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Ive spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the worlds re

Ive spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the worlds religions, and Ive done my homework. Ive gone to each of the worlds eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and Ive apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith. – Huston Smith

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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. – Huston Smith

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Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. – W. Ralph Ward

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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. – Norman Cousins

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? – Graham Greene

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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion – Mormonism – has something way on the side thats completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion. – Patrick Wilson

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