Religions Quotes

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho

All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

My criticism of most religions is that
they don't allow criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- Albert Einstein

In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their
relationship with the divine other,
God or the gods, and with the human other,
the stranger.
- Timothy Radcliffe

Love is the cheapest of religions.
- Cesare Pavese

I'm a religious man.
I am Jewish but I believe in all religions.
I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big
white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
- Uri Geller

During the many centuries that magic,
here on this planet, was presumed to have worked,
there were at least as many theories as to how magic
worked as there were cultures and religions.
- Lynn Abbey

It brings people together.
It brings the races together.
It brings religions together.
- Billy Higgins

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
- Daniel Goleman

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian...
or is it? I am not at all sure.
- Mary Douglas

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used
as an excuse for persecution,
and our profoundest scientific insight is made into
a means of mass destruction.
- Bertrand Russell

The essence of all religions is One.
Surrender is the main duty of everyone.
Surrender means the feeling of oneness,
I and God are One. Why?
The reason is that the One
who is present in you is present in me.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
- Raymond Queneau

The deepest difference between religions is not that
between polytheism and monotheism.
- Walter Kaufmann

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds,
and religions, never do, and never can,
teach any thing but what is in conformity with the
opinions of those who pay them.
- Francis Wright

A just laicism allows religious freedom.
The state does not impose religion but rather gives
space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society,
and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
- Joseph Ratzinger

Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach
more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books
of all the religions on earth.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions,
and also Islam.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions,
but you have truth in all religions.
- Hans Kung

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought
to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
- George C. Williams

India is a curious place that still preserves the past,
religions, and its history.
No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
- Anita Desai

All...
religions show the same disparity between belief and practice,
and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
- Thomas Wentworth

Religions are the cradles of despotism.
- Marquis de Sade

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy,
human rights, and freedom of expression.
- Taslima Nasrin

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense,
drive men to seek the pleasures of power.
Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- Bertrand Russell

Religions die slowly.
- Franz Marc

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place,
a very unified place.
- Jewel Kilcher

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
- Alfred Russel Wallace

Religions get lost as people do.
- Franz Kafka

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth,
but only God is truth.
- Pat Buckley

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world.
What I have learned is that I like all religions,
but only parts of them.
- Uma Thurman

The main business of religions is to purify,
control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive
taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

When fairy tales are written in the west,
they're known as folklore.
In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
- Paul Henderson

There are several sorts of religions,
not only in different parts of the island,
but even in every town; some worshipping the sun,
others the moon or one of the planets.
- Thomas More

We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide -
and at the heart of cultural issues,
you often find religions.
- George Carey

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions.
It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
- Ezra Pound

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it.
Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
- Taslima Nasrin

How do you make any sense of history,
art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography
of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
- Polly Toynbee

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot
of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.
- Bjorn Ulvaeus

Many people tend to look at programming styles and
languages like religions:
if you belong to one,
you cannot belong to others.
But this analogy is another fallacy.
- Niklaus Wirth

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion;
all the religions have this.
We all lean towards love.
- Richard Gere

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed
at uplifting human stature.
- Jack Miller

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics.
They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
- Marcel Proust

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the
errors and fanaticism of human beings.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

Most religions do not make men better,
only warier.
- Elias Canetti

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must
come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
- B. R. Ambedkar

The cultural contrast I saw between religions...
Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever.
Protestants in general say things to God directly.
- Robert Duvall

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
- Ben Okri

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.
- Ken Kesey

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women
are relegated to second class.
Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
- Sally Quinn

My family was very, very receptive to all;
all races,
religions.
- Pam Grier

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow
the hereafter on a technicality.
- Bob Hope

The more I study religions the more I am convinced
that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Richard Burton

All religions are the same:
Religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
- Cathy Ladman

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational
clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
- Mary Douglas

I consider myself a student of many religions.
The more I learn, the more questions I have.
For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
- Dan Brown

All religions have been made by men.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression,
fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and
legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
- Hans Kung

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity
and some ancient pagan religions.
But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
- Carl Olson

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must
never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
- Hypatia

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic,
political and social problems of this earth.
- Hans Kung

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism,
or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions,
they all play on the people who have very little.
- James Wolfensohn

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat
statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration,
such a Declaration becomes superfluous;
an ethic is more than rights.
- Hans Kung

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and
the cleverness of the few.
- Stendhal

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