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Religion Quotes


"Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock."


"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?"


"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."


"When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others."


"Only the spirit nourishes the soul."


"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."


"The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death."



"Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there."


"Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why."


"I don't see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God."


"Christians, as messengers of God should bring restoration to this earth, become the people who can reform society and the country."


"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."


"It's time that Christianity should be redefined by the world based upon the original teachings of Jesus, instead of the Old and New Testaments which have been interpreted, reinterpreted and distorted by all the Ecumenical Councils, i.e. the Church Councils."


"True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying."


"Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion."


"That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others."


"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion."


"India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration."



"Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma, true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one's Self-form."


"The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing."


"In our worldly perceptions of Jesus, we tend to embrace the kindness of his love ('be encouraged') but not the discipline of his love ('and sin no more'). But with the whole scope of his love, or maturity in Christ, we begin relying on him for guidance where we would prefer him to walk beside us rather than behind us."


"Lord thank you for thy faithfulness."


"Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it."
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