Birth Quote by Marianne Williamson

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it…

— John Henry Newman

True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively…

— Adi Da

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

— Edmund Burke

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

— Marianne Williamson

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

— Alexander Pope

Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in…

— Paul Copan

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

Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not…

— Neale Donald Walsch

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

— J. D. Greear

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least…

— Mary Douglas

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

— Albert Einstein