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> [“Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/every-cult-of-personality-that-emphasizes-the-distinguished-qualities/)

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

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> [“What is the use of it all, if we don't recognize that the purpose of our book distribution is to encourage as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aindra-das/what-is-the-use-of-it-all-if-we-don-t-recognize-that-the-purpose-of/)

[Aindra Das](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aindra-das/)

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> [There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumer-godden/there-is-an-indian-proverb-that-says-that-everyone-is-a-house-with/)

[Rumer Godden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumer-godden/)

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> [“Too many believers live far beneath their potential! God has empowered His children with His very own spiritual DNA. He destined them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-sheets/too-many-believers-live-far-beneath-their-potential-god-has-empowered/)

[Tim Sheets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-sheets/)

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> [In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dolly-parton/in-the-country-field-we-re-brought-up-in-spiritual-homes-we-re-taught/)

[Dolly Parton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dolly-parton/)

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> [“We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn’t there a John…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-strobel/we-have-to-ask-why-is-there-no-other-first-century-jew-who-has/)

[Lee Strobel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-strobel/)

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> [Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/help-each-other-to-live-and-to-grow-in-the-christian-faith-so-as-to/)

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

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> [“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-safina/ethics-that-focus-on-human-interactions-morals-that-focus-on-humanity/)

[Carl Safina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-safina/)

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> [Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/faith-is-walking-face-first-and-full-speed-into-the-dark-if-we-truly/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [“16. The Beatitude of Zen. We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing chapters, the existence of troubles, pains,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaiten-nukariya/16-the-beatitude-of-zen-we-are-far-from-denying-as-already-shown-in/)

[Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaiten-nukariya/)

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> [“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-brown/as-anyone-who-read-religious-history-could-attest-nothing-cemented/)

[Dan Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-brown/)

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> [How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-of-kronstadt/how-will-it-be-with-us-in-the-future-life-when-everything-that-has/)

[John of Kronstadt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-of-kronstadt/)

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> [“And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-wangerin-jr/and-the-strongest-trust-is-built-by-the-smallest-actions-the-keeping/)

[Walter Wangerin Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-wangerin-jr/)

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> [“The light-minded and coarse of soul enjoy nothing spiritually. Even pious souls that lack recollection will never experience spiritual joys. Frivolity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-julian-eymard/the-light-minded-and-coarse-of-soul-enjoy-nothing-spiritually-even/)

[Peter Julian Eymard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-julian-eymard/)

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> [“This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherynne-m-valente/this-maze-is-laid-out-such-that-should-you-step-through-the-correct/)

[Catherynne M. Valente](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherynne-m-valente/)

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> [I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ruhl/i-think-a-person-has-to-believe-in-something-or-search-out-some-kind/)

[Sarah Ruhl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ruhl/)

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> [“I own hundreds of self-help and spiritual books and lately I’m only drawn to a few of them. I am still awakening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleyne-mari-sharp/i-own-hundreds-of-self-help-and-spiritual-books-and-lately-i-m-only/)

[Eleyne-Mari Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleyne-mari-sharp/)

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> [“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaston-bachelard/how-concrete-everything-becomes-in-the-world-of-the-spirit-when-an/)

[Gaston Bachelard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaston-bachelard/)

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> [“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-greek-word-euangelizo-means-to-gospelize-to-tell-people-the-good-2/)

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

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> [“Europeans had highly developed regional and national cultures and societies before they bolted on Protestantism. America, on the other hand, was half-created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-andersen/europeans-had-highly-developed-regional-and-national-cultures-and/)

[Kurt Andersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-andersen/)

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> [Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/daniel-was-in-the-greatest-credit-amongst-the-jews-till-the-reign-of/)

[Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/)

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> [“In true, Taoist parlance, 'immortality' refers to a spiritual state, not a condition of physical permanence. In his books on the teachings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-reid/in-true-taoist-parlance-immortality-refers-to-a-spiritual-state-not-a/)

