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> [“A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/a-person-is-not-religious-solely-when-he-worships-a-divinity-but-when/)

[Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-le-bon/)

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> [“The word "Christian" means 'like Christ'! We are to reflect His beauty, do His deeds, think His thoughts, and speak His words.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-c-frost/the-word-christian-means-like-christ-we-are-to-reflect-his-beauty-do/)

[Robert C. Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-c-frost/)

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> [Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-young/some-go-to-church-proud-humbly-to-repent-and-come-back-much-more/)

[Edward Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-young/)

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> [“I maintain that Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism all hold up love as an ideal, seek…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/i-maintain-that-buddhism-christianity-confucianism-hinduism-islam/)

[Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/)

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> [“Conjurers, mediums, clairvoyants, soothsayers, those who hold black masses or seances, Tarot readers and Ouija board fanatics, those who practice witchcraft and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-d-amico/conjurers-mediums-clairvoyants-soothsayers-those-who-hold-black/)

[Ivan D'Amico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-d-amico/)

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> [Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzy-kassem/regardless-of-your-chosen-faith-at-the-end-of-your-life-s-journey/)

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

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> [“Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/our-most-dismaying-failure-is-in-the-use-of-our-knowledge-of-what/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/christianity-is-not-a-new-philosophy-or-new-morality-we-are/)

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

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> [“Christianity of this simple, vital sort is the world's salvation. Criticised by enemies and caricatured by friends; fossilised in the minds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-de-witt-hyde/christianity-of-this-simple-vital-sort-is-the-world-s-salvation/)

[William De Witt Hyde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-de-witt-hyde/)

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> [If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft/if-religion-were-true-its-followers-would-not-try-to-bludgeon-their/)

[H. P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft/)

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> [With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-mccartney/with-life-and-all-i-ve-been-through-i-do-have-a-belief-in-goodness-a/)

[Paul McCartney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-mccartney/)

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> [“Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/only-the-human-spirit-can-act-with-volition-and-consciously-change/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

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> [“GOSPEL REDISCOVERY Along with extraordinary, persistent prayer, the most necessary element of gospel renewal is a recovery of the gospel itself, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/gospel-rediscovery-along-with-extraordinary-persistent-prayer-the/)

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

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> [The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/the-bible-judges-the-church-the-church-does-not-judge-the-bible-the/)

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

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> [Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-simon/our-future-can-t-be-separated-from-the-fact-that-we-are-all-going-to/)

[David Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-simon/)

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> [“Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bernanos/satan-is-too-hard-a-master-he-would-never-command-as-did-the-other/)

[Georges Bernanos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bernanos/)

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> [To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/to-be-ruthless-requires-belief-that-our-life-on-earth-is-but-a-brief/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

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> [“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/it-s-an-awful-truth-that-suffering-can-deepen-us-give-a-greater-2/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lessin/thankfulness-is-not-something-god-gives-us-it-is-not-a-spiritual-gift/)

[Roy Lessin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lessin/)

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> [“The world was as broken and violent in first-century Bethlehem as it is today. And Jesus still comes to be with us,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-moorehead/the-world-was-as-broken-and-violent-in-first-century-bethlehem-as-it/)

[Kate Moorehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-moorehead/)

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> [The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of actions only. (Jesus) pushed his scrutinies into the heart of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-precepts-of-philosophy-and-of-the-hebrew-code-laid-hold-of/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [“The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haemin-sunim/the-purpose-of-religion-is-to-control-yourself-not-to-criticize/)

[Haemin Sunim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haemin-sunim/)

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> [“The future life is the feeling, the conception of freedom from those limits which here circumscribe the feeling of self, the existence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/the-future-life-is-the-feeling-the-conception-of-freedom-from-those/)

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

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> [Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/pathology-is-a-relatively-easy-thing-to-discuss-health-is-very/)

[Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/)

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> [“The Cross enables each of God’s children to learn to say no. In the Gospels, Jesus did not do everything others wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-s-lane/the-cross-enables-each-of-god-s-children-to-learn-to-say-no-in-the/)

[Timothy S. Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-s-lane/)

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> [“Westerners often define spirituality as denying oneself, being detached from earthly concerns, and being intent on otherworldly values. By contrast, the Hebrews…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-r-wilson/westerners-often-define-spirituality-as-denying-oneself-being/)

[Marvin R. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-r-wilson/)

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> [Jesus clearly believed in the reality of Satan and other principalities and powers. Now, I have very compelling historical, philosophical, and existential…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-a-boyd/jesus-clearly-believed-in-the-reality-of-satan-and-other/)

[Gregory A. Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-a-boyd/)

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> [“And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandra-silber/and-life-can-have-its-way-with-me-it-won-t-break-me-neither-you-nor/)

[Alexandra Silber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandra-silber/)

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> [“You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma. "I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-resnick/you-believe-in-god-demanded-billy-karma-i-believe-in-thirty-seven/)

