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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

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I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who lov...more

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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the s...more

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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonp...more

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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we ...more

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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the...more

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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

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Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike."What do you mean?"Your daughter...more

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People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

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I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.