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> [“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-still-remain-four-irreducible-objections-to-religious-faith/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/americans-deepest-religion-is-often-equality-the-notion-that-christ/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-needleman/in-order-to-teach-a-course-in-the-history-of-western-religious/)

[Jacob Needleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-needleman/)

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> [“On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this armchair and has, I regret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-conan-doyle/on-the-contrary-i-have-been-to-devonshire-in-spirit-exactly-my-body/)

[Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-conan-doyle/)

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> [Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randa-abdel-fattah/religious-celebrations-and-the-good-will-high-spirits-and-generosity/)

[Randa Abdel-Fattah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randa-abdel-fattah/)

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> [For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rolle/for-love-is-a-willful-stirring-of-our-thoughts-unto-god-so-that-it/)

[Richard Rolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-rolle/)

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> [“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roberto-bola-o/i-went-on-happily-reading-well-into-the-night-when-no-one-ventured-on/)

[Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roberto-bola-o/)

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> [“There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-grant-ross/there-is-no-greater-motor-for-architecture-than-religious-fervor/)

[Helen Grant Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-grant-ross/)

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> [ “The Jews have made him \[Yahweh\] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-jews-have-made-him-yahweh-the-assassin-of-the-human-species-to/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [“Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-druyan/science-has-carried-us-to-the-gateway-to-the-universe-and-yet-our-2/)

[Ann Druyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-druyan/)

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> [Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/now-let-s-make-two-things-clear-isil-is-not-islamic-no-religion/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“A missionary is not a missionary until they set their ax against the roots of the culture’s sacred oaks. They are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bojidar-marinov/a-missionary-is-not-a-missionary-until-they-set-their-ax-against-the/)

[Bojidar Marinov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bojidar-marinov/)

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> [“Claims for the occurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-polkinghorne/claims-for-the-occurrence-of-miraculous-events-will-have-to-be/)

[John Polkinghorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-polkinghorne/)

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> [The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-kubrick/the-world-s-religions-for-all-their-parochialism-did-supply-a-kind-of/)

[Stanley Kubrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-kubrick/)

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> [“That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the grace of GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/various/that-we-shall-sincerely-really-and-constantly-through-the-grace-of/)

[Various](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/various/)

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> [“It was the missionaries who became the brave storm troopers of Christianity, slashing their way through jungles, going where no one had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-frost/it-was-the-missionaries-who-became-the-brave-storm-troopers-of/)

[Michael Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-frost/)

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> [I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosemary-altea/i-believe-from-my-many-experiences-that-the-spirit-world-is-more-real/)

[Rosemary Altea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosemary-altea/)

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> [“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kilroy-j-oldster/we-write-edit-and-rewrite-the-story-of-our-own-life-employing/)

[Kilroy J. Oldster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kilroy-j-oldster/)

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> [The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harryette-mullen/the-spirit-of-tanka-interests-me-more-than-following-rigid/)

[Harryette Mullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harryette-mullen/)

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> [Our whole science and spirituality of which we think that are great achievements of mankind, of its historical evolution is based exclusively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sorin-cerin/our-whole-science-and-spirituality-of-which-we-think-that-are-great/)

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

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> [Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darrel-ray/every-religion-has-rituals-practices-holy-writings-or-traditions-etc/)

[Darrel Ray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darrel-ray/)

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> [O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/o-god-teach-me-to-be-satisfied-with-my-own-helplessness-in-the/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-de-mello/spirituality-means-waking-up-most-people-even-though-they-don-t-know/)

[Anthony de Mello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-de-mello/)

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> [“We do not have to look about us very far or for very long to realize the disastrous effects produced on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-d-chanet/we-do-not-have-to-look-about-us-very-far-or-for-very-long-to-realize/)

[Jean Déchanet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-d-chanet/)

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> [“When you're scared, invite your spirit out of hiding. Wear pointed shoes with build in sass > Let your wings take you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanne-mcelvaney/when-you-re-scared-invite-your-spirit-out-of-hiding-wear-pointed/)

[Jeanne McElvaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanne-mcelvaney/)

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> [“For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots—the faith, the ideas, the ethics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/os-guinness/for-at-this-juncture-the-west-has-cut-itself-off-from-its-own-jewish/)

[Os Guinness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/os-guinness/)

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> [“As Bonheim so beautifully describes, Today, I would describe a priestess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sera-beak/as-bonheim-so-beautifully-describes-today-i-would-describe-a/)

[Sera Beak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sera-beak/)

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> [“Though controversial, there are examples even in the ancient manuscripts, the Bible, perhaps overlooked by the casual reader, which show that things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-clement/though-controversial-there-are-examples-even-in-the-ancient/)

[Kim Clement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-clement/)

