Religion Quotes

Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, cont...

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, drea...

We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, com...

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. ...

God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.

Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.

Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore ...

There is only one all-pervading God. It has no religion, no incarnation. It is free from all contami...

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

The objective of nonviolence is to create a beloved world community.

The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by t...

Peace is the highest religion. Peace is the glory of humanity.

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.

Do not be victim of life-negative religions. Be respectful to life, love and beauty.

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religi...

Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life.

The door is always open for you. You just need to open your mind and walk into the heaven of love.

Kindness has no religion – no boundaries. It is the trust of the soul.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or fait...

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forev...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that ...

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more ...

You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can thi...

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origi...

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nic...

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental...

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternal...

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how ...

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's...

Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. And yet our conception of our surroundings re...

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous mo...

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensu...

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun ...

‎You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the...

I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhe...

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and ...

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he s...

As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by th...

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness b...

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Ath...

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k...

An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other idea...

You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you ca...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of ...

That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of ext...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by sign...

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We sp...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No", said the priest, "not if you did not...

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which ...

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor...

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery a...

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when...

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive...

The gods too are fond of a joke.

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundatio...

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by relig...

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonst...

Once, I believed that space couldhave no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared t...

What a lovely thing a rose is!"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping ...

Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, e...

As a historian, I confess to a certain amusement when I hear the Judeo-Christian tradition praised a...

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile are...

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided em...

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall...

I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness ...

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two fa...

Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity...

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very accepta...

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, anni...

Sister Carmelita says animals don't have souls""Of course animals have souls, where did she get that...