From a great quote master.....

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

faith is a lie for the unbeliever

The Bible believers definition of faith is believing what is not as though it were. To the unbelieving world this is a lie if not true right now. The former looks ahead and latter does not. Recently this debate has presented itself dominating the world of politics. 

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The truth cannot be told by those who know.

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First lie out there wins.

Jesus as metaphor

If  you cannot believe everything Jesus said then you can get around this by saying Jesus did not mean it, it is all just a metaphor. See Pulpit Rock.

between the letter and the spirit of the story

The division between religion and science is slowly closing. The introduction of black holes, dark matter and dark energy is more quickly easing the lessening friction. In the fifties this was not so evident when black holes were not prominent on the speculative menu in science fiction. Particularly, the language since the ancient writers described creation has changed, with the emphasis on the spirit of the story replaced by the more exact digital language of the letter seen today. The Biblical account of creation is a personified poetic account that carries more power than the exact letter does today.

projecting science entering world of the unseen

If scientific thought is backing into a designer mode then we are pointing toward the under recognized power of the concentrated control of desire. If thoughts can turn switches on and off as work with handicaps already gives hope, then the bar to the unseen is being penetrated. The greatest power lies in the unseen faith of our as yet uncontrolled deepest thought. 

even chaos has a purpose

Everything that comes out into being is going somewhere. That somewhere is its' destination and it even then has a purpose that will be later revealed in the future even if we are unable to acknowledge it presently.

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Hypocrisy  is the tribute vice pays  to virtue,

learning increases knowledge of our ignorance

There is so much more to know already hanging over our heads, all compounded by a growing awareness that we are largely learning more about our increasing ignorance than any established knowledge. 
Every question we gain an answer to reveals more questions than we started with, suggesting we are learning more about our ignorance than wisdom. 

getting ready for death

We all know our bodies wear down. Many know that eventually our arties clog up with use, despite otherwise good health, and wear down our hearts pumping haarder and harder, signaling the imminently inevitable and ignoble end of our bodies. It just will not happen now. This is a definition of forever if we've ever heard it. Time is the puzzle here. Time fools us all in the end. Time fools so many that it is even mentioned in several current inscriptions on stones left behind. How did it all go by so quickly? It may be better to accept our death ahead of time, as many do in battle. What about accepting our bodily future while it is dimming, treating it like a cross as Jesus did. How do we do that, picking up our cross and following Jesus?

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anger is a sign of weakness

Everything God commands us to do is for our own benefit. For instance, When told God wants our praise, responded, why was that? Was God having a problem with His self worth? That was the response of the atheist I was at the time. However, if we lift God up in praise we a have to lift ourselves up in the effort as well. Consider forgiveness. Only God can forgive but if we can forgive we forgive ourselves. Everything God commands us to is for our benefit.