have-no-spiritual/)

[Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-cameron/)

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> [If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-white/if-there-is-any-one-message-the-bible-delivers-it-is-the-message-that/)

[Mel White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-white/)

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> [By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/by-opening-our-lives-to-god-in-christ-we-become-new-creatures-this/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-bellow/the-physical-body-is-an-agent-of-the-spirit-and-its-mirror-it-is-an/)

[Saul Bellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-bellow/)

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> [We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-need-jesus-like-we-need-oxygen-like-we-need-water-like-the-branch/)

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

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> [We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-were-a-religious-practicing-catholic-family-mass-together-on/)

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

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> [“Religion is man's way of accepting life as an inevitable defeat. That it is not an inevitable defeat is a claim that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leszek-kolakowski/religion-is-man-s-way-of-accepting-life-as-an-inevitable-defeat-that/)

[Leszek Kolakowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leszek-kolakowski/)

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> [“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/there-is-a-sense-in-which-all-cognition-can-be-said-to-be-motivated/)

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

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> [Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-teasdale/life-has-loveliness-to-sell-all-beautiful-and-splendid-things-blue/)

[Sara Teasdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-teasdale/)

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> [“The established religions no longer ask fundamental questions about our identity and our reason for living. Instead, they concentrate purely on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-established-religions-no-longer-ask-fundamental-questions-about/)

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

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> [“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-wiman/when-i-think-of-the-years-when-i-had-no-faith-what-i-am-struck-by/)

[Christian Wiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-wiman/)

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> [We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/we-are-convinced-that-all-of-our-race-who-die-in-infancy-partake-in/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutional ized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/our-spirit-is-back-but-we-haven-t-reinstitutional-ized-it-we-ve-got/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/religious-faith-is-a-state-of-mind-that-leads-people-to-believe-in/)

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

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> [“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-hauerwas/mainline-american-protestantism-as-is-often-the-case-plodded-wearily/)

[Stanley Hauerwas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-hauerwas/)

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> [“The mind’s preoccupation with things of space affects, to this day, all activities of man. Even religions are frequently dominated by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-joshua-heschel/the-mind-s-preoccupation-with-things-of-space-affects-to-this-day-all/)

[Abraham Joshua Heschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-joshua-heschel/)

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> [Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hu-shih/another-important-historical-factor-is-the-fact-that-this-already/)

[Hu Shih](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hu-shih/)

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> [“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/many-a-modern-preacher-is-far-less-concerned-with-preaching-christ/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/the-scriptures-present-a-god-who-delights-in-genocide-rape-slavery/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/let-us-consider-the-actual-worldly-jew-not-the-sabbath-jew-as-bauer/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [“Christ paints the Father in the most beautiful of hues!  According to Jesus, He is a God who is delighted at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-turner/christ-paints-the-father-in-the-most-beautiful-of-hues-according-to/)

[Jeff Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-turner/)

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> [Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/strange-a-god-who-mouths-golden-rules-and-forgiveness-then-invented/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/the-gospel-is-not-a-book-it-is-a-living-being-with-an-action-a-power/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-l-alder/religion-asks-followers-to-believe-in-things-nobody-can-see-however/)

[Shannon L. Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-l-alder/)

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> [Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rich-mullins/christianity-is-not-about-building-an-absolutely-secure-little-niche/)

[Rich Mullins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rich-mullins/)

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> [“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/your-question-is-the-most-difficult-in-the-world-it-is-not-a-question/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Not all souls are the same. Some rivers flow quietly between their banks; others overflow. There exist choice souls, whose love of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wurmbrand/not-all-souls-are-the-same-some-rivers-flow-quietly-between-their/)

[Richard Wurmbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wurmbrand/)

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> [“Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/soul-is-not-even-that-crackerjack-prize-that-god-and-satan-scuffle/)

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

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> [We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-lapin/we-really-have-no-choice-but-to-pray-and-encourage-a-return-to-an/)

