Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
A. J. JACOBSThere’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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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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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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Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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