Religions Quotes
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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Beatrice M. Hinkle
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Under Islamic Law, homosexuals - men and women alike - must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed. I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced...I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
Benjamin Carson
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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.
Rima Fakih
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse
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If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.
Wayne Teasdale
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At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
Jules Michelet
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
Baruch Spinoza
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People have fought in vain about the names and lives of their saviors, and have named their religions after the name of their savior, instead of uniting with each other in the truth that is taught.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
Leon Trotsky
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
Walt Whitman
