Religion Quotes

Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.

~ Michael Meade

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too.

~ Criss Jami

Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest Act of all, for it is the Word. And this is precisely why He has made an infinity of lesser gods, creating them in His own image, so that we can do the lesser things on His behalf. We are His hands and arms and feet and mouths. We are His answers to your prayers, enacted along the great Framework of Being.

~ Vera Nazarian

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

~ Agona Apell

There was something called Christianity.

~ Aldous Huxley

I'll make a book on learning how to be a complete moron someday, and I'm sure no one will buy it, because everyone will have mastered that already by the time I gather enough moronism to process it into digestible upgrade instructions for your average village cyborg-idiot.

~ Will Advise

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

~ Fm-2030

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent?Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

~ J. Krishnamurti

Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the fundamentalist Australopithecines are particularly harmful. These beliefs are what we call delusions. Except unlike in a neuropsychological ailment, the delusion of the fundamentalists is not just harmful for the individuals suffering from it, but more importantly it is the greatest threat to peace, progress and wellbeing of the entire human species.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even such a person as myself, even poor Parkis, into being his saints, ready with borrowed fanaticism to destroy love wherever we find it.

~ Graham Greene

Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …

~ Terry Pratchett

Within this confusion a few fundamentals remain constant:a. A strong belief is more important than a few facts.b. The stronger the belief, the fewer the facts.c. The fewer the facts, the more people killed.

~ Milton A. Rothhman

​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It doesn’t matter whether you face the wall, the sky or the ground. It doesn’t matter what is your body posture while you are praying to God. It doesn’t matter whether you sit in a lotus position, or a bogus position, neither does it bother God whether your palms are joined together, or your arms wide open. God would still answer your prayers, not because he/she loves you all as his/her children, rather because you believe that God does.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Every brain on your planet generates its own beliefs. Just imagine, around seven billion human brains are generating seven billion unique beliefs at this very moment. Now imagine, what would happen, if all those seven billion humans start imposing their own beliefs on each other. The only thing that is going to come out of such inhuman attempt is chaos and eventually mass extinction. So, the only way to avoid such a catastrophic consequence is to be more compassionate about people’s beliefs.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All Egypt is obsessed with death! And do you know why, Renisenb? Because we have eyes in our bodies, but none in our minds. We cannot conceive of a life other than this one - of a life after death. We can visualize only a continuation of what we know. We have no real belief in a God.

~ Agatha Christie

I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!

~ Nikita Dudani

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

~ Frank Herbert

Being poised to shatter the adaptive illusion of God is arguably one of the most significant turning points our species has ever faced in its relatively brief 150,000-year history. The belief instinct may never be completely deprogrammed in our animal brains, but by understanding it for what it is rather than subscribing uncritically to the intuitions it generates, we can distance ourselves from an adaptive system that was designed, ultimately, to keep us hobbled in fear.

~ Jesse Bering

God is light.God is knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You don’t believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always remembered how we began.Human: You evolved. We were created.Hive Queen: By a virus.Human: By a virus that God created in order to create us.Hive Queen: So you, too, are a believer.Human: I understand belief.Hive Queen: No—you desire belief.Human: I desire it enough to act as if I believed. Maybe that’s what faith is.Hive Queen: Or deliberate insanity.

~ Orson Scott Card

Sometimes it’s about knowing people, all of the time, it’s about knowing God!

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

~ Frank Herbert

There is diversity of belief but it is the same God at work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord is my Saviour.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the Saviour saves souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

~ Frank Herbert

People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.

~ Brandon Sanderson

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You know how they say a holy man falls seven times and gets back up? he asked, quoting the Hebrew phrase, the ancient words flying smoothly off his tongue. I nodded. I always think that it isn't the persistence that makes him holy but the fact that he fell. His eyes sparkled with passion as he spoke. You can't really commit to being religious, to loving God, if you haven't spent some time with your face in the dirt.

~ Leah Vincent

With every new day come the Lord’s great love, grace and mercies.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are a blessing to each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Wisdom is a sacred gift from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The gospel of salvation, the divine truth, set us free.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The inner voice is divine voice of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God has given me life, He is capable of anything else.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita