This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader (born: 1936)
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - Buddha spiritual leader (563BC-493BC)
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.- Napoleon Bonaparte, French leader (1769 - 1821)
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader (1869- 1948)
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. - Christopher Hitchens , author (1949-2011)
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. - Jesus, spiritual leader ( between 7–2 BC to between 30–33 AD)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein,physicist (1879 -1955)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist (1564 - 1642)
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. - Epictetus, Ancient Greek philosopher (55AD - 135AD)
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had theBible and they had the land.- Desmond Tutu - South African archbishop and leader (born: 1931)
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. - Albert Camus, philosopher and author (1913 - 1960)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself. - Sir Richard Francis Burton,British explorer & orientalist (1821 - 1890)
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. -Matthew Arnold, English critic & poet (1822 - 1888)
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.- Cicero, Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance. - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1593)
And hold there is no sin but ignorance. - Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1593)
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. - George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.- Karl Marx, German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883)
What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. - Matt Groening,US cartoonist & satirist (born: 1954)
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. - Ramakrishna, Indian Hindu religious leader (1836 - 1886)
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another - Jonathan Swift,Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer,
US Polish-born Jewish author (1904 - 1991)
US Polish-born Jewish author (1904 - 1991)
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. - Isaac Asimov, author, and biochemistry professor (1920_ 1992)
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. - John Lennon, British singer (1940 -1980)
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (1809 -1849)