Religion Quotes
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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
M.I.A. -
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
Uma Thurman
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai Lama -
Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.
Dan Barker -
I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
Damien Hirst -
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Dalai Lama -
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him.
Charles Hodge
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
Larry Harvey -
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
Margaret Cavendish -
If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Sally Quinn -
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor -
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Edgar Quinet -
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth -
Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
Karin Slaughter -
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
Taylor Swift -
The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.
Lord Byron
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Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.
Rabia Basri -
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Dalai Lama -
I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
Narendra Modi -
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E. W. Howe