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> [The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-heindel/the-noblest-men-of-all-ages-christian-saints-of-the-most-transcendent/)

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

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> [“If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-a-torrey-3/if-we-are-to-have-real-faith-we-must-study-the-word-of-god-and/)

[R.A Torrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-a-torrey-3/)

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> [“We love neither God nor our neighbor as we should. Our love in spiritual things is "too defective, in worldly things too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-burton/we-love-neither-god-nor-our-neighbor-as-we-should-our-love-in/)

[Robert Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-burton/)

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> [“I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, or a smile,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/i-say-i-can-not-identify-that-thing-which-is-called-happiness-that/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/u-thant/as-a-buddhist-i-was-trained-to-be-tolerant-of-everything-except-2/)

[U Thant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/u-thant/)

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> [“Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/jesus-was-trying-to-present-value-of-a-life-of-vulnerability-in-which/)

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

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> [“It says in another place, “Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.” We would have a victorious Church…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-l-moody/it-says-in-another-place-casting-all-your-care-upon-him-for-he-careth/)

[D.L. Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-l-moody/)

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> [We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/we-are-spirits-that-bodies-should-be-lent-us-while-they-afford-us/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-paul-vi/this-pious-practice-by-which-the-blessed-virgin-mary-is-honored-and/)

[Pope Paul VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-paul-vi/)

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> [“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/many-religions-now-come-before-us-with-ingratiating-smirks-and-2/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyndi-lauper/if-you-think-you-re-hearing-something-and-you-can-t-think-what-it-is/)

[Cyndi Lauper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyndi-lauper/)

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> [“Yoga and meditation help us to achieve physical health, emotional balance, more connected relationships, and a more satisfying life. But to measure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darren-main/yoga-and-meditation-help-us-to-achieve-physical-health-emotional/)

[Darren Main](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darren-main/)

