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> [For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-b-eyring/for-one-who-feels-compelled-as-i-do-to-accept-the-existence-of-the/)

[Henry B. Eyring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-b-eyring/)

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> [The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/the-attention-of-the-congregation-is-a-major-part-of-the-attention/)

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

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> [When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-thatcher/when-i-m-making-music-like-my-album-pivot-scrape-i-go-into-this-daze/)

[Sophie Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-thatcher/)

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> [“The True Believer ignores anything that doesn't fit his belief system. Instead, he inevitably comes to hold those beliefs at a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/the-true-believer-ignores-anything-that-doesn-t-fit-his-belief-system/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

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> [Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-fox/faith-takes-us-to-deep-places-to-the-ruptures-in-our-self-confidence/)

[Matthew Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-fox/)

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> [“We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God's Word, not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ham/we-christians-must-build-all-of-our-thinking-in-every-area-on-the/)

[Ken Ham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ham/)

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> [Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lily-dougall/just-as-it-is-the-province-of-science-to-find-out-what-the-facts-of/)

Lily Dougall

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> [“Someone once said that Stephen Austin didn't like preachers at all. He swore that "one preacher could stir up more trouble than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-mckenna/someone-once-said-that-stephen-austin-didn-t-like-preachers-at-all-he/)

[Megan McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-mckenna/)

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> [The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/the-man-with-a-cross-no-longer-controls-his-destiny-he-lost-control/)

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

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> [A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/a-mind-virus-is-different-in-that-there-is-no-form-to-it-these-are/)

[Wayne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-dyer/)

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> [“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/i-don-t-profess-any-religion-i-don-t-think-it-s-possible-that-there/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [“Vitality manifests itself on the level of spirit as jing-shen ('essence-spirit'), which may be cultivated by the practice of meditation. In Taoist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-reid/vitality-manifests-itself-on-the-level-of-spirit-as-jing-shen-essence/)

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

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> [All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-gilbert-hamerton/all-that-we-have-read-and-learned-all-that-has-occupied-and/)

[Philip Gilbert Hamerton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-gilbert-hamerton/)

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> [“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/the-vulgar-modern-argument-used-against-religion-and-lately-against/)

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

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> [I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-gibson/i-ve-never-treated-anyone-badly-or-in-a-discriminatory-way-based-on-2/)

[Mel Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mel-gibson/)

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> [Life a life of Spiritual Adventure. Much like a wild goose the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-batterson/life-a-life-of-spiritual-adventure-much-like-a-wild-goose-the-spirit/)

[Mark Batterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-batterson/)

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> [We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/we-are-called-to-see-that-the-church-does-not-adapt-its-thinking-to/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

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> [ There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him \[Jesus\]. There were those who mocked him.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/there-is-not-a-hint-of-one-person-who-was-afraid-to-draw-near-him/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudy-giuliani/as-americans-we-re-not-sure-we-share-values-we-re-sometimes-even/)

[Rudy Giuliani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudy-giuliani/)

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> [“Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/human-history-s-the-most-funny-and-yet-the-most-tragic-discovery-will/)

[Mehmet Murat Ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/i-can-spend-years-studying-and-being-in-therapy-and-having-a-very/)

[Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/)

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> [Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/just-as-we-re-all-students-throughout-life-we-re-all-teachers-in-fact/)

[Wayne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-dyer/)

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> [How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/how-can-cosmic-religious-feeling-be-communicated-from-one-person-to/)

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

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> [The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-traditional-religions-worry-me-their-long-history-proves-that/)

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

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> [There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-ryle/there-is-not-enough-bible-reading-among-us-it-is-not-sufficient-to/)

[J. C. Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-ryle/)

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> [The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-d-jakes/the-traditional-churches-are-having-to-transition-into-new/)

[T. D. Jakes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-d-jakes/)

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> [“God in America is a free spirit, a supernatural entity capable of being shaped to fit a variety of ideas, Christian or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-paul-turner/god-in-america-is-a-free-spirit-a-supernatural-entity-capable-of/)

Matthew Paul Turner

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> [“Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-kissinger/balance-of-power-diplomacy-was-less-a-choice-than-an-inevitability-no/)

[Henry Kissinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-kissinger/)

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> [“Praying in faith is not an inner conviction that God will act according to our desires if only we believe hard enough.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-neal-md/praying-in-faith-is-not-an-inner-conviction-that-god-will-act/)

Mary C. Neal Md

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> [In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hollis/in-moments-of-spiritual-crisis-we-naturally-fall-back-upon-what/)

[James Hollis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-hollis/)

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> [What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/what-some-now-call-emerging-christianity-or-the-emerging-church-is/)

[Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rohr/)

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> [“accept, believe, and know – without doubt or hesitation – that ALL things are blessing you, teaching you, and benefiting you.   God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-kennard/accept-believe-and-know-without-doubt-or-hesitation-that-all-things/)

[Aaron Kennard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-kennard/)

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> [“If an Elder shall give us a lecture upon astronomy, chemistry, or geology, our religion embraces it all. It matters not what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigham-young/if-an-elder-shall-give-us-a-lecture-upon-astronomy-chemistry-or/)

[Brigham Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigham-young/)

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> [Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-warner/since-then-my-approach-to-all-things-spiritual-is-rather-cynical-you/)

[Brad Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-warner/)

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> [“That's why we get annoyed by you Idrians. So high, so certain that what you do is right. If your god asked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-sanderson/that-s-why-we-get-annoyed-by-you-idrians-so-high-so-certain-that-what/)

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

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> [We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/satish-kumar/we-human-beings-are-spiritual-beings-we-have-soul-we-have-spirit-we/)

[Satish Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/satish-kumar/)

