simplyknowledge | Quotations

Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.

-Dwight Lyman Moody

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.

-C. S. Lewis "C. S. Lewis"

Universal religion has no location in time or space. Its area is infinite, like the God it preaches. It is an experience. It is God-consciousness… All religions are challenged today by a common enemy: the rising tide of skepticism and secularism.

-A Spiritual Leader "Swami Nikhilananda"

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

We sing the glory of Sri Krishna, who is all truth, all consciousness and all bliss, who is responsible for creation, sustenance and destruction of the universe, and who puts an end to the threefold agony.

-Scriptures "Padma Purana"

The unsuccessful person falls for the ritualistic hypocrisies of religion. Such hypocrisies give birth to false hopes, and false hopes lead to performing wrong deeds. Wrong karma induces more sorrows; and more the miseries, more the person falls for religious hypocrisies. Such a sorry state of human beings is solely owed to being trapped in this vicious circle.

-Deep Trivedi

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

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

-Ambrose Bierce

I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter.

-Christopher Morley "Inward Ho!"

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