After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu's religion.
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of Gods right of love over his life and soul. The object of our possession becomes smaller than ourselves, and without acknowledging it in so many words the bigoted sectarian has an implicit belief that God can be kept secured for certain individuals in a cage which is of their own make. In a similar manner the primitive races of men believe that their ceremonials have a magic influence upon their deities. Sectarianism is a perverse form of worldliness in the disguise of religion it breeds a narrowness of heart in a greater measure than the cult of the world based upon material interest can ever do. For undisguised pursuit of self has its safety in openness, like filth exposed to the sun and air. But the self-magnification with its consequent lessening of God that goes on unchecked under the cover of sectarianism loses its chance of salvation because it defiles the very source of purity.
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.
This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.
I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.
My uncle often played the devil's advocate just to get a rise out of somebody, but was extremely giving, passionate about everything what he was reading, religion, what he was doing, politics.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
All the spiritual teachers, their disciples and the rulers of the world shall be buried under the ground. The emperors shall also pass away God alone is Eternal.
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
Probably because many people do not want it to work fast. The spiritual matrix of the people is predominantly tuned to beautiful lies rather than the bitter truth.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love
People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
Religions die slowly.
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
The whole peninsula remains what it has always been one of the last great wildernesses of the world, a place of stunning beauty and harsh reality where history, religion and modern politics come together as nowhere else.
Religion is the best armor in the world, But the worst cloak.
No matter how isolated, extreme and distant from the mainstream faith, when adherents of your faith - some sect that calls itself Muslim - carries out acts of terrorism in the name of Islamic extremism, then the spiritual head of that movement is fair gam
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
There was no apparent motive for the attack. It doesn't seem related to religion.
They ask you concerning the sacred month about fighting in it. Say Fighting in it is a grave matter, and hindering (men) from Allah's way and denying Him, and (hindering men from) the Sacred Mosque and turning its people out of it, are still graver with Allah, and persecution is graver than slaughter and they will not cease fighting with you until they turn you back from your religion, if they can and whoever of you turns back from his religion, then he dies while an unbeliever-- these it is whose works shall go for nothing in this world and the hereafter, and they are the inmates of the fire therein they shall abide.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men.
Toleration is the best religion.
It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
Religion teaches you to try be able to stand up for what you believe in, even if other people don't agree with you, and that's important in science, ... That's happened on many number of occasions when that was a new idea in science and many people object to it and think it's crazy, especially if you're entering a new field. You have to think hard about 'Well, can you be right and if you're right be willing to differ with other people.'
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.