---
title: "Inspiring Religion Words"
description: "Browse 58,737 Religion quotes by 17,017 authors. Discover the best Religion sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/abhijit-naskar-99_brainy-quotes_in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was_3219825.jpg"
---

> [“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was-the-default-mode-of-thinking/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/abhijit-naskar-99_brainy-quotes_in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was_3219825.jpg)

> [If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/if-religion-and-life-depend-upon-books-or-upon-the-existence-of-any/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/swami-vivekananda-53_belief_if-religion-and-life-depend-upon-books-o_2183220.jpg)

> [From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-c-clark/from-the-standpoint-of-freedom-of-speech-and-the-press-it-is-enough/)

[Tom C. Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-c-clark/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/tom-c-clark-52801_business_from-the-standpoint-of-freedom-of-speech_1435451.png)

> [“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/the-greatest-barrier-i-have-met-is-the-almost-total-absence-from-the/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d00/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_the-greatest-barrier-i-have-met-is-the-a_302402.jpg)

> [What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clayton-m-christensen/what-s-unique-about-the-mormon-church-is-that-it-encourages-inquiry-i/)

[Clayton M. Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clayton-m-christensen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/clayton-m-christensen-6841_asking-questions_what-s-unique-about-the-mormon-church-is_962263.jpg)

> [“PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DISCIPLES • A disciple abides in Christ through the Word and prayer (John 15:7). • A disciple bears much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hull/personal-characteristics-of-disciples-a-disciple-abides-in-christ/)

[Bill Hull](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-hull/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/bill-hull-34622_christianity_personal-characteristics-of-disciples-a_2273823.jpg)

> [Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-wilberforce/is-it-not-the-great-end-of-religion-and-in-particular-the-glory-of/)

[William Wilberforce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-wilberforce/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/william-wilberforce-8564_active_is-it-not-the-great-end-of-religion-and_1194115.jpg)

> [Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we want to do that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-hanegraaff/christian-research-institute-want-to-remain-relevant-with-respect-to/)

[Hank Hanegraaff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-hanegraaff/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/hank-hanegraaff-23819_boards_christian-research-institute-want-to-rem_2518291.jpg)

> [In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-key/in-order-to-overcome-the-spirit-that-creates-war-mothers-must-begin/)

[Ellen Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-key/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/ellen-key-6012_childhood_in-order-to-overcome-the-spirit-that-cre_763965.png)

> [We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-b-eyring/we-are-the-spirit-children-of-a-heavenly-father-he-loved-us-and-he/)

[Henry B. Eyring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-b-eyring/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/henry-b-eyring-1096_because_we-are-the-spirit-children-of-a-heavenly_1208591.jpg)

> [“New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-maher/new-rule-just-because-a-country-elects-a-smart-president-doesn-t-make/)

[Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-maher/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/bill-maher-211_9-11_new-rule-just-because-a-country-elects-a_1526753.jpg)

> [“From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bangambiki-habyarimana/from-the-club-of-what-atheist-call-false-hope-and-false-god-which/)

[Bangambiki Habyarimana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bangambiki-habyarimana/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/bangambiki-habyarimana-1099_agnostic_from-the-club-of-what-atheist-call-false_2812818.jpg)

> [In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple… Somebody nominated me for president…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/in-those-days-in-far-rockaway-there-was-a-youth-center-for-jewish/)

[Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/richard-p-feynman-495_atheism_in-those-days-in-far-rockaway-there-was_2371753.jpg)

> [“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/you-felt-in-spite-of-all-bureaucracy-and-inefficiency-and-party/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/879/ernest-hemingway-83_first-communion_you-felt-in-spite-of-all-bureaucracy-and_266211.jpg)

> [“In order to truly experience the beauty and richness of the moments of our life, we need to be fully present in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-rickel/in-order-to-truly-experience-the-beauty-and-richness-of-the-moments/)

[Valerie Rickel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-rickel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/valerie-rickel-285091_beauty_in-order-to-truly-experience-the-beauty_2755244.jpg)

> [The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-e-olson/the-biblical-writers-didn-t-need-to-say-everything-they-could-assume/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bd/roger-e-olson-17551_anticipate_the-biblical-writers-didn-t-need-to-say_2559712.jpg)

> [I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hicks/i-don-t-know-what-you-all-believe-and-i-don-t-really-care-but-you/)

[Bill Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-hicks/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/bill-hicks-970_belief_i-don-t-know-what-you-all-believe-and-i_2252182.jpg)

> [“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would have granted her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-veuillot/for-indeed-the-church-is-divinely-constituted-and-lives-by-her-own/)

[Louis Veuillot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-veuillot/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/louis-veuillot-63753_abuse-of-power_for-indeed-the-church-is-divinely-consti_427911.jpg)

