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“If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.”

Ifs Spiritual Religious Youth India Instruction Secular Bankruptcy

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.”

World Country America Religious India Secular Sweden

Author:Peter L. Berger

“I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.”

Writing Made I Can Games Stuff Religious Answers Secret India Experiments Expenses Reserved Turmoil Suggesting Fads Satyagraha

Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascinated with the religious lives of others who seemed also to be very religious, yet in ways that were quite different from my own. That fascination led to relationships, in India and elsewhere, with families of Hindus, of Muslims, of Sikhs, and a lot of study.”

Way Different Young Social Religious My Own Study Mountain Tradition India Fascinated Elsewhere Young Women Fascination Protestants Lives Of Others Montana Methodists Religious Life

Author:Diana L. Eck

“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.”

Mean Culture Spirituality Religious Teacher India Depth Surface Visible Islamic Temples Religious Life

Author:Diana L. Eck

“The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.”

“You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.”

World Whole Problem Law Names Natural Religious India Mythology Ireland Pakistan Outlook Natural Life India And Pakistan India Pakistan

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, when the political climate gets too hot and uncomfortable, the government will immediately start saying, should we build a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri mosque? Everyone will go baying off in that direction. It's a game.”

Should Government Political Games Religious Talking India Hot Climate Selling Uncomfortable Temples Site Linked Globalization Mosques Multinationals Privatization

Author:Arundhati Roy

“In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system. Then as soon as we reach India, 1959, at once we start working for democratization. Now here if remain in a political sort of field, supreme leader, at the same time religious leader, that may become hindrance of proper democracy.”

Ifs May Political Desire Religious Responsibility Leader Democracy Childhood Fields India Supreme Hindrance Religious Leaders Democratization

Author:Dalai Lama

“A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.”

Matter Spirit Growth Religious Common India Bases Recognition

Book:The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

“I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.”

“India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.”

“In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'”

People Life Is Found Religious Land India Western Distinction Division Secular Clergymen Layman

Author:Virchand Gandhi

“I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.”

Christian Religion Left Religious Christianity Return Discovery Europe India Cease Buddhist Hinduism Priesthood

Author:Raimon Panikkar

“In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.”

Whole Form Religious India Importance Centre Religious Life

Book:Vivekananda Reader

Source: Vivekananda Reader

“SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.”

Character Purpose Religious Emotion Divine Cat India Sacred Ancient Divinity Dedicated Cows Egypt Solemn Onions Crocodiles Ancient Egypt

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.”

Religious Students Standards Europe India Chinese Judged Incapable Medieval Pious Religious Experience Religious Love Medieval Europe

Author:Hu Shih

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