Quotes About Religion

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

Unfortunately, when we turn to religion, often the churches box us in even more. They tell us that we are inherently flawed, that we need to be forgiven for this sin, this stain that we carry. The first and most important function of religion is to connect you with the mystery of life and the mystery of your own being. When religion fails to do this, it has betrayed its primary mission, and all we are left with is dogma and belief.

But Jesus never defines what someone must have faith in; he doesn't say "your faith in me has healed you." Rather, it's faith itself, the trust in things unseen that heals.

I've become a killer of the Lord. It's the Lord's will that I should kill you. So that makes it all right. You do see that, don't you? You see, it makes it all right.

An unfairness of the good God,

Marriage, especially at my age, is not to be undertaken without full–er–consideration. Equality of birth, similarity of tastes, general suitability, and the same religious creed–all these things are necessary and the pros and cons have to be weighed and considered.

You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C. Repeat ad lib.'!

But I thought I might have to go to church on Sunday, and although the Archbishop has said one needn't, I still think that the more old-fashioned clergy expect one to wear a hat. But

Sîntem oameni buni pentru c? sîntem ortodoc?i, spune mama. Ce înseamn? ortodox? Asta e cînd crezi în Dumnezeu, spune ea. La ortodoc?i se obi?nuie?te mai ales s? se cînte, s? se m?nînce ?i s? se fac? rug?ciuni. Dar eu nu am fost niciodat? acolo.

The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went.

Islam will win with or without you, but without islam you will get lost and lose

Faith can't be reasoned with. Otherwise it would've been called Fact.

God is not a statue,God is not a saint...God is not a picture that anyone can paint.

Religion is the Kindergarten to Spirituality. One cannot Realize God without Religion.

Se ognuno di noi imparasse dalle lezioni della vita il cuore morbido del proprio credo. Se ognuno di noi diventasse un virtuoso dell'amore all'interno della sua religione. E poi, avendo imparato bene la sua religione, se andasse oltre a imparare a suonare come i membri di un'orchestra, in armonia con altre religioni. (p 172)

Buddhism is a religion of the heart. Only this. One who practices to develop the heart is one who practices Buddhism [...] Use your heart to listen to the Teachings, not your ears.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Because its philosophy and practice are so difficult, Buddhism began as an elite religion. But Mah?y?na Buddhism did not forget the masses, and offered them an easier road to salvation: praying to buddhas, bodhisattvas, and gods.

Mah?y?na Buddhism arose in India around the first century C.E. It can be classified into three periods: early, or dynamic (1st century C.E. to 4th century C.E.), middle, or scholastic (4th–mid-7th century), and late, or esoteric (mid-7th–early 13th century).

Though we have translated deva as "god" and "deity," there is a vast difference between Indian gods and the modern Judeo-Christian idea of a deity. The Buddhist being that is closest to the Judeo-Christian notion of God is the Buddha. We cannot, though, in the narrowest sense of the word, call the Buddha a god.

The idea of rebirth is also reflected in biographies of the Buddha. The Buddha experiences a variety of previous births, during which he practices his religious discipline and appears as a perfected being. The J?takas , tales of the Buddha's former lives, relate how he amasses great numbers of virtues. In some of them, he is shown as having been born previously as a monkey or a deer.

The idea of transmigration hardly appears in the Hindu ?g Veda (12th–8th century B.C.E.), though by the time the new religious movements arose in the sixth to fifth centuries B.C.E., most of the important ones included a philosophy of transmigration, outstanding examples being Buddhism, Jainism, and the religion of the ?j?vikas. We also find the idea in Brahmanism in the new literature called the Upani?ads .

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.