Religions Quotes
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.
Marianne Williamson
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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
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Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.
Agnivesh
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.
Al Jaffee
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But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.
Agnivesh
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
Thomas Carlyle
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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Too many people think that the faith line divides Muslims and Christians or Jews and Hindus, or just to say that there is this clash of civilizations and people from different religions are inevitably against each other, inherently opposed to each other. I don't believe that for a second. I think the faith line divides totalitarians and pluralists, which is to say that totalitarians from different religious backgrounds.
Eboo Patel
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The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.
Nevill Drury