"Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief."

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"Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief."

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"It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones."

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"It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Spiritual, Life, Journey, Love, Compassion

"The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality."

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"Jesus said "Give us THIS DAY our daily bread", knowing that you cannot fight today's battles with yesterday's bread. Knowing that you cannot fight today's battles with the hope of tomorrow's bread. Knowing that today you will be nourished by this daily bread, and it's what you have to fight today's battle."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"I miss you so much! And while this hole in my heart will never be filled again, I find comfort knowing that you are nestled within the loving embrace of God. and that I was blessed to know you. even if only for a little while."

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Spiritual, Loss, Comfort, God, Blessing

"On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality. "

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"No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are."

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"Sometimes you don't get the answers you want. That doesn't mean God isn't listening, it means YOU aren't."

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Spiritual, Answers, God, Listening, You

"Life may bring you to your knees pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution! "

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Spiritual, Prayer, Resilience, Action, Solution

"How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this?"

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"We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation."

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"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."

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"Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children."

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"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."

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"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

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"But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales."

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"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages."

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"It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones."

"It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish."

"The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality."

"I miss you so much! And while this hole in my heart will never be filled again, I find comfort knowing that you are nestled within the loving embrace of God. and that I was blessed to know you. even if only for a little while."

"On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality. "

"No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are."

"Sometimes you don't get the answers you want. That doesn't mean God isn't listening, it means YOU aren't."

"Life may bring you to your knees pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution! "

"How would your life be different if your religion was love, and your spirituality was governed by kindness? How would the world be different if everyone did this?"

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"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."

"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."

"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

"But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales."

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."

"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

"The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages."