To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Quotations
Religion
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-Reliance and Other Essays"
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
-Hannah Harrington
"Saving June"
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration.
-Sri Aurobindo
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive Unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness — an act of trust in the unknown.
-Alan Watts
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
A religious person knows how to embrace things in a right manner; an irreligious
person simply renounces things out of "fear".
-Deep Trivedi
