Comparative religion Quote by Three Initiates

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

— Ronald Knox

The study of comparative religions is the best way to become comparatively religious.

— Ronald Knox

“The comparison of religions is only possible, in some measure, through the miraculous virtue of sympathy. We can know men to a certain extent…

— Simone Weil

“religions have much, much more in common than they like to admit. The beliefs are almost always the same; it’s just that the histories…

— David Levithan

For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.”

— Daya Kudari

The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have…

— Kent Allan Rees

“Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth,…

— Brian Browne Walker

What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from,…

— Trevor Paglen

“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

— Seneca

“A religion can be judged only on the basis of another religion.”

— C. John Sommerville