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> [This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dunning/this-is-why-i-am-not-religious-if-and-when-we-do-learn-the-true/)

[John Dunning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dunning/)

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> [The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-paul-vi/the-task-of-evangelizing-all-people-constitutes-the-essential-mission/)

[Pope Paul VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-paul-vi/)

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> [The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martyn-lloyd-jones/the-church-is-always-to-be-under-the-word-she-must-be-we-must-keep/)

[Martyn Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martyn-lloyd-jones/)

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> [“If you want to accurately judge the spiritual level of any human being, count the number of religions that he is capable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-sacredfire/if-you-want-to-accurately-judge-the-spiritual-level-of-any-human/)

[Robin Sacredfire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-sacredfire/)

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> [“And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-musil/and-so-the-mind-or-spirit-is-the-great-opportunist-itself-impossible/)

[Robert Musil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-musil/)

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> [“Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/those-who-distinguish-between-civil-and-theological-intolerance-are/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoltan-kodaly/music-is-a-manifestation-of-the-human-spirit-similar-to-language-its/)

[Zoltan Kodaly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoltan-kodaly/)

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> [The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-middleton/the-priest-comes-not-as-an-obscurantist-but-wearing-the-intelligible/)

[Arthur Middleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-middleton/)

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> [We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-dungy/we-spent-our-whole-married-life-in-the-ultra-competitive-world-of/)

[Tony Dungy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-dungy/)

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> [In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigham-young/in-these-respects-we-differ-from-the-christian-world-for-our-religion/)

[Brigham Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigham-young/)

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> [“You they served me up the sun and the moon, beautiful works of Yours, but works of Yours all the same and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustine-of-hippo/you-they-served-me-up-the-sun-and-the-moon-beautiful-works-of-yours/)

[Augustine of Hippo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustine-of-hippo/)

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> [The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-old-testament-is-responsible-for-more-atheism-agnosticism-2/)

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

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> [Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-coupland/inasmuch-as-i-am-a-spiritual-man-i-do-believe-in-god-i-think-that-he/)

[Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-coupland/)

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> [“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-fadiman/when-i-think-of-the-causes-for-which-people-more-commonly-give-up/)

[Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-fadiman/)

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> [... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-palamas/the-passion-for-popularity-brings-such-injury-upon-those-it-masters/)

[Gregory Palamas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-palamas/)

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> [I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/varg-vikernes/i-do-feel-we-live-through-what-i-like-to-call-the-2nd-renaissance-but/)

[Varg Vikernes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/varg-vikernes/)

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> [So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-brubeck/so-often-people-will-say-that-i-converted-to-the-catholic-religion/)

[Dave Brubeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-brubeck/)

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> [“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/either-christ-must-live-and-the-law-perish-or-the-law-remains-and/)

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

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> [Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-gaustad/most-of-the-founding-fathers-sympathetic-with-and-influenced-by-the/)

[Edwin Gaustad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-gaustad/)

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> [I'm just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-meyer/i-m-just-telling-you-god-permits-things-in-our-lives-sometimes-for/)

[Joyce Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-meyer/)

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> [“Radically new spiritual movements are cropping up, notably the “atheist” practice of Syntheism. And musicians are creating stranger and stranger electrical sounds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanzi-freinacht/radically-new-spiritual-movements-are-cropping-up-notably-the-atheist/)

[Hanzi Freinacht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanzi-freinacht/)

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> [“In a civilization that glorifies success and happiness and is blind to the sufferings of others, people’s eyes can be opened to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-rgen-moltmann/in-a-civilization-that-glorifies-success-and-happiness-and-is-blind/)

[Jurgen Moltmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-rgen-moltmann/)

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> [“Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-j-anderson/religion-waited-for-man-to-evolve-it-waited-an-eternity-like-a/)

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

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> [I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-allen/i-m-a-pretty-solid-christian-but-even-as-an-altar-boy-i-was-always/)

[Tim Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-allen/)

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> [“She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/she-used-religion-as-a-therapy-for-the-ills-of-the-world-and-herself/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/love-is-faith-s-flower-hope-is-its-stem-grace-comes-into-us-by-faith/)

[Peter Kreeft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-kreeft/)

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> [“Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul-2/real-conversion-is-an-experience-of-repentance-and-forgiveness-before/)

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

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> [I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/feisal-abdul-rauf/i-ve-spoken-with-friends-who-are-rabbis-and-priests-and-we-ve-agreed/)

[Feisal Abdul Rauf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/feisal-abdul-rauf/)

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> [If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-a-torrey/if-we-think-of-the-holy-spirit-only-as-an-impersonal-power-or/)

[R. A. Torrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-a-torrey/)

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> [Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/not-until-you-surrender-does-the-spiritual-dimension-become-a-living/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [“In a certain sense the Holocaust can be seen as an expression of an almost religious fanaticism, and at the same time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geert-mak/in-a-certain-sense-the-holocaust-can-be-seen-as-an-expression-of-an/)

[Geert Mak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geert-mak/)

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> [As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-nixon/as-you-know-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-not-subject-to/)

[Richard M. Nixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-nixon/)

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> [“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/during-the-bosnian-war-in-the-late-1990s-i-spent-several-days/)

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

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> [There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-mckendree-bounds/there-is-neither-encouragement-nor-room-in-bible-religion-for-feeble/)

[Edward McKendree Bounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-mckendree-bounds/)

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> [We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-want-the-spirit-of-america-to-be-efficient-we-want-american/)

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

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> [“You don’t believe in any god at all?’ ‘Oh, I believe in them. I just think they are rotten. All of them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-don-t-believe-in-any-god-at-all-oh-i-believe-in-them-i-just-think/)

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

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> [They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-roddenberry/they-said-god-was-on-high-and-he-controlled-the-world-and-therefore/)

[Gene Roddenberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-roddenberry/)

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> [“The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from. Say ye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-body-is-amazingly-plastic-the-spirit-even-more-so-but-there-are/)

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

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> [“Definite atonement is beautiful because it tells the story of the Warrior-Son who comes to earth to slay his enemy and rescue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gibson/definite-atonement-is-beautiful-because-it-tells-the-story-of-the/)

[David Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gibson/)

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> [“Most of what's known about religious practices in pre-Hispanic Mexico has come to us through a Catholic parish priest named Hernando Ruiz…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/most-of-what-s-known-about-religious-practices-in-pre-hispanic-mexico/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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                        "text": "“And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every advance is a gain in particular and a separation in general; it is an increase in power leading only to a progressive increase in impotence, but there is no way to quit.”",
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                        "text": "The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that which is humanity's hope and salvation, the divine energy in which he lives with Christ in the Father through the Holy Spirit, identified but not accommodated to the world Christ seeks to save.",
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                        "text": "In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.",
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                        "text": "“You they served me up the sun and the moon, beautiful works of Yours, but works of Yours all the same and not Yourself: not even Your mightiest works. For Your spiritual creation is greater than these material things, brilliantly as they shine in the sky.”",
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                        "text": "The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.",
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                        "text": "Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.",
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                        "text": "“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.”",
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                        "text": "... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).",
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                        "text": "I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to the European religion I don't foresee a return to the past. The world has changed, everything is different today, and so will Paganism be.",
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                        "text": "“The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from. Say ye so, a nighean? True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled—yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed.”",
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                        "text": "“Definite atonement is beautiful because it tells the story of the Warrior-Son who comes to earth to slay his enemy and rescue his Father’s people. He is the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep, a loving Bridegroom who gives himself for his bride, and a victorious King who lavishes the spoils of his conquest on the citizens of his realm.”",
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