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> [They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/they-say-that-when-god-was-in-jerusalem-he-forgave-his-murderers-but/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chieko-n-okazaki/be-spiritually-independent-enough-that-your-relationship-with-the/)

[Chieko N. Okazaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chieko-n-okazaki/)

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> [“He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/he-knew-from-experience-that-true-and-obvious-ideas-such-as-the/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [“If I were you," he said with a wink and a smile as his eyes swept over those who's started the discussion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-jacobsen/if-i-were-you-he-said-with-a-wink-and-a-smile-as-his-eyes-swept-over/)

[Wayne Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-jacobsen/)

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> [When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/india-arie-2/when-i-think-about-the-cause-i-m-most-passionate-about-it-s-all-in-my/)

[India.Arie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/india-arie-2/)

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> [“The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred; make specific supplication mentioning this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamza-yusuf/the-cure-for-hatred-is-straightforward-one-should-pray-for-the-person/)

[Hamza Yusuf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hamza-yusuf/)

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> [“Well, sure, maybe religion serves a purpose, but maybe religion’s role is not to give us the answers, but to give us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-hammond/well-sure-maybe-religion-serves-a-purpose-but-maybe-religion-s-role/)

Anna Hammond

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> [“Preaching that makes a church Christ-like under grace takes a double miracle: the sinful preacher must be shaped by grace to preach;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ash/preaching-that-makes-a-church-christ-like-under-grace-takes-a-double/)

[Christopher Ash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-ash/)

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> [“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/kitty-made-the-acquaintance-of-madame-stahl-too-and-this-acquaintance/)

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

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> [Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-mcdowell/most-christians-are-not-convinced-of-their-own-faith-i-would-say-90/)

[Josh McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-mcdowell/)

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> [“My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-harkaway/my-loss-of-faith-is-sudden-and-it-s-not-so-much-a-conversion-as-a/)

[Nick Harkaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-harkaway/)

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> [It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/it-was-of-course-a-lie-what-you-read-about-my-religious-convictions-a/)

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

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> [“When considering the topic of spirituality or religion, I would encourage you to look at Christianity first. It is a testable religion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-morrison/when-considering-the-topic-of-spirituality-or-religion-i-would/)

[Jon Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-morrison/)

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> [Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/of-course-even-the-general-designation-religious-includes-various/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [“So I really appreciate your coming to have this conversation,” the Dalai Lama said. “In order to develop our mind, we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/so-i-really-appreciate-your-coming-to-have-this-conversation-the/)

[Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/)

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> [“There is a vast difference between being a Christian and being a disciple. The difference is commitment. Motivation and discipline will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-ogden/there-is-a-vast-difference-between-being-a-christian-and-being-a/)

[Greg Ogden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-ogden/)

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> [“As Einstein once said, “It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” But I must add that prior to theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-l-smith/as-einstein-once-said-it-is-the-theory-which-decides-what-can-be/)

[Vernon L. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-l-smith/)

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> [The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-cross-is-not-simply-a-lovely-example-of-sacrificial-love-throwing/)

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

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> [“The gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-gospel-if-it-is-really-believed-removes-neediness-the-need-to-be/)

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

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> [“The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself. Perhaps those authorities feared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/the-law-and-society-and-religion-all-said-it-was-impossible-to-be/)

[Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/)

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> [“Amazing that we made Jesus into the consummate answer giver because that is not what he usually does. He more often leads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/amazing-that-we-made-jesus-into-the-consummate-answer-giver-because/)

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

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> [A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-s-paul/a-growing-body-of-social-science-research-reveals-that-atheists-and/)

[Gregory S. Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-s-paul/)

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> [As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-wayne-house/as-the-united-states-drifts-from-its-judeo-christian-foundation-and/)

H. Wayne House

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> [“ways in which our smartphones are changing us and undermining our spiritual health: Our phones amplify our addiction to distractions (chapter 1) and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-reinke/ways-in-which-our-smartphones-are-changing-us-and-undermining-our/)

