Religion Quotes - Page 12

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.

The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
Disaster is his rainbow in the sky,
And when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers-he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.

Stand in the divine rain, and seeds of wisdom will grow in your soul.

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.

Sin is a gravitation.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths.