Religions Quotes
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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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.
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I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
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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.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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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.
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I don't have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions. A lot of that we see today, where the Muslims are against the Christians and the Christians are against Jews and the Jews are against Arabs - I mean, it just it goes on and on and on.
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My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.
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Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
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All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.
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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
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People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?
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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.
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Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace.
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She was suspicious of anyone who was pushing not one, not two, but three male-led religions rolled into one.
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Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.
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The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.
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There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
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All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
