Religion quotes page 1
Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's
own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle,
Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind.
Dalai Lama
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but
everyone can still sit at the same table.
Dalai Lama
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a
bottle of Port would do that. If you
want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend
Christianity.
C. S. Lewis
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might
not be a bad idea to
reform itself a little by way of example.
Mark Twain
My belief is that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and
then becomes a lie. I don't
think that Jesus was teaching Christianity. Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and
peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be
Buddha-like.
Wayne Dyer
God has no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some
have argued, that God will be saying: You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a
pity he's not a Christian? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a
Christian.
Desmond Tutu
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man
called
Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.
Thomas Paine
I don't need to go to church. I respect churches because of the
sacredness that's been put on
them over the years by people who do believe. But I think a lot of bad things have happened in
the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church, and as
Donovan once said, "I go to my own church in my own temple once a day." We're all God. I'm
not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
We
all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look
hard enough you'll see it.
John Lennon
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers
as
useful.
Seneca
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any
religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy Rooney
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single
petitioner
confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try
to
discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck
To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts
of
Jesus himself.
Thomas Jefferson
The person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church
teaches.
Thomas Aquinas
To die for a religion is
easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Real religion is a way of life, not a
white cloak to be wrapped around us on the Sabbath and
then cast aside into the six-day closet of unconcern.
William Arthur Ward
The Buddhist,
the Christian, the Moslem, and the Hebrew all may get answers to their prayers,
not because of the particular creed, religion, affiliation, ritual, ceremony, formula, liturgy,
incantation, sacrifices, or offerings, but solely because of belief or mental acceptance and
receptivity about that for which they pray. The law of life is the law of belief, and belief could
be summed up briefly as a thought in your mind. As a man thinks, feels, and believes, so is the
condition of his mind, body, and circumstances.
Joseph
Murphy
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be
damned generally
has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
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