Belief Quote by George Coyne

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

— Francis Arinze

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

— Karen Armstrong

“Perhaps the central paradox of the religious life is that it seeks transcendence, a dimension of existence that goes beyond our mundane lives, but…

— Karen Armstrong

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

— Herbert Spencer

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither…

— Albert Einstein

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

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

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

— Anonymous

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with…

— Huston Smith

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow…

— Reinhold Niebuhr