> [When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/when-you-examine-the-lives-of-the-most-influential-people-who-have/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/albert-einstein-33_firsts_when-you-examine-the-lives-of-the-most-i_2318943.jpg)

> [If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-take-a-look-at-history-you-will-find-that-the-understanding-of/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/salman-rushdie-153_evil_if-you-take-a-look-at-history-you-will-f_2494412.jpg)

> [To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ichabod-spencer/to-cut-off-the-sinner-from-all-reliance-upon-himself-his-merits-and/)

[Ichabod Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ichabod-spencer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/ichabod-spencer-37102_aim_to-cut-off-the-sinner-from-all-reliance_46044.jpg)

> [Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-like-william-lane-craig-the/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/francis-spufford-12650_admit_despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-l_138578.png)

> [What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-storms/what-elevates-the-human-soul-and-empowers-it-to-live-in-the-fullness/)

[Sam Storms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-storms/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/sam-storms-12070_anxiety_what-elevates-the-human-soul-and-empower_2383082.png)

> [Evangelism is not simply looking at someone and saying, "Look, you have to become a Christian". Instead, an evangelist tells us the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-dever/evangelism-is-not-simply-looking-at-someone-and-saying-look-you-have/)

[Mark Dever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-dever/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/mark-dever-3175_christian_evangelism-is-not-simply-looking-at-some_2677293.png)

> [I want my music to transcend all the barriers. The spirit of conquest is a trait that has survived in human beings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shakira/i-want-my-music-to-transcend-all-the-barriers-the-spirit-of-conquest/)

[Shakira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shakira/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/shakira-1582_music_i-want-my-music-to-transcend-all-the-bar_1859528.jpg)

> [“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/are-you-really-surprised-by-the-endurance-of-religion-what-ideology/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/sam-harris-457_belief_are-you-really-surprised-by-the-enduranc_3179436.jpg)

> [“Religion does not strengthen the believer. Without a healthy skepticism and honed skills in critical thought and analysis, believers wander through a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-stefanelli/religion-does-not-strengthen-the-believer-without-a-healthy/)

[Al Stefanelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-stefanelli/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/al-stefanelli-10033_health_religion-does-not-strengthen-the-believe_1496926.jpg)

> [ You have to plan it \[your devotion to God\] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/you-have-to-plan-it-your-devotion-to-god-every-day-and-the-best-time/)

[Ravi Zacharias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-zacharias/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/ravi-zacharias-1158_best-time_you-have-to-plan-it-your-devotion-to-god_1445207.png)

> [“Religious imagery and symbolism were the common idioms that all speakers employed when making rhetorical points. Rather than indicating a level of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-k-green/religious-imagery-and-symbolism-were-the-common-idioms-that-all/)

[Steven K. Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-k-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/steven-k-green-29974_bible_religious-imagery-and-symbolism-were-the_766323.jpg)

> [“It is undefinable; and moreover, if it were defined it would lose all its value. God is not all that exists; God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/remy-de-gourmont/it-is-undefinable-and-moreover-if-it-were-defined-it-would-lose-all/)

[Remy de Gourmont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/remy-de-gourmont/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/remy-de-gourmont-7554_faith_it-is-undefinable-and-moreover-if-it-wer_571732.jpg)

> [The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-methodologies-of-examining-hip-hop-are-borrowed-from-sociology/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/michael-eric-dyson-1424_american_the-methodologies-of-examining-hip-hop-a_551926.png)

> [If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/if-we-are-to-say-that-religion-cannot-be-concerned-with-politics-then/)

[Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desmond-tutu/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/desmond-tutu-442_christ_if-we-are-to-say-that-religion-cannot-be_2340486.jpg)

> [If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-c-bradley/if-we-are-to-include-the-outer-and-the-inner-struggle-in-a-conception/)

[A. C. Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-c-bradley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/a-c-bradley-43838_conception_if-we-are-to-include-the-outer-and-the-i_710565.jpg)

> [It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penn-jillette/it-s-not-arrogant-to-say-that-you-can-t-figure-out-the-answers-to-the/)

[Penn Jillette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penn-jillette/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/022/penn-jillette-1046_answers_it-s-not-arrogant-to-say-that-you-can-t_2461589.jpg)

> [My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leland-ryken/my-claim-is-simply-that-the-literary-approach-is-one-necessary-way-to/)

[Leland Ryken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leland-ryken/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaf/leland-ryken-18808_approach_my-claim-is-simply-that-the-literary-app_2648562.jpg)

> [It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-bauer/it-s-important-to-ask-candidates-about-their-beliefs-in-part-because/)

[Gary Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-bauer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/gary-bauer-9108_about_it-s-important-to-ask-candidates-about-t_968434.jpg)

> [“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/in-former-days-said-golenishtchev-not-observing-or-not-willing-to/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/leo-tolstoy-55_born-free_in-former-days-said-golenishtchev-not-ob_690143.jpg)

> [Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-hoover/menaced-by-collectivist-trends-we-must-seek-revival-of-our-strength/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/herbert-hoover-1115_bedrock_menaced-by-collectivist-trends-we-must-s_364352.jpg)

> [“American fundamentalism’s original sentiments were as radically democratic in theory as they have become repressive in practice, its dream not that of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-sharlet/american-fundamentalism-s-original-sentiments-were-as-radically/)

[Jeff Sharlet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-sharlet/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81c/jeff-sharlet-22680_christianity_american-fundamentalism-s-original-senti_1253960.jpg)

> [By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-h-tawney/by-a-kind-of-happy-pre-established-harmony-such-as-a-later-age/)

[R. H. Tawney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-h-tawney/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/r-h-tawney-25650_age_by-a-kind-of-happy-pre-established-harmo_1437363.jpg)

## Top authors on Religion

- [Lailah Gifty Akita 519 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/lailah-gifty-akita/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mahatma-gandhi-62675.jpg) Mahatma Gandhi 333 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/mahatma-gandhi/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 253 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/richard-dawkins/)
- [Dada Bhagwan 252 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/dada-bhagwan/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 231 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/swami-vivekananda/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-christopher-hitchens-23938.jpg) Christopher Hitchens 217 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/christopher-hitchens/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 208 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/thomas-jefferson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 201 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/charles-spurgeon/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-timothy-keller-91037.jpg) Timothy Keller 192 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/timothy-keller/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 192 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/friedrich-nietzsche/)
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 184 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-martin-luther-64750.jpg) Martin Luther 178 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/martin-luther/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/#itemlist",
            "name": "Religion Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 40,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Abhijit Naskar"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was-the-default-mode-of-thinking/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/abhijit-naskar-99_brainy-quotes_in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was_3219825.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/abhijit-naskar-99_brainy-quotes_in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was_3219825.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/abhijit-naskar-99_brainy-quotes_in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was_3219825.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a…” — Abhijit Naskar",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Swami Vivekananda"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/if-religion-and-life-depend-upon-books-or-upon-the-existence-of-any/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/swami-vivekananda-53_belief_if-religion-and-life-depend-upon-books-o_2183220.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/swami-vivekananda-53_belief_if-religion-and-life-depend-upon-books-o_2183220.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/swami-vivekananda-53_belief_if-religion-and-life-depend-upon-books-o_2183220.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all…” — Swami Vivekananda",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Tom C. Clark"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-c-clark/from-the-standpoint-of-freedom-of-speech-and-the-press-it-is-enough/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/tom-c-clark-52801_business_from-the-standpoint-of-freedom-of-speech_1435451.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/tom-c-clark-52801_business_from-the-standpoint-of-freedom-of-speech_1435451.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/tom-c-clark-52801_business_from-the-standpoint-of-freedom-of-speech_1435451.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no…” — Tom C. Clark",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of sin... The early Christian preachers could assume in their hearers, whether Jews, Metuentes, or Pagans, a sense of guilt. (That this was common among Pagans is shown by the fact that both Epicureanism and the mystery religions both claimed, though in different ways, to assuage it.) Thus the Christian message was in those days unmistakably the Evangelium, the Good News. It promised healing to those who knew they were sick. We have to convince our hearers of the unwelcome diagnosis before we can expect them to welcome the news of the remedy. The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man, the roles are quite reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge; if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God’s acquittal. But the important thing is that man is on the bench and God is in the dock.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "C.S. Lewis"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/the-greatest-barrier-i-have-met-is-the-almost-total-absence-from-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d00/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_the-greatest-barrier-i-have-met-is-the-a_302402.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d00/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_the-greatest-barrier-i-have-met-is-the-a_302402.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d00/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_the-greatest-barrier-i-have-met-is-the-a_302402.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The greatest barrier I have met is the almost total absence from the minds of my audience of any sense of…” — C.S. Lewis",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Clayton M. Christensen"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clayton-m-christensen/what-s-unique-about-the-mormon-church-is-that-it-encourages-inquiry-i/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/clayton-m-christensen-6841_asking-questions_what-s-unique-about-the-mormon-church-is_962263.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/clayton-m-christensen-6841_asking-questions_what-s-unique-about-the-mormon-church-is_962263.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/clayton-m-christensen-6841_asking-questions_what-s-unique-about-the-mormon-church-is_962263.