Religion Quotes - Page 101

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Religion should be dearer than life itself.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.