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We are witnessing a massive flight from
traditional religious institutions into
spirituality, a spiritual awakening unprecedented
in modern times. Psychology Today
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The will to meaning is really a specific need
not reducible to other needs, and is in greater
or smaller degree present in all human
beings. Victor Frankl, The Unheard Cry For
Meaning
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MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE CANALS IN TWO
YEARS! VAST ENGINEERING WORKS ACCOMPLISHED IN AN
INCREDIBLY SHORT TIME BY OUR PLANETARY
NEIGHBOURS New York Times, front page
headline, August 27, 1911
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For the majority of people, smoking has a
beneficial effect. Dr. Ian G. MacDonald,
Newsweek, November 18, 1963
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The philosophies of one age have become the
absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of
yesterday will become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler, Montreal Medical Journal
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to
know everything, except what is worth
knowing. Oscar Wilde
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Facts dont cease to exist just because they
are ignored. Aldous Huxley
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if
nothing happened. Winston Churchill
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As far as the propositions of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain and as
far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality. Albert Einstein
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never
give advice because I will have no mans
torments in this world of the next laid to my
charge. Lord Chesterfield
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly
I said I dont know. Mark Twain
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and
sings when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Many things that pass for faith seem to be more
make-believe than genuine belief, more
self-hypnosis than perception of a reality beyond
the senses, more a case of reason-minus than
reason-plus, more a matter of crouching beneath
understanding than soaring beyond understanding.
Many things that pass for faith have more to do
with brainwashing than heart-cleansing, with
cultic tyranny than spiritual freedom. Brian
McLaren, Pastor
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The soul of man is immortal and
imperishable. Plato
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Im only the Pope, what can I do? Pope
John XXIII
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The odds against a universe like ours emerging
out of something like the big bang are enormous.
I think clearly there are religious implications.
It would be very difficult to explain why the
universe should have begun in just this way,
except as the act of a God who intended to create
being s like us. Stephen Hawking, Physicist
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For the scientist who has lived by his faith in
the power of reason, the story ends like a bad
dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance
he his about to conquer the highest peak as he
pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted
by a band of theologians who have been sitting
there for centuries. Robert Jastrow,
Astronomer
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds
unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All
nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many
hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or
round? Probably half the questions we ask half
our great theological and metaphysical problems
are like that. C.S. Lewis
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I know everything that science so much wants me
to know, but this path will not lead me to an
answer to the question of the meaning of my
life. Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
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Its not the parts I dont understand in the
Bible that bother me, but the parts I do
understand. Mark Twain
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep
meditation, which has served me as the guide of
my moral and literary life. I have found it a
capital safely invested, and richly productive of
interest. Johann Goethe
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Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light
unto my path. Psalm 119105 (KJV)
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Ask and it will be given to you seek and you
will find knock and the door will be opened to
you. For everyone who asks receives everyone
who seeks finds and to everyone who knocks, the
door will be opened. Jesus of Nazareth,
Matthew 77-8 Luke 119-10 (NIVi)
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seek zeteo to seek knowledge
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And without faith it is impossible to please
God, for whoever would approach him must believe
that he exists and that he rewards those who seek
him. Hebrews 116 (NRSV)
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For the Son of Man has come to seek and to
save that which was lost. Luke 1910
(NASB)
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No one can live only on food. People need
every word that God has spoken. Matthew 44
(CEV)
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm
to the body but knowledge which is acquired
under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic
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The god of this age has blinded the minds of
unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of
the gospel. 2 Corinthians 44 (NIV)
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No one can come to me unless the Father who
sent me makes them want to come. John 644
(CEV)
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But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the
veil is taken away. 2 Corinthians 316
(NIV)
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I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but
it is misdirected zeal. For they dont
understand Gods way of making people right with
himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own
way of getting right with God by trying to keep
the law. Romans 102-4 (NLT)
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For the word of God is full of living power.
It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting
deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It
exposes us for what we really are. Hebrews
412 (NLT)
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An open mind is like an open window you need
a screen to keep the bugs out. Brian McLaren,
Finding Faith
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Comfort is one thing you cannot get by looking
for it. If you look for truth, you may find
comfort in the end If you look for comfort you
will not get neither comfort or truth only soft
soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in
the end, despair. C.S. Lewis
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Now the Bereans were of more noble character
than the Thessalonians, for they received the
message with great eagerness and examined the
Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was
true. Acts 1711 (NIV)
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If people choose to do what God wants, they
will know that my teaching comes from God and not
from me. John 717 (CEV)
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