{"quotes":[{"text":"The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between the branch they were born on and the remaining branches on the tree, because they understand well that we are are all connected to the same roots. The world citizen sees each section of the world as part of their arm, leg, eyes, and heart. They do not class, contain or separate themselves or their identity by ethnicity or religion -- because they see their existence as a small part of a greater whole. When asked about their religion, the world citizen simply replies: 'My heart.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["cultural-identity","ethnicity","heart","peace","relgion","religion","suzy-kassem","universe","world-citizen","world-citizenship"],"id":64308,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausible solution to the riddle of statistical improbability. And the higher the improbability, the more implausible intelligent design becomes. Seen clearly, intelligent design will turn out to be a redoubling of the problem. Once again, this is because the designer himself (/herself/itself) immediately raises the bigger problem of his own origin. Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as a Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.","author":"Richard Dawkins","tags":["begging-the-question","creationism","dutchmans-pipe","evolution","god","logical-fallacy","natural-selection","probability","relgion"],"id":72821,"author_id":"Richard+Dawkins"},{"text":"Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["afterlife","birth","born","born-again","circle","circles","closes","cosmic","cosmic-heart","creation","currents","cycle","cycle-of-life","cycles","death","destruction","destructs","dies","direction","dreams","dying","end","ending","energy","evolution","expands","geometria","harmonic-principles","harmonics","heart","infinity","knowledge","life","living-things","lotus","lotus-flower","matter","metaphysics","mother-nature","natural-world","nature","opposite","philosopher","philosophy","physics","poet","reality","rebirth","reborn","reincarnation","relgion","repeat","repeats","science","soul","spirals","spiritual","spirituality","suzy-kassem","theory","time","transform","transforms","true","turns","universe","vibration","vibrations","wisdom"],"id":83003,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"We ought to seek daily grace.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["beauty","christian-life","daily","daily-life","desires","faith","grace","hope","inspirational","life","new-day","relgion","seek","self-love","self-motivation","spirituality","wishes"],"id":108741,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bat","faith","knowledge","life","lion","philosophy","rat","rat-race","rats","relgion","religion","truth","wisdom"],"id":158690,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"...True love is my religion...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["relgion","true-love"],"id":184922,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.","author":"Lucas Mascotto-Carbone","tags":["death","individuality","rationalism","rationality","reason","relgion","thought-provoking"],"id":245201,"author_id":"Lucas+Mascotto-Carbone"},{"text":"Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anger","arrows","blindsighted","clever","cunning","evil-doing","evilness","fake-kindness","false-righteousness","inactive-members","losing-faith","loss-of-holy-ghost","lost","lost-members","lost-testimony","need-to-be-right","obvious","piety","pious","possessed-by-satan","pride","relgion","rightness","sacralige","satan-s-tools","silver-tounged","twisted-scriptures","vengeful","very-lost","winning","wisdom","worst-thing-you-can-do"],"id":264243,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["answers","anxiety","aquaintances","benefit-of-the-doubt","bias","brainwashed","brothers","children","choices","christianity","christmas-spirit","church-members","communication","compassion","dating","delusions","empathy","eternal-truths","exfamily","family","family-members","fathers","fear","first-impressions","forgiving-family","forgiving-friends","forgiving-sisters","friends","holy-ghost","homeless","jesus-christ","knowing-someone","listen","listening","love","mental-disorders","mental-illness","mothers","new-perspective","new-year","not-seeing","persepctive","promptings","questions","reaching-out","relationships","relgion","resolutions","seeing","seekers","seeking","self-righteousness","sermons","sisters","spirtual","strangers","wrong-impresssions"],"id":282639,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Pray, read and mediate on the Scripture. These spiritual deeds are the greatest acts to self-development.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["actions","christian-life","deeds","faith","hope","inspirational","mission","positive-thinking","purpose","relgion","self-development","self-improvement","spiritual-sayings","spirituality"],"id":324585,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}