Able Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,…

— Huston Smith

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

— Ronald Knox

“Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs…

— Roy F. Baumeister

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became…

— Karen Armstrong

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas…

— Edith Hamilton

If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

— Abraham Maslow

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

— F. H. Bradley