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title: "Inspiring Religion Sayings"
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> [“The significance of establishing those two facts (1) that Jesus claimed to be God and (2) that He rose from the dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evan-minton/the-significance-of-establishing-those-two-facts-1-that-jesus-claimed/)

[Evan Minton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evan-minton/)

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> [“Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kornfield/before-his-death-the-buddha-asked-his-disciples-to-follow-the-dharma/)

[Jack Kornfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kornfield/)

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> [Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/airto-moreira/inspiration-is-not-inside-of-us-inspiration-comes-from-outside-it/)

[Airto Moreira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/airto-moreira/)

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> [“again…History shows that revival begins with the Christians being brought to their knees. It is a flood of deep conviction, purging and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-strom/again-history-shows-that-revival-begins-with-the-christians-being/)

[Andrew Strom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-strom/)

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> [The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-hawley/the-obama-administration-contends-that-starting-a-for-profit-business/)

[Josh Hawley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-hawley/)

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> [I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-buechner/i-was-deeply-influenced-by-an-episcopal-laywoman-named-agnes-sanford/)

[Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-buechner/)

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> [God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/god-did-not-create-man-in-his-own-image-evidently-it-was-quite-the/)

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

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> [In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulysses-s-grant/in-1850-i-believe-the-church-property-in-the-united-states-which-paid/)

[Ulysses S. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulysses-s-grant/)

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> [Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randall-price/archaeology-is-a-science-and-like-all-sciences-has-its-limitations/)

[Randall Price](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randall-price/)

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> [Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/today-we-face-many-problems-some-are-created-essentially-by-ourselves/)

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

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> [In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/in-their-struggle-for-the-ethical-good-teachers-of-religion-must-have-2/)

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

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> [Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/sometimes-religion-becomes-yet-another-source-for-more-division-and/)

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

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> [Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-klemp/life-is-trying-to-teach-us-one-thing-to-see-the-eck-holy-spirit-in/)

[Harold Klemp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-klemp/)

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> [“I believe with perfect faith that at this very moment millions of human beings are standing at crossroads and intersections, in jungles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-amichai/i-believe-with-perfect-faith-that-at-this-very-moment-millions-of/)

[Yehuda Amichai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-amichai/)

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> [If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson/if-religion-and-science-could-be-united-on-the-common-ground-of/)

[E. O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson/)

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> [“We have shown that social enjoyment and amusements are not incompatible with correct conduct and true religion. Instead of forbidding the theatre…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-taylor/we-have-shown-that-social-enjoyment-and-amusements-are-not/)

[John Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-taylor/)

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> [“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-edwards/it-does-not-answer-the-aim-which-god-had-in-this-institution-merely/)

[Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-edwards/)

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> [“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-patrick-shanley/father-brendan-flynn-a-woman-was-gossiping-with-her-friend-about-a/)

[John Patrick Shanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-patrick-shanley/)

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> [Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/halford-luccock/expressions-of-sharp-and-even-violent-criticism-of-religion-and-the/)

[Halford Luccock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/halford-luccock/)

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> [The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/the-greatest-competitor-of-devotion-to-jesus-is-service-to-him-it-is/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [“What we are looking for in reading the Bible is the ability to turn the two-dimensional words on paper into a three-dimensional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scot-mcknight/what-we-are-looking-for-in-reading-the-bible-is-the-ability-to-turn/)

[Scot McKnight](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scot-mcknight/)

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> [maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-picoult/maybe-there-is-more-to-a-person-than-a-body-and-a-mind-maybe/)

[Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-picoult/)

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> [Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zbigniew-brzezinski/look-at-islam-in-a-rational-manner-and-without-demagoguery-or-emotion-2/)

[Zbigniew Brzezinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zbigniew-brzezinski/)

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> [“From Good Friday in AD 33 through the following Sabbath day, the apostles were whimpering, broken fugitives. After Resurrection Sunday, they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-allen-moseley/from-good-friday-in-ad-33-through-the-following-sabbath-day-the/)

[James Allen Moseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-allen-moseley/)

