Quotes About Religion

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.