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> [How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/how-can-we-find-spiritual-meaning-in-a-scientific-worldview/)

[Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/)

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> [It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-william-curtis/it-is-the-most-human-and-kindly-of-seasons-as-fully-penetrated-and/)

[George William Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-william-curtis/)

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> [There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerard-verschuuren/there-must-be-much-more-going-on-behind-the-scenes-the-pivotal/)

[Gerard Verschuuren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerard-verschuuren/)

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> [Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-g-white/look-up-look-up-and-let-your-faith-continually-increase-let-this/)

[Ellen G. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-g-white/)

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> [Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-b-rosenberg/imagine-connecting-with-the-human-spirit-in-each-person-in-any/)

[Marshall B. Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-b-rosenberg/)

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> [The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martyn-lloyd-jones/the-ultimate-cause-of-spiritual-depression-is-unbelief-for-if-it-were/)

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

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> [Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/christians-often-equate-holiness-with-activism-and-spiritual/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-sansom/but-then-twitching-nervously-in-the-presence-of-a-librarian-wasn-t-an/)

[Ian Sansom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-sansom/)

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> [The key figure in the Christian faith involves a story of suffering so that others do well. You're only going to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-b-pinn/the-key-figure-in-the-christian-faith-involves-a-story-of-suffering/)

[Anthony B Pinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-b-pinn/)

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> [“I’ve always had a lifelong interest in spirit. I was an 8-year-old boy – an 8-year-old adorable little boy. I just understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-b-muciaccia/i-ve-always-had-a-lifelong-interest-in-spirit-i-was-an-8-year-old-boy/)

[John B. Muciaccia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-b-muciaccia/)

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> [“In our fast-paced and entertainment-saturated world, men are still quick to ‘forget the Lord, … to do iniquity, and to be led…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-d-perkins/in-our-fast-paced-and-entertainment-saturated-world-men-are-still/)

[Anthony D. Perkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-d-perkins/)

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> [“The Bible offers plenty of metaphoric and poetic descriptions that would be rendered completely ridiculous if taken literally. For example, Jesus said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-p-gilbert/the-bible-offers-plenty-of-metaphoric-and-poetic-descriptions-that/)

[Derek P Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-p-gilbert/)

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> [“Often, when we are in trouble, or doubting, or struggling, we rely on others to carry us to God. Just as often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-martin/often-when-we-are-in-trouble-or-doubting-or-struggling-we-rely-on/)

[James Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-martin/)

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> [I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-gutierrez/i-pray-at-night-and-i-believe-god-has-given-me-the-gift-to-be-able-to/)

[Oscar Gutierrez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-gutierrez/)

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> [“Labor to work yourself up into a temper correspondent with what you read, for that reading is useless which only enlightens the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-j-foster/labor-to-work-yourself-up-into-a-temper-correspondent-with-what-you/)

[Richard J. Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-j-foster/)

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> [“If there is no list of names in eternity, we are burdened with making our own personal name day after day. Either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-rohr/if-there-is-no-list-of-names-in-eternity-we-are-burdened-with-making/)

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

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> [“The associations get only richer and more intense when you realise that the very concept of truth - the cornerstone of philosophy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-rowland-smith/the-associations-get-only-richer-and-more-intense-when-you-realise/)

[Robert Rowland Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-rowland-smith/)

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> [“There was never a revival of religion without a revival of his opposition. As soon as Ezra and Nehemiah begin to labor,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-h-spurgeon/there-was-never-a-revival-of-religion-without-a-revival-of-his/)

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

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> [“The idea that we are buffeted by our environment, faith in artificial human edifices or indeed, the people around us, is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-parnell/the-idea-that-we-are-buffeted-by-our-environment-faith-in-artificial/)

[Rob Parnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-parnell/)

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> [What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/what-is-god-like-because-millions-and-millions-of-people-were-taught/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-sire/to-glorify-god-is-not-just-to-do-so-in-religious-worship-singing/)

[James W. Sire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-sire/)

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> [Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-mumford/whereas-freud-was-for-the-most-part-concerned-with-the-morbid-effects/)

[Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-mumford/)

