Consciousness Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order. This…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of…

— Peter L. Berger

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

— Edmund Burke

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions,…

— Huston Smith

True religion is the realization of truth.

— Franz Hartmann

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

“Religion is the archrival of intimate spirituality…Religion, a tiresome system of manmade dos and don’ts, woulds and shoulds – impotent to change human lives…

— Douglas Banister

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are…

— Ayn Rand

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

— Anonymous

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion…

— Marianne Williamson