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List of religion quotes
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This is a list of religion quotes
A domain of awareness
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
Deepak Chopra
All religionAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
AllahAllah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
Muhammad Ali
America and IslamAmerica and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama
An honest man
Authority and faith
BelievingFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
Beyond the reach of proofFaith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Khalil Gibran
By the want of itIn the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
Each of us
Faith
Faith and beliefsFaith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Faith is a necessityA faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Faith is above the sensesFaith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is necessaryA faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Faith or religionIf you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
ForeverNor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
GodThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
GodI read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
Virginia Woolf
GodReligion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
Umberto Eco
God is the soulAll are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope
God without dominionA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander Pope
Hard to go through life without itIt is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
Umberto Eco
He is the fountain of all beingGod is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Seneca
He'll turn you into everythingKnock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
Rumi
Heaven
Heights of wickednessSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Lucretius
How I live my life?I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus
I know not myselfWhat shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Rumi
In faithIn faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
IslamThe word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
Muhammad Ali
Loved to be knownHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal
Make your choiceGod isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous Huxley
May be it is hell
My hopeI place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais
My simple religionThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Not wanting
Not worrying.
One nation under GodAnd I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
Barack Obama
One religionI love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Politics and religionI always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama
ReligionI believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X
Serving GodGod tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
Muhammad Ali
Spiritual fulfillmentIf a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.
Arthur Miller
Stereotypes of IslamI consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Obama
Taking the first step
The same messageAll major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
The will of GodThe only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
Muhammad Ali
They all contain truthsRivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali
To believeFaith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
ToleranceAll religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus
True IslamTrue Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
Malcolm X
Twice armedWe are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato
Twin brotherDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
Washing my handsAfter coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is faith?Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
With or without faithTo one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
without GodAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus
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