Religions Quotes

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

Same, Tree, Arts

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

Truth, Nothing, May

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
Muhammad Ali

Different, Water, Names

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi

Different, Essence, Approaches

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire

Men, Christian, Until

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

Religion, Control, Used

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Epictetus

Heaven, Tolerated

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo

God, Philosophy, Necessary

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust

Great, Alone, Everything

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine

Religion, Law, Original

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
Ray Bradbury

Religion, God, Universe

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Made, Used

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell

Men, Power, History

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Him

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna

God, True, Important

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

Religion, Freedom, Society

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern

Religion, Rock, Around

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
B. R. Ambedkar

End, United, Modern

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Equality, Business

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal

Fear, Few, Cleverness

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. Wilson

Strength, Against, Religious

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
E. O. Wilson

Three, Born, Disturbed

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. Wilson

Religious, Belief, Adaptation

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
Jodi Picoult

Spiritual, Feeling, Different

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
Deepak Chopra

Become, Develop, Exclusive

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
Deepak Chopra

Pay, Taxes, Donations

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
Alexander Herzen

Political, Corruption, Why

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin

Women, Freedom, Human

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Joseph Hall

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us