Best religion & humanity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

“Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from others. We are all cells in the body of humanity. When anyone attempts to isolate another, they only isolate themselves more.”

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Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.”

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Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity is not between races, or religions, or even, as is widely believed, between the literate and illiterate. It is the chasm that separates scientific from prescientific cultures.”

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Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression.”

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Author:David Icke

“The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?”

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Author:Sam Harris

“Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

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

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

Source: Autobiographical Writings

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

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Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“God save us from people who mean well.”

People Wells Mean Religion Humanity

Book:A Suitable Boy

Source: A Suitable Boy

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