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> [“When I heard of the shady tactics of the Moonies, my initial indignation was modified by empathy. I remembered only too well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-price/when-i-heard-of-the-shady-tactics-of-the-moonies-my-initial/)

[Robert M. Price](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-price/)

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> [ “\[M\]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-douthat/m-ost-americans-are-still-drawing-some-water-from-the-christian-well/)

[Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-douthat/)

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> [“Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-robert-mulholland-jr/our-cross-is-the-point-of-our-unlikeness-to-the-image-of-christ-where/)

[M. Robert Mulholland Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-robert-mulholland-jr/)

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> [ Now, we know this is what \[H.P.\] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/now-we-know-this-is-what-h-p-lovecraft-was-into-because-he-kept/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

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> [I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wesley/i-know-that-i-had-not-faith-unless-the-faith-of-a-devil-the-faith-of/)

[John Wesley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wesley/)

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> [It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, "The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-a-carson/it-s-not-as-if-the-new-testament-writers-came-along-and-said-the/)

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

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> [The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-medved/the-distortions-and-insults-about-organized-religion-will-continue/)

[Michael Medved](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-medved/)

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> [Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-l-sayers/work-is-not-primarily-a-thing-one-does-to-live-but-the-thing-one/)

[Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-l-sayers/)

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> [I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wes-craven/i-wasn-t-allowed-to-see-movies-when-i-was-a-child-it-was-against-the/)

[Wes Craven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wes-craven/)

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> [ “Many \[Tudor-era religious radicals\] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-j-sansom/many-tudor-era-religious-radicals-believed-then-exactly-as-christian/)

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

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> [You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/you-never-hear-jesus-say-in-pilate-s-judgement-hall-one-word-that/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“An enormous amount of energy has been expended uselessly in the past, in assaulting positions that are no longer held. For example,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hugh-benson/an-enormous-amount-of-energy-has-been-expended-uselessly-in-the-past/)

[Robert Hugh Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hugh-benson/)

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> [The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-canfield/the-true-task-of-spiritual-life-is-not-found-in-faraway-places-or/)

[Jack Canfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-canfield/)

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> [When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/basilea-schlink/when-human-reason-has-exhausted-every-possibility-the-children-can-go/)

[Basilea Schlink](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/basilea-schlink/)

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> [Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/christians-are-as-subject-to-complacency-as-anybody-else-and-we-can/)

[Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/)

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> [Christianity is not just a religion; True Christians experience a deep personal relationship with the Creator God of the universe. All other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/goddey-wilson/christianity-is-not-just-a-religion-true-christians-experience-a-deep/)

[GODDEY WILSON](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/goddey-wilson/)

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> [Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-graham/warhol-and-other-pop-artists-had-brought-the-art-religion-of-art-for/)

[Dan Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-graham/)

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> [You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luciano-pavarotti/you-never-know-what-little-bundle-of-encouragements-artists-carry/)

[Luciano Pavarotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luciano-pavarotti/)

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> [We call religious liberty our first freedom, for a reason of course, because it's listed first. And that's because the founders understood:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-johnson/we-call-religious-liberty-our-first-freedom-for-a-reason-of-course/)

[Mike Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-johnson/)

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> [The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-john-paul-ii/the-question-confronting-the-church-today-is-not-any-longer-whether/)

[Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-john-paul-ii/)

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> [Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madalyn-murray-o-hair/religion-has-ever-been-anti-human-anti-woman-anti-life-anti-peace/)

[Madalyn Murray O'Hair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madalyn-murray-o-hair/)

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> [My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madhur-bhandarkar/my-beliefs-encompass-all-religions-but-i-never-show-my-religious/)

[Madhur Bhandarkar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madhur-bhandarkar/)

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> [“There were excesses in science and there were excesses in religion. A reasonable man wouldn’t be stampeded by either one. There were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/there-were-excesses-in-science-and-there-were-excesses-in-religion-a/)

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

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> [To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-j-stenger/to-most-theistic-believers-human-life-can-have-no-meaning-in-a/)

[Victor J. Stenger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-j-stenger/)

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> [For me, creating the clothes of Givenchy is the way to make my tribe. It's related to religion, too, because it's people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riccardo-tisci/for-me-creating-the-clothes-of-givenchy-is-the-way-to-make-my-tribe/)

[Riccardo Tisci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riccardo-tisci/)

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> [The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-vincent/the-church-of-christ-zealous-and-cautious-guardian-of-the-dogmas/)

