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A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All religions are the same:
Religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
- Cathy Ladman
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
My criticism of most religions is that
they don't allow criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Albert Einstein
The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
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.
- Khalil Gibran
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
My religion consists of a humble admiration
of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
God has no religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore
To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
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