[Mike Resnick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-resnick/)

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> [“As I went through all these experiences, I began to compile a list that wasn't written down in any book, only inscribed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elif-shafak/as-i-went-through-all-these-experiences-i-began-to-compile-a-list/)

[Elif Shafak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elif-shafak/)

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> [When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ram-dass/when-the-faith-is-strong-enough-it-is-sufficient-just-to-be-it-s-a/)

[Ram Dass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ram-dass/)

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> [We're not so free that we don't have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-stewart/we-re-not-so-free-that-we-don-t-have-to-listen-to-rules-and-laws-and/)

[Martha Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-stewart/)

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> [We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-are-designed-with-a-dreaming-brain-and-a-hopeful-spirit-it-is-our/)

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

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> [Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-robbins/will-today-be-the-day-you-decide-once-and-for-all-to-make-your-life/)

[Tony Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-robbins/)

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> [ “\[F\]aith postulates a future, a world where faith has no longer an opposite, or where at least this opposite exists only in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/f-aith-postulates-a-future-a-world-where-faith-has-no-longer-an/)

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

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> [“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/you-may-trust-to-the-truth-of-my-sympathy-but-you-must-remember-that/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/the-exterior-must-be-joined-to-the-interior-to-obtain-anything-from/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-balkin/every-religion-i-know-of-has-changed-its-views-with-respect-to/)

[Jack Balkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-balkin/)

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> [True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/true-politeness-is-the-spirit-of-benevolence-showing-itself-in-a/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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> [The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/the-principle-itself-of-dogmatic-religion-dogmatic-morality-dogmatic/)

[John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/)

