« All Religion Quotes · Gautama Buddha's Page
Religion Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
- Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
- But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned…
- Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
- Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
- Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.
- By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we…
- If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.
More Religion Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi