Quotes About Religion

no one is greater than God.

There may be a worse form of government than theocracy in the long run, but offhand I can't think of any.

God is no respecter of either persons or names - Dieu or Gott or Kyrie or Adonai or Wakantanka. He is the Great Spirit whose pity we ask.

It was hard, to be stripped of the cold comforts of her simple atheistic faith in middle-age. The more so as the evidence seemed to lead to the conclusion that all the religions were true, including the ones that flatly contradicted each other.

He took the cigar out of his mouth and said, "Those people had God in their hearts." I said to him in a whisper, "God exists now too." "But not within us," he said. I said to him: "A certain hasidic master was asked where the Holy One, blessed be He, dwells. He told them: Wherever He is allowed to enter, there He dwells.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.

?nsanlar?n en zay?f taraflar?, sormadan, ara?t?rmadan, dü?ünmeden, kafalar?n? patlatmadan inanmak hususundaki hayret verici temayülleridir. Dünyadaki yalanc? peygamberleri yeti?tirmek ve beslemek için en iyi gübre, i?te bu bilmeden inanmak için ç?rp?nan kalabal?kt?r.

Dünyadaki yalanc? peygamberleri yeti?tirmek ve beslemek için en iyi gübre, i?te bu bilmeden inanmak için ç?rp?nan kalabal?kt?r.

Namuslu adam kalmam?? bu dünyada iki gözüm.Müslümand?r,namaz?nda,orucundad?r,hakk?m?z? yemez diyorduk ama,biz onun hat?r?n? sayd?kça o,bizim tepemize bindi.Eh,art?k çocuk de?iliz,yemiyoruz bu numaralar?,de?il mi ya?

What is living religion? It is the human soul growing towards the Ideal, throwing out tendrils here and there, and ever ascending from bud to bloom; ever enriched by the fact of its perfectability, operating incessantly on the trammels an establishment may lace around it, straining them and bursting them, ever seeking its proper expansion, and ever therefore impatient of restraint.

Shiva does not spell religion. Shiva spells responsibility – our ability to take our very life process in our hands. When

Modern science has arrived at its conclusions through mathematical deduction. Religion has arrived at its conclusions through belief. But the yogi is a hard nut who will not settle for deduction or belief. He or she seeks to experience the ultimate through the enhancement of individual perception. Consequently, the yogic tradition does not mention God, or deny it either.

All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did. If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.

For the Muslims, I'm too worldly. For other groups, I'm too religious. For militants, I'm too moderate. For moderates, I'm too militant. I feel like I'm on a tightrope.

I'm handing them the American passport which signifies the exact opposite of what Islam stands for.

I was a zombie then—like all Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march.

I was to learn later that Elijah Muhammad's tales, like this one of "Yacub," infuriated the Muslims of the East. While at Mecca, I reminded them that it was their fault, since they themselves hadn't done enough to make real Islam known in the West. Their silence left a vacuum into which any religious faker could step and mislead our people.

I asked him was three hundred and sixty degrees, then, the maximum of degrees in anything? He said "Yes." I said, "Well, why is it that Masons go only to thirty-three degrees?" He had no satisfactory answer. But for me, the answer was that Masonry, actually, is only thirty-three degrees of the religion of Islam, which is the full projection, forever denied to Masons, although they know it exists.

I knew that no one would kill you quicker than a Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

I shouldn't be surprised. Catholicism is the ultimate loophole religion (sin, confess, repeat), so it makes sense that a priest would know better than anyone how to work the angles. Still, when you go to confession and say, Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned, you don't expect him to say, So, who hasn't?

The younger religions are usually the most violent, which means less tolerant of those who don't quack exactly as they do.

Das ist es, was ich an der mosaischen Religion nicht ertragen kann: ihre Weigerung und Unfähigkeit, unzählige seit Menschengedenken existierende, aber längst sinnlos gewordene Gebote und Vorschriften abzuschaffen oder zumindest zu reformieren. [...] Schon sehr früh, ich muß es unmißverständlich sagen, habe ich am Verstand jener gezweifelt, die derartige Gebote streng erfüllten.