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I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the sci...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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So now George has arrived. He is not nervous inthe least. As he gets out of his car, he feels an ups...

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Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. Y...

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If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, ord...

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You...

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Deepak ChopraWhy Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular A...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution;...

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God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness ...

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Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversi...

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Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer...

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As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to ...

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Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...

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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which...

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...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R...

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The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...

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Frederick BuechnerTelling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever...

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All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...

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The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious...

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Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine r...

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With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-sp...

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I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

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Georges BernanosThe Diary of a Country Priest

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he wi...

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Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and com...

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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope y...

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A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...

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Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in th...

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How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marr...

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What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

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Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath;...

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But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

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Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise Man

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

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Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise Man

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

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Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise Man

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

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Henry Van DykeThe Other Wise Man

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

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Henry van DykeThe Other Wise Man

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

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Henry van DykeThe Other Wise Man

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

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Henry van DykeThe Other Wise Man

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

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Henry van DykeThe Other Wise Man

Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail’s bed. Yet someone had loved h...

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We all got to die," she said. "But dying as your true self is always better. God'll take you however...

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We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary lo...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ...

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When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the should...

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The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.

Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the groun...

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If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou ...

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Joseph Smith, Jr.The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith ... with Some Additions by His Successors in the Presidency of the Church

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him...

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At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine wha...

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Kathleen NorrisAmazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life...

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To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, moth...

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The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your ...

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I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, fr...

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have n...

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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or ...

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Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fi...

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We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, beca...

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If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics whi...

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He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my s...

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Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me (an unworthy, cond...

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All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anes...

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As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eterna...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

I Choose Love...No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today...

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When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...

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If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home an...

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Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatien...

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When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is sav...

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Nikos KazantzakisThe Last Temptation of Christ

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take hi...

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... God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines a...

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It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknow...

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What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Viewed in this light, life itself appears as a dynamics of integration that is equipped with auto-th...

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For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gest...

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It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ...

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Reinhold NiebuhrThe Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But aft...

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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms ...

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Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time,...

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Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film...

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Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and g...

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One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent peop...

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Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha...

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