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> [“Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/whatever-the-christian-conservatives-in-america-say-there-is-no-one/)

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

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> [In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-penrhyn-stanley/in-the-true-original-catholic-evangelical-religion-of-jesus-christ/)

[Arthur Penrhyn Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-penrhyn-stanley/)

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> [“However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dzongsar-jamyang-khyentse/however-the-path-itself-must-eventually-be-abandoned-just-as-you/)

[Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dzongsar-jamyang-khyentse/)

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> [Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freeman-dyson/trouble-arises-when-either-science-or-religion-claims-universal/)

[Freeman Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freeman-dyson/)

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> [“They keep telling you this: Have faith! But which faith? That is the crucial question! Here is a good faith you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mehmet-murat-ildan/they-keep-telling-you-this-have-faith-but-which-faith-that-is-the/)

[Mehmet Murat ildan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/)

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> [There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-night-shyamalan/there-are-a-lot-of-things-i-can-take-and-a-few-that-i-can-t-what-i/)

[M. Night Shyamalan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-night-shyamalan/)

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> [“The word for religion that James uses here is threskeia, and like our English word religion, it can be used positively or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruxy-cavey/the-word-for-religion-that-james-uses-here-is-threskeia-and-like-our/)

[Bruxy Cavey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruxy-cavey/)

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> [“Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-moore/sometimes-the-worst-conditions-can-often-provide-the-best-atmosphere/)

[Beth Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-moore/)

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> [“The truth is, the human condition does not become spiritual; when conditions are ideal, our spiritual nature awakens and blossoms, allowing us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-eugene-davis/the-truth-is-the-human-condition-does-not-become-spiritual-when/)

[Roy Eugene Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-eugene-davis/)

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> [You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/you-may-depend-upon-it-religion-is-in-its-essence-the-most/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> [A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conrad-black/a-quest-for-knowledge-is-not-a-war-with-faith-spirituality-is-not/)

[Conrad Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conrad-black/)

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> [“There is something worse than holding our silence while the lost of this world run headlong into hell: the crime of preaching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-washer/there-is-something-worse-than-holding-our-silence-while-the-lost-of/)

[Paul Washer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-washer/)

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> [until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-richardson/until-it-had-been-clearly-explained-that-men-were-always-and-always/)

[Dorothy Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-richardson/)

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> [Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-prothero/pretending-that-the-world-s-religions-are-the-same-does-not-make-our/)

[Stephen Prothero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-prothero/)

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> [We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/we-try-to-evade-the-question-of-existence-with-property-prestige/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

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> [The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-howard/the-genuinely-spiritual-person-is-one-who-has-lost-all-desire-to-be/)

[Vernon Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-howard/)

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> [To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-quinn/to-you-christianity-judaism-islam-buddhism-and-hinduism-look-very/)

[Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-quinn/)

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> [We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/we-have-often-asserted-and-we-affirm-it-yet-again-that-no-fact-in/)

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

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> [“It has been asserted that our century is characterized by an entirely new phenomenon: the appearance of people incapable of relating to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/it-has-been-asserted-that-our-century-is-characterized-by-an-entirely/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/i-am-convinced-that-everything-that-is-worth-while-in-the-world-has/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

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> [Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fielding/good-nature-is-that-benevolent-and-amiable-temper-of-mind-which/)

[Henry Fielding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-fielding/)

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> [“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/namsoon-kang/who-are-theologians-what-kind-of-self-identity-could-or-should-a/)

[Namsoon Kang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/namsoon-kang/)

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> [ And when they \[American soldiers\] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/and-when-they-american-soldiers-came-they-found-fit-comrades-for/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

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> [“As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-cymbala/as-a-preacher-myself-let-me-be-blunt-here-preaching-itself-can-easily/)

[Jim Cymbala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-cymbala/)

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> [To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-quincy-adams/to-read-the-bible-is-of-itself-a-laudable-occupation-and-can-scarcely/)

[John Quincy Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-quincy-adams/)

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> [“When the minister of the gospel faces the Lord God as judge, there will be many questions addressed to him. There will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-j-alexander/when-the-minister-of-the-gospel-faces-the-lord-god-as-judge-there/)

Eric J. Alexander

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> [Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/christianity-teaches-that-contra-fatalism-suffering-is-overwhelming/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [ “\[A\]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/a-lthough-the-deeds-opposed-to-love-which-mark-christian-religious/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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> [My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/labrinth/my-grandad-s-a-gospel-singer-and-his-children-were-singers-too-but-i/)

[Labrinth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/labrinth/)

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> [“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/there-are-those-who-say-that-spiritual-enlightenment-is-achieved/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [“People who profess to have no faith, do not actually have no faith. They simply do not have faith as defined by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/people-who-profess-to-have-no-faith-do-not-actually-have-no-faith/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [“The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-fischer/the-character-of-jesus-is-the-character-of-god-god-would-never-do/)

[Austin Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/austin-fischer/)

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> [“Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-buechner/like-the-rest-of-the-devout-he-was-incapable-of-understanding-that/)