[Daniel Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-reid/)

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> [For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnivesh/for-the-world-order-to-be-one-of-peace-and-justice-for-the-global/)

[Agnivesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnivesh/)

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> [“Perhaps human self hood in it's collective form is unable to imagine any higher value than the common value of it's devotion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-neibuhr/perhaps-human-self-hood-in-it-s-collective-form-is-unable-to-imagine/)

[Reinhold Neibuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-neibuhr/)

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> [There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/there-is-a-virtuous-fear-which-is-the-effect-of-faith-and-there-is-a/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [ “Here’s why the life of Muhammad \[and Jesus\] matters: Contrary to what many secularists would have us believe, religions are not entirely… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-spencer/here-s-why-the-life-of-muhammad-and-jesus-matters-contrary-to-what/)

[Robert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-spencer/)

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> [Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/individual-moslems-may-show-splendid-qualities-thousands-become-the/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [“…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennon/christianity-will-go-it-will-vanish-and-shrink-i-don-t-know-what-will/)

[John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennon/)

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> [The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muhammad-ali/the-real-enemy-of-my-people-is-here-i-will-not-disgrace-my-religion/)

[Muhammad Ali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muhammad-ali/)

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> [“Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/poem-the-spirit-likes-to-dress-up-the-spirit-likes-to-dress-up-like/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

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> [When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nhat-hanh/when-we-respect-our-blood-ancestors-and-our-spiritual-ancestors-we/)

[Nhat Hanh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nhat-hanh/)

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> [Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-cerin/know-that-holiness-too-is-a-part-of-love-and-you-are-a-saint-of-my/)

[Sorin Cerin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sorin-cerin/)

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> [“Public theology is first and foremost a reaction against the tendency to privatize the faith, restricting it to the question of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-vanhoozer/public-theology-is-first-and-foremost-a-reaction-against-the-tendency/)

[Kevin J. Vanhoozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-j-vanhoozer/)

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> [My dad was tough on me growing up so I got a strong mind, strong spirit. So my mom and my dad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ingram-ii/my-dad-was-tough-on-me-growing-up-so-i-got-a-strong-mind-strong/)

[Mark Ingram II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ingram-ii/)

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> [“The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soren-kierkegaard/the-more-he-needs-god-the-more-deeply-he-comprehends-he-is-in-need-of/)

[Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soren-kierkegaard/)

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> [It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-mason/it-is-contrary-to-the-principles-of-reason-and-justice-that-any/)

[George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-mason/)

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> [Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-sublette/music-is-so-essential-to-the-cuban-character-that-you-can-t/)

[Ned Sublette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-sublette/)

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> [“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-h-jackson/if-there-is-any-fixed-star-in-our-constitutional-constellation-it-is/)

[Robert H. Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-h-jackson/)

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> [“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist. That discovery is called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-is-very-unhappy-but-too-late-to-be-helped-the-discovery-we-have/)

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

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> [Near beliefs are to blame for a new brand of Christianity that is epidemic in our homes and churches-a faith that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-rainey/near-beliefs-are-to-blame-for-a-new-brand-of-christianity-that-is/)

[Dennis Rainey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-rainey/)