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> [A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-faith-without-some-doubts-is-like-a-human-body-with-no-antobodies/)

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

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> [“The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/the-soul-theoretically-is-the-purview-of-religion-but-in-today-s/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-a-bednar/for-many-of-us-conversion-is-an-ongoing-process-and-not-a-onetime/)

[David A. Bednar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-a-bednar/)

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> [Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/gullibility-and-credulity-are-considered-undesireable-qualities-in/)

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

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> [In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/in-science-it-often-happens-that-scientists-say-you-know-that-s-a/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/may-the-children-of-the-stock-of-abraham-who-dwell-in-this-land/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-b-simpson/we-may-not-preach-a-crucified-saviour-without-being-also-crucified/)

[A. B. Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-b-simpson/)

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> [Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cronenberg/anybody-who-comes-to-the-cinema-is-bringing-they-re-whole-sexual/)

[David Cronenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cronenberg/)

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> [“Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/haven-t-you-got-anything-humorous-that-stays-away-from-waters-and/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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> [The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-a-bednar/the-standard-is-clear-if-something-we-think-see-hear-or-do-distances/)

[David A. Bednar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-a-bednar/)

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> [Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/look-here-we-shall-die-bear-this-in-mind-always-then-the-spirit/)

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

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> [“Now the world is our focus, and we gauge success in the church not on the hundreds or thousands whom we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-platt/now-the-world-is-our-focus-and-we-gauge-success-in-the-church-not-on/)

[David Platt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-platt/)

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> [The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-state-which-would-provide-everything-absorbing-everything-into/)

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

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> [As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/as-for-those-wingy-mysteries-in-divinity-and-airy-subtleties-in/)

[Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/)

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> [“Isn't forgiveness a holy virtue? And if so, then why do we insist on keeping historical records of resentment? Is the Creator…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzy-kassem/isn-t-forgiveness-a-holy-virtue-and-if-so-then-why-do-we-insist-on/)

[Suzy Kassem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzy-kassem/)

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> [Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/take-the-life-issue-this-issue-requires-a-president-and-an/)

[George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/)

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> [The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/the-earthly-form-of-christ-is-the-form-that-died-on-the-cross-the/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-kreeft/someone-once-said-that-if-you-sat-a-million-monkeys-at-a-million/)

