“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Religion asks the biggest questions and offers answers that millions of people organize their lives around. These quotes approach faith traditions with respect and curiosity, exploring belief, doubt, ritual, and the search for something larger than yourself.
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”
“I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.”
“Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.”
“I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.”
“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”
“The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.”
“Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.”
“I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
“If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.”
“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.”
“No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.”