“You may be Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist or Baptist or Muslim or Mormon or Jewish or Jain, or you have no religion at all. I'm not interested in your religious background. Because God did not create the universe for us to have religion. He came for us to have a relationship with him.” MayUniverseReligiousCatholicBackgroundsBuddhistNot InterestedProtestantsBaptists Author:Rick Warren
“Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.” LoveFeelingsWishGrowsReligiousCompassionGrowingTreeEmpathyEnlightenmentSeedsBuddhistCherishSympathyLove And CompassionAffectionateSowing Author:Je Tsongkhapa
“No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!” PeopleHeartChristianReligiousBuddhistSeats Author:Yogaswami
“It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension.” ThinkingMenHumansChristianSpiritualEvilReligiousHuman BeingsDealsProveAtheistCommittedJewHungryIgnorantBuddhistHypocrisyAlmightyHypocriteComprehensionCherriesPower Hungry Author:Criss Jami
“Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.” ChristianPoliticalReligiousEconomicCenturyMilitarySticksJewBuddhistBrotherhoodIntolerancePreachingOppressedPaganJehovahTolerationReligious IntoleranceEconomic Power Author:Isaac Bonewits
“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.” PeopleSoulOrderUniverseEvilReligiousRiskHumourDutyBurdenInnocentBuddhistAcquireAccumulationHazardsSectsDiscworldReligious Sects Book:Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12) Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)
“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.” MindSuccessReligiousCareersBreakPracticeBuddhismPaidBuddhistReligious Practices Author:Frederick Lenz
“Spiritual Balance is the obvious answer to the obsession that sometimes accompanies religious practice, occult practice, philosophical understandings - the assertion that one is right - that something that you're doing is better than something somebody else is doing, the way you're doing it is better than the way someone else is doing it.” WaySometimesSpiritualUnderstandingReligiousAnswersPracticeBuddhismBalancePhilosophicalObviousObsessionBuddhistEtiquetteAssertionOccultAccompanyReligious PracticesSpiritual Balance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.” MindReligiousBuddhismBasesPhilosophicalBuddhistCosmologyAssimilationRevisionInterpretingMind Changing Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.” ThinkingHappensChristianLife IsReligiousExampleChristian LifeBuddhistEach DayLoyalAffirmationAffirmingSaying YesReligious LifeBuddhist LifeJewish Life Author:Kevin Hart