Best Religion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".”

Trying Mind Humans Feelings Law Religion Universe Religious Consciousness Harmony Human Mind Laws Of Nature Insufficiency

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

Knows Want Problem Beautiful Joy Religion Special Smart Details Curious Knowing God Comprehending Special Gifts

Author:Albert Einstein

“The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.”

World Religion Jesus Christ Religious Moral Jesus Christ

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.”

Earth Religion Hell

Author:David Banner

“Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.”

Heart Religion Faith Language Given Subjects Secular

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!”

Should Religion Jesus Jew Should I

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.”

Earth Religion

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing”

Life Dream Light Life Is Lying Religion Tree Rivers Staring

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.”

Men Self Religion Sacrifice Higher Claims Vessel Dharma Recompense

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana

“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.”

School Religion Consciousness Subjects Infinite Various Fixed Personal Relationships Syllabus

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.”

Ideas Self Religion Attitude Creation Expression Infinite Mere Individuality Endless Variety Poetry Is Self Expression

Book:Tagore

Source: Tagore

“One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.”

Thinking Should Mean Enough Religion Opinion Path Infinite Sincere Yearning Right Path False Gods

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.”

People World Play Whole Religion Games Water Opposites Infinite Surface Whole World Rising Infinity Bubbles Rise Above Duality Brahman Dissolving

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Care Religion Known Knowing Particular Universal Unity Theme Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.”

May Religion Path Mankind Taught Expression Ought Suits Oneness

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.”

Long Country Whole Religion Dog

Book:My Life and Mission

Source: My Life and Mission

“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”

Love Done Religion Fear Sin Atheism Rage Great Service

Author:Anatole France

“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.”

Self Christian Joy Religion Dies Christianity Thousand Argument Certainty Strongest Righteous Complacent Self Righteous Completeness Consecration Somber

Book:Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

Source: Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

“Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!”

Shows Science Religion Mouths Accounts Corners Ugly Teeth Lambs Trembling

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”

Knows Mean Doe Lying Religion Order Speak Leadership Destruction Mere Lawyer Liars Portions Deceiving Deceptive Craftsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.”

Spiritual Religion Expression Impression Minus

Book:Secrets to inner beauty

Source: Secrets to inner beauty

“The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.”

People Religion Mysterious Attractive

Book:The vocation to marriage: eighteen discourses

Source: The vocation to marriage: eighteen discourses

“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”

Religion Faith Criminal Mind

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.”

Men World Want Religion Faith This World Affair Saved Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.”

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.”

Ifs Should Religion Race Principles Democracy Share Dangerous Terrorist Locked Spy Ethnicity Mass Incarceration Internment Race Ethnicity

Author:Fred Korematsu

“Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.”

May Has Beens Religion Disease Originals Cures

Book:The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity

Source: The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity

“The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.”

Religion Lovers

Author:Rumi

“If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.”

Ifs Soul Religion Known Regard Prepared Sermons Evangelism

Author:George Frederick Pentecost

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

Facts Spiritual Science Death Desire Religion Fall Psychology Atheism Dying Strength Illusion Atheist Agnostic Psychiatry Atheistic Religion In Society

Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.”

Ifs World Persons Religion Peace Christianity Violence Depends Islam Violent Hinduism Scholar Judaism Promoting Mean People Islamophobia

Author:Reza Aslan

“Saints are usually killed by their own people.”

People Religion Saint

Author:Eric Sevareid

“Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.”

Men Religion

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

Believe Hands Moving Religion Politics Sides Atheism Subjects Historical Atheist Appearance Tyranny Devotion Treatment Illegal Tyrants Rulers Pious Uncommon Atheistic

Author:Aristotle

“Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.”

Whole Religion Creation Bones Footprint Tyrannosaurus Rex

Author:Robert Breault

“To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.”

Book Ideas Artist Religion Six Accounts Good Ideas Genesis Book Of Genesis

Author:Robert Breault

“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.”

Doe Religion Immortality Immortal Immortal Soul

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.”

World Giving Lasts Religion Oneself Followers

Author:C. S. Lewis

“There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.”

Two Religion Atheism Positive Atheism Two Things Professors Persecution Sects Plunder

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.”

Facts Religion Individual Given Social Community Class Castes Social Class

Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.”

World Persons Two Religion Authority Population Command Save Mother Earth

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.”

Ends Christian Religion Fear Prayer Business New Beginnings Fear Not Seize The Day Seize The Opportunity

Author:John Henry Newman

“If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.”

Ifs God Would Be Science Religion Knowledge Doubt

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”

Men Form Religion Regard Atheist Positive Atheism Ancient Gods

Author:Aristotle

“It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!”

War Light Religion Christ Enemy Darkness Atheism Humanism Compromise Winner Loser Word Of God Secular Neutrality Antichrist No Compromise Secular Humanism

Author:John Hagee

“America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.”

People Trying States Christian America Religion Church Atheism Constitution Separation Bloody Church And State Separation Of Church And State Barbaric Theocracy

Author:Gregory A. Boyd

“... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.”

Believe Facts Religion Atheism Evidence Argument Despite Compelling Irrational Compatible

Author:Massimo Pigliucci

“More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.”

Religion Religious Loss Cases Atheism Theory Evolution Religious Faith Theory Of Evolution

Author:Martin Lings

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.”

Life Littles God Bigs Religion Lord Fool Forgiveness Jokes Forgiving Thee April Pranks April Fools Day April Fools Fools Day Funny April Fools Day Funny April Fools Fool Me

Author:Robert Frost

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