The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
A. J. JACOBSWhen 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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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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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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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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There’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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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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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