I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God… — Henry Scougal Copy Share Image
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The first thing that ye swear to is, That with your whole hearts ye agree and resolve, all the days of your… — Various Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Faith without works is dead“If you were guaranteed success, what would you do with your life?” Another way to frame it is,… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
To fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love, which should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history,… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible"… — Carroll Eugene Simcox Copy Share Image
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Te Rau Tauwhare was a man for whom the act of love was the true religion, and the altar of this religion… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Don’t kid yourself—true religion is not about what you know, it’s about putting what you know about God and His Word into… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To deny scientific truths is not only being blind to reality but also blind to a religious realm. True Science & True… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
“True religion, according to Romans, is about faith, hope, love; about the cross of Christ, and the love of God. It is… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
