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“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.”
“Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.”
“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.”
“Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.”
Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke
“Religion is for the paperwork. Faith is for us.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.”
“Religion is for those who are without the pure knowledge of the Almighty true God- Jehovah the Creator of the Heavens and the earth..it is also for those who are ignorant of the fact of who God is and are neither founded in Him nor allign themselves to His righteous standards...but are lovers of sins and every acts and pleasures that does not glorify Him. Christianity is not a religion and will never be. It is a relationship consisting of our being in unity with Jesus Christ and with others...tuned and under the banner of Christ-likeness, upholding justice and righteousness.”
“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“Religion is for those who want the benefits of paradise without having to go through hell.”
“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.”
“Religion is god's population-control tool”
“Religion is good, as it controls the people that don't have the intelligence to make worthwhile decisions. However, it could be debated as to whether this makes up for the atrocities committed by these people.”
“Religion is great at instilling the fear of hell, but awful at giving a taste of heaven.”
“Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.”
Source: The Case for God
“Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.”
“Religion is important for humanity, but it should evolve with humanity. The first priority is to establish and develop the principle of pluralism in all religious traditions. If we, the religious leaders, cultivate a sincere pluralistic attitude, then everything will be more simple. It is good that most religious leaders are at least beginning to recognize other traditions, even though they may not approve of them. The next step is to accept that the idea of propagating religion is outdated. It no longer suits the times.”
“Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.”
“Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream about, what we fantasize, what we think - all these things - twenty-four hours a day. One's religion, then, is ones life, not merely the ideal life but the life as it is actually lived.
Religion is not prayer, it is not a church, it is not theistic, it is not atheistic, it has little to do with what white people call "religion." It is our every act. If we tromp on a bug, that is our religion; if we experiment on living animals, that is our religion; if we cheat at cards, that is our religion; if we dream of being famous, that is our religion; if we gossip maliciously, that is our religion; if we are rude and aggressive, that is our religion. All that we do, and are, is our religion.”
Source: Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
“Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.”
“Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion
“Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.”
“Religion is induced insanity.”
“Religion is inevitably something that demands faith, or belief from us. Given the variety of forms of religion, it is natural that definitions of faith are also various. One interpretation, based on our discussion thus far, is to say that faith involves the sincere taking of our entire past as a foundation while simultaneously looking forward to the creation of a bright future. While this is a somewhat narrow perspective of the notion of faith, it reflects at least two essential points. One is that no one can rearrange his or her past. Whatever may be in our past, we have to accept it. The second point is that the thinking consciousness is operating while being continually subjected to the powerful influences of the manas [mind of self-attachment]. Even the wholesome mental factors are working under the severe constraints of a deeply embedded selfish attachment that is utterly bereft of the ability to take an unbiased perspective on anything.
The only recourse we have is to consciously accept our past without a struggle, and from the position of leverage provided by this awareness, elevate, deepen, and broaden our inclination toward the world of the Buddha. This is the first religious step of Yogācāra, it's foundational form of faith.”
Source: Living Yogācāra: An Introduction to Consciousness-Only Buddhism
“Religion is insanity by consensus.”
“Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.”
“Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.”
“Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.”
Source: Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
“Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.”
“Religion is just coded spirituality.”
“Religion is just mind control.”
“Religion is life essential.”
“Religion is life. How can you bind life in a book!”
“Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.”
“Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.”
“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”
“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
“Religion is like a parachute. It does not let us fly, but it helps to get us down in the ditch.”
“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.”
Source: Other Dimension, Secret Codes of the Universe
“Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.”
“Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.”
“Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.”
“Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.”
“Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.”
“Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.”
Source: Collected Poems and Prose
“Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will invoke the same curious amusement as rain and sun gods do today. Or perhaps our god will simply be shelved along with Zeus and Jupiter. Some day. But until then, we suffer the consequences of a population that believes in the absence of evidence and, more curiously, rejects an objective reality that conflicts with beliefs easily proven false.”
“Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.”
“Religion is love; in no case is it logic.”