Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Religion
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
-Jasper Fforde
"The Eyre Affair"
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
-Thomas Paine
"The Age Of Reason"
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
-Swami Vivekananda
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
The role of religion is to make one righteous and loving. Politics means caring for people and their welfare. When religion and politics don’t coexist then you have corrupt politicians and pseudo-religious leaders.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"
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
"The October Country"
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self-Reliance and Other Essays"
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
