Quotes About Religions

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

I don't like it when religions take it to the point where they discredit all other religions, because how could one sector of people have figured it out and know that that's it? But I do think that there's so much beauty in a lot of the stories or scriptures.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

To be precise: there is no spiritual path outside the following traditions or religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism; but Hinduism is closed for those who have not been born into a Hindu caste, and Taoism is inaccessible.

He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.

but this absorption has been of an evolutionary, imperceptible character. Hinduism tells each man to worship God according to his own faith or dharma, 12 and so lives at peace with all religions. Of

Nonviolence; Truth; Non-Stealing; Celibacy; Non-Possession; Body Labour; Control of the Palate; Fear-lessness; Equal Respect for all Religions; Swadeshi (use of home manufactures); Freedom from Untouchability. These eleven should be observed as vows in a spirit of humility.

In fact, however, no known religions are the same; they teach and practice radically different things. You only have to look at them to see that. To say they are all the "same" is to disrespect them. It is a way of claiming that none really matter, that their distinctives are of no human significance.

no known religions are the same; they teach and practice radically different things. You only have to look at them to see that. To say they are all the "same" is to disrespect them. It is a way of claiming that none really matter, that their distinctives are of no human significance.

The Gospel writers wanted to make of their hero nothing less than what was claimed of saviors of other religions: a king born of a virgin.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Sweet science will banish the dark religions ... so that enlightened religions can flourish.

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.

Langdon] thought about all the religions of the world, about their shared origins, about the earliest gods of the sun, moon, sea and wind. Nature was once the core. For all of us.' - p. 456

creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

Assure. Believe. Convert. Religions assure salvation; religions believe in a precise theory; and religions convert nonbelievers.

Sweet science will banish the dark religions…so the enlightened religions can flourish.'

Langdon joined her at the book, peering down at the text. Now that he knew the line, he was able to make out the faint handwritten letters: The dark religions are departed & sweet science reigns.

dos tipos de religiones: los credos dogmáticos y oscuros, que reprimen todo pensamiento original… y las religiones luminosas y expansivas, que fomentan la introspección y la creatividad.

The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.

For two thousand years Jerusalem has brought out the least attractive qualities in every race that has lived there. The Holy City has had more atrocities committed in it, more consistently, than any other town in the world. Sacred to three religions, the city has witnessed the worst intolerance and self-righteousness of all of them.

Through the gentle guidance of the teachings from the Great Spiritual Teachers of different religions and the constant steering by the Law of Karma, which manifests as painful and pleasant experiences, the soul inevitably learns the lessons, gains inner strength and spiritually evolves until it achieves illumination, oneness with the Higher Soul, oneness with the Divine Spark and greater oneness with God.

The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?