[Tony Reinke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-reinke/)

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> [When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-brunton/when-spiritual-seeking-becomes-too-complicated-its-exercies-too/)

[Paul Brunton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-brunton/)

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> [It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tertullian/it-is-a-fundamental-human-right-a-privilege-of-nature-that-every-man/)

[Tertullian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tertullian/)

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> [You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/you-would-get-longer-livelier-and-more-frequent-letters-from-me-if-it/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zachary-levi/there-are-a-lot-of-people-who-consider-themselves-spiritual-but-that/)

[Zachary Levi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zachary-levi/)

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> [“If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scarlett-thomas/if-someone-who-had-given-up-his-whole-life-to-thinking-about-goodness/)

[Scarlett Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scarlett-thomas/)

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> [“The Reformation cracked the marble walls of empire, but the restoration still calls to us today. We are living in another awakening,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angel-tate-keaton-todd-g-keaton/the-reformation-cracked-the-marble-walls-of-empire-but-the/)

Angel Tate Keaton & Todd G Keaton

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> [“The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-modern-age-has-witnessed-the-rise-of-a-number-of-new-natural-law/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/that-s-here-that-s-home-that-s-us-on-it-everyone-you-love-everyone/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/america-has-begun-a-spiritual-reawakening-faith-and-hope-are-being/)

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

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> [“I mean a spiritual fear of being weak, to the very soul, the fear which makes you hate, because you are too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-perry/i-mean-a-spiritual-fear-of-being-weak-to-the-very-soul-the-fear-which/)

[Anne Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-perry/)

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> [People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-r-ambedkar/people-are-not-wrong-in-observing-caste-in-my-view-what-is-wrong-is/)

[B. R. Ambedkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-r-ambedkar/)

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> [Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-heindel/sects-and-isms-have-branched-out-in-one-direction-and-another-but/)

[Max Heindel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-heindel/)

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> [“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/we-have-to-grow-into-scripture-like-a-young-boy-inheriting-his-older/)

[N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright/)

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> [You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenn-l-pace/you-can-leave-the-church-but-you-can-t-leave-it-alone-the-basic/)

[Glenn L. Pace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenn-l-pace/)

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> [It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/it-is-hard-to-prevent-oneself-from-believing-what-one-so-keenly-2/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [ “\[The Void Which Binds\] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/the-void-which-binds-actual-but-unaccessible-presence-in-our-universe/)

[Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/)

