Quotes on Religion

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

All religions begin with the cry Help.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's." One would like to add: Give unto man things which are man's; give man his freedom and personality, his rights and religion.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.