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> [“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/read-trepreneur/only-homo-sapiens-can-discuss-things-that-are-not-tangible-such-as/)

[Read trepreneur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/read-trepreneur/)

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> [The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/the-take-home-message-is-that-we-should-blame-religion-itself-not/)

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

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> [“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/every-individual-is-at-once-the-beneficiary-and-the-victim-of-the/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [“Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/israelmore-ayivor/just-like-the-way-you-date-in-relationship-and-become-convinced/)

[Israelmore Ayivor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/israelmore-ayivor/)

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                        "text": "The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.",
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                        "text": "When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what I'm channeling. But something will click and resonate and it feels like a religious experience, like being baptized or being in a church.",
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                        "text": "“The True Believer ignores anything that doesn't fit his belief system. Instead, he inevitably comes to hold those beliefs at a very profound level. They can become absolutely part of his identity. It is this that brings together the religious, the psychic, the cynic (as opposed to the open skeptic) and the narrow-minded of all kinds. It is something I encountered a lot among my fellow Christians. At one level it can be seen in the circular discussion which goes as follows: Why do you believe in the bible? Because it is Gods word. And why do you believe in God? Because of what it says in the bible. At a less obvious level, it can be seen in the following common exchange: Why do you believe Christianity is true? Because I have the experience of a personal relationship with God. So how do you know you're not fooling yourself? Because i know it is real. Even as an enthusiastic believer myself I could see this kind of tautology at work, and over time I realized that it is common to all forms of True Belief., regardless of the particular belief in question. The fact is, it's enormously difficult - and you need to be fantastically brave - to overcome the circularity of your own ideologies. But just because our identity might be tied up with what we believe, it doesn't make that belief any more correct. One wishes that True Believers of any sort would learn a little modesty in their convictions.”",
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                        "text": "Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.",
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                        "text": "Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.",
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                        "text": "“Someone once said that Stephen Austin didn't like preachers at all. He swore that \"one preacher could stir up more trouble than a dozen horse thieves.\" Matthew's Gospel reminds us that it is the role of a disciple of Jesus to stir up trouble by playing an active, resistant role in the struggle of good and evil, by resisting the ways of the world and its power bases – economic, religious, nationalistic, politic, military – which are most often in direct opposition to the ways of the Kingdom of God and the way of discipleship.”",
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                        "text": "The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him an all-absorbing interest, an overwhelming interference. No matter what he may desire to do, there is but one thing he can do; that is, move on toward the place of crucifixion.",
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                        "text": "A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas placed in our heads when we are little. We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools. We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what's not possible.",
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                        "text": "“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.' [ Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005 ]”",
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                        "text": "“Vitality manifests itself on the level of spirit as jing-shen ('essence-spirit'), which may be cultivated by the practice of meditation. In Taoist meditation, sexual energy from the sacrum is raised up along the spinal channels into the head, where it is refined into cerebral energy and transformed into spiritual vitality. The enhanced cerebral energy derived from meditation stimulates production of vital neurochemicals and improves all mental functions, including memory and learning, intelligence and awareness, perception and thought. Like physical vitality, spiritual vitality is fuelled by the pure, potent energies associated with secretions of vital essence in the body. While the jing-chee of physical vitality comes mainly from the energy associated with hormones and enzymes, the jing-shen of spiritual vitality is generated mainly by the cerebral energy associated with neurotransmitters and secretions of the pineal and pituitary glands in the brain.”",
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                        "text": "All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.",
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                        "text": "“The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It is perpetually said that because there are a hundred religions claiming to be true, it is therefore impossible that one of them should really be true. The argument would appear on the face of it to be illogical, if anyone nowadays troubled about logic. It would be as reasonable to say that because some people thought the earth was flat, and others (rather less incorrectly) imagined it was round, and because anybody is free to say that it is triangular or hexagonal, or a rhomboid, therefore it has no shape at all; or its shape can never be discovered; and, anyhow, modern science must be wrong in saying it is an oblate spheroid. The world must be some shape, and it must be that shape and no other; and it is not self-evident that nobody can possibly hit on the right one. What so obviously applies to the material shape of the world equally applies to the moral shape of the universe. The man who describes it may not be right, but it is no argument against his rightness that a number of other people must be wrong.”",
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                        "text": "I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited.  You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.",
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                        "text": "As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.",
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                        "text": "“Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in the upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.”",
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                        "text": "I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.",
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                        "text": "Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many individuals as we can, as frequently as we can…Following this line of thinking, it's imperative that we make deliberate effort to increase our inspirational energy, as this will lead us to being both a spiritual learner and teacher simultaneously.",
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                        "text": "How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.",
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                        "text": "The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.",
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                        "text": "There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY over it ourselves. It will do us no good, if it only lies still in our houses. We must be actually familiar with its contents, and have its texts stored in our memories and minds. Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.",
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                        "text": "The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.",
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                        "text": "“God in America is a free spirit, a supernatural entity capable of being shaped to fit a variety of ideas, Christian or otherwise. Like divine Play-Doh, America's God can be kneaded with hands, squashed between fingers, coerced into shapes, manipulated by devices, and, though it's not always recommended, digested by human bodies. Because God's Spirit is nontoxic.”",
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                        "text": "“Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient authority to sustain universality. The concept of sovereignty and the legal equality of states became the basis of international law and diplomacy. China, by contrast, was never engaged in sustained contact with another country on the basis of equality for the simple reason that it never encountered societies of comparable culture or magnitude.”",
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                        "text": "“Praying in faith is not an inner conviction that God will act according to our desires if only we believe hard enough. It involves believing that God will always respond to our prayers in accord with His nature, His purposes, and His promises.” —Alvin VanderGriend”",
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                        "text": "In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.",
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