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and…” — Clayton M. Christensen",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DISCIPLES • A disciple abides in Christ through the Word and prayer (John 15:7). • A disciple bears much fruit (verse 8). • A disciple responds to God's love with obedience (verses 9-10). • A disciple possesses joy (verse I I ). • A disciple loves as Christ loved (verses 12-13).19 PERSONAL COMPETENCIES OF DISCIPLES • A disciple submits to a teacher who teaches him or her how to follow Jesus. • A disciple learns Jesus' words. • A disciple learns Jesus' way of ministry. • A disciple imitates Jesus' life and character. • A disciple finds and teaches other disciples for Jesus .20”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bill Hull"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hull/personal-characteristics-of-disciples-a-disciple-abides-in-christ/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/bill-hull-34622_christianity_personal-characteristics-of-disciples-a_2273823.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/bill-hull-34622_christianity_personal-characteristics-of-disciples-a_2273823.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/bill-hull-34622_christianity_personal-characteristics-of-disciples-a_2273823.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DISCIPLES • A disciple abides in Christ through the Word and prayer (John 15:7)…” — Bill Hull",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "William Wilberforce"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-wilberforce/is-it-not-the-great-end-of-religion-and-in-particular-the-glory-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/william-wilberforce-8564_active_is-it-not-the-great-end-of-religion-and_1194115.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/william-wilberforce-8564_active_is-it-not-the-great-end-of-religion-and_1194115.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/william-wilberforce-8564_active_is-it-not-the-great-end-of-religion-and_1194115.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the…” — William Wilberforce",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we want to do that is so that people can use the deviations as spring boards or opportunities to share the truth, light, grace and peace that only Jesus Christ can bring to the human heart.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Hank Hanegraaff"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-hanegraaff/christian-research-institute-want-to-remain-relevant-with-respect-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/hank-hanegraaff-23819_boards_christian-research-institute-want-to-rem_2518291.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/hank-hanegraaff-23819_boards_christian-research-institute-want-to-rem_2518291.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20b/hank-hanegraaff-23819_boards_christian-research-institute-want-to-rem_2518291.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we…” — Hank Hanegraaff",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ellen Key"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-key/in-order-to-overcome-the-spirit-that-creates-war-mothers-must-begin/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/ellen-key-6012_childhood_in-order-to-overcome-the-spirit-that-cre_763965.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/ellen-key-6012_childhood_in-order-to-overcome-the-spirit-that-cre_763965.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/ellen-key-6012_childhood_in-order-to-overcome-the-spirit-that-cre_763965.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to…” — Ellen Key",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Henry B. Eyring"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-b-eyring/we-are-the-spirit-children-of-a-heavenly-father-he-loved-us-and-he/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/henry-b-eyring-1096_because_we-are-the-spirit-children-of-a-heavenly_1208591.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/henry-b-eyring-1096_because_we-are-the-spirit-children-of-a-heavenly_1208591.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/henry-b-eyring-1096_because_we-are-the-spirit-children-of-a-heavenly_1208591.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this…” — Henry B. Eyring",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked on CNN if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president, and I said I hope not, but I wouldn't put anything past this stupid country. Well, the station was flooded with emails, and the twits hit the fan. And you could tell that these people were really mad, because they wrote entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS!!! Worst of all, Bill O'Reilly refuted my contention that this is a stupid country by calling me a pinhead, which (a) proves my point, and (b) is really funny coming from a doody-face like him. Now, before I go about demonstration how, sadly, easy it is to prove the dumbness that's dragging us down, let me just say that ignorance has life-and-death consequences. On the eve of the Iraq War, seventy percent of Americans thought Saddam Hussein was personally involved in 9/11. Six years later, thirty-four percent still do. Or look at the health-care debate: At a recent town hall meeting in South Carolina, a man stood up and told his congressman to \"keep your government hands off my Medicare,\" which is kind of like driving cross-country to protest highways. This country is like a college chick after two Long Island iced teas: We can be talked into anything, like wars, and we can be talked out of anything, like health care. We should forget the town halls, and replace them with study halls. Listen to some of these stats: A majority of Americans cannot name a single branch of government, or explain what the Bill of Rights is. Twenty-four percent could not name the country America fought in the Revolutionary War. More than two-thirds of Americans don't know what's in Roe v. Wade . Two-thirds don't know what the Food and Drug Administration does. Some of this stuff you should be able to pick up simply by being alive. You know, like the way the Slumdog kid knew about cricket. Not here. Nearly half of Americans don't know that states have two senators, and more than half can't name their congressman. And among Republican governors, only three got their wife's name right on the first try. People bitch and moan about taxes and spending, but they have no idea what their government spends money on. The average voter thinks foreign aid consumes more twenty-four percent of our budget. It's actually less than one percent. A third of Republicans believe Obama is not a citizen ad a third of Democrats believe that George Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, which is an absurd sentence, because it contains the words \"Bush\" and \"knowledge.\" Sarah Palin says she would never apologize for America. Even though a Gallup poll say eighteen percent of us think the sun revolves around the earth. No, they're not stupid. They're interplanetary mavericks. And I haven't even brought up religion. But here's one fun fact I'll leave you with: Did you know only about half of Americans are aware that Judaism is an older religion than Christianity? That's right, half of America looks at books called the Old Testament and the New Testament and cannot figure out which came first. I rest my case.