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> [...You cannot live by sight and by faith, neither can you live by fear and by faith. It either has to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lester-roloff/you-cannot-live-by-sight-and-by-faith-neither-can-you-live-by-fear/)

[Lester Roloff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lester-roloff/)

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> [“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/our-faith-in-christ-does-not-free-us-from-works-but-from-false/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cross/i-m-going-to-keep-talking-about-what-i-think-is-interesting-for-my/)

[David Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cross/)

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> [As we travelled along the stormy life, Don't dispair look around you and observe how lucky we can be to be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bel-claveria-carig-martinez/as-we-travelled-along-the-stormy-life-don-t-dispair-look-around-you/)

[Bel Claveria Carig Martinez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bel-claveria-carig-martinez/)

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> [More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-secretan/more-than-anything-else-today-followers-believe-they-are-part-of-a/)

[Lance Secretan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-secretan/)

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> [The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/the-man-who-suffers-from-a-sense-of-sin-is-suffering-from-a/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virchand-gandhi/all-religions-worthy-of-the-name-are-now-making-great-efforts-to-2/)

[Virchand Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virchand-gandhi/)

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> [Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-c-collins/perhaps-your-quest-to-be-part-of-building-something-great-will-not/)

[James C. Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-c-collins/)

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> [I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-mcdowell/i-would-say-much-of-religious-heresy-is-the-result-of-a/)

[Josh McDowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-mcdowell/)

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> [“True spirituality covers all of reality. There are things the Bible tells us to do as absolutes which are sinful- which do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-a-schaeffer/true-spirituality-covers-all-of-reality-there-are-things-the-bible/)

[Francis A. Schaeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-a-schaeffer/)

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> [“I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-pearce/i-promise-you-it-doesn-t-matter-what-you-believe-how-strongly-you/)

[Dan Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-pearce/)

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> [“The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts. Scholars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-average-christian-believes-in-the-monotheist-god-but-also-in-the/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/i-would-say-that-all-our-sciences-are-the-material-that-has-to-be/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [“If, as Moses Mendelssohn maintains, Judaism is not a religion but a revealed legislation, it seems strange that such a God should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-cioran/if-as-moses-mendelssohn-maintains-judaism-is-not-a-religion-but-a/)

[Emil Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-cioran/)

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> [“You make pictures, not take them? Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-james-waller/you-make-pictures-not-take-them-yes-at-least-that-s-how-i-think-of-it/)

[Robert James Waller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-james-waller/)

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> [Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pema-ch-dr-n/sticking-with-uncertainty-is-how-we-learn-to-relax-in-the-midst-of/)

[Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pema-ch-dr-n/)

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> [Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/most-christian-believers-tend-to-echo-the-cultural-prejudices-and/)

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

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> [“Patriotism comes from the same Latin word as father. Blind patriotism is collective transference. In it the state becomes a parent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-richo/patriotism-comes-from-the-same-latin-word-as-father-blind-patriotism/)

[David Richo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-richo/)

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> [Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/not-every-sky-will-be-blue-and-not-every-day-is-springtime-so-on-the/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/i-would-not-look-with-favor-upon-a-president-working-to-subvert-the/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [“Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul-2/our-suffering-has-a-purpose-it-helps-us-toward-the-end-of-our-faith/)

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

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> [In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/in-a-world-facing-the-revolt-of-ragged-and-hungry-masses-of-god-s/)

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

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> [“But here's the biggest head-scratcher of all: Not only are atheists destroying our country, they're completely deluding themselves. There's simply no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-colbert/but-here-s-the-biggest-head-scratcher-of-all-not-only-are-atheists/)

[Stephen Colbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-colbert/)

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> [Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/be-brave-be-strong-be-fearless-once-you-have-taken-up-the-spiritual-2/)

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

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> [Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/missionaries-whether-of-philosophy-or-religion-rarely-make-rapid-way/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sol-luckman/he-knew-perfectly-well-even-if-he-wasn-t-inclined-to-admit-it-that/)

[Sol Luckman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sol-luckman/)

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> [If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-bohme/if-we-incline-our-wills-in-true-earnest-singleness-to-god-then-we-go/)

[Jakob Bohme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-bohme/)