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                        "text": "“What is the use of it all, if we don't recognize that the purpose of our book distribution is to encourage as many others as possible to become pure-hearted, fully self-realized niskincana bhajananandis who are the fittest to propagate the Holy Name by their ecstatic performances of prema-nama­sankirtana which forever stands as the only true jaiva-dharma of every jiva soul without exception? What would be the use of it all, if we could not become factually freed from the insanity of not clearly knowing who we really are in terms of the intricacies of our ultimate, intrinsic, eternal spiritual identity (vraja-svarupa)?”",
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                        "text": "There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.",
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                        "text": "“Too many believers live far beneath their potential! God has empowered His children with His very own spiritual DNA. He destined them to overcome every hindrance that blocks the blessings of the Lord. These believers have the potential to rule over sickness, poverty, injustice, and any other attack of the enemy.”",
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                        "text": "In the country field, we’re brought up in spiritual homes, we’re taught to “judge not lest you be judged,” and it’s always been a mystery to me how people jump all over things just to criticize, condemn and judge other people when that is so un-Christian – and they claim to be good Christians! We’re supposed to love one another. We’re supposed to accept and love one another. Whether we do or not, that’s a different story. But that’s what we’re supposed to do.",
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                        "text": "“We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn’t there a John the Baptist movement? Why, of all first-century figures, including the Roman emperors, is Jesus still worshiped today, while the others have crumbled into the dust of history?”",
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                        "text": "Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves.",
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                        "text": "“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned. They fail to encompass the big take-home message, so far, of a century and a half of biology and ecology: life is- more than anything else- a process ; it creates, and depends on, relationships among energy, land, water, air, time and various living things. It's not just about human-to-human interaction; it's not just about spiritual interaction. It's about all interaction. We're bound with the rest of life in a network, a network including not just all living things but the energy and nonliving matter that flows through the living, making and keeping all of us alive as we make it alive. We can keep debating ideologies and sending entreaties toward heaven. But unless we embrace the fuller reality we're in- and reality's implications- we'll face big problems.”",
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                        "text": "Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.",
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                        "text": "“16. The Beatitude of Zen. We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing chapters, the existence of troubles, pains, diseases, sorrows, deaths in life. Our bliss consists in seeing the fragrant rose of Divine mercy among the thorns of worldly trouble, in finding the fair oasis of Buddha's wisdom in the desert of misfortunes, in getting the wholesome balm of His love in the seeming poison of pain, in gathering the sweet honey of His spirit even in the sting of horrible death. History”",
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                        "text": "“As anyone who read religious history could attest nothing cemented people's belief faster than a human being dying for his cause. Christ on the cross. The Kedoshim of Judaism. The Shahid of Islam. Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion . - Robert Langdon”",
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                        "text": "How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?",
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                        "text": "“And the strongest trust is built by the smallest actions, the keeping of the little promises. It is the constant truthfulness, the continued dependability, the remembrance of minor things, which most inspire confidence and faith.”",
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                        "text": "“The light-minded and coarse of soul enjoy nothing spiritually. Even pious souls that lack recollection will never experience spiritual joys. Frivolity of spirit is the greatest obstacle to the reign of God in the soul. If you wish to taste the sweetness of God and enjoy his presence, you must lead a life of recollection and prayer. Even so, your meditations will never yield true happiness if they are not based on Communion, but will only leave you with the sense of perpetual sacrifice.”",
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                        "text": "“This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the most extraordinary dance, such that any coronation would be proud to see you at the height of its feast, such that any holy dervish would weep and call you his devotion.\" \"I think that is very strange—\" \"All things are strange which are worth knowing.”",
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                        "text": "I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.",
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                        "text": "“I own hundreds of self-help and spiritual books and lately I’m only drawn to a few of them. I am still awakening to what Life is truly all about, but even though there are spiritual authors and teachers like Louise Hay or Wayne Dyer or the Dalai Lama whom I still admire—I believe that all the answers I seek, everything I need to know is right here inside of me. So I meditate—which is about listening—and then I find the answers.”",
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                        "text": "“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.”",
