Quotes of: Different-religions Keyword

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

T. S. Eliot

True religion is not just in the creed you profess, but its also in the life you lead.

Love

My book was not written in hate for Christians or disdain for the principles often associated with Jesus Christ—instead it was inspired by the ignorance that faith and religion often breed in humanity; the type of ignorance that allows people to se...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its useful...

The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion

Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.

The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has s...

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have... Now what is the basis of Bu...

The Buddha and His Dhamma: A Critical Edition

The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to f...

The Age of Reason

The teachings of a religion should influence the personality and daily conduct of each believer. Thus, each person's conduct will normally be a reflection, to a greater or lesser degree, of that one's religious background. What effect does your relig...

Mankind’s Search for God

One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are not--that is, when they have nothing to ...

Letter to a Christian Nation

We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn't, it is telling us what not to believe. Atheism is not the absence of religion; atheism is the most undiluted form of religion: it tells us not to believe in anything ...

C. JoyBell C.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the su...

Gene Roddenberry

God existed before every religion; He exists in spite of all religions.

The End of the Jesus Era

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

On Religion

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground

You can follow the religions where God is small, or you can follow the religions where God is all.

Look into the stillness

Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice.

M.F. Moonzajer

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Frank Murphy