Quotes About Religion

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Estas tendencias se observan no solo en los ámbitos tradicionales de lucha por el poder —la guerra, la política y la economía—, sino en otros como la filantropía, la religión y la cultura, además del poder personal e individual.

Este tan aventajado movimiento político-religioso hace que las campañas rivales se vean y se sientan anémicas.

Monopolios, sistemas políticos monopartidistas, dictaduras militares, sociedades que dan preferencia oficial a una raza o una confesión determinada, mercados inundados por la publicidad de un producto dominante, cárteles como la OPEP, sistemas políticos como el de Estados Unidos, en el que dos partidos controlan el sistema electoral

Ustedes recuerdan lo que dijo Jesucristo? Que más fácil será que un camello entre por el ojo de una aguja que un rico entre al Reino de los Cielos. —El auditorio celebra. Él continúa—: Nosotros no queremos ser ricos. ¡Ser rico es malo! Es inhumano, así lo digo, y condeno a los ricos.

They are stealing our sheep". So one Jesuit described the tide of change sweeping Christianity in Latin America, long a Catholic bastion. Who are "they"? The new evangelical, Pentecostalist, and charismatic Protestant churches that have sprouted across the region in the last thirty years..... But the sheep have not been stolen. The sheep aren't sheep anymore: they are consumers, and they have found a more attractive product in the market for salvation.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche." "La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir.

Patriarchal religions keep this fusion from happening, imagination dies, and is replaced by mechanical-linear thought patterns, i.e., indoctrination.

The source of life (female) is redefined and now hated as the enemy of male life. What was once woman's power is now to be woman's curse, woman's shame. Woman's estrangement from God. In the Bible we can see the original Orwellian Newspeak occurring, in which false male imitations of menstruation and childbirth (the circumcised foreskin, the wounds of Christ) are made sacred and holy, while the real thing done

The current "thrust" of materialism is to escape the earth's orbit, to flee the knowledge and the problems of our messy, bloody, hungry, and waste-producing bodily origins—to dwell on wholly sterile and manmade stations (stasis, static) in space, where the astronaut, the modern priest of the techno-phallic religion, realizes his ancient dream: to utterly escape the earthly processes the rest of us remain wallowing in. In