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> [It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/it-is-people-who-are-violent-rather-than-religions-and-since-we/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [“Worst of all is when one encounters zombie churches. Because every church is built and sustained by volunteers, almost every church was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-crouch/worst-of-all-is-when-one-encounters-zombie-churches-because-every/)

[Andy Crouch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-crouch/)

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> [“We use the word cross in our hymns, in our piety, in our prayers, and in our pastoral language. But we use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-howard-yoder/we-use-the-word-cross-in-our-hymns-in-our-piety-in-our-prayers-and-in/)

[John Howard Yoder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-howard-yoder/)

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> [Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-gropius/together-let-us-desire-conceive-and-create-the-new-structure-of-the/)

[Walter Gropius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-gropius/)

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> [There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-allen/there-is-not-the-slightest-question-but-that-the-god-of-the-old/)

[Steve Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-allen/)

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> [Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-d-mclaren/baptism-is-rich-in-meaning-it-suggests-cleansing-when-you-are-a/)

[Brian D. McLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-d-mclaren/)

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> [Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-means/being-is-a-spiritual-proposition-gaining-is-a-material-act/)

[Russell Means](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-means/)

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> [This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/this-is-why-for-thousands-of-years-christians-have-found-the-cross-to/)

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

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> [I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ladyhawke/i-don-t-want-to-say-i-drank-the-kool-aid-because-i-m-definitely-not/)

[Ladyhawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ladyhawke/)

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> [I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-slater/i-m-not-a-religious-person-by-any-means-but-i-certainly-believe-in/)

[Christian Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-slater/)

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> [“The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The 'carnal' spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-howard/the-flesh-as-saint-paul-used-the-term-refers-ironically-not-to-our/)

[Thomas Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-howard/)

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> [“Their conversations turned to religion, and Pigafetta persuaded the prisoner to convert to Christianity. He was baptized, and the giant, whose original…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-bergreen/their-conversations-turned-to-religion-and-pigafetta-persuaded-the/)

[Laurence Bergreen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-bergreen/)

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> [“It is estimated that every three minutes somewhere in the world a Christian faces serious violations ranging from severe discrimination to outright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/majed-el-shafie/it-is-estimated-that-every-three-minutes-somewhere-in-the-world-a/)

Majed El Shafie

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> [“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kakuz-okakura/nothing-is-more-hallowing-than-the-union-of-kindred-spirits-in-art-at-2/)

[Kakuzō Okakura](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kakuz-okakura/)

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> [“God’s world is set up with laws and principles. Spiritual realities are as real as gravity, and if you do not know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-cloud/god-s-world-is-set-up-with-laws-and-principles-spiritual-realities-2/)

[Henry Cloud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-cloud/)

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> [Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-maclaren/unbelief-is-criminal-because-it-is-a-moral-act-an-act-of-the-whole/)

[Alexander MacLaren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-maclaren/)

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> [“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-felten/now-from-science-we-have-a-new-creation-story-which-is-very-alluring/)

David Felten

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> [“Whenever I felt like that, I would have a chat with my own Fat Mary. She was like the sweet fresh air…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-nhambu/whenever-i-felt-like-that-i-would-have-a-chat-with-my-own-fat-mary/)

[Maria Nhambu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-nhambu/)

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> [To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/to-the-other-nations-of-the-world-religion-is-one-among-the-many/)

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

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> [You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-schwarz/you-are-meant-to-think-before-you-speak-how-many-times-is-your-heart/)

Jack Schwarz

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> [“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-hain-friswell/the-studio-was-immense-and-gloomy-the-sole-light-within-it-proceeding/)

James Hain Friswell

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> [We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/we-must-avoid-the-spiritual-disease-of-the-church-that-can-become/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-theodore-tuttle/we-re-not-going-to-survive-in-this-world-temporally-or-spiritually/)

[A. Theodore Tuttle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-theodore-tuttle/)

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> [“Meditation is the art of learning to listen to our own heart. Meditation is the art of learning to listen to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-dhyan-giten/meditation-is-the-art-of-learning-to-listen-to-our-own-heart/)

