All the religions of the world may be good and true. But situated as we are, our own religion is the best for us.
-D. S. Sarma
Quotations
Religion
Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
-Bertrand Russell
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahamsa"
The foundation of Hindu religion has been laid on the pillar of tolerance. It
has revered all the rebels like Buddha, Kabira, Shankaracharya, Chanakya,
Dayanand Saraswati who had opposed the prevalent hypocrisies in their times.
It didn't kill them the way reformers like Jesus, Socrates or Mansoor were...
Then where did this Hindu fanaticism emerge from?... Perhaps in order to make
their businesses survive, it is being propagated by the Hindu religious heads.
-Deep Trivedi
To die for religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Don't know why religious people and their religious sentiments are so weak that
they get hurt every now and then... As such it is understandable, the slightest
tremor is enough to cause the debilitated structures to collapse.
-Deep Trivedi
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
-Lenny Bruce
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
-Swami Vivekananda
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The whole world is so-called religious...barring a few intellectuals. But then
where does all the anger, miseries, worries, envy, hatred and failure come from?
... Because, conquering all these feelings is only religiousness.
-Deep Trivedi
