"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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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

Thomas Pynchon, American Writer

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"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

James Lipton, American Educator

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"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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"My name is Linus, and I am your God."

Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"The groves were God's first temples."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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"But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god."

Larry Hagman, American Actor

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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

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"I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims."

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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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"Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church."

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

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"One of our deepest needs is to be at home."

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

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"Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason."

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"The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all."

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