Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)

Religion is a defense against a religious experience.

I have always been a true supporter of globalization, of a world religion that would show to the man more truth about this world, which would be closer to him. A religion where the true divinity is the man and not what is alien to him. I have said countless of times that only a world religion may truly bring peace on earth. I see this world religion based on the principles in this book. Even in the case of the society of the Sacred Self or of the spiritualist society, as I see the future of mankind Man will be and will remain an eternally religious being, being its entire being will be based on the Prayer of Solidarity with Divinity and the Self Universe and its exterior, solidarity due to the Vanity to which all of this is obeying.

Piety and fear,
Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,
Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,
Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,
Degrees, observances, customs and laws,
Decline to your confounding contraries
And let confusion live.

I do engineering, not religion.

Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, 'People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion.' To the inquiry of 'What religion' the Earl said, 'Men of sense never tell it.'

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

I call it 'eyeball-to-eyeball' religion, when you minister to them, talk to them, get to know them. This time of year, you ought to focus on folks who need help.

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss

I want a secular government, I want separation of state and religion, I think logic will prevail and we will have a secular government for the first time in Israel's history.

We're not apologizing for printing the cartoon. I do personally to any caller, letter-writer, anybody that comes in. We're not attempting to offend a certain ethnicity, race, or religion. It just so happens in this case that one was offended, and we did know that going in.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Little is more American than the nexus of religious rhetoric, politics, love and theatricality, ... At an historical moment when it feels at times as if we are in the midst of a contemporary holy war - where the line between religion and politics has become increasingly blurred - I'm thrilled to premiere this play at Arena Stage, in our nation's political center.

And then, what is the spiritual being that does not know its Sacred Self But knowing it means to refer to non-Knowledge and be an Image from the non-Knowledge as well.Then I ask again what is the spiritual being that does not refer its Sacred Self to non-

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the night we stumble over things and become acutely conscious of their separateness, but the day reveals the unity which embraces them. And the man whose inner vision is bathed in consciousness at once realizes the spiritual unity which reigns ove

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

There's a little magic about Notre Dame and there are innumerable idiosyncrasies about this special place as well, ... and somebody who had attend Notre Dame as an undergraduate and had the opportunity to be part of the residential nature of this campus, and to have been touched by the spirituality that perhaps exist here, I think is just in a much better position to serve as one of the most visible leaders of this institution.

When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.

What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.

It's not only a spiritual narrowing but a cultural narrowing of Southern Baptist boundaries. I love Southern Baptists, I was reared and operate in the church, but I regret this.

No. Spiritual is the wrong word. He's occultic. He's like a walking embodiment of death. He can stop you at a distance. He can influence physical events just with his mind. If he catches your attention he can stop you without touching you.

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

A true atheist is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is no God. Given some of what we treat as religion, this is a significant commitment. The bottom line is that ... many an atheist is a believer without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't. So it goes ... ... Wishful Thinking.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess, and some day will be recognized by quality and quantity, and not by brand.

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

According to this inscription, gifts, light and glorious greatness are received. Joining with Maya, the spiritual consciousness is lost.

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.

Religion strives to destroy just this vicious tendency so, it has to be supported and not condemned. What has to be condemned is the narrow, perverted attitude of hating those who do not agree with us or hold different opinions of the mysterious force that animates the Universe.

See in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others, to console others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth

Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

When religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people about their victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either about them

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

This is why the faith of the peoples is and becomes a complementary part of it, and the ultimate argument for the existence of religion within man as long as there will be human beings is that, as long as he will exist, he will love, because he is love, and the ultimate form of love known to man is precisely holiness, whose first characteristic is faith.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye.

We applaud these guidelines. If they are applied properly, they will safeguard the free exercise of religion guaranteed to all citizens, both military and civilian.