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We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ. ↗

— John Piper

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Ia kembali teringat nasihat kiai Lukman saat masih di pesantren dulu, "Eling-Elingo yo Ngger, endahe wanojo iku sing dadi jalaran batale toponing poro santri lan satrio agung ↗

— Habiburrahman El Shirazy

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I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You. ↗

— John Irving

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You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will. ↗

— Hillary Jordan

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قال بعض العارفين:من قرت عينه بالله قرت به كل عين ،ومن لم تقر عينه بالله تقطعت نفسه على الدنيا حسرات ،ويكفي في فضل هذه اللذة وشرفها انها تخرج من القلب ألم الحسرة على مايفوت من هذه الدنيا ، حتى انه ليتألم بأعظم مايلتذ به من أهلها ويفر منه فرارهم من المؤلم . ↗

— ابن قيم الجوزية

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The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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I am not religious, more like a thinking, open-minded individual. Religions and their dogmas are not necessarily bad. Human beings interpreting them are. ↗

— Tuomas Holopainen

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