[Swami Dhyan Giten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-dhyan-giten/)

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> [“The confession of the church touching Jesus Christ can never be a knowledge such that, with it, the church can elevate itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-c-berkouwer/the-confession-of-the-church-touching-jesus-christ-can-never-be-a/)

[G C Berkouwer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-c-berkouwer/)

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> [When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nhat-hanh/when-practiced-to-its-fullest-mindful-eating-turns-a-simple-meal-into/)

[Nhat Hanh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nhat-hanh/)

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> [“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-m-davis/some-time-ago-the-concept-of-the-carnal-christian-became-popular/)

[Andrew M. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-m-davis/)

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> [I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-dever/i-think-that-there-are-many-things-in-the-new-testament-that-show-us/)

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

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> [This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sun-myung-moon/this-is-why-god-created-so-many-different-religions-to-be-training/)

[Sun Myung Moon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sun-myung-moon/)

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> [“In American religion, as in ancient Gnosticism, there is almost no sense of God’s difference from us—in other words, his majesty, sovereignty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-horton/in-american-religion-as-in-ancient-gnosticism-there-is-almost-no/)

[Michael S. Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-horton/)

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> [“Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patsie-smith/global-transformation-can-occur-only-when-each-individual-has-the/)

[Patsie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patsie-smith/)

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> [On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/on-a-small-scale-person-to-person-jesus-encountered-the-kinds-of/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-f-wells/what-we-see-at-the-cross-is-the-white-hot-revelation-of-the-character/)

[David F. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-f-wells/)

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> [We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-clarke/we-communicate-happiness-to-others-not-often-by-great-acts-of/)

[Adam Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-clarke/)

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> [“A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-gresham-machen/a-terrible-crisis-unquestionably-has-arisen-in-the-church-in-the/)

[J. Gresham Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-gresham-machen/)

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> [We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-winston/we-must-not-confuse-religion-with-god-or-technology-with-science/)

[Robert Winston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-winston/)

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> [Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-collins/recovering-from-the-suicide-of-a-loved-one-you-need-all-the-help-you-2/)

[Judy Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-collins/)

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> [“Risk assessment is the new religion, the Big Babies'equivalent of the apotropaic ritual, the haruspices, the chicken entrails and the goat on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bywater/risk-assessment-is-the-new-religion-the-big-babies-equivalent-of-the/)

[Michael Bywater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bywater/)

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> [While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-crisp/while-i-have-very-little-to-say-in-favor-of-sex-it-s-vastly-overrated/)

[Quentin Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-crisp/)

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> [I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-believe-in-kindness-and-niceness-and-lots-of-spiritual-things-but/)

[Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/)

