Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
-Lenny Bruce
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
-Richard Francis Burton
Far better it is for you to say: I am a sinner, than to say: I have no need of religion. The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
-Fulton J. Sheen
"Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary"
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.
-Christopher Morley
"Inward Ho!"
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-Dwight Lyman Moody
