Religion Quotes

God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

~ Stefan Emunds

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

There is divinity in every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest divinities of the soul are life, love and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Divinities of the soul are life, light and love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for!

~ Stefan Emunds

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.

~ Stefan Emunds

The spirit awaken, the soul revive.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The living WORD, medicine for the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must serve each other in love and in humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with Gratitude not with Greytitude

~ Abhysheq Shukla

He knew Kandinsky by heart: every trickle of red, slash of black ink, and hemorrhage of gold. Each dissonant note in its allegro, the harmony in its adagio, and its deep blue intermezzo, formed a symphony he had memorized in his body. He couldn’t say if Fragment 2 symbolized the Deluge, the Last Judgment, or the Resurrection. But it had become his religion, offering both redemption and pain..

~ Kelly Oliver

In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry-- in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.

~ Dodie Smith

What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).

~ Dada Bhagwan

Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers, it is ‘Pure Love’. ‘Pure love’ is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

When you make ‘adjustments’ with everyone, that indeed is the highest of all religion (dharma).

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s religion even a little bit. Religion of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] means absence of kashay (anger, pride, deceit, greed).

~ Dada Bhagwan

If you do not believe in reincarnation then the word “prarabdh” (karma effect) should not be present in your vocabulary. Christian, Muslim, and other religion’s language is complete, but the belief is incomplete. Fortune, contrivance, lucky, unlucky – where did they get all that from? This is all a connection from the past life.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Every spoken word carries great risk. Therefore, it is better to remain silent if one does not know how to talk. Talking about religion carries religious risks, talking about worldly matters, carries worldly risks. The worldly risk will go away, but religious risk is very heavy; it creates grave obstacles in regards to religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where is the true religion? It is where women, men, youth, children, elderly, the illiterate and the educated are all attracted.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta)

~ Dada Bhagwan

Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants ‘liberation’ (moksha).

~ Dada Bhagwan

The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma, true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one’s Self-form.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion, or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That’s all. Only these two are religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all ‘wrong beliefs’ go away. If the ‘wrong’ beliefs’ are there, true religion cannot be there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?

~ Dada Bhagwan

Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.

~ Dada Bhagwan

One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot indeed refrain from joining in with the unfolding karmic effects.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Yes it´s true, God is good, but not everything that seems to be good comes automatically from God.

~ Alin Sav