I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.William James
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
William James
It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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