Quotes About Religion

The fact that Hindus and Muslims had worked jointly, 'renouncing their mutual antipathies', also interested Marx.

Nishan Sahib), which was raised at every gurdwara from the 1620s, when Guru Hargobind led the community.

While a steadily-nursed religio-political conviction about Khalsa Raj, and a psychological yearning for revenge, motivated the Sikhs, Punjab's Muslim chiefs, who had accepted the Mughals, possessed no comparable impetus.

Recruit new soldiers for the Empire's armies from rural Punjab but underscore every recruit's distinct religion and caste

Four hundred and fifty years earlier, the poet Kabir, whose profession as a spinner/weaver was in part emulated by Gandhi, had also spoken of Ram-Rahim.

More often than not, a report that a cow was about to be slaughtered, or that a religious procession carrying Hindu idols was interfering with mosque prayers, set off stone-throwing or worse.

massive incorporation of religion into the subcontinent's political life that occurred via imperial hands: the separate Muslim electorate.

Khafi Khan would record that no Sikh prisoner accepted Islam to save his life.

Like Guru Nanak after him, Baba Farid suggested that at a basic level a Muslim and a Hindu were the same, sharing the joy and pain of being human.

Thus Punjabi became the 'Sikh' language, Urdu the 'Muslim' language, and Hindi the 'Hindu' language. Language was uprooted from ground-level and tied to religion rather than to the varied people who spoke it, or the tract where it was spoken.

In terms of religious beliefs, Pashtuns are Sunni Muslims and follow a nonwritten ethical code called Pashtunwali. Its main principles include Melmastia (hospitality and respect for all visitors regardless of race, religion, nationality, or financial status), Nanawatai (offering asylum or protection from one's enemies), Badal (the practice of taking revenge against a wrongdoer), and Turah (bravery).

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity

Jesus did not look with much favour upon outward form, ceremony, or with much favour upon formulated, or formal religion; and he somehow or other seemed to avoid the company of those who did.

There is a world-wide yearning for spiritual peace and righteousness on the part of the common man. He is finding it occasionally in established religion, but often, perhaps more often, independently of it.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

The plural, inclusive, idea of India has three enemies. The best known is the notion of a Hindu Rashtra, as represented in an erratic fashion by the Bharatiya Janata Party and in a more resolute (or more bigoted) manner by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal and other associated organisations.

The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one's conscience.

Is it any great wonder', asked the writer, 'that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.