"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."

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"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

Julie Harris, American Actress

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

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"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

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"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."

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"Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth."

War

"I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God."

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"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."

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"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."

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"This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful."

Travel

"What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans."

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"Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists."

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"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."

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"The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods."

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