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“Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.”
“Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.”
“Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.”
“Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.”
“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”
Source: God is Not Great
“Religion is many things, but the relational element is at its core. Nonrelational religion, if it is religion at all, is hollow.”
Source: Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable.”
Source: Not Forever, But For Now
“Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.”
Source: The Truth-seeking Heart: Austin Farrer and His Writings
“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Religion is more than rite and ritual.”
Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has contributed to the crisis in Christianity in North America. Traditional Christian language is becoming less familiar to millions of people. The language is frequently misunderstood by people.”
“Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.”
“Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.”
“Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.”
“Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.”
“religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.”
Source: Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms
“Religion is no more national than conscience.”
“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.”
Source: Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau
“Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.”
Source: My Picture of Free India
“Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.”
“Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is the Great Wall of China between them!”
“Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!”
“Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.”
Source: Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish
“Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.”
Source: Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion
“Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.”
“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite; it is the true center of gravity of our life. This we can attain during our childhood by daily living in a place where the truth of the spiritual world is not obscured by a crowd of necessities assuming artificial importance; where life is simple, surrounded by fullness of leisure, by ample space and pure air and profound peace of nature; and where men live with a perfect faith in the eternal life before them.”
“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”
Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany
“Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.”
“Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.”
“Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.”
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.”
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”
“Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. There are so many religions because immature people tend to emphasize trivial differences instead of important likenesses. Differences between faiths lie in creeds and rituals rather than in religious principles.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.”
“Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion, is the most unholy, unkind, uncivilized, unsentient, inhuman mental illness of all.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Religion is not in fault.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Religion is not just about flying mountains, talking trees and biological monsters but also about agents whose mental states matter a lot, about connections with predation and death, about links with morality and misfortune.”
Source: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
“Religion is not just concerned with psychological and spiritual medication and meditation. It is concerned essentially with the question of why life and for what purpose. The religious answer based on historically transmitted knowledge is that we are created by the Creator and Who will reward us justly in the afterlife. The afterlife will actualize the cause and effect in ethical matters and establish absolute justice which we desire for every action and intention. Qur’an repeatedly reminds of the blessings of Allah in the form of matter and intelligence which we use for our comforts and cures. After using the matter and intelligence which exists not because of our efforts, how rational and ethical it is that we remain not only thankless, but negate the one Who is to be thanked altogether.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.”
“Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.”
“Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.”
Source: Collected Works
“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”
“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.”
“Religion is not removed by removing superstition.”