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                        "text": "This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.",
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                        "text": "I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at all. I'm anti, because I don't like anyone being discriminated against. But, I do think that I very much needed a sunny place for me to feel happier, and living in LA was almost like that sort of cleansing experience like I was being baptized in a river.",
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                        "text": "I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.",
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                        "text": "“The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The 'carnal' spirit is the one that devours things for itself and refuses to make them an oblation to God. The carnal spirit is cruel, egocentric, avaricious, gluttonous, and lecherous, and as such us fevered, restless, and divided. The spiritual man, on the other hand, is alone the man who both knows what flesh is for and can enter into its amplitude. The lecher, for example, supposes that he knows more about love than the virgin or the continent man. He knows nothing. Only the virgin and the faithful spouse knows what love is about. The glutton supposes that he knows the pleasures of food, but the true knowledge of food is unavailable to his dribbling and surfeited jowls. The difference between the carnal man and the spiritual man is not physical. They may look alike and weigh the same. The different lies, rather, between one's being divided, snatching and grabbing at things, even nonphysical things like fame and power, or being whole and receiving all things as Adam was meant to receive them, in order to offer them as an oblation to their Giver.”",
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                        "text": "“Their conversations turned to religion, and Pigafetta persuaded the prisoner to convert to Christianity. He was baptized, and the giant, whose original name Pigafetta never mentioned, became known as Paul. He died shortly thereafter, a Patagonian Christian who met a unique and tragic fate. Pigafetta did not record what kind of funeral rites Father Valderrama accorded Paul, but presumably he was given a proper burial at sea.”",
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                        "text": "“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself. At once he is and is not. He catches a glimpse of Infinity, but words cannot voice his delight, for the eye has no tongue. Freed from the fetters of matter, his spirit moves in the rhythm of things. It is thus that art becomes akin to religion and ennobles mankind. It is this which makes a masterpiece something sacred. In the old days the veneration in which the Japanese held the work of the great artist was intense. The tea-masters guarded their treasures with religious secrecy, and it was often necessary to open a whole series of boxes, one within another, before reaching the shrine itself--the silken wrapping within whose soft folds lay the holy of holies. Rarely was the object exposed to view, and then only to the initiated.”",
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                        "text": "“God’s world is set up with laws and principles. Spiritual realities are as real as gravity, and if you do not know them, you will discover their effects. Just because we have not been taught these principles of life and relationships does not mean they will not rule. We need to know the principles God has woven into life and operate according to them.”",
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                        "text": "Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.",
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                        "text": "“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the other wisdom stories about creation that humanity has gathered, but it certainly supplements it. It offers a real universal view because it's beyond any particular religion, ethnicity, nation and so forth. As we're struggling as a species to come together as a tribe, it provides us our basic framework, because it's from creation stories that ethics derive. Today's creation story from science is that we come from 14 billion years of an organic unfolding of the universe and are connected physiologically with every being in the universe. We all share the same atoms and the same molecules. That's truly significant and important at this time in history. We're all kin, we're all interdependent. And that's the basis of compassion, which was Jesus's ultimate teaching.”",
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                        "text": "“Whenever I felt like that, I would have a chat with my own Fat Mary. She was like the sweet fresh air after the rain. She brought me newness, clarity, and relief. She managed to get in touch with and resurrect the free spirit deep inside me. Being one with the spirit allowed me to soar above my everyday reality. I marveled at the beauty of all life and savored the power and possibilities of my imagination.”",
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                        "text": "To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life.",
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                        "text": "You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act should be a spiritual one involving your total being - soul, mind and body - done for the sake of the doing, given for the sake of the giving, worked for the sake of the working, not for the sake of what you can get out of it. The more you do this, uniting all the aspects of your being, the more you will create harmony, balance and peace.",
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                        "text": "“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although they were bold, and of the age when men are most jovial, the conversation had taken, in spite of their efforts to the contrary, a reflection from the dull weather without, and their jokes and frivolity were soon exhausted. In addition to the light which issued from the crannies in the stove, there was another emitted from a bowl of spirits, which was ceaselessly stirred by one of the young men, as he poured from an antique silver ladle some of the flaming spirit into the quaint old glasses from which the students drank. The blue flame of the spirit lighted up in a wild and fantastic manner the surrounding objects in the room, so that the heads of old prophets, of satyrs, or Madonnas, clothed in the same ghastly hue, seemed to move and to dance along the walls like a fantastic procession of the dead; and the vast room, which in the day time sparkled with the creations of genius, seemed now, in its alternate darkness and sulphuric light, to