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I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze, and I won't know what to say.

—Ronnie Shakes

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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and fingernails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

—Frances Farmer

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God [is] hidden within me. I find Him by hiding in the silence in which He is concealed.

—Thomas Merton

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Forget traditions! Forget conventionalisms! Forget what the world will say whether you're in your place or out of your place. Stand up and be counted. Do your thing, looking only to God — whoever your God is — and to your

—Shirley Chisholm

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She is reading Zen, Krishnamurti, and Jung, asking herself questions she has never had the courage to explore. Suddenly, the shackles which have bound her are beginning to snap, as personal revelation replaces orthodoxy.

—Terry Tempest Williams

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Many religions claim that theirs is the only path to the Truth. . . . But God never made an agreement with any of these religions. All religions are of fairly recent origin, but God has existed since the beginning of time. He could not have signed a contract with any religious founder saying, "You are my exclusive salesman.

—Muktananda

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Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

—Antonio Porchia

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

—Mark Twain

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Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. . . . And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

—Robert Langdon in Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

—Jon Stewart

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We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

—Henri J.M. Nouwen

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There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it.

—The Zohar

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The czarina Maria Fëdorovna was known throughout Russia for her philanthropy. She once saved a prisoner from transportation to Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander. The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia." After Maria's intervention, the note read: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia." The prisoner was subsequently released.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

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