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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
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Eating matzo ball soup for the first time was akin to a religious experience because of how deeply contemplative it was. It… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
I meditated on my own for some time, read spiritual books, became a vegetarian and had incredible experiences every day, every meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
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I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
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Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
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A bonafide spiritual master is non-different from Supreme Personality of Godhead. If one cannot say that the spiritual master is the personal… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Copy Share Image
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
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