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> [“Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/few-religions-are-definite-about-the-size-of-heaven-but-on-the-planet/)

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

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> [Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miyamoto-musashi/do-not-let-your-spirit-be-influenced-by-your-body-or-your-body-be/)

[Miyamoto Musashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miyamoto-musashi/)

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> [Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-chadwick/satan-dreads-nothing-but-prayer-the-church-that-lost-its-christ-was/)

[Samuel Chadwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-chadwick/)

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> [“The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-housden/the-willingness-to-let-go-of-what-we-know-you-might-even-call-an/)

[Roger Housden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-housden/)

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> [For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaime-harrison/for-centuries-our-country-has-welcomed-people-fleeing-religious/)

[Jaime Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaime-harrison/)

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> [The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-ryle/the-man-who-has-nothing-more-than-a-kind-of-sunday-religion-whose/)

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

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> [“Henry had already gotten his deer, a good-sized doe, and Jonesy had an idea Pete cared a lot more about making sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/henry-had-already-gotten-his-deer-a-good-sized-doe-and-jonesy-had-an/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alphonsus-liguori/those-who-are-seeking-the-true-religion-will-never-find-it-outside/)

[Alphonsus Liguori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alphonsus-liguori/)

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> [If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/if-one-attempts-to-assign-to-religion-its-place-in-man-s-evolution-it/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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> [“We have constant need of prayer, therefore, in the same way that we need air to breathe. Prayer holds the key to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurus-fitzgerald/we-have-constant-need-of-prayer-therefore-in-the-same-way-that-we/)

[Maurus Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurus-fitzgerald/)

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> [“The idea that the word of God should be permitted to cal- cify slowly into a language normal people can’t read is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-l-ward-jr/the-idea-that-the-word-of-god-should-be-permitted-to-cal-cify-slowly/)

[Mark L. Ward Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-l-ward-jr/)

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> [In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-lelio/in-the-case-of-disobedience-the-very-secretive-way-of-life-and/)

[Sebastian Lelio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-lelio/)

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> [My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/my-chief-concern-is-to-make-clear-the-truth-which-i-have-attained-to/)

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

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> [Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-e-faust/peace-in-this-life-is-based-upon-faith-and-testimony-we-can-all-find/)

[James E. Faust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-e-faust/)

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> [The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-evidence-for-our-new-testament-writings-is-ever-so-much-greater/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Latino evangelicals are much more socially conservative than Latino Catholics … So when these people convert from Catholicism to evangelicalism, they actually come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-j-chaput/latino-evangelicals-are-much-more-socially-conservative-than-latino/)

[Charles J. Chaput](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-j-chaput/)