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bill Maher"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-maher/new-rule-just-because-a-country-elects-a-smart-president-doesn-t-make/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/bill-maher-211_9-11_new-rule-just-because-a-country-elects-a_1526753.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/bill-maher-211_9-11_new-rule-just-because-a-country-elects-a_1526753.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/bill-maher-211_9-11_new-rule-just-because-a-country-elects-a_1526753.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn't make it a smart country. A couple of weeks…” — Bill Maher",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are calling you to their club of no god and no hope (which offers nothing in return. Join the club only if you are a strong minded individual capable of handling your life alone without the help of gods. )”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bangambiki Habyarimana"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bangambiki-habyarimana/from-the-club-of-what-atheist-call-false-hope-and-false-god-which/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/bangambiki-habyarimana-1099_agnostic_from-the-club-of-what-atheist-call-false_2812818.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/bangambiki-habyarimana-1099_agnostic_from-the-club-of-what-atheist-call-false_2812818.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/bangambiki-habyarimana-1099_agnostic_from-the-club-of-what-atheist-call-false_2812818.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“From the club of what atheist call false hope and false god (which offer solace to weak minds), atheist are…” — Bangambiki Habyarimana",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple… Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time… I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Richard P. Feynman"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/in-those-days-in-far-rockaway-there-was-a-youth-center-for-jewish/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/richard-p-feynman-495_atheism_in-those-days-in-far-rockaway-there-was_2371753.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/richard-p-feynman-495_atheism_in-those-days-in-far-rockaway-there-was_2371753.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/richard-p-feynman-495_atheism_in-those-days-in-far-rockaway-there-was_2371753.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple… Somebody nominated…” — Richard P. Feynman",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrasing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was as authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Chartres Cathedral or the Cathedral at León and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado. It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it. It was something that you had never known before but that you had experienced now and you gave such importance to it and the reasons for it that you own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty. But the best thing was that there was something you could do about this feeling and this necessity too. You could fight.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ernest Hemingway"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/you-felt-in-spite-of-all-bureaucracy-and-inefficiency-and-party/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/879/ernest-hemingway-83_first-communion_you-felt-in-spite-of-all-bureaucracy-and_266211.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/879/ernest-hemingway-83_first-communion_you-felt-in-spite-of-all-bureaucracy-and_266211.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/879/ernest-hemingway-83_first-communion_you-felt-in-spite-of-all-bureaucracy-and_266211.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling…” — Ernest Hemingway",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“In order to truly experience the beauty and richness of the moments of our life, we need to be fully present in them. And, in this presence, there is an even deeper beauty and joy to be found. We find the gifts of peace, truth and spirit.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Valerie Rickel"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-rickel/in-order-to-truly-experience-the-beauty-and-richness-of-the-moments/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/valerie-rickel-285091_beauty_in-order-to-truly-experience-the-beauty_2755244.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/valerie-rickel-285091_beauty_in-order-to-truly-experience-the-beauty_2755244.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/valerie-rickel-285091_beauty_in-order-to-truly-experience-the-beauty_2755244.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In order to truly experience the beauty and richness of the moments of our life, we need to be fully present…” — Valerie Rickel",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would fall under influences of non-biblical religions, philosophies, and worldviews, to the extent that is now the case in our pluralistic culture and society.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Roger E. Olson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-e-olson/the-biblical-writers-didn-t-need-to-say-everything-they-could-assume/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bd/roger-e-olson-17551_anticipate_the-biblical-writers-didn-t-need-to-say_2559712.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bd/roger-e-olson-17551_anticipate_the-biblical-writers-didn-t-need-to-say_2559712.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bd/roger-e-olson-17551_anticipate_the-biblical-writers-didn-t-need-to-say_2559712.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a…” — Roger E. Olson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks ... you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Bill Hicks"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-hicks/i-don-t-know-what-you-all-believe-and-i-don-t-really-care-but-you/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/bill-hicks-970_belief_i-don-t-know-what-you-all-believe-and-i_2252182.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/bill-hicks-970_belief_i-don-t-know-what-you-all-believe-and-i_2252182.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/bill-hicks-970_belief_i-don-t-know-what-you-all-believe-and-i_2252182.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd…” — Bill Hicks",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would have granted her such a privilege had it not belonged to her by nature? The State? So civil society is then superior to religious society and can legitimately take back what it generously bestowed? History - along with Christian common sense - condemns the false conception behind such a way of talking. The Church was not created by the State; on the contrary, it was she who created the State and society; and neither the State nor society bestowed any privileges on the Church; they recognized her mode of existence as prior to their own, as endowed with rights in no way deriving from them and which they can only modify by some abuse of power, against which the public interest is bound to protest.