Quotes about religion
498 quotes from 232 people
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Zooey (1957)
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
Aleister Crowley1875–1947The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 66
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950The Renaissance in India (1920)
Iain Banks1954–2013Feersum Endjinn (1994), Chapter 9, Section 2 (p. 265)
John Updike1932–2009Self-Consciousness: Memoirs (1989), Ch. 6There’s some are fou o’ love divine;
There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
Robert Burns1759–1796The Holy Fair, st. 27 (1786)I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Answering the question “Your Holiness, there are many people in the West who want to combine their spiritual practice with social and political responsibility. Do you feel that these two aspects are connected?” in an interview with Catherine Ingram …The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwara of Hindus.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Harijan, 14-5-1938, pp. 110-11; and The Hindustan Times, 5-5-1938, in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 67, p. 64If a man says to his Muslim brother, ‘O unbeliever!’ it is true about one of them.
MMuhammad571–632Sunni HadithIf there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Ever Since Darwin (1977), “The Reverend Thomas’ Dirty Little Planet”, p. 141Superman is nothing more than a popular retelling of the Christ story, or Greek mythology.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Caught in the Act: New York Actors Face to Face (1986) by Don Shewey and Susan Shacter, p. 18
Ramakrishna1836–1886The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 111
Robert Greeneborn 1959The Art of Seduction (2001)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah1876–1948Broadcast to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan (February 1948)