Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. ― Carrie Underwood

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Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

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The next choice is the most important choice. — George Wells

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I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling. — Joe Biden

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?

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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.— Mahatma Gandhi

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The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

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