"Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose."

-- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

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“A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.”
“I never really had an idol.”
“It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.”
“The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.”
“To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.”
“In countries like Afghanistan, the corruption is in your face. In Nigeria, I heard of judges making sex the bargaining chip rather than money. Now let's put that in the context of an honor-based society. Imagine that you're the brother of a woman who got raped by a judge to have her case heard in court. What do you want to do? You want to kill the judge. So here is an insurgent movement that hands you a gun. You have rage, and they give you an outlet for your rage.”
“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.”
“If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?”

Source : "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.

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