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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
Author: Cotvos
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The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.
Author: Meister Eckhart
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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
Author: James Elroy Flecker
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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,.
Author: Wilfrid Heed
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
Author: R. J. Hollingdale
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It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.
Author: Dr. Caird
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal.
Author: Adolph Harnack
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Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Author: John Selden
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When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.
Author: Richard H. Tawney
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Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
Author: St. Athanasius
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In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.
Author: Michael Bruce
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If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.
Author: Bowen Baxter
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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
Author: Harvey Cox
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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
Author: J. C. Macaulay
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Those of little faith are of little hatred.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
Author: Francis Cardinal Spellman
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Author: Jim Bakker
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.
Author: Sri Ramakrishna
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Author: Henry Christopher Bailey
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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
Author: Rufus M. Jones
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Author: St. Augustine
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Author: Angela Carter
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Author: James Joyce
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
Author: James Russell Lowell
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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Author: E. M. Cioran
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We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...
Author: Nathaniel Branden
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The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Author: David Hume
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It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.
Author: Lin Yutang
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If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Author: William Temple
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Author: Edmund Burke
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I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
Author: D. Dale Gulledge
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Author: Helen Keller
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The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Author: Bill Maher
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system.
Author: C. C. Morrison
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And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Author: Charlotte P. Gillman
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