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"Miracles happen to those who believe in them."
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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
"It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails."
"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."
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"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy."
"Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine."
"You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature."
"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
"I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."
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