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> [ʺWho′s a spirit user?ʺ said Robert. ʺFormer spirit user,ʺ said Victor, ʺShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.ʺ ʺYes .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-mead/who-s-a-spirit-user-said-robert-former-spirit-user-said-victor-she/)

[Richelle Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-mead/)

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> [ \[W\]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/myrna-blyth/w-omen-s-magazines-know-that-more-than-two-thirds-of-women-pray-each/)

Myrna Blyth

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> [A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-person-who-has-during-all-time-maintained-the-imposing-position-of/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [“I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kahlil-gibran/i-tell-you-as-well-as-myself-what-we-see-with-our-own-eyes-is-nothing/)

[Kahlil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kahlil-gibran/)

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> [The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-spangler/the-earth-community-the-life-community-is-not-the-property-of-any-one/)

[David Spangler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-spangler/)

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> [“Evil things happen, and good things happen, and in neither physics nor religion is there an explanation that makes any kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-rose/evil-things-happen-and-good-things-happen-and-in-neither-physics-nor/)

Aubrey Rose

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> [Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ouida/christianity-has-ever-been-the-enemy-of-human-love-it-has-forever/)

[Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ouida/)

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> [Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/reading-is-at-the-threshold-of-spiritual-life-it-can-introduce-us-to/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-keith/religious-leaders-and-men-of-science-have-the-same-ideals-they-want/)

[Arthur Keith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-keith/)

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> [I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-have-yet-to-meet-a-single-person-from-our-culture-no-matter-what/)

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

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> [“Father Martin said that those who think stability is meant to hold you back, and to stifle personal and spiritual growth, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rod-dreher/father-martin-said-that-those-who-think-stability-is-meant-to-hold/)

[Rod Dreher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rod-dreher/)

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> [All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-herzen/all-religions-have-based-morality-on-obedience-that-is-to-say-on/)

[Alexander Herzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-herzen/)

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> [“Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-feser/better-for-them-to-deny-the-mind-and-with-it-rationality-truth-and/)

[Edward Feser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-feser/)

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> [Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-e-olson/today-under-the-influences-of-eastern-religions-and-philosophies/)

[Roger E. Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-e-olson/)

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> [“It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/it-is-not-necessary-that-faith-and-repentance-should-always-precede/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [“The truth is that the greatest enemy of the Western church is not the state or any ideology such as atheism, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/os-guinness/the-truth-is-that-the-greatest-enemy-of-the-western-church-is-not-the/)

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

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> [“If religious war is ever to become unthinkable for us, in the way that slavery and cannibalism seem poised to, it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/if-religious-war-is-ever-to-become-unthinkable-for-us-in-the-way-that/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [Everything is in your face. The battle is that you're getting things from all ends like never before and the intensity is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-camp/everything-is-in-your-face-the-battle-is-that-you-re-getting-things/)

[Jeremy Camp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-camp/)

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> [Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-robbins-curtis/whatever-may-be-the-merits-of-a-religious-system-its-effects-upon-the/)

[Benjamin Robbins Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-robbins-curtis/)

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> [“ Who Needs A Holiday? Homecoming: We tailgate all football season--it’s almost a religion--but nothing compares to homecoming. Darling, you better watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deborah-ford/who-needs-a-holiday-homecoming-we-tailgate-all-football-season-it-s/)

[Deborah Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deborah-ford/)

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> [Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diet-eman/darling-if-i-think-of-all-i-miss-now-i-will-go-crazy-i-should-not/)

[Diet Eman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diet-eman/)

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> [“I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-white/i-am-still-not-good-enough-i-am-still-not-whole-enough-i-am-still-not/)

[Anna White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-white/)

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> [Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-clarkson/pain-is-pain-and-sorrow-is-sorrow-it-hurts-it-limits-it-impoverishes/)

[Margaret Clarkson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-clarkson/)

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> [If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-dee/if-you-look-at-the-practice-of-crisis-management-and-maybe-squint-at/)

[Jonathan Dee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-dee/)

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> [Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/being-christian-without-the-church-doesn-t-make-sense-that-s-why-the/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shahn/all-art-is-based-on-nonconformity-without-nonconformity-we-would-have/)

[Ben Shahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shahn/)

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> [The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-a-carson/the-bible-is-endlessly-interesting-because-it-is-god-s-story-and-god/)

[D. A. Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-a-carson/)

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> [“Christ’s passivity in his resurrection reflects his identification and solidarity with believers in being raised from the dead. For Paul—certainly not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-b-jr-gaffin/christ-s-passivity-in-his-resurrection-reflects-his-identification/)

[Richard B. Jr. Gaffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-b-jr-gaffin/)

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> [In the larger scheme of things, God has commonly effected this purifying by revival or judgement. Strange though it may seem, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-wallis/in-the-larger-scheme-of-things-god-has-commonly-effected-this/)

[Arthur Wallis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-wallis/)

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> [There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-brown/there-is-a-spiritual-side-to-our-connection-with-the-planet-and-in/)

[Bob Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-brown/)

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> [“The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/the-doctrine-of-eternal-punishment-is-in-perfect-harmony-with-the-2/)

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

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> [Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/scripture-will-ultimately-suffice-for-a-saving-knowledge-of-god-only/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-hoover/the-spiritual-uplift-the-goodwill-cheerfulness-and-optimism-that/)

[Herbert Hoover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-hoover/)

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> [“If the devil be actually among us, then for the sake of much which has seemed crass in orthodox religion, thus completely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-edward-waite/if-the-devil-be-actually-among-us-then-for-the-sake-of-much-which-has/)

[Arthur Edward Waite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-edward-waite/)

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> [If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/if-the-church-of-today-does-not-recapture-the-sacrificial-spirit-of/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/if-you-want-to-find-out-if-someone-is-truly-holy-don-t-ask-them-2/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/tremendous-purity-tremendous-renunciation-is-the-one-secret-of/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-leo/i-am-the-stereo-typical-classic-lapsed-catholic-religious-themes-crop/)

[Ted Leo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-leo/)

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> [Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tillich/out-of-the-element-of-participation-follows-the-certainty-of-faith/)

[Paul Tillich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tillich/)

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> [“All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-knox/all-that-the-lord-thy-god-commands-thee-to-do-that-do-thou-to-the/)

[John Knox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-knox/)

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                        "text": "The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.",
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                        "text": "“Evil things happen, and good things happen, and in neither physics nor religion is there an explanation that makes any kind of sense. When the world decides to hurt, there’s no way around it, no magical words that will save the day or turn back time and bring the dead to life. There’s no such thing as fate, or, wickedness, or girls who can be princesses and girls who can’t. There’s only person, and we all do the best we can.”",
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                        "text": "Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.",
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                        "text": "Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.",
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                        "text": "Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?",
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                        "text": "“Father Martin said that those who think stability is meant to hold you back, and to stifle personal and spiritual growth, are missing the hidden value in the commitment to stability. It anchors you and gives you the freedom that comes from not being subject to the wind, the waves, and the currents of daily life. It creates the ordered conditions in which the soul’s internal pilgrimage toward holiness becomes possible. Or as Father Martin put it, “Stability give us the time and the structure to go deep into who we are as sons of God.”",
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                        "text": "All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.",
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                        "text": "“Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.”",
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                        "text": "Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and think our spirit is a spark of the divine, \"the God within everyone.\" That's not how the biblical writers thought about our spirits or souls.",
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                        "text": "“It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them capable of both. It will be sufficient, then, if, after infants have grown up, they exhibit the power of their baptism.\" - John Calvin”",
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