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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have…
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The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He…
— Joel Osteen
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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American…
— Archie Shepp
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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in…
— C.S. Lewis
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..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and…
— Yukio Mishima
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
— John Steinbeck
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took…
— J C Ryle
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I saw so many boys whipped, it took root in my head.
— Albert Fish
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Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the…
— Ari Fleischer
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