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They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present. ↗

— Daniel L. Pals

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Prayer ain't weakened by distance. ↗

— Vicki Lane

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The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly. ↗

— Don Cupitt

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If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety. ↗

— Don Cupitt

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Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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We have to be ready for the blessings God tosses at us. In order to catch your blessing, you have to let go of your burden. ↗

— Raylene Roybal

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This is the primordial religion – a human body and the manifestation of God within it. How does it happen? It occurs spontaneously. For this only a human body is necessary and that should be flawless. Wherever it is available on earth, this will manifest, let him be a fin, or Lap. ↗

— sri jibankrishna or Diamond

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When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge grew again, budded again, was sweet again with the blossoms of childhood. Down in the depths of my being, I cried, ‘it is good to be alive!’ I held out two trembling hands to life, and in vain silence would impose dumbness upon me henceforth! The world to which I awoke was still mysterious; but there was hope and love and God in it, and nothing else mattered. Is it not possible that our entrance into heaven may be like this experience of mine? ↗

— Helen Keller

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