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                        "text": "“If I were you,\" he said with a wink and a smile as his eyes swept over those who's started the discussion, \"I would waste far less time ragging on religion and find out just how much Jesus wants to be your friend without any strings attached. He will care for you and if given a chance will become more real to you than your best friend, and you will cherish him more than anything else you desire. He will give you a purpose and a fullness of life that will carry you through every stress and pain and will change you from the inside to show you what true freedom and joy really are.”",
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                        "text": "When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.",
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                        "text": "“The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred; make specific supplication mentioning this person by name, asking God to give this person good things in this life and the next. When one does this with sincerity, hearts mend. If one truly wants to purify his or her heart and root out disease, there must be total sincerity and conviction that these cures are effective..”",
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                        "text": "“Well, sure, maybe religion serves a purpose, but maybe religion’s role is not to give us the answers, but to give us the questions, not to resolve the mystery of life, but to increase our wonder at the things we don’t know.”",
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                        "text": "“Preaching that makes a church Christ-like under grace takes a double miracle: the sinful preacher must be shaped by grace to preach; and sinful listeners must be awakened by grace to listen together week by week in humble expectancy. Only God can do this. So praying before the sermon is not a formality. Unless God works, the whole thing will be a waste of time.”",
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                        "text": "“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a great influence on her, it also comforted her in her mental distress. She found this comfort through a completely new world being opened to her by means of this acquaintance, a world having nothing in common with her past, an exalted, noble world, from the height of which she could contemplate her past calmly. It was revealed to her that besides the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto there was a spiritual life. This life was disclosed in religion, but a religion having nothing in common with that one which Kitty had known from childhood, and which found expression in litanies and all-night services at the Widow's Home, where one might meet one's friends, and in learning by heart Slavonic texts with the priest. This was a lofty, mysterious religion connected with a whole series of noble thoughts and feelings, which one could do more than merely believe because one was told to, which one could love.”",
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                        "text": "Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. And so they cannot discern between the truth and falsehood.",
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                        "text": "“My loss of faith is sudden, and it's not so much a conversion as a reappraisal. Children are still modeling the world, still understanding how it works; their convictions are malleable, like their bones. Thus, I experience no sudden horrible wrench as my belief is uprooted, but rather a feeling like the right pair of glasses being put in front of my face after some time wearing someone else's.”",
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                        "text": "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called reli",
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                        "text": "“When considering the topic of spirituality or religion, I would encourage you to look at Christianity first. It is a testable religion. That is, it is based on evidence. The evidence is philosophical and historical. It can be examined and then we can all make our decision.”",
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                        "text": "Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.",
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                        "text": "“So I really appreciate your coming to have this conversation,” the Dalai Lama said. “In order to develop our mind, we must look at a deeper level. Everyone seeks happiness, joyfulness, but from outside—from money, from power, from big car, from big house. Most people never pay much attention to the ultimate source of a happy life, which is inside, not outside. Even the source of physical health is inside, not outside. “So there may be a few differences between us. You usually emphasize faith. Personally I am Buddhist, and I consider faith very important, but at the same time the reality is that out of seven billion people, over one billion people on the planet are nonbelievers. So we cannot exclude them. One billion is quite a large number. They are also our human brothers and sisters. They also have the right to become happier human beings and to be good members of the human family. So one need not depend on religious faith to educate our inner values.”",
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                        "text": "“There is a vast difference between being a Christian and being a disciple. The difference is commitment. Motivation and discipline will not ultimately occur through listening to sermons, sitting in a class, participating in a fellowship group, attending a study group in the workplace or being a member of a small group, but rather in the context of highly accountable, relationally transparent, truth-centered, small discipleship units. There are twin prerequisites for following Christ - cost and commitment, neither of which can occur in the anonymity of the masses. Disciples cannot be mass produced. We cannot drop people into a program and see disciples emerge at the end of the production line. It takes time to make disciples. It takes individual personal attention. Discipleship training is not about information transfer, from head to head, but imitation, life to life. You can ultimately learn and develop only by doing. The effectiveness of one's ministry is to be measured by how well it flourishes after one's departure. Discipling is an intentional relationship in which we walk alongside other disciples in order to encourage, equip, and challenge one another in love to grow toward maturity in Christ. This includes equipping the disciple to teach others as well. If there are no explicit, mutually agreed upon commitments, then the group leader is left without any basis to hold people accountable. Without a covenant, all leaders possess is their subjective understanding of what is entailed in the relationship. Every believer or inquirer must be given the opportunity to be invited into a relationship of intimate trust that provides the opportunity to explore and apply God's Word within a setting of relational motivation, and finally, make a sober commitment