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Every time I see a TV evangelist I can't help but think that if God wanted to talk to me through the TV, I think he could get a spot on a major network.

—Margot Black

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She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

—Flannery O'Connor

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Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

—Miguel de Unamuno

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Every day people are straying away from the Church and going back to God.

—Lenny Bruce

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Christ could certainly not have established the Church, that is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church — with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility — is to be found either in Christ's words or in the conceptions of the men of his time.

—Leo Tolstoy

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In the best sense of the word [Jesus] was a radical. . . . His religion has so long been identified with conservatism — often with conservatism of the obstinate and unyielding sort — that it is almost startling for us sometimes to remember that all the conservatism of His own times was against Him, that it was the young, free, restless, sanguine, progressive part of the people who flocked to Him.

—Phillips Brooks

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The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world. 

—Thomas Merton

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The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

—Clarice Lispector

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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn?" she inquired. "Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

—Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

—Woody Allen

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Perhaps this quiet yet unquiet waiting is the harbinger of grace, or perhaps it is grace itself.

—Franz Kafka, as quoted by Gustav Janouch

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Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs . . . and listen to the sounds my wife and children make as they sleep, the sounds our animals make as they step carefully through our dreams and out the other side to polished floor and cold window. Sometimes I wait so long I become unsure if I am asleep, or awake, or dead.

—Steve Rasnic Tem

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What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time. . . . That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.

—Jonathan Safran Foer

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The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

—Daphne Koller

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The computer, the noise of the computer, feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

—Tony Kushner

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