[St. Vincent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-vincent/)

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> [Every revival in history seems to be the result of a few people becoming so hungry for God that they wanted Him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-joyner/every-revival-in-history-seems-to-be-the-result-of-a-few-people/)

[Rick Joyner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-joyner/)

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> [“But it is John who stresses most explicitly that Jesus’ death did not come as an accident but was fully willed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andreas-k-stenberger/but-it-is-john-who-stresses-most-explicitly-that-jesus-death-did-not/)

[Andreas Köstenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andreas-k-stenberger/)

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> [“—Baptism is administered by means of washing, i. e. applying the water to the subject. This application must be a true ablu…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-pohle/baptism-is-administered-by-means-of-washing-i-e-applying-the-water-to/)

[Joseph Pohle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-pohle/)

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> [It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/it-s-not-like-activist-work-is-a-nice-add-on-to-what-s-really/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

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> [“When you struggle with your faith, when you face the dark night of the soul, when you are not sure of where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul-2/when-you-struggle-with-your-faith-when-you-face-the-dark-night-of-the/)

[R.C. Sproul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-c-sproul-2/)

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> [It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/it-is-not-one-man-nor-a-million-but-the-spirit-of-liberty-that-must/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-world-has-never-been-as-divided-as-it-is-now-what-with-religious/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-frank/people-who-have-a-religion-should-be-glad-for-not-everyone-has-the-2/)

[Anne Frank](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-frank/)

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> [“My experience of ALL had made me realise that religions are both irrelevant and vitally important. Irrelevant to God, vitally important in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-frost/my-experience-of-all-had-made-me-realise-that-religions-are-both/)

[Michelle Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-frost/)

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> [“A mind that is free of any distortion is really the true religious mind, not a mind that goes to the temple,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/a-mind-that-is-free-of-any-distortion-is-really-the-true-religious/)

[Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiddu-krishnamurti/)

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> [The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hobbes/the-scripture-was-written-to-shew-unto-men-the-kingdom-of-god-and-to/)

[Thomas Hobbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hobbes/)

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> [Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-mcafee/believers-often-forget-that-most-atheists-used-to-be-religious-that/)

[David G. McAfee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-g-mcafee/)

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> [“Expository preaching will impact your life. It can help you grow personally in knowledge and obedience by your disciplined exposure to God’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramesh-richard/expository-preaching-will-impact-your-life-it-can-help-you-grow/)

[Ramesh Richard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramesh-richard/)

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> [Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-x/since-i-learned-the-truth-in-mecca-my-dearest-friends-have-come-to/)

[Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-x/)