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Louis Veuillot"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-veuillot/for-indeed-the-church-is-divinely-constituted-and-lives-by-her-own/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/louis-veuillot-63753_abuse-of-power_for-indeed-the-church-is-divinely-consti_427911.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/louis-veuillot-63753_abuse-of-power_for-indeed-the-church-is-divinely-consti_427911.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/louis-veuillot-63753_abuse-of-power_for-indeed-the-church-is-divinely-consti_427911.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“For indeed, the Church is divinely constituted and lives by her own right, not by privilege. Who ever would…” — Louis Veuillot",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Albert Einstein"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/when-you-examine-the-lives-of-the-most-influential-people-who-have/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/albert-einstein-33_firsts_when-you-examine-the-lives-of-the-most-i_2318943.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/albert-einstein-33_firsts_when-you-examine-the-lives-of-the-most-i_2318943.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/albert-einstein-33_firsts_when-you-examine-the-lives-of-the-most-i_2318943.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one…” — Albert Einstein",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Salman Rushdie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-take-a-look-at-history-you-will-find-that-the-understanding-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/salman-rushdie-153_evil_if-you-take-a-look-at-history-you-will-f_2494412.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/salman-rushdie-153_evil_if-you-take-a-look-at-history-you-will-f_2494412.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/salman-rushdie-153_evil_if-you-take-a-look-at-history-you-will-f_2494412.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always…” — Salman Rushdie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ichabod Spencer"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ichabod-spencer/to-cut-off-the-sinner-from-all-reliance-upon-himself-his-merits-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/ichabod-spencer-37102_aim_to-cut-off-the-sinner-from-all-reliance_46044.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/ichabod-spencer-37102_aim_to-cut-off-the-sinner-from-all-reliance_46044.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b77/ichabod-spencer-37102_aim_to-cut-off-the-sinner-from-all-reliance_46044.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and…” — Ichabod Spencer",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Francis Spufford"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-like-william-lane-craig-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/francis-spufford-12650_admit_despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-l_138578.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/francis-spufford-12650_admit_despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-l_138578.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/francis-spufford-12650_admit_despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-l_138578.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is…” — Francis Spufford",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious intimidation or new rules or an anxiety induced by spiritual scoldings. It is faith in the promise that the enjoyment sin brings is fleeting and futile, but at God's right hand, and in the presence of His radiant glory, are pleasures evermore (Ps. 16:11).",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sam Storms"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-storms/what-elevates-the-human-soul-and-empowers-it-to-live-in-the-fullness/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/sam-storms-12070_anxiety_what-elevates-the-human-soul-and-empower_2383082.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/sam-storms-12070_anxiety_what-elevates-the-human-soul-and-empower_2383082.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/sam-storms-12070_anxiety_what-elevates-the-human-soul-and-empower_2383082.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What elevates the human soul and empowers it to live in the fullness of its created purpose is not religious…” — Sam Storms",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Evangelism is not simply looking at someone and saying, \"Look, you have to become a Christian\". Instead, an evangelist tells us the truth about who God is, and explains where we stand as a result of that. People can ignore us - indeed, they have every legal right to do so.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Mark Dever"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-dever/evangelism-is-not-simply-looking-at-someone-and-saying-look-you-have/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/mark-dever-3175_christian_evangelism-is-not-simply-looking-at-some_2677293.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/mark-dever-3175_christian_evangelism-is-not-simply-looking-at-some_2677293.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/528/mark-dever-3175_christian_evangelism-is-not-simply-looking-at-some_2677293.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Evangelism is not simply looking at someone and saying, \"Look, you have to become a Christian\". Instead, an…” — Mark Dever",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 25,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I want my music to transcend all the barriers. The spirit of conquest is a trait that has survived in human beings from the beginning. I want it for the same reason the Spaniards wanted to come to America. You have to cross the oceans. To be able to sink my Colombian flag in this land, that is a motivation",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Shakira"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shakira/i-want-my-music-to-transcend-all-the-barriers-the-spirit-of-conquest/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/shakira-1582_music_i-want-my-music-to-transcend-all-the-bar_1859528.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/shakira-1582_music_i-want-my-music-to-transcend-all-the-bar_1859528.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/shakira-1582_music_i-want-my-music-to-transcend-all-the-bar_1859528.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I want my music to transcend all the barriers. The spirit of conquest is a trait that has survived in human…” — Shakira",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 26,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity. But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sam Harris"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/are-you-really-surprised-by-the-endurance-of-religion-what-ideology/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/sam-harris-457_belief_are-you-really-surprised-by-the-enduranc_3179436.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/sam-harris-457_belief_are-you-really-surprised-by-the-enduranc_3179436.