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But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64). ↗

— Kola Boof

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The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. ↗

— William McKinley

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Imagination is evidence of the divine, and the divine is the imagination of evidence. ↗

— Erik Banks

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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. It's what you don't know - the dark, the hidden, the underside of the visible, and all because we have grammar, and grammar would be impossible without the FoxP2 gene; so God is a brain mutation, and that gene is the same one birds need for singing. So music is built in, Glenn said: It's knitted into us. It would be very hard to amputate it because it's an essential part of us, like water. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them. ↗

— John Green

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Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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No grief is so great, no pain so profound, no burden so unbearable that it is beyond His healing touch. ↗

— Joseph B. Worthlin

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Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be ↗

— John Adair

#leaderships #religion #wisdom #inspirational

Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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