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                        "text": "“[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what Christianity means, abandoning the nuances of traditional theology in favor of religions that stroke their egos and indulge or even celebrate their worst impulses. . . . Both doubters and believers stand to lose if religion in the age of heresy turns out to be complicit in our fragmented communities, our collapsing families, our political polarization, and our weakened social ties. Both doubters and believers will inevitably suffer from a religious culture that supplies more moral license than moral correction, more self-satisfaction than self-examination, more comfort than chastisement. . . . Many of the overlapping crises in American life . . . can be traced to the impulse to emphasize one particular element of traditional Christianity—one insight, one doctrine, one teaching or tradition—at the expense of all the others. The goal is always progress: a belief system that’s simpler or more reasonable, more authentic or more up-to-date. Yet the results often vindicate the older Christian synthesis. Heresy sets out to be simpler and more appealing and more rational, but it often ends up being more extreme. . . . The boast of Christian orthodoxy . . . has always been its fidelity to the whole of Jesus. Its dogmas and definitions seek to encompass the seeming contradictions in the gospel narratives rather than evading them. . . . These [heretical] simplifications have usually required telling a somewhat different story about Jesus than the one told across the books of the New Testament. Sometimes this retelling has involved thinning out the Christian canon, eliminating tensions by subtracting them. . . . More often, though, it’s been achieved by straightforwardly rewriting or even inventing crucial portions of the New Testament account. . . . “Religious man was born to be saved,” [Philip Rieff] wrote, but “psychological man is born to be pleased.” . . . In 2005, . . . . Smith and Denton found no evidence of real secularization among their subjects: 97 percent of teenagers professed some sort of belief in the divine, 71 percent reported feeling either “very” or “somewhat” close to God, and the vast majority self-identified as Christian. There was no sign of deep alienation from their parents’ churches, no evidence that the teenagers in the survey were poised to convert outright to Buddhism or Islam, and no sign that real atheism was making deep inroads among the young. But neither was there any evidence of a recognizably orthodox Christian faith. “American Christianity,” Smith and Denton suggested, is “either degenerating into a pathetic version of itself,” or else is “actively being colonized and displaced by a quite different religious faith.” They continued: “Most religious teenagers either do not really comprehend what their own religious traditions say they are supposed to believe, or they do understand it and simply do not care to believe it.” . . . An ego that’s never wounded, never trammeled or traduced—and that’s taught to regard its deepest impulses as the promptings of the divine spirit—can easily turn out to be an ego that never learns sympathy, compassion, or real wisdom. And when contentment becomes an end unto itself, the way that human contents express themselves can look an awful lot like vanity and decadence. . . . For all their claims to ancient wisdom, there’s nothing remotely countercultural about the Tolles and Winfreys and Chopras. They’re telling an affluent, appetitive society exactly what it wants to hear: that all of its deepest desires are really God’s desires, and that He wouldn’t dream of judging. This message encourages us to justify our sins by spiritualizing them. . . . Our vaunted religiosity is real enough, but our ostensible Christian piety doesn’t have the consequences a casual observer might expect. . . . We nod to God, and then we do as we please.”",
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                        "text": "“Our cross is the point of our unlikeness to the image of Christ, where we must die to self in order to be raised by God into wholeness of life in the image of Christ right there at that point. So the process of being conformed to the image of Christ takes place at the points of our unlikeness to Christ, and the first step is confrontation.”",
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                        "text": "Now, we know this is what [H.P.] Lovecraft was into. Because he kept talking about how he wasn't interested in religion. In a heaven state there is no religion, meaning that you're seeing the whole thing ... I mean, to worship something means that it's something beyond you, right? In other words, it's not being revealed to you.",
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                        "text": "I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?",
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                        "text": "It's not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, \"The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.\" In some ways they thought instead of the culmination of Old Testament books being Christ himself, the word incarnate as the opening verses of Hebrews 1 put it. In the past God spoke to the fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son and the son is revelation.",
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                        "text": "The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.",
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                        "text": "Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.",
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                        "text": "I wasn't allowed to see movies when I was a child. It was against the religion I was raised in, Fundamentalist Baptist. I didn't go into a commercial movie house until I was a senior in college, and that was on the sly. It wasn't until I was in graduate school that I immersed myself in films. Then, I went to see all the films by Bergman, Fellini, etc.",
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                        "text": "“Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon.\" [ From the author's concluding Historical Note ]”",
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                        "text": "You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.",
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                        "text": "“An enormous amount of energy has been expended uselessly in the past, in assaulting positions that are no longer held. For example, the old Protestant position of Justification by Faith only, has been practically relinquished long ago—at any rate in its old bald sense—by the vast majority of non-Catholics. Rather, the pendulum has swung so far that it would be truer to say that the average Protestant nowadays believes rather in Justification by works only. And this is but one example out of many. Or”",
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                        "text": "The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.",
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                        "text": "When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. ... For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.",
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                        "text": "Christianity is not just a religion; True Christians experience a deep personal relationship with the Creator God of the universe. All other religions of the world have one thing in common they are attempting to reach God by their own efforts and traditions. Only the God of the Bible reaches out to people in love. He has provided a way for you to be united with Him. The way is through His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus says to you, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6) Jesus the Christ is the only true path for unity with God. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)",
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                        "text": "“There were excesses in science and there were excesses in religion. A reasonable man wouldn’t be stampeded by either one. There were many interpretations of Scripture and many interpretations of the natural world. Both were created by God, so both must be mutually consistent. Wherever a discrepancy seems to exist, either a scientist or a theologian—maybe both—hasn’t been doing his job. Palmer”",
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                        "text": "For me, creating the clothes of Givenchy is the way to make my tribe. It's related to religion, too, because it's people trying to find identity - the young generation is looking for tribes. You have the hip-hop tribes, the punk tribes, the rockers, you have the hipsters, the bourgeois ... The fact of the tribe is that it's like a religion. Punk is like a religion, because it's a belief.",
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                        "text": "“My experience of ALL had made me realise that religions are both irrelevant and vitally important. Irrelevant to God, vitally important in making humans feel connected to God. It's not about any religion being the \"right\" one. It's about people finding ways to express their love of God to God.”",
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