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“Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.”

“A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.”

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Author:Abba Hillel Silver

“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.”

Christian Religion Prayer Fields Overcoming Difficulty Workers

Book:The Evangelization of the World in this Generation

Source: The Evangelization of the World in this Generation

“The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.”

May Religion Evil Christ Crosses Overcoming Easter Unfairness

Book:Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.”

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Author:Steven Pinker