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                        "text": "Americans' deepest religion is often equality. The notion that Christ alone is God-superior, authoritative, supernatural-and that Christ's teaching and person is far greater than Buddha's, or Muhammad's, or Moses's, no matter how much great and good wisdom may be contained in those others, is scandalous.",
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                        "text": "In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Christian traditions and I was astonished to find in those writings philosophical thought of great power and sophistication. These writings completely blew away all my opinions about what I had taken to be the irrationality or immaturity of religious ideas, opinions which were and still are fashionable in many intellectual and literary circles today.",
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                        "text": "“On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire.\" \"In spirit?\" \"Exactly. My body has remained in this armchair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco. After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the”",
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                        "text": "Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.",
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                        "text": "For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.",
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                        "text": "“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for sinful shadows who were careful not to interrupt me, careful not to disturb my reading, happiness, happiness, passion regained, genuine devotion, my prayers rising up and up through the clouds to the realm of pure music, to what for want of a better name we call the choir of the angels, a non-human space but undoubtedly the only imaginable space we humans can truly inhabit, an uninhabitable space but the only one worth inhabiting, a space in which we shall cease to be but the only space in which we can be what we truly are...”",
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                        "text": "“There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave rise to the Gothic and Romanesque architecture of the European middle ages and Islam produced the wonders of the Ottoman Empire.”",
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                        "text": "“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things, they must have supposed his power or his wisdom imperfect, or his will changeable; and the changeableness of the will is the imperfection of the judgement.”",
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                        "text": "“Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. We are spiritually and culturally paralyzed, unable to face the vastness, to embrace our lack of centrality and find our actual place in the fabric of nature. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. However, it's not enough merely to accept these insights intellectually while we cling to a spiritual ideology that is not only rootless in nature but also, in many ways, contemptuous of what is natural.”",
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                        "text": "Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.",
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                        "text": "“A missionary is not a missionary until they set their ax against the roots of the culture’s sacred oaks. They are not a missionary until they have issued a challenge against the central idols of that culture. A mission that only addresses the individual soul and never the society in which that soul operates is an exercise in futility. Only a comprehensive challenge, a message that proclaims Jesus Christ as Lord over everything—including rulers and powers—can win a nation for Christ.”",
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                        "text": "The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.",
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                        "text": "“That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the grace of GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government against our common enemies;”",
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                        "text": "“It was the missionaries who became the brave storm troopers of Christianity, slashing their way through jungles, going where no one had gone before. Mission was now reserved for work among the unreached nations and no longer simply happened next door or around the corner. But the churches that had outsourced their missionary activity to the mission societies tended to drift languidly into the role of fund-raiser for the mission societies. This dilemma was seriously exacerbated when, after World War II, a number of parachurch societies, mainly aimed at reaching young people, were formed. These included Youth for Christ, the Navigators, Campus Crusade for Christ, and so on, and were aimed at reaching students and teens right under the noses of existing churches. Once again, mission was outsourced to specialist agencies, leaving the local church focused primarily around pastoral issues and Sunday worship. Not only did this create the great stepchild, the parachurch, it crippled the church’s witness beyond the Sunday gathering. And again, given the significant cultural effect of the postwar baby boom, we understand the historical reasons why such specialization of local mission occurred. But it only deepened the cleft between missionary activity and church activity. Again, long before all this happened, Roland Allen was deeply concerned. We may compare the relation of the societies to the Church with the institution of divorce in relation to marriage. Just as divorce was permitted for the hardness of men’s hearts because they were unable to observe the divine institution of marriage in its original perfection, so the organization of missionary societies was permitted for the hardness of our hearts, because we had lost the power to appreciate and to use the divine organization of the Church in its simplicity for the purpose for which it was first created.[155] In the end Allen himself despondently capitulated to this great divorce, concluding that “the divine perfection of the Church as a missionary society cannot be recovered simply by abolishing the missionary societies, and saying, let the Church be her own missionary society.”[156] Maybe not in 1926, but today there is an increasing unease with this “divorce” between mission and church. Allen was ahead of his time. He forecast the situation we now find ourselves in—with missionless churches and churchless missions, and neither one being all it should be. We contend that the whole missional church conversation was one that the church has been building toward for over a century. And now is the time to have it. A new generation of young Christians is desperate for the adventure of mission. They were raised in the hermetically sealed environment of missionless church, and those who have emerged with their faith still intact are hungry for the risk and ordeal that only true missional activity can offer.”",
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                        "text": "I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live. In truth, ours is a world of illusion. All that seems so solid is yet just a mass: molecules locked together, forming an impression of solid matter that in fact is not solid at all.",
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                        "text": "“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.”",
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                        "text": "The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality.",
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                        "text": "Our whole science and spirituality of which we think that are great achievements of mankind, of its historical evolution is based exclusively on non-Knowledge, to the reference to this non-Knowledge being in fact a great and important achievement of non-Knowledge. This is why we are human beings abandoned by our own Sacred Self? This is why we see the cold beauty of this nature so often alien to ourselves; this is why everything we think we are is in fact the alien within us, the one that replaces our own lost life? And all of these occur because we reference to the non-Knowledge, to its Absolute Truth? Is there a way to leave this sad spirituality and this petty life? Is there a way to separate us from the lie of our existence? Is there a RELEASE? And if we released us from ourselves, would it be better? Could we ever miss ourselves? Miss the lie of our existence, what should we miss? Miss the alien within us that has always replaced our own life? To miss the absurdi",
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                        "text": "Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays or holy books and no agreed-upon canons of faith. In fact, the only thing you can get some Atheists to agree upon is that there is no god.",
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                        "text": "O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.",
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                        "text": "Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.",
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                        "text": "“We do not have to look about us very far or for very long to realize the disastrous effects produced on the inner life of man by this age of noise. Spun about in the whirl of business, enslaved to countless technical inventions, man is severed from God and from the world of the spirit. Non in commotione Deus: God does not dwell in turbulence. To find him, there must be calm within; certain senses must be hushed. Tossed around as we are, if God wishes to speak to us, his voice, small and still, will be lost in the hubbub of our daily lives; the rackets and noise drowning our minds will prevent his penetration into that seclusion we call “heart”–the living witness of that life in us which is most sacred and most true: the life we call “inner” or “spiritual.”",
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                        "text": "“When you're scared, invite your spirit out of hiding. Wear pointed shoes with build in sass > Let your wings take you where your heart trembles > Wave the want that remembers your magic > Bring your green umbrella without apologies.”",
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                        "text": "“For at this juncture, the West has cut itself off from its own Jewish and Christian roots—the faith, the ideas, the ethics and the way of life that made it the West. It now stands deeply divided, uncertain of its post-Christian identity, and with its dominance waning in the global era.”",
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                        "text": "“As Bonheim so beautifully describes, Today, I would describe a priestess as a woman who lives in two worlds at once, who perceives life on earth against the backdrop of a vast, timeless reality. Whether or not she is mated to a human partner, she is a woman in love, wedded to being, to life, to love itself. Having offered herself, body and soul, in service of spirit, she mediates between matter and spirit, between the human and divine realms.10”",
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                        "text": "“Though controversial, there are examples even in the ancient manuscripts, the Bible, perhaps overlooked by the casual reader, which show that things did not always come to pass as they were predicted by some of the most well-known prophetic voices. To understand the dynamics of these prophetic predictions properly, you must understand that God’s actions are not always His original intentions.”",
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                        "text": "The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe.",
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