Quotations
Religion
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
- Ambrose Bierce
I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.
- Christopher Morley
We are so interested in religion that first we put the person who has come to awaken us to sleep. Then making him God, we establish such a religion around him that we don't face any obstacle in perpetrating the violence, jealousy, partiality, lies, cheating, fraud or pretence as we desire; and simultaneously adhering to few hypocrisies, also remain proud of being religious.
- Deep Trivedi
If putting a 'tilak' on the forehead, wearing a holy thread on the wrist, offering prayers five times a day or visiting a temple, mosque and church, you could attain 'Dharma - the religion', the ultimate height of the world, then nothing is cheaper than religion.
- Deep Trivedi
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
- Oscar Wilde
The measure in which a person is blind in the field of religion, he is equally blind in understanding all the other truths of life. This is the reason why the world is full of mentally and intelligently blind people.
- Deep Trivedi
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
Hindu religion, where all gods are "kings" meaning the ones who look after the interests of their subjects; how can that religion consider those who build palatial ashrams from others donations, as religious?
- Deep Trivedi
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
Only that, which influences everyone everywhere equally is the blessing of God like sun, moon, air, water and human life. How could having different scriptures and diverse beliefs for various religions ever be termed as being religious?
- Deep Trivedi
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