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70a/sam-harris-457_belief_are-you-really-surprised-by-the-enduranc_3179436.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one…” — Sam Harris",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 27,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Religion does not strengthen the believer. Without a healthy skepticism and honed skills in critical thought and analysis, believers wander through a jungle of delusion without the tools, strength or knowledge necessary to clear away the tangled growth that enslaves them.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Al Stefanelli"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-stefanelli/religion-does-not-strengthen-the-believer-without-a-healthy/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/al-stefanelli-10033_health_religion-does-not-strengthen-the-believe_1496926.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/al-stefanelli-10033_health_religion-does-not-strengthen-the-believe_1496926.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/970/al-stefanelli-10033_health_religion-does-not-strengthen-the-believe_1496926.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Religion does not strengthen the believer. Without a healthy skepticism and honed skills in critical thought…” — Al Stefanelli",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 28,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ravi Zacharias"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-zacharias/you-have-to-plan-it-your-devotion-to-god-every-day-and-the-best-time/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/ravi-zacharias-1158_best-time_you-have-to-plan-it-your-devotion-to-god_1445207.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/ravi-zacharias-1158_best-time_you-have-to-plan-it-your-devotion-to-god_1445207.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35b/ravi-zacharias-1158_best-time_you-have-to-plan-it-your-devotion-to-god_1445207.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day…” — Ravi Zacharias",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 29,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Religious imagery and symbolism were the common idioms that all speakers employed when making rhetorical points. Rather than indicating a level of personal piety, the frequency of religious discourse indicates the high degree of biblical literacy and the common use of popular idioms. That one can find references to God or scripture in the political writings of the era is thus unremarkable (even less remarkable when one examines the political sermons of the period).”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Steven K. Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-k-green/religious-imagery-and-symbolism-were-the-common-idioms-that-all/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/steven-k-green-29974_bible_religious-imagery-and-symbolism-were-the_766323.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/steven-k-green-29974_bible_religious-imagery-and-symbolism-were-the_766323.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7c/steven-k-green-29974_bible_religious-imagery-and-symbolism-were-the_766323.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Religious imagery and symbolism were the common idioms that all speakers employed when making rhetorical…” — Steven K. Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 30,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“It is undefinable; and moreover, if it were defined it would lose all its value. God is not all that exists; God is all that does not exist. Therein resides the power & the charm of that mysterious word. God is tradition, God is legend, God is folklore, God is a fairy-tale, God is romance, God is a lie, God is a bell, God is a church window, God is religion, God is all that is absurd, useless, invisible, intangible, all that is nothingness & that symbolizes nothingness. God is the nihil in tenebris-(nothing in the darkness) -men have made of him light, life & love.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Remy de Gourmont"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/remy-de-gourmont/it-is-undefinable-and-moreover-if-it-were-defined-it-would-lose-all/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/remy-de-gourmont-7554_faith_it-is-undefinable-and-moreover-if-it-wer_571732.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/remy-de-gourmont-7554_faith_it-is-undefinable-and-moreover-if-it-wer_571732.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df0/remy-de-gourmont-7554_faith_it-is-undefinable-and-moreover-if-it-wer_571732.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It is undefinable; and moreover, if it were defined it would lose all its value. God is not all that exists…” — Remy de Gourmont",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 31,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Michael Eric Dyson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/the-methodologies-of-examining-hip-hop-are-borrowed-from-sociology/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/michael-eric-dyson-1424_american_the-methodologies-of-examining-hip-hop-a_551926.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/michael-eric-dyson-1424_american_the-methodologies-of-examining-hip-hop-a_551926.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/michael-eric-dyson-1424_american_the-methodologies-of-examining-hip-hop-a_551926.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban…” — Michael Eric Dyson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 32,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Desmond Tutu"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desmond-tutu/if-we-are-to-say-that-religion-cannot-be-concerned-with-politics-then/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/desmond-tutu-442_christ_if-we-are-to-say-that-religion-cannot-be_2340486.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/desmond-tutu-442_christ_if-we-are-to-say-that-religion-cannot-be_2340486.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/desmond-tutu-442_christ_if-we-are-to-say-that-religion-cannot-be_2340486.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a…” — Desmond Tutu",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 33,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "A. C. Bradley"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-c-bradley/if-we-are-to-include-the-outer-and-the-inner-struggle-in-a-conception/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/a-c-bradley-43838_conception_if-we-are-to-include-the-outer-and-the-i_710565.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/a-c-bradley-43838_conception_if-we-are-to-include-the-outer-and-the-i_710565.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e88/a-c-bradley-43838_conception_if-we-are-to-include-the-outer-and-the-i_710565.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in…” — A. C. Bradley",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 34,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith. It's not arrogant to know that there's no omniscient, omnipotent prime mover in the universe who loves you personally. It's not sad to feel that life and the love of your real friends and family is more than enough to make life worth living. Isn't it much sadder to feel that there is a more important love required than the love of the people who have chosen to spend their limited time with you?