“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” InspirationalEnoughReligionEasyFriendshipReligiousCompassionEnemyWiseWords Of WisdomDiversityRegardMereFriendlyReal FriendsTrue ReligionFriends And EnemiesOne FriendCompassion For OthersQuintessenceWorld ReligionsFriend EnemyEasy FriendshipBefriendingTrue Brotherhood Book:Gandhi on Non-violence Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.” MayReligiousHumilityEternalEssenceAnd LoveHumbleAssociatesAdoreObscurityTrue ReligionEternal Love Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.” EndsPassionReligiousHonestIntroductionProstitutionTrue ReligionReligious Love Author:Lord Hailsham
“Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.” MenBelieveCertainBeliefReligiousSeriesMythMeritFavourBelief In GodTrue Religion Book:Religion of the Semites (Ppr) Source: Religion of the Semites (Ppr)
“But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.” MenIdeasLyingCertainReligiousForgetTypeRootsRelationEthicalRitualDeitiesFellowshipKinshipTrue ReligionWorshippersConsecration Author:William Robertson Smith
“My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.” LiteratureReligiousComplicatedTrue ReligionNon ReligiousReligious Family Author:Orhan Pamuk