Quotations
Religion
I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.
- Philip Pullman
Everyone is proud of his caste and religion. Please for once, observe yourself
and the people around you carefully - the pride will disappear by itself. And only
then, embracing the world you will be able to tread the path of progress.
- Deep Trivedi
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
- Thomas Paine
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
- Swami Vivekananda
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
Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.
- Steve Maraboli
How can living life to the fullest with much passion, fun and happiness or moving
towards success, ever be irreligious? Irreligiousness itself begins with renouncing
the things out of fear.
- Deep Trivedi
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
- Ray Bradbury
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
- J. Krishnamurti
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
- Hitopadesa
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