be peopled with its dreams. Each time also that the silver spoon agitated the liquid, strange shadows traced themselves along the walls, hideous and of fantastic form. Unearthly tints spread also upon the hangings of the studio, from the old bearded prophet of Michael Angelo to those eccentric caricatures which the artist had scrawled upon his walls, and which resembled an army of demons that one sees in a dream, or such as Goya has painted; whilst the lull and rise of the tempest without but added to the fantastic and nervous feeling which pervaded those within. Besides this, to add to the terror which was creeping over the three occupants of the room, each time that they looked at each other they appeared with faces of a blue tone, with eyes fixed and glittering like live embers, and with pale lips and sunken cheeks; but the most fearful object of all was that of a plaster mask taken from the face of an intimate friend but lately dead, which, hanging near the window, let the light from the spirit fall upon its face, turned three parts towards them, which gave it a strange, vivid, and mocking expression. All people have felt the influence of large and dark rooms, such as Hoffmann has portrayed and Rembrandt has painted; and all the world has experienced those wild and unaccountable terrors - panics without a cause - which seize on one like a spontaneous fever, at the sight of objects to which a stray glimpse of the moon or a feeble ray from a lamp gives a mysterious form; nay, all, we should imagine, have at some period of their lives found themselves by the side of a friend, in a dark and dismal chamber, listening to some wild story, which so enchains them, that although the mere lighting of a candle could put an end to their terror, they would not do so; so much need has the human heart of emotions, whether they be true or false. So it was upon the evening mentioned. The conversation of the three companions never took a direct line, but followed all the phases of their thoughts; sometimes it was light as the smoke which curled from their cigars, then for a moment fantastic as the flame of the burning spirit, and then again dark, lurid, and sombre as the smile which lit up the mask from their dead friend's face. At last the conversation ceased altogether, and the respiration of the smokers was the only sound heard; and their cigars glowed in the dark, like Will-of-the-wisps brooding o'er a stagnant pool. It was evident to them all, that the first who should break the silence, even if he spoke in jest, would cause in the hearts of the others a start and tremor, for each felt that he had almost unwittingly plunged into a ghastly reverie. (\"The Dead Man's Story\")”",
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                        "text": "We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.",
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                        "text": "We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.",
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                        "text": "“Meditation is the art of learning to listen to our own heart. Meditation is the art of learning to listen to the intuition, the inner guide. Meditation is the art of learning to not listen to the voice of the outer spiritual teacher, but one's own inner spiritual teacher. Our intuition, the inner guide, the spiritual teacher within, is always available within ourselves. Our intuition, our inner guide, our spiritual teacher within, is our being, which always wants to talk to you. In each situation, it gives you a message, which is always right. The being shows you what to do and in which direction to move. You will always be able to see the light by listening to the being. In the inner being, there is immense light and clarity. The inner being is already in contact with the whole. But mostly we live on the periphery, because our mind is the periphery. So slowly we forget that there is something inside ourselves, which has significant messages to us. Meditation is the process of moving within to the inner being. Rather than listen outside we have to listen inside. To be in contact with the inner being is going the right way. God is your inner voice. You have to move within to hear the still, silent voice of God.  When you have learnt to hear it, your whole life is transformed. Then you have learnt to listen to your being and to follow your own heart. One who can listen to your inner being has learnt a new language. One who can  listen to his being has become capable of listening to the being of the whole  existence. He can hear the song of the birds, he can hear the wind passing through the trees and he can hear the silent whisperings of the trees. The meditator has to begin with himself. The meditator begins to listen to his own being, and ends with listening to the being of the world. The day that you realize that your being and the being of the world are not separate, but one is the day of enlightenment. This is the ultimate fulfillment of life. The meditator has to make a commitment to put his energy into realizing the phenomenon called God, Tao, dhamma and truth. ”",
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                        "text": "“The confession of the church touching Jesus Christ can never be a knowledge such that, with it, the church can elevate itself above the world. It is precisely within the church that people will have to remind themselves that this knowledge is a gift and a miracle which did not arise out of flesh and blood.”",
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                        "text": "When practiced to its fullest, mindful eating turns a simple meal into a spiritual experience, giving us a deep appreciation of all that went into the meal's creation as well a deep understanding of the relationship between the food on our table, our own health, and our planet's health.",
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                        "text": "“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could be saved, and yet living no differently than an unbeliever day after day. In their lives there would be no hunger and thirst for righteousness, no patterns of obedience, little or no prayer or Bible reading, spotty church attendance, coupled with a love for the world, and a worldly mindset hostile to the Christian faith. Yet, because these people had “prayed the sinner’s prayer” or gone forward at a Billy Graham rally, or “asked Jesus into their hearts” at a youth camp, they were supposedly Christians. This shallow idea of conversion was coupled with the biblical concept of “once saved, always saved,” and a poisonous concoction resulted. Once that concoction was downed, the person became seriously ill with spiritual self-deception. The end of that road is hell. If anything gives you complacent comfort in a sinful lifestyle, it is a devilish component of the problem.”",
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