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  1. God
  2. Life
  3. Prayer
  4. Truth
  5. Reason
  6. Reality
  7. Religion
  8. Christianity
  9. The Now
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God

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God everywhere!  ~Jean Favre

Wherever you turn is God's face.  ~Muhammad

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

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.  ~Mikhail Gorbachev

God is not above us, but within us....The visible world is the body of God, the thought that contemplates it is God's mind, and the energy that moves it is God's spirit.  ~Universal Pantheist Society

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.  ~Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. ..   ~Albert Einstein

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Life

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.  ~James Gibbons Huneker

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.  ~Stacy

Life's a journey, not a destination.  ~Aerosmith

It's just life.  Just live it.  ~Terri Guillemets

 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.  It goes on.  ~Robert Frost

.. we are a part of a multitude of life-forms which are a coherent, interdependent, never static evolution of matter. ~Universal Pantheist Society

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Life is half spent before we know what it is.  ~George Herbert

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Truth

There is no truth.  There is only perception.  ~Gustave Flaubert

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.  ~Andre Gide

Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas.  ~Shoseki

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.  ~French Proverb

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Prayer

Prayer draws us near to our own souls .  ~Herman Melville

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.  ~Søren Kierkegaard

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.  ~Thomas Edison

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. ~Robert Ingersoll

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. ~Steve Allen

God is not a capricious overseer who sits in heaven and who is swayed by our prayers to help us or by the prayers of our enemies to injure us.  ~Universal Pantheist Society

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Reason

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.  ~Lorraine Hansberry

To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead. ~ Thomas Paine

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ~Jonathan Swift

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe. ~Carl Sagan

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.  ~John F. Kennedy

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.  ~Aldous Huxley

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Reality

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.  ~Albert Einstein

There are no facts, only interpretations.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

What is reality anyway!  It's nothing but a collective hunch.  ~Jane Wagner

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.  ~Louise Nevelson

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. ~Ramana Maharshi

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Religion

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. . . . This is a somewhat new kind of religion.  ~Albert Einstein

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.  ~Richard Burton

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.  ~Jonathan Swift

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~Blaise Pascal

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. ~ Carl Sagan

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Christianity

The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public. ~Hans Konzelmann

The Christian Right is neither.  ~Author Unknown

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.  ~Mark Twain

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words.  ~Isaac Asimov

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The Now

. .the passing moment is all that a man can ever live or lose.  ~ Marcus Aurelius

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.  ~Alan Watts

The living moment is everything.  ~D.H. Lawrence

Nothing is worth more than this day.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.  ~Author Unknown

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.  ~Cherokee Indian Proverb

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Cleve Quotes

When a person closes his mind,  sometimes it's for fear of losing it.  ~Cleveland Glass

Out-of-body experiences explain perfectly why there are so many mindless people roaming the landscape.  ~Cleveland Glass

If Jesus is coming back, he's already 2000 years late! (Mark 9:1) ~Cleveland Glass

If God is not the author of confusion, how can he be the author of the Bible? ~Cleveland Glass

It's easier to educate an uneducated  person than it is to re-educated a miss-educated one.  ~Cleveland Glass

If Christianity is correct, the Devil will destroy far more lives than Jesus will ever save.  ~Cleveland Glass

The narrow mind is a terrible thing to embrace.  ~Cleveland Glass

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