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
Quotations
Religion
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-Karl Marx
A religious person knows how to embrace things in a right manner; an irreligious
person simply renounces things out of "fear".
-Deep Trivedi
Universal religion has no location in time or space. Its area is infinite, like the God it preaches. It is an experience. It is God-consciousness… All religions are challenged today by a common enemy: the rising tide of skepticism and secularism.
-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Nikhilananda"
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
-Bill Maher
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
-Bertrand Russell
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
-Fulton J. Sheen
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
-Epictetus
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