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                        "text": "“Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over the community of monks and nuns. The Dharma was to guide them. So for us, there is no blind belief or blind faith in Buddhism. We simply believe enough in the possibility of liberation and we are wise enough to see the suffering in our existence to have the faith to begin practice.”",
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                        "text": "Inspiration is not inside of us. Inspiration comes from outside. It comes from our spiritual guides and from different energies that are in the universe. If we keep in touch with god and our spiritual guides, just knowing that they exist and they are there for us, gives us the strength to say well this is a bad phase but it's going to end and when it ends I'm going to do something good.",
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                        "text": "“again…History shows that revival begins with the Christians being brought to their knees. It is a flood of deep conviction, purging and repentance aimed at \"cleaning out\" the church and restoring her to New Testament purity and power.”",
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                        "text": "I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.",
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                        "text": "God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.",
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                        "text": "In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.",
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                        "text": "Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been reappraised and reinterpreted by more recent findings. Some of the older positive claims, as well as most of the negative criticisms of the Bible, have changed, usually for the better. For another, the actual amount of archaeological evidence is quite small. It has been estimated that less than 1% of archaeological sites in the Holy Land have been excavated, and those that have been excavated have only been partially excavated.",
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                        "text": "Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.",
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                        "text": "In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.",
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                        "text": "Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.",
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                        "text": "Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This means that those who have the enlightenment, or work themselves into it, have the ability to know that the Spirit of God is always with them. From then on they find peace and contentment and accept themselves without apology.",
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                        "text": "“I believe with perfect faith that at this very moment millions of human beings are standing at crossroads and intersections, in jungles and deserts, showing each other where to turn, what the right way is, which direction. They explain exactly where to go, what is the quickest way to get there, when to stop and ask again. There, over there. The second turnoff, not the first, and from there left or right, near the white house, by the oak tree. They explain with excited voices, with a wave of the hand and a nod of the head: There, over there, not that there, the other there, as in some ancient rite. This too is a new religion. I believe with perfect faith that at this very moment.”",
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                        "text": "If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.",
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                        "text": "“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on the Scripture, and other good books of divinity; because, although these may tend, as well as preaching, to give a good doctrinal or speculative understanding of the word of God, yet they have not an equal tendency to impress them on men's hearts and affections. God hath appointed a particular and lively application of his word, in the preaching of it, as a fit means to affect sinners with the importance of religion, their own misery, the necessity of a remedy, and the glory and sufficiency of a remedy provided; to stir up the pure minds of the saints, quicken their affections by often bringing the great things of religion in their remembrance, and setting them in their proper colours, though they know them, and have been fully instructed in them already. ”",
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                        "text": "“Father Brendan Flynn: \"A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great hand appeared over her and pointed down on her. She was immediately seized with an overwhelming sense of guilt. The next day she went to confession. She got the old parish priest, Father O' Rourke, and she told him the whole thing. 'Is gossiping a sin?' she asked the old man. 'Was that God All Mighty's hand pointing down at me? Should I ask for your absolution? Father, have I done something wrong?' 'Yes,' Father O' Rourke answered her. 'Yes, you ignorant, badly-brought-up female. You have blamed false witness on your neighbor. You played fast and loose with his reputation, and you should be heartily ashamed.' So, the woman said she was sorry, and asked for forgiveness. 'Not so fast,' says O' Rourke. 'I want you to go home, take a pillow upon your roof, cut it open with a knife, and return here to me.' So, the woman went home: took a pillow off her bed, a knife from the drawer, went up the fire escape to her roof, and stabbed the pillow. Then she went back to the old parish priest as instructed. 'Did you gut the pillow with a knife?' he says. 'Yes, Father.' 'And what were the results?' 'Feathers,' she said. 'Feathers?' he repeated. 'Feathers; everywhere, Father.' 'Now I want you to go back and gather up every last feather that flew out onto the wind,' 'Well,' she said, 'it can't be done. I don't know where they went. The wind took them all over.' 'And that,' said Father O' Rourke, 'is gossip!”",
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                        "text": "Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.",
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                        "text": "The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.",
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                        "text": "maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.",
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                        "text": "Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.",
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                        "text": "“From Good Friday in AD 33 through the following Sabbath day, the apostles were whimpering, broken fugitives. After Resurrection Sunday, they were lions who revolutionized the world. What caused this astonishing change? After watching Jesus undeniably die, the apostles saw, touched, and ate with the risen Lord, not once, but many times for over forty days. The fact of the Resurrection demonstrated to them (and demonstrates to us) that Jesus is God; and if he is God, his teaching is true. Only the realization of that could have been worth more to the apostles than their lives.”",
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                        "text": "“Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that the Heavenly Host and other essential services take up at least two thirds of this space, this leaves about one million cubic feet of space for each human occupant- assuming that every creature that could be called ‘human’ is allowed in, and the the human race eventually totals a thousand times the numbers of humans alive up until now. This is such a generous amount of space that it suggests that room has also been provided for some alien races or - a happy thought - that pets are allowed.”",
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                        "text": "Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.",
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                        "text": "Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.",
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                        "text": "“The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will work out as we hope, but faith, simply, in life and its extraordinary intelligence that never fails to surprise. While belief holds on tightly, faith lets go.”",
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                        "text": "For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and their futures. With proper safeguards in place, we should offer refuge to some migrants with legitimate fears of persecution and violence.",
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