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Jesus’ commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945Discipleship (1937), Preface, tr. Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss (2001)
- Christianity
- Life & Death
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
Albert Einstein1879–1955The World As I See It (1949)
- Life & Death
Keep the church and the state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Speech to the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa (1875)
- Government
No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.
George W. Bushborn 1946Freedom at War With Fear (2001)
- Race
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Morality
- Politics
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
- Truth & Lies
Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead in all.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 514
- Advice
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic⁠—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg⁠—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 3, “The Shocking Alternative”
- Christianity
Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit.
Simone Weil1909–1943Letter to a Priest (1951), Section 8
- God
To study Buddhism and then use it as a weapon in order to criticize others’ theories or ideologies is wrong. The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990), “A Talk to Western Buddhists” p. 87.
Stated most straightforwardly, most of earth’s humans have inherited their beliefs about the nature of birth and death and everything in between and thereafter from preliterate Middle Eastern pastoralists.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Behave (2017), ch. 9, “Centuries to Millennia Before”, p. 313
- History
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing1912–1954Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.
- Science
Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn’t belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016The Soul of a Butterfly (2004), p. xvi
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Ezra Stiles (9 March 1790)
- Christianity
- Morality