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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god-religion-happiness
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: atheism, religion
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    Timothy J. Keller
    “It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
    ― Timothy Keller
    tags: faith
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    Paul Tillich
    “The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”
    ― paul tillich
    tags: courage-to-be, tillich
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    “I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die”
    ― M.T., A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs
    tags: alcoholics-anonymous, frequently-misattributed-quote, poison, resentment
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
    ― Augustine
    tags: bible, catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, truth
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: faith, inspirational, understanding
    225 likes

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    Rollo May
    “Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.”
    ― Rollo May
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  • #12
    Dr. Seuss
    “Being crazy isn't enough.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Martin Buber
    “The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
    ― Martin Buber
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
    4581 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: belief
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    Rob Bell
    “Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.”
    ― Rob Bell
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    Rick Warren
    “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, learning-from-mistakes, past
    1554 likes

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    Rick Warren
    “You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
    ― Rick Warren
    tags: faith, life, religion
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    Stephen W. Hawking
    “Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
    ― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
    tags: philosophy, science, search-for-meaning
    814 likes

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    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: truth
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    Aldous Huxley
    “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    George Orwell
    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: intellectualism
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: christian-behavior, christmas, religion
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    Anne Lamott
    “You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth
    1994 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: cats, humor, women
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    Malcolm Muggeridge
    “Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”
    ― Malcolm Muggeridge
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    Malcolm Muggeridge
    “If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.”
    ― Malcolm Muggeridge
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    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
    2158 likes

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  • #31
    N.T. Wright
    “[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.”
    ― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian
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