Question is, why did the truly "intelligent" people distance themselves from
the great personalities like Krishna, Jesus and Buddha? Because, in order to
strengthen their individual businesses, religious gurus associated miracles with
them. Now, an intelligent person may agree with anything but can never accept
'miracles'.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Religion
In existence, nothing is futile if embraced from the depths of mind as per the
need of time. That is why; Hindu gods and deities loved every creation of nature.
Then, in order to hide their weaknesses, the abstinence of which things are
being termed as religion by these Hindu sannyasins?
-Deep Trivedi
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"
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
-Christopher Paolini
"Brisingr"
God has no religion.
-Mahatma Gandhi
What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
-Hitopadesa "Hitopadesa"
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
-Mahatma Gandhi
All religions exhort us to cleanse the heart of malice, greed, hate and anger. All religions hold out the gift of Grace as the prize for success in this cleaning process.
-Sathya Sai Baba "Sri Sathya Sai Baba"
The biggest problem of the world is the existence of the 50 million odd priests,
monks and the heads of various religious institutions, who in the pretext of being
religious, survive at others' mercy without doing anything fruitful themselves.
If they are compelled to do even farming, I promise that overnight the rate of
grains all across the world will almost be halved.
-Deep Trivedi
