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"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."

"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."

"If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!"

"Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder."

"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."

"It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert, a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position."

"To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean."

"It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love."

"There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding " one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that's based on undisputed belief on the scriptures."

"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."

"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."

"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you...God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it--made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand."

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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