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#1

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

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#2

“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#3

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#4

“Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'.”
― Jacob Needleman

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#5

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#6

“I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed..." - John Wimber”
― John Wimber

tags: faith-healing, religion

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#7

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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#8

“Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: psychology

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#9

“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
― Albert Camus

tags: peace

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#10

“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”
― Ivan Coyote

tags: butch, gay, gender-bending, gender-spectrum, labels, lesbian, orientation, rare, sexuality, stereotype, unique

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#11

“...language is never innocent.”
― Roland Barthes

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#12

“I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

tags: attitude, belief-quotes, comfort-zone, danger, extraordinary, faith-quotes, fear-quote, health, inspirational-quotes, law-of-attraction-books, law-of-attraction-quotes, life-quotes, love-quotes, optimal, optimism, positive-thinking, relationship-quotes, spiritual-quotes, success-quotes, taking-chances, taking-risk, unknown-quotes

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#13

“I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.”
― Jim McDonald

tags: inner-peace, inspirational, self-awareness, suffering

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#14

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society

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#15

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: control, life

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#16

“Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

tags: artist, dogmatism, fundamentalism

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#17

“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

tags: critical-thinking, dogma, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion

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#18

“In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons

tags: 1999, a-marvel-walked-among-us, family-values, fundamentalism, science-vs-religion

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#19

“But in their defense of the supernatural, fundamentalists and their evangelical heirs resemble some cancer patients. In facing a drastic disease, they are willing to undertake a drastic remedy. The treatment of fundamentalism may be said to have succeeded; the patient survived. But at least for the life of the mind, what survived was a patient horribly disfigured by the cure itself.”
― Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

tags: christian-intellect, evangelicalism, fundamentalism

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#21

“I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake
however you choose to see it
and I live in my own flames
sometimes burning too bright and too wild
to make things last
or handle
myself or anyone else
and so I run.
run run run
far and wide
until my bones ache and lungs split
and it feels good.
Hear that people? It feels good
because I am the slave and ruler of my own body
and I wish to do with it exactly as I please”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: ache, alive, alone, awake, blood, body, bright, burn, fire

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#22

“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all”
― Johnny Depp

tags: normal, people, weirdness

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#23

“The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

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#24

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire

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#25

“The shortest horror story:

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
― Frederic Brown

tags: funny, horror

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#26

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: anger

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#27

“Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

tags: depression

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#28

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

tags: art

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#29

“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.”
― George Carlin

tags: bad-girls, christmas, santa, santa-claus, sex

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#30

“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively promoting a kind of secular rationalism that states that one does not need to have a religious experience of any kind to live a moral life: all one has to do is declare one’s faith in scripture, in the doctrine of Jesus’ divinity and such, and accept the authority of the Holy Catholic Church as God’s representative on Earth.”
― Daniel Waterman, Entheogens, Society and Law: The Politics of Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility

tags: authority, catholic-church, disobedience, faith, moral-life, origin-myth, rationalism, religious-experience, scripture, truth

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#31

“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: acclaim, nonconformity, stubbornness

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