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		God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Jeremiah
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ursula Goodenough
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mick Jagger
			
			
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		However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Schuyler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amos Lee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Randall Jarrell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christopher Hampton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		the religious ISA (the system of the different churches),
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Louis Althusser
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Geraldine Ferraro
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack McDevitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a religious man. I believe in God.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Doug Baldwin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		To Americans religious freedom is sacred.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Travolta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ambrose Bierce
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chaim Potok
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Robertson Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				D. H. Lawrence