Quotes About Religion

Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.

Before I became a Muslim, I ate pork and chased women--but all that stuff stopped.

I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths

Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Religion breeds fear. And fear kills your will.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

By the tenth he had found religion. He just wasn't sure which one. Whichever god could rescue him from this room he would definitely make a deal with.

Religion and culture are like a totem pole extending far underground, under the layers of the earth, of different eras of cultures and times, going far into the core of philosophy.

The foundation of our religion is very strong. The material is strong as well, but the building itself was neglected for hundreds of years. As the plaster dropped down, none thought to replace it and none felt the need to reinforce the building. Quite the contrary: many foreign elements and interpretations, as well as empty beliefs, came along and damaged it still more.

In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.

You can get there by yourself, but that is the hard way. Our personal goals all lead to the same end. There is only one truth. But why deny the thousands of years of experience found in religion? There is real wisdom available from so many years of seeking and trial and error.

Many struggle in the maze of religion and religious differences. They are like dogs fighting over a bone, seeking their own selfish interests. The solution is to remember that there is only one Creator, who provides for all of us. The more we remember the One, the less the fighting.

All the holy scriptures are useless without people having faith into their hearts.

As long as we have God and the devil in the scriptures, competitions will never cease to exist.