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                        "text": "“The word \"Christian\" means 'like Christ'! We are to reflect His beauty, do His deeds, think His thoughts, and speak His words. This is what it means to become conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Do we really understand to what we are committing ourselves when we sing the song 'To be like Jesus...All I ask, to be like Him'? Actually, we are asking for everything that Jesus is: His character, His work, His mind, His word, His beauty, power, wisdom, and will. This is a big order, but it is our destiny! This is what life is all about. To miss this is to miss everything. To gain this is to possess the answer to life's biggest question. Christ is the answer! God planned it so. The will of God the Father for you centers in His Son!”",
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                        "text": "Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another way they steer, Pray to the Gods; but would have Mortals hear; And when their sins they set sincerely down, They'll find that their Religion has been one.",
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                        "text": "“I maintain that Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism all hold up love as an ideal, seek to benefit humanity through spiritual practice, and strive to make their followers better people. All religions teach moral precepts for the advancement of mind, body, speech, and action: do not lie or steal or take others’ lives, and so on. Unselfishness is the common foundation laid down by all great spiritual teachers.”",
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                        "text": "“Conjurers, mediums, clairvoyants, soothsayers, those who hold black masses or seances, Tarot readers and Ouija board fanatics, those who practice witchcraft and majick are all practicing a form of prayer. After all, if you pray to a god of a religion such as Christianity or Hunduism, are you not asking your voice to be heard by a spirit or god from another world? Are you not asking them for something or giving thanks? I see no difference in a person attempting to contact ghosts looking for lost treasure and a person praying to their god to ask for health (and wealth!) or whatever it is they want. This being said, all forms of attempted communication with otherworldly beings have very strong similarities, and this is the sort of thinking I think people should get past. Putting the effort into solving your problems and creating a peaceful, co-habitable world, gaining the strength to get what you want, protecting you loved ones from harm should be YOUR responsibility instead of asking a god, spirit, your ancestors, or any other disembodied entity to do it for you.”",
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                        "text": "Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather.",
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                        "text": "“Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and spiritual nourishment. And I suspect that some of the guesses made by our ancestors are partly responsible for the starved bodies and spirits we see everywhere.”",
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                        "text": "Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.",
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                        "text": "“Christianity of this simple, vital sort is the world's salvation. Criticised by enemies and caricatured by friends; fossilised in the minds of the aged, and forced on the tongues of the immature; mingled with all manner of exploded superstition, false philosophy, science that is not so, and history that never happened; obscured under absurd rites; buried in incredible creeds; professed by hypocrites; discredited by sentimentalists; evaporated by mystics; stereotyped by literalists; monopolised by sacerdotalists; it has lived in spite of all the grave-clothes its unbelieving disciples have tried to wrap around it, and holds the keys of eternal life.”",
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                        "text": "If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.",
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                        "text": "With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.",
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                        "text": "“Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself, and it is, therefore, the most powerful and valuable form of energy in the universe. For a time, the spirit may become flesh, but when that phase of its existence is at an end, it will be transformed into a disembodied spirit once more.”",
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                        "text": "“GOSPEL REDISCOVERY Along with extraordinary, persistent prayer, the most necessary element of gospel renewal is a recovery of the gospel itself, with a particular emphasis on the new birth and on salvation through grace alone. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones taught that the gospel emphasis on grace could be lost in several ways. A church might simply become heterodox — losing its grip on the orthodox tenets of theology that under-gird the gospel, such as the triune nature of God, the deity of Christ, the wrath of God, and so on. It may turn its back on the very belief in justification by faith alone and the need for conversion and so move toward a view that being a Christian is simply a matter of church membership or of living a life based on Christ’s example. This cuts the nerve of gospel renewal and revival.2 But it is possible to subscribe to every orthodox doctrine and nevertheless fail to communicate the gospel to people’s hearts in a way that brings about repentance, joy, and spiritual growth. One way this happens is through dead orthodoxy, in which such pride grows in our doctrinal correctness that sound teaching and right church practice become a kind of works-righteousness. Carefulness in doctrine and life is, of course, critical, but when it is accompanied in a church by self-righteousness, mockery, disdain of everyone else, and a contentious, combative attitude, it shows that, while the doctrine of justification may be believed, a strong spirit of legalism reigns nonetheless. The doctrine has failed to touch hearts.3 Lloyd-Jones also speaks of “defective orthodoxy” and “spiritual inertia.”4 Some churches hold to orthodox doctrines but with imbalances and a lack of proper emphasis. Many ministries spend more time defending the faith than propagating it. Or they may give an inordinate amount of energy and attention to matters such as prophecy or spiritual gifts or creation and evolution. A church may become enamored with the mechanics of ministry and church organization. There are innumerable reasons that critical doctrines of grace and justification and conversion, though strongly held, are kept “on the shelf.” They are not preached and communicated in such a way that connects to people’s lives. People see the doctrines — yet they do not see them. It is possible to get an “A” grade on a doctrinal test and describe accurately the doctrines of our salvation, yet be blind to their true implications and power. In this sense, there are plenty of orthodox churches in which the gospel must be rediscovered and then brought home and applied to people’s hearts. When this happens, nominal Christians get converted, lethargic and weak Christians become empowered, and nonbelievers are attracted to the newly beautified Christian congregation.”",
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                        "text": "The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.",
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                        "text": "“Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.”",
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                        "text": "“The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. How much am I doing about my anger, attachment, hatred, pride, and jealousy? These are the things we must check in our daily lives.” —HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA”",
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                        "text": "“The future life is the feeling, the conception of freedom from those limits which here circumscribe the feeling of self, the existence of the individual. … The natural man remains at home because he finds it agreeable, because he is perfectly satisfied; religion … commences with a discontent, a disunion, forsakes its home and travels far, but only to feel … more vividly in the distance … home. In religion man separates himself from himself, but only to return always to the same point from which he set out [himself]. Man negatives himself, but only to posit himself again, and that in a glorified form: he negatives this life, but only, in the end, to posit it again in the future life.”",
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                        "text": "Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.",
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                        "text": "“The Cross enables each of God’s children to learn to say no. In the Gospels, Jesus did not do everything others wanted him to do (see John 2:3—4; 4:43—54; 6:15, 26—27, 30—40; 7:3—10; 8:48—59; 10:30—39; 11:1—6, 21—27; 13:8—10; 18:19—24, 33—37). Instead, he was motivated by his Father’s will. Christian love does not make us slaves to the agenda of others; it makes us slaves and servants of Christ, and therefore willing to serve others. There will be times when my allegiance to Christ means that it is loving and right to say no to other people’s requests.”",
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                        "text": "“Westerners often define spirituality as denying oneself, being detached from earthly concerns, and being intent on otherworldly values. By contrast, the Hebrews experienced the world of spirit as robust, life-affirming, and this-worldly in character. Such was the \"spiritual\" orientation of the Hebrews. So-called spirituality did not come by negating the richness of life's experiences or withdrawing from the world. Instead, they affirmed creation by finding a sense of holiness in the here and now. There was no division between the sacred and secular areas of life. It was all God's world, and it was to be enjoyed without a sense of shame or guilt. In Paul's words, \"to the pure, all things are pure\" (Tit. 1:15). As trustees and stewards of God's world, human beings were to live within it and use it in accord with divine directives.”",
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                        "text": "Jesus clearly believed in the reality of Satan and other principalities and powers. Now, I have very compelling historical, philosophical, and existential reasons for concluding that Jesus is Lord, and if I confess him to be Lord, I don't see how I can consider myself in a position to ever correct his theology, especially about such a foundational theological matter!",
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                        "text": "“And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own resilience is our only weapon against the cynical, the weak, those who talk of honor but do not practice the word they so loudly and vigorously screech.”",
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                        "text": "Will today be the day you decide once and for all to make your life consistent with the quality of your spirit? Then start by proclaiming, \"This is what I am. This is what my life is about. And this is what I'm going to do. Nothing will stop me from achieving my destiny. I will not be denied!",
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