The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
-David Mitchell
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
A religious person is...the one who accepts the responsibility for the success and
failures of his life. The one who entrusts it to rituals, worship, astrology, family or
friends...is irreligious.
-Deep Trivedi
The three most important things for a human being and his life are time, energy
and money. Religious rites rampantly exploit all three of them.
-Deep Trivedi
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
-Karl Marx
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
-Lenny Bruce
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
-Epictetus
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
-Mahatma Gandhi
