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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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The time and moment of Ancient and Medieval is gone, a new change is sought from within by the lifeforce a moment that is for NOW and not holding on the Past which though Primordial is eternally in the present living for the Future. ↗

— Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

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Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if an innocent child dies in agony and a wicked man breathes his last at an advanced age in his sleep, who are we to call it injustice? ↗

— Valerie Martin

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I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have. ↗

— Susan Powter

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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.--- ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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I have found God, but he is insufficient. ↗

— Henry Miller

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