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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

— Brennan Manning

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The tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

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Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.

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Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.

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My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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