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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The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.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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The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no retur...

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Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or...

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Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not w...

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Thomas MertonNo Man Is an Island

I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred clos...

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Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threaten...

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The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but inn...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classifie...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who ...

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Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this rel...

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Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the t...

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Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free ...

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These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside....

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Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represe...

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Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can eq...

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Religion means to know God and to love Him.

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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaThe Science of Self-Realization

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...

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Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady...

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Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord's mother is weeping, She ha...

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No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabb...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

And the centurion who stood by said: Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go T...

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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...

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I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

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Allen GinsbergDeath and Fame: Last Poems

That when we live no more, We may live ever

The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is...

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Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the M...

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Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...

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The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...

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But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window...

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Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious tho...

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Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious tho...

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It is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other peopl...

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Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile...

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God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo...

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Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that eve...

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Brennan ManningSouvenirs of Solitude: Finding Rest in Abba's Embrace

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fis...

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Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our ...

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God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but wi...

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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dull...

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C. S. LewisInspirational Writings of C.S. Lewis: Surprised by Joy

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do th...

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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of...

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C. S. LewisMere Christianity

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

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A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there...

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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all ...

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God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

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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