to a covenant of accountability. Reviewing the covenant is part of the initial invitation to the journey together. It is a sobering moment to examine whether one has the time, the energy and the commitment to do what is necessary to engage in a discipleship relationship. Invest in a relationship with two others for give or take a year. Then multiply. Each person invites two others for the next leg of the journey and does it all again. Same content, different relationships. The invitation to discipleship should be preceded by a period of prayerful discernment. It is vital to have a settled conviction that the Lord is drawing us to those to whom we are issuing this invitation. . If you are going to invest a year or more of your time with two others with the intent of multiplying, whom you invite is of paramount importance. You want to raise the question implicitly: Are you ready to consider serious change in any area of your life? From the outset you are raising the bar and calling a person to step up to it. Do not seek or allow an immediate response to the invitation to join a triad. You want the person to consider the time commitment in light of the larger configuration of life's responsibilities and to make the adjustments in schedule, if necessary, to make this relationship work. Intentionally growing people takes time. Do you want to measure your ministry by the number of sermons preached, worship services designed, homes visited, hospital calls made, counseling sessions held, or the number of self-initiating, reproducing, fully devoted followers of Jesus? When we get to the shore's edge and know that there is a boat there waiting to take us to the other side to be with Jesus, all that will truly matter is the names of family, friends and others who are self initiating, reproducing, fully devoted followers of Jesus because we made it the priority of our lives to walk with them toward maturity in Christ. There is no better eternal investment or legacy to leave behind.”",
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                        "text": "“As Einstein once said, “It is the theory which decides what can be observed.” But I must add that prior to theory there is what we call “thinking”—a systematic form of consciousness deeply driven by the unconscious that enables understanding and experimental predictions The parallel is expressed in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (KJV). For humans, all beginnings are in thought or reason. And in the reductionist search for reality, science can only identify mind, first in thing shopped for, then in the assurance of unseen evidence.”",
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                        "text": "The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.",
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                        "text": "“The gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that - a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don't believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the gospel teach you - that is to train, discipline, coach you - over a period of time. You must let the gospel argue with you. You must let the gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.”",
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                        "text": "“The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself. Perhaps those authorities feared that the suicide‟s reasoning might impugn the nature and value of life as organised by the Page | 49 . state which paid the coroner? And then, since you had been declared temporarily mad, your reasons for killing yourself were also assumed to be mad. So I doubt anyone paid much attention to Adrian‟s argument, with its references to philosophers ancient and modern, about the superiority of the intervening act over the unworthy passivity of merely letting life happen to you.”",
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                        "text": "“Amazing that we made Jesus into the consummate answer giver because that is not what he usually does. He more often leads us right onto the horns of our own human-made dilemmas, where we are forced to meet God and be honest with ourselves. He creates problems for us more than resolves them, problems that very often cannot be resolved by all-or-nothing thinking but only by love and forgiveness.”",
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                        "text": "A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.",
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                        "text": "As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could ultimately insist on full allegiance from the people, an allegiance belonging only to God.",
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                        "text": "“ways in which our smartphones are changing us and undermining our spiritual health: Our phones amplify our addiction to distractions (chapter 1) and thereby splinter our perception of our place in time (12). Our phones push us to evade the limits of embodiment (2) and thereby cause us to treat one another harshly (11). Our phones feed our craving for immediate approval (3) and promise to hedge against our fear of missing out (10). Our phones undermine key literary skills (4) and, because of our lack of discipline, make it increasingly difficult for us to identify ultimate meaning (9). Our phones offer us a buffet of produced media (5) and tempt us to indulge in visual vices (8). Our phones overtake and distort our identity (6) and tempt us toward unhealthy isolation and loneliness (7). But it’s not just about warnings. Along the way, I have also attempted to commend twelve life disciplines we need to preserve our spiritual health in the smartphone age: We minimize unnecessary distractions in life to hear from God (chapter 1) and to find our place in God’s unfolding history (12). We embrace our flesh-and-blood embodiment (2) and handle one another with grace and gentleness (11). We aim at God’s ultimate approval (3) and find that, in Christ, we have no ultimate regrets to fear (10). We treasure the gift of literacy (4) and prioritize God’s Word (9). We listen to God’s voice in creation (5) and find a fountain of delight in the unseen Christ (8). We treasure Christ to be molded into his image (6) and seek to serve the legitimate needs of our neighbors (7).”",
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                        "text": "When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.",
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                        "text": "It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.",
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                        "text": "“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known”",
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                        "text": "America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.",
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                        "text": "People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.",
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                        "text": "Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.",
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