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Penn Jillette"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penn-jillette/it-s-not-arrogant-to-say-that-you-can-t-figure-out-the-answers-to-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/022/penn-jillette-1046_answers_it-s-not-arrogant-to-say-that-you-can-t_2461589.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/022/penn-jillette-1046_answers_it-s-not-arrogant-to-say-that-you-can-t_2461589.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/022/penn-jillette-1046_answers_it-s-not-arrogant-to-say-that-you-can-t_2461589.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It's not arrogant to say that you can't figure out the answers to the universe with your internal faith…” — Penn Jillette",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 35,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Leland Ryken"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leland-ryken/my-claim-is-simply-that-the-literary-approach-is-one-necessary-way-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaf/leland-ryken-18808_approach_my-claim-is-simply-that-the-literary-app_2648562.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaf/leland-ryken-18808_approach_my-claim-is-simply-that-the-literary-app_2648562.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaf/leland-ryken-18808_approach_my-claim-is-simply-that-the-literary-app_2648562.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an…” — Leland Ryken",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 36,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Gary Bauer"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-bauer/it-s-important-to-ask-candidates-about-their-beliefs-in-part-because/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/gary-bauer-9108_about_it-s-important-to-ask-candidates-about-t_968434.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/gary-bauer-9108_about_it-s-important-to-ask-candidates-about-t_968434.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5e/gary-bauer-9108_about_it-s-important-to-ask-candidates-about-t_968434.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit…” — Gary Bauer",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 37,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“In former days,\" said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, \"in former days the free-thinker was a man who had been brought up in ideas of religion, law, and morality, and only through conflict and struggle came to free-thought; but now there has sprung up a new type of born free-thinkers who grow up without even having heard of principles of morality or of religion, of the existence of authorities, who grow up directly in ideas of negation in everything, that is to say, savages.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Leo Tolstoy"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/in-former-days-said-golenishtchev-not-observing-or-not-willing-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/leo-tolstoy-55_born-free_in-former-days-said-golenishtchev-not-ob_690143.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/leo-tolstoy-55_born-free_in-former-days-said-golenishtchev-not-ob_690143.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/leo-tolstoy-55_born-free_in-former-days-said-golenishtchev-not-ob_690143.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In former days,\" said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky…” — Leo Tolstoy",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 38,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Herbert Hoover"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-hoover/menaced-by-collectivist-trends-we-must-seek-revival-of-our-strength/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/herbert-hoover-1115_bedrock_menaced-by-collectivist-trends-we-must-s_364352.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/herbert-hoover-1115_bedrock_menaced-by-collectivist-trends-we-must-s_364352.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/herbert-hoover-1115_bedrock_menaced-by-collectivist-trends-we-must-s_364352.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are…” — Herbert Hoover",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 39,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“American fundamentalism’s original sentiments were as radically democratic in theory as they have become repressive in practice, its dream not that of Christian theocracy but of a return to the first century of Christ worship, before there was a thing called Christianity. The “age of miracles,” when church was no more than a word for the great fellowship—the profound friendship—of believers, when Christ’s testament really was new, revelation was unburdened by history, and believers were martyrs or martyrs-to-be, pure and beautiful.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jeff Sharlet"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-sharlet/american-fundamentalism-s-original-sentiments-were-as-radically/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81c/jeff-sharlet-22680_christianity_american-fundamentalism-s-original-senti_1253960.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81c/jeff-sharlet-22680_christianity_american-fundamentalism-s-original-senti_1253960.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81c/jeff-sharlet-22680_christianity_american-fundamentalism-s-original-senti_1253960.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“American fundamentalism’s original sentiments were as radically democratic in theory as they have become…” — Jeff Sharlet",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 40,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "R. H. Tawney"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-h-tawney/by-a-kind-of-happy-pre-established-harmony-such-as-a-later-age/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/r-h-tawney-25650_age_by-a-kind-of-happy-pre-established-harmo_1437363.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/r-h-tawney-25650_age_by-a-kind-of-happy-pre-established-harmo_1437363.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/r-h-tawney-25650_age_by-a-kind-of-happy-pre-established-harmo_1437363.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and…” — R. H. Tawney",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/page/1454/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/page/1454/",
            "name": "Religion Quotes · Page 1,454",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43d/abhijit-naskar-99_brainy-quotes_in-the-ancient-times-when-ignorance-was_3219825.jpg"
            },
            "description": "Browse 58,737 Religion quotes by 17,017 authors. Discover the best Religion sayings and thoughts.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/page/1454/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/page/1454/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Religion Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/page/1454/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```