Indian Religious Quotes

#1. I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

Ian Frazier

#2. But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

Mary MacLane

#3. Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Charles Eastman

#4. The chief if not the sole cause of the enslavement of the Indian peoples by the English lies in this very absence of a religious consciousness and of the guidance for conduct which should flow from it - a lack common in our day to all nations East and West, from Japan to England and America alike.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

Salman Rushdie

#7. I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.

Chuck Klosterman

#8. But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Lafcadio Hearn

#9. Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.

Teju Cole

#10. When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

James McGreevey

#11. The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#12. The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

Swami Vivekananda

#13. Hanging out in coffee shops and talking about one day being a writer or an activist or an entrepreneur is just about the worst thing you can do.

Jeff Goins

#14. To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Charles Eastman

#16. If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it.

Tim Allen

#17. It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

Donald Pleasence

#18. Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them

Curtis Jackson

#19. Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

Oswald Chambers

#20. A rainbow in shades of grey is just a fog

Robby Miller

#21. I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

Karan Johar

#22. I usually just end up at home on my couch - reading.

Chris Pine

#23. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

Abhijit Naskar