Quotes About Many Religions

#1. Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

Andre Malraux

#2. I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

Ja Rule

#3. The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy ... and also a prolific author.

Nevill Drury

#4. The jewel has facets," said the Chinese, "and it is possible that many religions are moderately true.

James Hilton

#5. For some reason, many religions force themselves to think of the birth canal as a one-way street, and even the Koran treats the Virgin Mary with reverence.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#7. One sky, many lands.
One story, many books.
One truth, many interpretations.
One road, many paths.
One God, many religions.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Elizabeth Berg

#9. Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn't last forever.

Pema Chodron

#10. So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.

Ramakrishna

#11. There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim ... we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#12. The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

Ramana Maharshi

#13. I don't feel any great need to subscribe to a certain notion of Buddhism that says "You have to do this" or "You have to do that." Buddhism does not prescribe rituals or prohibitions in the way many religions do.

Pankaj Mishra

#14. There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.

Dalai Lama

#15. Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

Frederick Lenz

#16. There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

John Ruskin

#17. There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything.

Mother Teresa

#18. Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.

Bertrand Russell

#19. Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

Carl Sagan

#20. Have you ever wondered why there are so many Gods and so many religions? It is because in the Land of the Gods, there is not a single hand to guide the Gods on a proper path.

Lionel Suggs

#21. The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Carl Sagan

#22. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Dan Brown

#23. I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.'

Ravi Zacharias

#24. It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed ... Each person should have his own religion - there should be as many religions as there are people!

Rajneesh

#25. A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some people might think that "surely the statistics among evangelical Christians is different." Not by much.

Robert Jeffress

#26. A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.

Robert Jeffress

#27. The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Alan Watts

#28. I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.

Maynard James Keenan

#29. I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion.

Debasish Mridha

#30. There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Science is one , gods are many
science allows change and accept new tested things but religion not
science laws are same all over earth but religions have different

Er.teji

#32. I love all religions ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

Mother Teresa

#33. I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#34. Christianity, rather than being one myth alongside many others, is thus the fulfilment of all previous mythological religions. Christianity tells a true story about humanity, which makes sense of all the stories that humanity tells about itself.

Alister E. McGrath

#35. The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.

H.L. Mencken

#36. While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

Sam Harris

#37. Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Lynn Abbey

#39. The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it.

Lemmy Kilmister

#40. Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism in India was a product of many great spiritual masters chief among them was Buddha. And this is what sustains the secular character of India.

Narendra Modi

#41. Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

Kat Duff

#42. Many "spiritual people," not necessarily those that claim Christianity, share a common sentiment: "Religions, faiths and even Jesus are personal matters, so stay out of my business and I will stay out of yours." Christians are not supposed to, nor can they afford to share this sentiment.

Matt Carter

#43. No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.

Maggie Stiefvater

#44. Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its member to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

Daniel Dennett

#45. There's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Qur'an, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bible, there's no way you can misunderstand the teachings of the Bhaghavad Gita, or of the Book of Mormon, or of the other sacred texts of many of those religions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#46. The religions that we have today are a small fraction of all religions that have existed throughout human history. The ones that we are left with have survived because they have more effectively adapted to attract and hold the allegiance of many people.

Armin Navabi

#47. But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

Paulo Coelho

#48. All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

Ramakrishna

#49. Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it in the New Testament attributed to the Pharisees.

G.K. Chesterton

#50. Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Neil MacGregor

#51. I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

Rajneesh

#52. Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

Alain De Botton

#53. If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism - one world religion with one god made out of many.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#54. Even though I respect many different religions, I don't really particularly just follow one.

Cristian Machado

#55. God is one the paths to reach him (religions) are many - just as different rivers, originating in different mountains, traverse different paths, flowing straight or crooked, and at last join the ocean. He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.

Swami Vivekananda

#56. There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

Annie Besant

#57. While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

Anais Nin

#58. A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.

Abhijit Naskar

#59. Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

Jonathan Sacks

#60. Truth is one, though
the sages
know it as many .
God is one, though
different
religions
approach
Him differently
Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus
or any other form of God that you believe
in .
Our paths may be different.
Our destination
is the same.

Amish Tripathi

#61. Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other Eastern religions. They are often surprised to learn that there is such a way within the Christian tradition, a way that is known as contemplation.

Ray Simpson

#62. Most Pagans are in agreement, treat yourself, others, animals and nature with respect. Just like many other religions the Pagan belief system often incorporates a desire to be a good person, kind, and understanding. There is no spread of hatred or violence.

Ginger Valentine

#63. The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

Stephen L. Carter

#64. My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Sara Sheridan

#65. I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.
It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.

Toba Beta

#66. I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Candace Cameron Bure

#67. There is such a thing as a small and cramped eternity. You may see it in many modern religions

G.K. Chesterton

#68. When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

Gore Vidal

#69. Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

A.J. Cronin

#70. I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict
the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.

Patricia Geary

#71. We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

Martin O'Malley

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

Stendhal

#73. There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

Zac Goldsmith

#74. In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Heinrich Heine

#75. Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents.

Michael Krondl

#76. In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God .

John C. Danforth

#77. Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

Andrew Bernstein

#78. Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Niklaus Wirth

#79. Unlike many people today, Jesus did not teach that all religions in the world are simply different paths up the same mountain of truth that leads to God. Jesus could not have been more clear: he offers the only way to heaven.

Robert Jeffress

#80. No need of many countries, if there's only one religion.

Toba Beta

#81. Over the years, the stories that men created became more important and influential than the men themselves. Hence born are the religions and many others.

Thiruman Archunan

#82. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago.

Milton Friedman

#83. Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

George C. Williams

#84. Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Elbert Hubbard

#85. For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair" ... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

Salman Rushdie

#86. What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

Patricia Polacco

#87. We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

Shirley Maclaine

#88. Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

Alcee Hastings

#89. it's disconcerting how many people billing themselves as 'experts in the occult' have bugger-all qualifications in the subject. Instead, they have a list of qualifications in studies on the occult THROUGH THE BIASED VIEWS of their own religions... This is NOT the same thing.

Christina Engela

#90. I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

Adam Ferrara