Early on, I made the mistake of wanting spiritual feelings to endure and remain romantic. Like a new couple expecting to always feel in love, I operated my faith thinking God and I were going to walk around smelling flowers.
—Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
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When I say I believe in God, God is not God’s name. God is our name for that which cannot be named or known.
—Forrest Church
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I once asked a man far more soulful than I why he celebrates Christmas and he told me to think beyond whether it actually happened or not to examine what the story means. The son of God came to the world through a carpenter’s wife and was born into a manger with farm animals to greet his arrival. He said, “Christmas is about finding God in the unlikeliest of places. We would do well to remember that.”
Merry Christmas, friends. I hope you make your New Year’s resolution to be of service to those in need in search of God in the unlikeliest of places.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
—Thomas Jefferson
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Some people say homosexuality is a sin. It’s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, ‘Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?’ Exactly, that’s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.
—Ted Alexandro
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
—Benjamin Franklin
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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, “God, I love you” and looked to the sky and really meant it. “I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.” To the children and the innocent it’s all the same.
—Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.” ―Albert Einstein
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I believe that the highest laws of life are those which we find written within our being; that the first moral laws which we are to obey are the laws which God’s own finger has traced upon our own souls. Therefore, our first duty is to ourselves, and we may never, under any circumstances, yield this to any other. I say we are first responsible to ourselves, and to the God who has laid the obligation upon us, to make ourselves the grandest we may.
—Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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