Religion Quotes

That it’s rough out there and chancy is no surprise. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac. But at the same time we are also created. In the Koran, Allah asks “the heaven and the earth, and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?” It’s a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms? Or what do we think of nothingness, those sickening reaches of time in either direction? If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?

~ Annie Dillard

The fullness of life is wrapped in all sacred times: plenty and scarcity, happiness and sadness, planting and harvesting, sunrise and sunset, winter and springtime, summer and autumn, beginning and finishing, birth and death…!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

By the power of God, everything came into existence.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the kind of religion that humanizes the society, not the kind that dehumanizes it.

~ Abhijit Naskar

People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the Jew, a Muslim to the Muslim, a Hindu to the Hindu, an atheist to the atheist, but the brightest nightmare to the fundamentalist.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I am not an atheist. But the religion that I do advocate is not of the Bible, Vedas, Quran or any other scripture. The religion I speak of, is what Christ talked about, it is what Buddha talked about, it is the religion of plain everyday kindness.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious harmony, than to convert the entire religious population on earth into atheists.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In the hands of blood-sucking monsters a scripture becomes a weapon that takes away humanism from the heart of humans and fills them with hate, rage and selfishness, whereas, in the hands of modern human beings the same scripture can become the greatest philosophical tool to endow the species with goodness and compassion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We have a vision in Nigeria in which muslims and Christians shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

~ Saminu Kanti

The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love.

~ Debasish Mridha

Where there is no peace, there is not the slightest religion there.

~ Dada Bhagwan

The objective of nonviolence is to create a beloved world community.

~ Amit Ray

Peace of mind, joy at heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

​The purpose of religion was to help humans lead a peaceful life, not to take away life. God/Allah/Ishvar or Hindu/Muslim/Christian are just words - words created by different human minds. Instead of blindly following the outdated ideologies, use your own mind to realize the truth that you are not just a label. You are a living entity - the very manifestation of the energy you call God. Energy has no form or gender, but different languages have created different images, thus leading to discrimination and conflict to an extent that people can kill on name of religion. If a religion causes one to take innocent life, then we don't need a religion. we just need human beings on earth.

~ Rashmit Kalra

The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for the peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I trade all my pains for peace of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.

~ Suzy Kassem

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see representatives from all nations gathered together for the utility of men. Here Jew, Mohammedan and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only apply the word infidel to people who go bankrupt. Here the Presbyterian trusts the Anabaptist and the Anglican accepts a promise from the Quaker. On leaving these peaceful and free assemblies some go to the Synagogue and others for a drink, this one goes to be baptized in a great bath in the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, that one has his son’s foreskin cut and has some Hebrew words he doesn’t understand mumbled over the child, others go to heir church and await the inspiration of God with their hats on, and everybody is happy.

~ Voltaire

A blessed deed is saying hello with a smile to someone you meet on the street, in the shop, in the bus, in the office, in the church, in the holy places, in the mosque, at the park, at the school, at the university…..’ This is the greatest action of belonging to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God would prefer us all to be united than divided. The devil would prefer us all to be divided than united. God prefers the man who loves than the one who hates. The devil prefers the man who hates than the one who loves.

~ Suzy Kassem

We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.

~ Malcolm X

The world is no longer white, black, yellow and brown. Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.

~ Suzy Kassem

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never allow evil to conquer you. But overcome evil with good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are one family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be wary of any man who is quick to put down another man's faith. His love for Truth is not deep enough for him to want to explore additional truths outside his borders. The language of light can only be decoded by the heart. Thus, a man with a closed heart is already blind to understand the words of his own faith.

~ Suzy Kassem

Faith is the gentleness of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May all mankind find God’s grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no other religion than kindness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease.

~ Debasish Mridha

I found God. He is not in heaven or in the heart. He is not in the sky nor is he flying high. He is not very big nor gigantic. He is almighty, all powerful, and very beautiful. He lives everywhere in every flower and every little speck of dust. He knows everything you do, and he does everything for you. He can feel every little change and memorize everything…so strange.

~ Debasish Mridha

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?

~ Georg Büchner

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs.

~ Steve Maraboli