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> [“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/for-it-is-essential-to-opinion-that-we-assent-to-one-of-two-opposite/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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> [I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/i-d-like-to-turn-the-whole-jesus-story-around-and-look-at-it-from-a/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [“I have tried to show how religion, the backbone of civilisation, hardens into a Church that is unacceptable to Outsiders, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-wilson/i-have-tried-to-show-how-religion-the-backbone-of-civilisation/)

[Colin Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-wilson/)

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> [“See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man!" and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/see-what-monkeys-we-are-look-such-is-man-and-at-once-all-renown-all/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-mant/every-deviation-from-the-rules-of-charity-and-brotherly-love-of/)

[Richard Mant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-mant/)

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> [One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-brand/one-thing-lots-of-christians-do-have-in-common-is-that-they-can-t/)

[Jo Brand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-brand/)

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> [“The lesson is this: When the road gets dark and all hope seems lost, there's nothing to do but keep going. We,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-arthur/the-lesson-is-this-when-the-road-gets-dark-and-all-hope-seems-lost/)

[Sarah Arthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-arthur/)

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> [“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-must-have-a-religion-it-goes-without-saying-but-my-idea-is-to-have/)

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

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> [Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/sometimes-we-must-interfere-when-human-lives-are-endangered-when/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-steiner/the-student-of-mathematics-must-get-rid-of-all-arbitrary-thinking-and/)

[Rudolf Steiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-steiner/)

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> [“Early in the ministry of the apostle Paul, he called himself the least of the apostles. Later on he said he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-nelson/early-in-the-ministry-of-the-apostle-paul-he-called-himself-the-least/)

[Tommy Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tommy-nelson/)

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> [“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-barker/she-had-witnessed-in-nauseating-detail-how-the-human-world-worked-its/)

[Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-barker/)

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> [“In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hay/in-a-society-so-estranged-from-animals-as-ours-we-often-fail-to/)

[John Hay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hay/)

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                        "text": "I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how women do a lot of shoe shopping or how being married sucks, go see the guy who does jokes about that. But if you come to see my live show, there's going to be 20 minutes on religion for the rest of my life, probably. If that makes me a caricature, so be it.",
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                        "text": "As we travelled along the stormy life, Don't dispair look around you and observe how lucky we can be to be able to share those sacrifices that our dear Lord Jesus Christ has been through for us. Be thankful to the Lord for all the trials that we are expereincing. It is the way to test how strong our faith in him. Keep your head high and spirit high, be inspired and share your joy to the world.",
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                        "text": "The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.",
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                        "text": "All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.",
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                        "text": "Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.",
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                        "text": "I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.",
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                        "text": "“True spirituality covers all of reality. There are things the Bible tells us to do as absolutes which are sinful- which do not conform to the character of God. But aside from these things the Lordship of Christ covers all of life and all of life equally. It is not only that true spirituality covers all of life, but it covers all parts of the spectrum of life equally. In this sense there is nothing concerning reality that is not spiritual.”",
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                        "text": "“I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.”",
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                        "text": "“The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts. Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion. The”",
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                        "text": "“If, as Moses Mendelssohn maintains, Judaism is not a religion but a revealed legislation, it seems strange that such a God should be its author and symbol. He who has, precisely, nothing of the legislator about Him. Incapable of the slightest effort of objectivity, He dispenses justice according to His whim, without any code to limit His divagations and His impulses. He is a despot as jittery as He is aggressive, saturated with complexes, an ideal subject for psychoanalysis. He disarms metaphysics, which detects in Him no trace of a substantial, self-sufficient Being superior to the world and content with the interval that separates Him from it. A clown who has inherited heaven and who there perpetuates the wost traditions of earth, he employes means, astounded by His own power and proud of having made its effects felt. Yet His vehemence, His shifts of mood, His spasmodic outbursts finally attract, if they do not convince us. Not at all resigned to His eternity, He intervenes in the affairs of earth, makes a mess of them, sowing confusion and clutter. He disconcerts, irritates, seduces.”",
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                        "text": "“You make pictures, not take them? Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image.”",
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                        "text": "Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.",
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                        "text": "Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.",
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                        "text": "“Patriotism comes from the same Latin word as father. Blind patriotism is collective transference. In it the state becomes a parent and we citizens submit our loyalty to ensure its protection. We may have been encouraged to make that bargain from our public school education, our family home, religion, or culture in general. We associate safety with obedience to authority, for example, going along with government policies. We then make duty, as it is defined by the nation, our unquestioned course. Our motivation is usually not love of country but fear of being without a country that will defend us and our property. Connection is all-important to us; excommunication is the equivalent of death, the finality we can’t dispute. Healthy adult loyalty is a virtue that does not become blind obedience for fear of losing connection, nor total devotion so that we lose our boundaries. Our civil obedience can be so firm that it may take precedence over our concern for those we love, even our children. Here is an example: A young mother is told by the doctor that her toddler is allergic to peanuts and peanut oil. She lets the school know of her son’s allergy when he goes to kindergarten. Throughout his childhood, she is vigilant and makes sure he is safe from peanuts in any form. Eighteen years later, there is a war and he is drafted. The same mother, who was so scrupulously careful about her child’s safety, now waves goodbye to him with a tear but without protest. Mother’s own training in public school and throughout her life has made her believe that her son’s life is expendable whether or not the war in question is just. “Patriotism” is so deeply ingrained in her that she does not even imagine an alternative, even when her son’s life is at stake. It is of course also true that, biologically, parents are ready to let children go just as the state is ready to draft them. What a cunning synchronic-ity. In addition, old men who decide on war take advantage of the timing too. The warrior archetype is lively in eighteen-year-olds, who are willing to fight. Those in their mid-thirties, whose archetype is being a householder and making a mark in their chosen field, will not show an interest in battlefields of blood. The chiefs count on the fact that young braves will take the warrior myth literally rather than as a metaphor for interior battles. They will be willing to put their lives on the line to live out the collective myth of societies that have not found the path of nonviolence. Our collective nature thus seems geared to making war a workable enterprise. In some people, peacemaking is the archetype most in evidence. Nature seems to have made that population smaller, unfortunately. Our culture has trained us to endure and tolerate, not to protest and rebel. Every cell of our bodies learned that lesson. It may not be virtue; it may be fear. We may believe that showing anger is dangerous, because it opposes the authority we are obliged to appease and placate if we are to survive. This explains why we so admire someone who dares to say no and to stand up or even to die for what he believes. That person did not fall prey to the collective seduction. Watching Jeopardy on television, I notice that the audience applauds with special force when a contestant risks everything on a double-jeopardy question. The healthy part of us ardently admires daring. In our positive shadow, our admiration reflects our own disavowed or hidden potential. We, too, have it in us to dare. We can stand up for our truth, putting every comfort on the line, if only we can calm our long-scared ego and open to the part of us that wants to live free. Joseph Campbell says encouragingly, “The part of us that wants to become is fearless.” Religion and Transference Transference is not simply horizontal, from person to person, but vertical from person to a higher power, usually personified as God. When”",
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                        "text": "Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.",
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                        "text": "I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.",
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                        "text": "“Our suffering has a purpose-it helps us toward the end of our faith, which is the salvation of our souls. Suffering is a crucible. As gold is refined in the fire, purged of its dross and impurities, so our faith is tested by fire. Gold perishes. Our souls do not. We experience pain and grief for a season. It is while we are in the fire that perplexity assails us. But there is another side to the fire. As the dross burns away, the genuineness of faith is purified unto the salvation of our souls.”",
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                        "text": "In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action",
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                        "text": "“But here's the biggest head-scratcher of all: Not only are atheists destroying our country, they're completely deluding themselves. There's simply no way to prove that there is no God. If I didn't hate them so much, I'd feel bad for these folks. Imagine going through life completely duped into thinking that there's no invisible, omniscient higher power guiding every action on Earth. It's just so arbitrary! Can't they see?”",
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                        "text": "Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down.",
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                        "text": "Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.",
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                        "text": "“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences—which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory.”",
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                        "text": "If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.",
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                        "text": "“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that our adhesion is not firm: to science it is essential to have firm adhesion with intellectual vision, for science possesses certitude which results from the understanding of principles: while faith holds a middle place, for it surpasses opinion in so far as its adhesion is firm, but falls short of science in so far as it lacks vision.”",
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