Quotes About Religion

Love is the essence of this religion. I pray that we will approach all of our questions and concerns, especially the most difficult and intimate questions, with love, in order to be able more and more to solve our problems with love. The Sufi lives in a compassionate and passionate universe, a universe born from a spark of love. (p. 108)

Los persas no necesitan haber vivido el amor en sus propias carnes. En sus cuentos y mitos, incluso en el libro sagrado, el amor está por todas partes.

I came the second I heard," she told me breathlessly. "I can't believe it! Until this time we've only had the Boscana manuscript as any proof this religion arose before the introduction of Christianity and not in response to it!

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

An inner voice tells me that this is not the true Jacob. The theory accomplishes a lot, but it does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One. In any case, I am convinced that He does not play dice.

Once again, Bohr was God and Oppie was his prophet.

Auch Gott ist immer nur in denjenigen, der an ihn glaubt.

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind?

Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself. At once he is and is not. He catches a glimpse of Infinity... Freed from the fetters of matter, his spirit moves in the rhythm of things. It is thus that art becomes akin to religion and ennobles mankind. It is this which makes a masterpiece something sacred.

mere subjects and can engage in petty quarrels about the superiority of our faiths until the end of time; a king, however, has a duty towards his people and must ensure that he supports the growth of all the faiths in his land.

Spirituality is as bastardized as religion.

There are two kinds of religious experience. Experiential, when you personally have an ecstatic or mystical experience. And canonical, when someone tells you what to think and believe, and you bleat in agreement, moving with a large herd. Ancient cultures were all about the former. And all the troubles of the world today come from the latter.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday," Bathhouse John pointed out. "A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Sadly, Isis are extremely intolerant of homosexuality.

Hebrew School was my first introduction to real feminism. I remember that much more than I remember any kind of actual religious teaching.