Accepting Quote by Muhammad Iqbal

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

— Kodo Sawaki

“The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things…

— Śrī Aurobindo

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning…

— A. Powell Davies

“Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of…

— William James

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of…

— John Dewey

“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 the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains…

— Paul Tillich

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

— Camille Paglia

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

“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.”

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of…

— David Hume

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

— Thomas Merton