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

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                        "text": "It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.",
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                        "text": "There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that these atheists nurse against religion and against God? Let's face it, there is only one force that hates God's creation more than anything else - and that is Satan. Satan knows that God exists but wants no part of Him. It is Satan's ultimate goal to demolish all Christian elements in society and to damage the human image that was made in God's image. Could Satan be the real instigator of this aggressive form of atheism?",
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                        "text": "Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued. Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.",
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                        "text": "The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.",
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                        "text": "Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are necessary for the cultivation of holiness, the pattern of piety in the Scripture is more explicitly about our character. We put off sin and put on righteousness. We put to death the deeds of the flesh and put on Christ. To use the older language, we pursue mortification of the old man and the vivification of the new.",
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                        "text": "“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with serious mental health disorders, can make people nervous. Librarians possess a kind of occult power, an aura. They could silence people with just a glance. At least, they did in Israel's fantasies. In Israel's fantasies, librarians were mild-mannered superheroes, with extrasensory perceptions and a highly developed sense of responsibility who demanded respect from everyone they met. In reality, Israel couldn't silence even Mrs Onions on her mobile phone when she was disturbing other readers.”",
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                        "text": "The key figure in the Christian faith involves a story of suffering so that others do well. You're only going to get so much liberation, you're only going to get so much transformation, from a system that is based on suffering.",
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                        "text": "“I’ve always had a lifelong interest in spirit. I was an 8-year-old boy – an 8-year-old adorable little boy. I just understood my grandfather had a ‘knowingness.’ I didn’t know the word psychic then.” (during interview with Sam Liebowitz on the Conscious Consultant Hour)”",
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                        "text": "“In our fast-paced and entertainment-saturated world, men are still quick to ‘forget the Lord, … to do iniquity, and to be led away by the evil one’ ” (Alma 46:8). … “To stay safely on the priesthood path amid rock slides of temptation, I remind us of six fundamental principles that deepen conversion and strengthen family. “First, praying always opens the door for divine help to ‘conquer Satan’ (D&C 10:5). … “Second, studying ancient and modern scripture connects us to God. … “Third, worthily participating in ordinances prepares us to take ‘the Holy Spirit for [our] guide’ (D&C 45:57). … “Fourth, showing genuine love is at the heart of personal conversion and family relations. … “Fifth, obeying the law of tithing is an essential element of faith and family unity. … “Sixth, fully living the law of chastity yields confidence to stand ‘in the presence of God’ with the Holy Ghost as our ‘constant companion’ (D&C 121:45–46).”",
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                        "text": "“The Bible offers plenty of metaphoric and poetic descriptions that would be rendered completely ridiculous if taken literally. For example, Jesus said Christians are to be the salt and light of the world (Matthew 5:13). Obviously, He was not saying we need to transform ourselves into sodium chloride and photons. He was using everyday concepts such as salt and light as tools for teaching a broader message.”",
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                        "text": "“Often, when we are in trouble, or doubting, or struggling, we rely on others to carry us to God. Just as often we must do the carrying, to help friends who are struggling. This is one of the many benefits of organized religion, as we all need others to help us find God. Even though we may disagree with others and find life in a community occasionally annoying and sometimes scandalous, we need others, because the community is one way that we are carried to God, especially when we are too weak to walk to God on our own. But I wondered about the paralyzed man. He may have felt shame for his illness or for being unable to support himself. Maybe his friends carried him in spite of himself. Sometimes when we are too embarrassed to approach God, someone must bring us there—even drag us there. Many times when I am discouraged, demoralized, or angry at God, it is friends who remind me of God’s great love and who carry me to God. We cannot come to God without others.”",
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                        "text": "I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.",
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                        "text": "“Labor to work yourself up into a temper correspondent with what you read, for that reading is useless which only enlightens the understanding without warming the affections. And therefore intersperse, here and there, earnest aspirations to God for his heat as well as his light.” —John Wesley, “Advice for Spiritual Reading”3”",
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                        "text": "“If there is no list of names in eternity, we are burdened with making our own personal name day after day. Either we are made by another or we must be self-made. Then it is every man for himself, dog eat dog, as we vie with one another for a zero-sum dignity and importance. If you have it, then I don’t, or I will use you for my measuring stick. In either case, I am lost in comparison, envy, competition, and codependency. Spiritually: if you have it, I do too, and if I have it, you do too. Authentic spirituality is an experience of abundance and mutual flourishing instead of scarcity. Material gifts and ego gifts decrease with usage, whereas spiritual gifts actually increase with each use, in ourselves and in those around us.”",
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                        "text": "“The associations get only richer and more intense when you realise that the very concept of truth - the cornerstone of philosophy and religion alike, let alone law - also rests heavily on the meaning of waking up. And you don't need a philosopher to appreciate it, because there are clues to its dependency in everyday phrases such as 'waking up to the truth', 'my eyes were opened' and even 'wake up and smell the coffee'. If such phrases hint that waking up and truth are bedfellows of some sort, you need only go back to the ancient Greek for corroboration. There you'll find that the word truth is 'aletheia', from which in English we get the word for 'lethargy'. But see how the Greek word is 'a-letheia' rather than letheia - that is truth is the opposite of lethargy. And what is opposite of lethargy, if not waking up?”",
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                        "text": "A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.",
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                        "text": "“The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their despair – and for understandable reason. In most ways organized religion has abdicated its role of spiritual comforter, if not through its own malfeasance, the at least through dissociation from the soulfulness at the core of its mission. Modern psychotherapy has taken up some the slack, and yet it too fails deliver when it doesn the soult necessary to heal our emotional pain. The psychotherapeutic profession has now turned to the pharmaceutical industry to compensate for its frequent lack of effectiveness, yet the pharmaceutical industry lacks the ability to do more about our sadness than to numb it.”",
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                        "text": "For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.",
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                        "text": "Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?",
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                        "text": "In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.",
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                        "text": "May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.",
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                        "text": "We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.",
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