Quotes About Understanding

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.

I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.