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

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> [We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-marshall/we-ministers-have-undoubtedly-failed-to-connect-and-apply/)

[Peter Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-marshall/)

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> [Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/because-i-have-confidence-in-the-power-of-truth-and-in-the-spirit-i/)

[Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/)

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> [Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-liddell/many-of-us-are-missing-something-in-life-because-we-are-after-the-2/)

[Eric Liddell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-liddell/)

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> [The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-b-fosdick/the-search-for-truth-is-as-it-always-has-been-the-noblest-expression/)

[Raymond B. Fosdick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-b-fosdick/)

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> [“Divine grace is the power of chance beclouded with additional mystery. … Religion denies, repudiates chance, making everything dependent on God, explaining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/divine-grace-is-the-power-of-chance-beclouded-with-additional-mystery/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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> [Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-ois-ren-de-chateaubriand/religion-assures-us-that-our-afflictions-shall-have-an-end-she/)

[François-René de Chateaubriand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-ois-ren-de-chateaubriand/)

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> [The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-needleman/the-process-of-inner-self-examination-brings-about-a-knowledge-that/)

[Jacob Needleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-needleman/)

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                        "text": "“They keep telling you this: Have faith! But which faith? That is the crucial question! Here is a good faith you can have: Every truth can be changed through our own intelligence! Trust human mind, trust science, and this is a golden faith! Your salvation lies in here, definitely in no other place!”",
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                        "text": "There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.",
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                        "text": "“The word for religion that James uses here is threskeia, and like our English word religion, it can be used positively or negatively. Threskeia primarily refers to the external behaviors of a religion, including the ceremonies and rituals. So James is saying that the religious rituals of Christ-followers are no longer things like memorizing religious liturgies, attending religious services, going on religious pilgrimages, celebrating religious holidays, or saying specific prayers at specific times while facing a specific direction in a specific posture. Rather, our rituals are acts of mercy and kindness and compassion, and courage not to take our cues from the world around us. In other words, our religion is love. Jesus”",
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                        "text": "You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.",
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                        "text": "A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.",
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                        "text": "until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full of poison and secret bitterness. Men fight about their philosophies and religions, there is no certainty in them; but their contempt for women is flawless and unanimous.",
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                        "text": "To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.",
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                        "text": "We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead.",
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                        "text": "“It has been asserted that our century is characterized by an entirely new phenomenon: the appearance of people incapable of relating to God. As a result of spiritual and social developments, it is said, we have reached the stage where a kind of person has developed in whom there is no longer any starting point for the knowledge of God.”",
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                        "text": "I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.",
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                        "text": "Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.",
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                        "text": "“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of Christian _tradition_? What if the _tradition_ itself carries a dark side, implicitly or explicitly, bounded by religious or cultural superiorism, ethnocentrism, homophobism, exclusive nationalism, sexism, racism, and so forth? What kind of _identity_ would then justify my rule as theologian? This question has been lingering in my mind throughout the time I have been working on cosmopolitan theology. it may sound simple, but for me the identity issue has been fundamental.”",
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                        "text": "And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.",
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                        "text": "“As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ, he is not going to ask me if I was a clever orator. He is not going to ask me how many books I wrote. He is only going to ask whether I continued in the line of men and women, starting way back in the time of Adam’s grandchildren, who led others to call upon God.”",
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                        "text": "To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.",
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                        "text": "“When the minister of the gospel faces the Lord God as judge, there will be many questions addressed to him. There will be many standards of accountability. There will be many criteria of judgment. But in the end, the most essential criterion of judgment for the minister of God is, \"Did you preach the Word? Did you fully carry out the ministry of the Word? In season and out of season, was the priority of your ministry the preaching of the Word?”",
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                        "text": "Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.",
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                        "text": "“[A]lthough the deeds opposed to love which mark Christian religious history, are in accordance with Christianity, and its antagonists are therefore right in imputing to it the horrible actions resulting from dogmatic creeds; those deeds nevertheless at the same time contradict Christianity, because Christianity is not a religion of faith, but of love also … Uncharitable actions, hatred of heretics, at once accord and clash with Christianity? how is that possible? … Christianity sanctions both the actions that spring out of love, and the actions that spring from faith without love. If Christianity had made love its only law, its adherents would be right, - the horrors of Christian religious history could not be imputed to it; … But Christianity has not made love free; … has not raised itself to the height of accepting love as absolute. … [B]ecause it is a religion, - and hence subjects love to the dominion of faith.”",
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                        "text": "My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?",
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                        "text": "“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go and live in a mountaintop, never mingle with other people, talk to the birds..but I say to you, why should you dismantle your home? Where is the meaning in removing the bricks from your walls one by one? What is the purpose in uprooting your floors? Is there any significance in only allowing yourself a tin roof and a muddy bed? Why deny your house its structure? A truly enlightened soul is strong enough, is bright enough to live and shine through, even in a beautiful house! There is no need to ransack the house in order to see an inner beauty etched against a distraught surrounding. A bright and beautiful soul can shine forth even from inside an equally beautiful surrounding.”",
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