Religion Quotes
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Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
Muhammad Ali
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
Wilhelm Dilthey
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Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.
Chapman Cohen
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Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.
Darrel Ray
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
Jonathan Swift
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For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
Jim Elliot
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I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
Georgi Parvanov
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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
William R. Alger
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In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the reality is an old one. One could with equal justification talk about a Judeo-Islamic tradition or a Christian-Islamic tradition. These three religions are interlinked in many signification ways, which marks them off from the rest of the world. And I think there is a growing awareness of this among Christians and among Jews, and even to some extent to some Muslims. That's happening for obvious reasons.
Bernard Lewis
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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Victor Hugo
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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Francis Bacon
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
Flannery O'Connor
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
Abigail McCarthy
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The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.
Maureen Dowd
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Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.
Narayanananda Swami
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One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
Burt Prelutsky
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.
William Buckland
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To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
Ravi Zacharias
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Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.
Walter Kasper