[Daniel Lapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-lapin/)

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> [“Finally, it is wrong to say that "nothing" is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-a-mathison/finally-it-is-wrong-to-say-that-nothing-is-more-basic-to-the-identity/)

[Keith A. Mathison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-a-mathison/)

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> [Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-wittes/political-as-well-as-religious-cults-can-be-distinguished-from/)

[Benjamin Wittes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-wittes/)

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> [“when God sent Jesus, he agreed to go.  He humbly submitted to his Father and agreed to come into this world for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-god-sent-jesus-he-agreed-to-go-he-humbly-submitted-to-his-father/)

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

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> [It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/it-seems-to-me-quite-disastrous-that-the-idea-should-have-got-about/)

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

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> [“The idea, popular in Orthodox apologetics, that the Church can have no visible head, because Christ is her invisible head, is theological…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-k-ray/the-idea-popular-in-orthodox-apologetics-that-the-church-can-have-no/)

[Stephen K. Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-k-ray/)

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> [“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/no-i-d-better-not-speak-of-it-it-s-a-secret-for-me-alone-of-vital/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“Medicine, and Law, and Philosophy - You've worked your way through every school, Even, God help you, Theology, And sweated at it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/medicine-and-law-and-philosophy-you-ve-worked-your-way-through-every/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [“It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor \[Charles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/it-is-an-observation-suggested-by-all-history-and-by-none-more-than/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garrison-keillor/we-have-nearly-complete-misunderstanding-between-people-of-different/)

[Garrison Keillor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garrison-keillor/)

