Religion Quotes

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Religion is just mind control.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.