Accepting Quote by Karen Armstrong

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical…

— Karen Armstrong

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

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which…

— Edmund Burke

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

— Huston Smith

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age…

— Dan Brown

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection…

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

— Dorothee Solle

“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism,…

— Richard Rohr

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

— F. H. Bradley