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> [It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-hogan/it-has-seemed-so-strange-to-me-that-the-larger-culture-with-its-own/)

[Linda Hogan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-hogan/)

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> [There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/there-is-a-need-to-go-deeper-to-let-myself-go-completely-to-enter/)

[Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/)

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> [The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-hill/the-fact-that-president-elect-kennedy-would-be-the-first-catholic/)

[Clint Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-hill/)

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> [O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-leigh-demoss/o-god-make-us-desperate-and-grant-us-faith-and-boldness-to-approach/)

[Nancy Leigh DeMoss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-leigh-demoss/)

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> [“All religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-szandor-lavey/all-religions-of-a-spiritual-nature-are-inventions-of-man-he-has-2/)

[Anton Szandor LaVey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-szandor-lavey/)

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> [“Who am I? I am a warrior. My physical, emotional, and spiritual self revolves around being a warrior. I believe war is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-scott-tyson/who-am-i-i-am-a-warrior-my-physical-emotional-and-spiritual-self/)

Ann Scott Tyson

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> [I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/i-have-to-learn-that-the-aim-in-life-is-god-s-not-mine-god-is-using-2/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [“all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/all-the-operations-of-capitalism-were-as-meaningless-to-him-as-the/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/some-of-the-greatest-spiritual-revivals-in-the-past-occurred-just/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [“Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn’t seem very noble to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-skinner/men-have-sacrificed-so-much-for-their-beliefs-country-kings-queens/)

[Dan Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-skinner/)

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> [In football there are lots of origins, cultures, religions and no one feels left out. We all play together and we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolas-anelka/in-football-there-are-lots-of-origins-cultures-religions-and-no-one/)

[Nicolas Anelka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolas-anelka/)

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> [Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-augustine/fasting-cleanses-the-soul-raises-the-mind-subjects-one-s-flesh-to-the/)

[Saint Augustine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-augustine/)

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> [Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/whatever-god-can-do-faith-can-do-and-whatever-faith-can-do-prayer-can/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/let-s-face-a-historical-truth-we-have-never-had-a-free-market-we-have/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/i-am-no-disbeliever-in-spiritual-purpose-and-no-vague-believer-i-see/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [ \[T\]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-wolfe/t-he-essence-of-belief-is-doubt-the-essence-of-reality-is-questioning/)

[Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-wolfe/)

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> [Acts of antisemitism move us backwards, further from our collective goals, and further from cultivating a community wherein everyone can feel as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamaal-bowman/acts-of-antisemitism-move-us-backwards-further-from-our-collective/)

[Jamaal Bowman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamaal-bowman/)

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> [“When the man touches through to the exact center of the woman, he lies motionless, in equilibrium, in absolute desire, at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galway-kinnell/when-the-man-touches-through-to-the-exact-center-of-the-woman-he-lies/)

[Galway Kinnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galway-kinnell/)

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> [“Allow me to sum it up this way; if the Church allows this secular humanistic "social gospel" into its hallowed halls, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/curtis-a-chamberlain/allow-me-to-sum-it-up-this-way-if-the-church-allows-this-secular/)

[Curtis A. Chamberlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/curtis-a-chamberlain/)

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> [Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-graham/lord-knows-and-we-both-know-that-too-many-wrongs-have-been-committed/)

[Heather Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-graham/)

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> [“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’26 between the free will and male dominant society or nobility27 or religion. If her conduct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lecturer-m-k-bhutta-scholar/the-tragedy-of-hetty-is-a-collide-26-between-the-free-will-and-male/)

Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar

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> [Something is amiss, deeply wrong, something is deeply wrong with the way we're living our lives collectively, with the way we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/something-is-amiss-deeply-wrong-something-is-deeply-wrong-with-the/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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> [In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/in-america-religious-dissent-is-as-vital-as-it-is-elusive-like-the/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

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> [I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corazon-aquino/i-guess-my-religious-faith-sustained-me-more-than-anything-else/)

[Corazon Aquino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corazon-aquino/)

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> [Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-sweet/old-lights-include-the-resurgent-fundamentalists-in-every-religion/)

[Leonard Sweet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-sweet/)

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> [“The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dragos-bratasanu-ph-d/the-knowledge-of-the-universe-is-not-secret-but-is-placed-in-the/)

[Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dragos-bratasanu-ph-d/)

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> [I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-brenneman/i-remember-when-we-had-to-pick-our-major-freshman-year-i-chose/)

[Amy Brenneman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-brenneman/)

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> [All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lecesne/all-of-us-regardless-of-how-we-identify-need-a-community-in-which-to/)

[James Lecesne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lecesne/)

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> [What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-campolo/what-is-especially-important-is-addressing-the-question-of-how/)

[Tony Campolo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-campolo/)

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> [I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/i-don-t-think-hell-exists-i-happen-to-believe-in-life-after-death-but/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/muslims-are-the-first-victims-of-islam-many-times-i-have-observed-in/)

[Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/)

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> [“Preaching with his whole heart, Whitefield was fully engaged in all that he said. That is why on one occasion he told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-j-lawson-2/preaching-with-his-whole-heart-whitefield-was-fully-engaged-in-all/)

[Steven J. Lawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-j-lawson-2/)

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> [As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/as-is-well-know-i-ah-regard-myself-as-a-religious-man-yet-i-belong-to/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

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> [“Before, Sazed had looked at the doctrines themselves. This time, he found himself studying the people who had believed, or what he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-sanderson/before-sazed-had-looked-at-the-doctrines-themselves-this-time-he/)

[Brandon Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandon-sanderson/)

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> [Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-kaminer/religions-of-course-have-their-own-demanding-intellectual-traditions/)

[Wendy Kaminer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-kaminer/)

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> [“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-loth-liebman/a-love-of-neighbor-manifests-itself-in-the-tolerance-not-only-of-2/)

[Joshua Loth Liebman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-loth-liebman/)

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> [The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/the-apostles-and-their-successors-are-god-s-vicars-in-governing-the/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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> [The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-office-of-reformer-of-the-superstitions-of-a-nation-is-ever-more/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [“By mobilizing relational ministry from how, by stopping only at Langmead's first aspect of incarnational mission (Jesus as a pattern for mission),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-root/by-mobilizing-relational-ministry-from-how-by-stopping-only-at/)

[Andrew Root](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-root/)

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> [When I dropped religion, when I broke that curse, doors really began to swing wide open for me and then I really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jared-cannonier/when-i-dropped-religion-when-i-broke-that-curse-doors-really-began-to/)

[Jared Cannonier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jared-cannonier/)

