Quotations
Religion
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
- Jasper Fforde
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
- Hitopadesa
The biggest trick that we, the religious gurus have played is; the ones who came
to destroy us, we placed them only as gods before you. Now say, how could our
shutters ever be pulled down?
- Deep Trivedi
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand
- Mark Twain
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
- J. Krishnamurti
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
- Frank Zappa
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