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                        "text": "By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.",
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                        "text": "We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.",
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                        "text": "We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.",
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                        "text": "“Religion is man's way of accepting life as an inevitable defeat. That it is not an inevitable defeat is a claim that cannot be defended in good faith. One can, of course, disperse one's life over the contingencies of every day, but even then it is only a ceaseless and desperate desire to live, and finally a regret that one has not lived. One can accept life, and accept it, at the same time, as a defeat only if one accepts that there is a sense beyond that which is inherent in human history -- if, in other words, one accepts the order of the sacred. A hypothetical world from which the sacred had been swept away would admit of only two possibilities: vain fantasy that recognizes itself as such, or immediate satisfaction which exhausts itself. It would leave only the choice proposed by Baudelaire, between lovers of prostitutes and lovers of clouds: those who know only the satisfactions of the moment and are therefore contemptible, and those who lose themselves in otiose imaginings , and are therefore contemptible. Everything is contemptible, and there is no more to be said. The conscience liberated from the sacred knows this, even if it conceals it from itself.”",
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                        "text": "“There is a sense in which all cognition can be said to be motivated. One is motivated to understand the world, to be in touch with reality, to remove doubt, etc. Alternately one might say that motivation is an aspect of cognition itself. Nevertheless, motives like wanting to find the truth, not wanting to be mistaken, etc., tend to align with epistemic goals in a way that many other commitments do not. As we have begun to see, all reasoning may be inextricable from emotion. But if a person's primary motivation in holding a belief is to hue to a positive state of mind, to mitigate feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, or guilt for instance. This is precisely what we mean by phrases like \"wishful thinking\", and \"self-deception\". Such a person will of necessity be less responsive to valid chains of evidence and argument that run counter to the beliefs he is seeking to maintain. To point out non-epistemic motives in an others view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt on a persons connection to the world as it is.”",
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                        "text": "Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.",
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                        "text": "“The established religions no longer ask fundamental questions about our identity and our reason for living. Instead, they concentrate purely on a series of dogmas and rules concerned only with fitting in with a particular social and political organization. People in search of real spirituality are, therefore, setting off in new directions, and that inevitably means a return to the past and to primitive religions, before those religions were contaminated by the structures of power.”",
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                        "text": "“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tide of tiny vanities — a publication, a flirtation, a strong case made for some weak nihilism — nights all adagios and alcohol as my mind tore luxuriously into itself. I can see now how deeply God’s absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-live at once protected me from and subjected me to. Was the fall into belief or into unbelief? Both. For if grace woke me to God’s presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”",
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                        "text": "We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved.",
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                        "text": "Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutional ized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -- freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection.",
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                        "text": "“Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in a decaying mansion on the edge of town, bankrupt and penniless, house decaying around her but acting as if her family still controlled the city, our theologians and church leaders continued to think and act as if we were in charge, as if the old arrangements were still valid.”",
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                        "text": "“Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy.”",
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                        "text": "“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.”",
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                        "text": "Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.",
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                        "text": "“Christ paints the Father in the most beautiful of hues!  According to Jesus, He is a God who is delighted at the sight of little children, goes out of His way to converse with the marginalized, turns water into wine to keep the party going, and who brushes aside religious laws in the name of showing mercy to sinners.  He pardons the adulterous without being asked, takes tax collectors as His disciples, and dines with scam artists and traitors.  He places His disciples’ wellbeing above the sacred nature of the Sabbath, brings healing to His nation’s foreign occupiers, and assures us that violence is never the way that God solves His problems. ”",
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                        "text": "Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!",
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                        "text": "The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.",
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                        "text": "“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When Christian animal and environmental activists finally demand that their church be better stewards over the world, we will see change. Until then, one percent of sermons will teach parishioners about the importance of being stewards over our animals in a year. Mega churches and corporate religious empires will continue to own stock in companies that pollute our earth and exploit our animals. Ignorance and hypocrisy will continue to corrupt the pureness of the Gospel. From here, we will not be truly “saved” because we choose not to save ourselves.”",
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                        "text": "Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.",
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                        "text": "“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.”",
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                        "text": "“Not all souls are the same. Some rivers flow quietly between their banks; others overflow. There exist choice souls, whose love of God cannot be confi ned to the narrow limits of what is considered a normal faith. Their cup runs over. Their love of God burns. Solomon’s Song answers to the desires of such hearts.”",
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                        "text": "“Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's why, when we ponder--as sooner or later each of us must--exactly what we ought to be doing about our soul, religion is the wrong, if conventional, place to turn. Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort--the old give-it-up-in-order-to-save-it routine. Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire theft. They are mistaken.”",
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                        "text": "It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.",
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                        "text": "“The idea, popular in Orthodox apologetics, that the Church can have no visible head, because Christ is her invisible head, is theological nonsense. If applied consistently, it should also eliminate the necessity for the visible head of each local church, i.e. , the bishop.”",
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                        "text": "“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be put into words. This new feeling has not changed me, has not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden as I dreamed. Just like the feeling for my child, there was no surprise in this either. Faith—or not faith—I don't know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root in my soul. I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly. There will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife. I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it. I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying. But my life now—my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me—every minute of it—is no more meaningless as it was before, but has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.”",
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                        "text": "“Medicine, and Law, and Philosophy - You've worked your way through every school, Even, God help you, Theology, And sweated at it like a fool. Why labour at it any more? You're no wiser now than you were before. You're Master of Arts, and Doctor too, And for ten years all you've been able to do Is lead your students a fearful dance Through a maze of error and ignorance. And all this misery goes to show There's nothing we can ever know. Oh yes you're brighter than all those relics, Professors and Doctors, scribblers and clerics, No doubts or scruples to trouble you, Defying hell, and the Devil too. But there's no joy in self-delusion; Your search for truth ends in confusion. Don't imagine your teaching will ever raise The minds of men or change their ways. And as for worldly wealth, you have none - What honour or glory have you won? A dog could stand this life no more. And so I've turned to magic lore; The spirit message of this art Some secret knowledge might impart. No longer shall I sweat to teach What always lay beyond my reach; I'll know what makes the world revolve, Its mysteries resolve, No more in empty words I'll deal - Creation's wellsprings I'll reveal!”",
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                        "text": "We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.",
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