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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height."

"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion."

"Don't neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life."

"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."

"The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience."

"It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the real world. But, goes the argument, a being that doesn't exist in the real world is, by that very fact, less than perfect. Therefore we have a contradiction and, hey presto, God exists!"
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"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."

"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."

"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."

"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

"I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs."

"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
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