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                        "text": "“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the book of Acts literally everyone in the early church does it. Not only the apostles (5:42) but every Christian (8:4) did evangelism — and they did so endlessly. Passages such as Romans 15:14; Colossians 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:6–10; Hebrews 3:13; and 1 John 2:20, 27 indicate that every Christian was expected to evangelize, follow up, nurture, and teach people the Word. This happened relationally — one person bringing the gospel to another within the context of a relationship. In Michael Green’s seminal Evangelism in the Early Church, he conveys the conclusion of historians that early Christianity’s explosive growth “was in reality accomplished by means of informal missionaries.”3 That is, Christian laypeople — not trained preachers and evangelists — carried on the mission of the church not through formal preaching but informal conversation — “in homes and wine shops, on walks, and around market stalls … they did it naturally, enthusiastically.”4”",
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                        "text": "“Europeans had highly developed regional and national cultures and societies before they bolted on Protestantism. America, on the other hand, was half-created by Protestant extremists to be a Protestant society. American academics accept the idea of American exceptionalism in one of its meanings—that our peculiar founding circumstances shaped us. “The position of the Americans,” Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America, “is…quite exceptional,” by which he meant the Puritanism, the commercialism, the freedom of religion, the individualism, “a thousand special causes.” The professoriate rejects exceptionalism in today’s right-wing sense, that the United States is superior to all other nations, with a God-given mission. And they also resist the third meaning, the idea that a law of human behavior doesn’t apply here—scholars of religion insist that explanations of religious behavior must be universal. The latest scholarly consensus about America’s exceptional religiosity is an economic theory. Because all forms of religion are products in a marketplace, they say, our exceptional free marketism has produced more supply and therefore generated more demand. Along with universal human needs for physical sustenance and security, there’s also such a need for existential explanations, for why and how the world came to be. Sellers of religion emerge offering explanations. From the start, religions tended to be state monopolies—as they were in the colonies, the Puritans in Massachusetts and the Church of England in the South. After that original American duopoly was dismantled and the government prohibited official churches, religious entrepreneurs rushed into the market, Methodists and Baptists and Mormons and all the others. European countries, meanwhile, kept their state-subsidized religions, Protestant or Catholic—and so in an economic sense those churches became lazy monopolies.*10 In America, according to the market theorists, each religion competes with all the others to acquire and keep customers. Americans, presented with all this fantastic choice, can’t resist buying. We’re so religious for the same reason we’re so fat.”",
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                        "text": "Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .",
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                        "text": "“In true, Taoist parlance, 'immortality' refers to a spiritual state, not a condition of physical permanence. In his books on the teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Casteneda refers to the primordial source of creation as the nagual, the vast ocean of emptiness in which material worlds take form and dissolve like drops of dew. Nagual refers to everything that cannot be expressed in words, which brings to mind the second line of the Tao Teh Ching: 'The name which can be named is not the real Name.' Don Juan's teachings are remarkably similar to Taoist alchemy, and they both cite our innate awareness as the only bridge between the awesome emptiness and power of the nagual and its material manifestation in the temporal world.”",
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                        "text": "For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps human self hood in it's collective form is unable to imagine any higher value than the common value of it's devotion. Hence, the redemptive value of dissident individuals, the prophet, the critic, even the rebel, in a free community.”",
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                        "text": "There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.",
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                        "text": "“Here’s why the life of Muhammad [and Jesus] matters: Contrary to what many secularists would have us believe, religions are not entirely determined (or distorted) by the faithful over time. The lives and words of the founders remain central, no matter how long ago they lived. The idea that believers shape religion is derived, instead, from the fashionable 1960s philosophy of deconstructionism, which teaches that written words have no meaning other than that given to them by the reader. Equally important, it follows that if the reader alone finds meaning, there can be no truth (and certainly no religious truth); one person’s meaning is equal to another’s. Ultimately, according to deconstructionism, we all create our own set of “truths,” none better, or worse than any other. Yet for the religious man or woman on the streets of Chicago, Rome, Jerusalem, Damascus, Calcutta, and Bangkok, the words of Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, Krishna, and Buddha mean something far greater than any individual’s rendering of them. And even to the less-than-devout reader, the words of these great religious leaders are clearly not equal in their meaning.”",
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                        "text": "Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.",
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                        "text": "“…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”",
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                        "text": "The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years",
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