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                        "text": "O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.",
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                        "text": "“Who am I? I am a warrior. My physical, emotional, and spiritual self revolves around being a warrior. I believe war is a gift from God. . . . I am not a patriot or mercenary. I fight to fight. . . . I believe if you want to kill, you must be willing to die. I am willing to do both, whichever the situation calls for. I am a student of war and warriors. There will be no blood on my hands because I or my men were not prepared for battle. I will prepare for battle every single day. I will love my men as I love my own children. I will take my men places and show them things that they never believed possible. . . . I will give my life for them as readily as I kiss my children at night and put them to bed. I will be their protector and their avenger if necessary. I will always expect the impossible from them. . . . I believe in God but I do not ask for his protection in battle. I ask that I will be given the courage to die like a warrior. I pray for the safety of my men. And I pray for my enemies. I pray for a worthy enemy. . . . I believe in the wrathful god of combat. I believe in Hecate. The gods of war have received their sacrifices from me. . . . I have a huge ego. It feeds my daimon,” he said, referring to a tutelary spirit. “It is me and I am it. But I know it is there. Passion is power. Passion feeds my soul. I will seek passion out in others. . . . I am my children, my parents, my friends, my tribal family, the men I have gone into battle with, and my enemies. They reside in me. It is for them that I do battle. I want, need, and long for their acceptance. I want them to be proud of me. I will be loyal to being a warrior for all time. I will prepare a place in Valhalla for the warriors whose paths I have been blessed to cross. I will be with them in this life and the next. I am a warrior.”",
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                        "text": "I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache… He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.",
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                        "text": "“all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal. Shevek looked at this monstrous pettiness with contempt, and without interest.”",
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                        "text": "Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest.  In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.",
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                        "text": "“Men have sacrificed so much for their beliefs. Country. Kings. Queens. Political systems. God. Love . It doesn’t seem very noble to simply let something you believe in, someone you love, just walk away. To give up without a fight.”",
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                        "text": "In football there are lots of origins, cultures, religions and no one feels left out. We all play together and we are all friends. Supporters see that and feel part of the same family, especially in England where you feel very welcome.",
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                        "text": "Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.",
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                        "text": "Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women.",
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                        "text": "Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a \"free market\", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with \"big government\" when it served their needs.",
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                        "text": "I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.",
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                        "text": "Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that.",
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                        "text": "Something is amiss, deeply wrong, something is deeply wrong with the way we're living our lives collectively, with the way we are creating our collective experience on earth. And we are coming to the conclusion that the problem after all is not political, that the problem after all is not economic, that the problem after all cannot be solved with bombs or missiles or bullets, but that the problem in fact is spiritual, that the problem with the world today is as it has always been, a problem of our most basic beliefs. Without a doubt it's a spiritual awakening and a spiritual revolution.",
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                        "text": "In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.",
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                        "text": "I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.",
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                        "text": "Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the \"new dark age\" in which they are forced to live. \"Back to the Bible,\" Old Lights shout; \"back to the Koran,\" Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.",
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                        "text": "All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').",
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                        "text": "Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.",
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                        "text": "“Preaching with his whole heart, Whitefield was fully engaged in all that he said. That is why on one occasion he told his listeners, “I shall return home with a heavy heart, unless some of you will arise and come to my Jesus; I desire to preach Him and not myself; rest not in hearing and following me.”54 With that, he begged and pleaded with his listeners to believe upon Christ and be saved. It is this kind of passionate preaching that we need again in this present hour. We could certainly do with fewer stale, exegetical lectures in the pulpit. Save these for the classroom. We could do with fewer frivolous, lighthearted personalities in the pulpit. Instead, what is desperately needed in this day are more intensely urgent pleas and pressing appeals as exemplified by this gifted evangelist, George Whitefield.”",
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                        "text": "As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.",
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                        "text": "“Before, Sazed had looked at the doctrines themselves. This time, he found himself studying the people who had believed, or what he could find of them. As he read their words over again in his mind, he began to see something. The faiths he had looked at, they couldn't be divorced from the people who had adhered to them. In the abstract, those religions were stale. However, as he read the words of the people—really read them—he began to see patterns. Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them. What was it Spook said? Sazed thought, sitting in the shadowy kandra cavern. That faith was about trust. Trusting that somebody was watching. That somebody would make it all right in the end, even though things looked terrible at the moment. To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe. It was a conundrum, one Sazed had wrestled with. He wanted someone, something, to force him to have faith. He wanted to have to believe because of the proof shown to him. Yet, the believers whose words now filled his mind would have said he already had proof. Had he not, in his moment of despair, received an answer? As he had been about to give up, TenSoon had spoken. Sazed had begged for a sign, and received it. Was it chance? Was it providence? In the end, apparently, it was up to him to decide. He slowly returned the letters and journals to his metalminds, leaving his specific memory of them empty—yet retaining the feelings they had prompted in him. Which would he be? Believer or skeptic? At that moment, neither seemed a patently foolish path. I do want to believe, he thought. That's why I've spent so much time searching. I can't have it both ways. I simply have to decide. Which would it be? He sat for a few moments, thinking, feeling, and—most important—remembering. I sought help, Sazed thought. And something answered. Sazed smiled, and everything seemed a little bit brighter. Breeze was right, he thought, standing and organizing his things as he prepared to go. I was not meant to be an atheist. ”",
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                        "text": "Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the \"truths\" of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.",
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                        "text": "“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness. That is why creation is so manifold. So it is with us human beings. Some are born dynamic and restless; others placid and contemplative…One man’s temperament is full throated with laughter; another’s tinkles with the sad chimes of gentle melancholy. Our physiques are different, and that simple difference oftentimes drives us into conflicting fulfillment of our natures, to action or to thought, to passion or to denial, to conquest or to submission. There is here no fatalism of endowment. We can change and prune and shape the hedges of our being, but we must rebel against the sharp shears being wielded by other hands, cutting off the living branches of our spirits in order to make our personalities adornments for their dwellings.”",
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                        "text": "The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.",
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                        "text": "The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to the right or left might place him within the grasp of the priests of the superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore.",
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