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For Significance!

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For Significance!

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  1. earching! s For Significance!

  2. “We are witnessing a massive flight from traditional religious institutions into spirituality, a spiritual awakening unprecedented in modern times.” ~ Psychology Today

  3. “The will to meaning is really a specific need not reducible to other needs, and is in greater or smaller degree present in all human beings.” ~ Victor Frankl, The Unheard Cry For Meaning

  4. “MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE CANALS IN TWO YEARS! VAST ENGINEERING WORKS ACCOMPLISHED IN AN INCREDIBLY SHORT TIME BY OUR PLANETARY NEIGHBOURS” ~ New York Times, front page headline, August 27, 1911

  5. “For the majority of people, smoking has a beneficial effect.” ~ Dr. Ian G. MacDonald, Newsweek, November 18, 1963

  6. “The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, …and the foolishness of yesterday will become the wisdom of tomorrow.” ~ William Osler, Montreal Medical Journal

  7. “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

  8. “Facts don’t cease to exist just because they are ignored.” ~ Aldous Huxley

  9. “Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” ~ Winston Churchill

  10. “As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ~ Albert Einstein

  11. “In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice; because I will have no man’s torments in this world of the next laid to my charge.” ~ Lord Chesterfield

  12. “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly… “ I said I don’t know.” ~ Mark Twain

  13. “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

  14. “Many things that pass for faith seem to be more make-believe than genuine belief, more self-hypnosis than perception of a reality beyond the senses, more a case of reason-minus than reason-plus, more a matter of crouching beneath understanding than soaring beyond understanding. Many things that pass for faith have more to do with brainwashing than heart-cleansing, with cultic tyranny than spiritual freedom.” ~ Brian McLaren, Pastor

  15. “The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.” ~ Plato

  16. “I’m only the Pope, what can I do?” ~ Pope John XXIII

  17. “The odds against a universe like ours emerging out of something like the big bang are enormous. I think clearly there are religious implications. It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create being s like us.” ~ Stephen Hawking, Physicist

  18. “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he his about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.” ~ Robert Jastrow, Astronomer

  19. “Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask – half our great theological and metaphysical problems – are like that.” ~ C.S. Lewis

  20. “I know everything that science so much wants me to know, but this path will not lead me to an answer to the question of the meaning of my life.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

  21. “It’s not the parts I don’t understand in the Bible that bother me, but the parts I do understand.” ~ Mark Twain

  22. “It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.” ~ Johann Goethe

  23. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” ~ Psalm 119:105 (KJV)

  24. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; everyone who seeks finds; and to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” ~ Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew 7:7-8 & Luke 11:9-10 (NIVi)

  25. “seek” = zeteo …to seek knowledge

  26. “And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” ~ Hebrews 11:6 (NRSV)

  27. “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” ~ Luke 19:10 (NASB)

  28. “No one can live only on food. People need every word that God has spoken.” ~ Matthew 4:4 (CEV)

  29. “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” ~ Plato, The Republic

  30. “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel….” ~ 2 Corinthians 4:4 (NIV)

  31. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me makes them want to come.” ~ John 6:44 (CEV)

  32. “But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.” ~ 2 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)

  33. “I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.” ~ Romans 10:2-4 (NLT)

  34. “For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are.” ~ Hebrews 4:12 (NLT)

  35. “An open mind is like an open window… you need a screen to keep the bugs out.” ~ Brian McLaren, Finding Faith

  36. “Comfort is one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: If you look for comfort you will not get neither comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.” ~ C.S. Lewis

  37. “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” ~ Acts 17:11 (NIV)

  38. “If people choose to do what God wants, they will know that my teaching comes from God and not from me.” ~ John 7:17 (CEV)

  39. earching! s For Significance!

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