The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: friendship ignorance religion learning animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is my religion — I could die for it. —John Keats More about this quote Tags: love religion death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions. —Nancy Stahl More about this quote Tags: religion possessions obligation motherhood relinquishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: religion science doubt nonsense skepticism insight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics reality religion dogma purpose change ambition evolution triviality counterproductive Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: politics religion learning knowledge censorship science suppression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: religion fools foolishness honor clergy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than just observes. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. —Dorothe Sölle More about this quote Tags: hunger fear religion starving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" — that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. . . . The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: truth religion philosophy music belief songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. —C. S. Lewis, after the death of his wife More about this quote Tags: truth religion duty consolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How else but through a broken heart may Christ enter in? —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: religion heart Christ broken heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. —Lady Mary Worley Montagu More about this quote Tags: religion enemies world comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is religion? That which is never spoken. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: spirituality religion speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Tags: God religion dogma belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I studiously avoided all so-called holy men. I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself — out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: truth religion nature theft holy men Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email