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“Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.”

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Riane Eisler is an American writer and social theorist known for her research on gender equality and social justice. Her work explores the relationships between gender, power, and social structures, having a profound impact on modern society. more

“there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.”

Way Humans Two Humanity Force Half Models Female Relation Threat Males Partnership Hierarchy Variation Females And Males

Book:The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Source: The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

“Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?”

People Needs Littles Long Care Pay Environment Essentials Program Clean Cleaning Adequate Funding Our Environment Basic Needs Caretaking

Author:Riane Eisler

“The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.”

Seems Care Leader Movement Birth Planning After Death Family Planning

Author:Riane Eisler

“In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.”

Men War Christ Church Prayer Darkness Weapons Primaries Aggressive Hierarchy Deliverance

Book:War on the Saints: A Text Book on the Work of Deceiving Spirits among the Children of God, and the Way of Deliverance

Source: War on the Saints: A Text Book on the Work of Deceiving Spirits among the Children of God, and the Way of Deliverance

“Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.”

Wells Heart Prayer Known Phrases Prophet Worn Well Known Recitals

Book:All the Prayers of the Bible

Source: All the Prayers of the Bible

“How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.”

Men Way Looks Made Eye Holy Storm Hills Unshakable Holy Man

Author:Herbert Lockyer

“There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.”

Prayer Affection Our Prayers

Book:An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London

Source: An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London

“Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.”

Mind Heart Spirit Prayer Drawing Rising Rising Up

Book:Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer

Source: Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer

“Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.”

Dancing Edges

Author:Trisha Brown

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