After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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