Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.Rabindranath Tagore
Religion Quotes
These 41 quotes on religion come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.Abdul Sattar Edhi
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.Swami Vivekananda
No religion is higher than humanity.Abdul Sattar Edhi
The temple bell stops — but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.Matsuo Bashō
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.Peter Singer
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.Walt Whitman
I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.Black Elk
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.Mahatma Gandhi
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.Dalai Lama
Destroy the mosque, destroy the temple, destroy whatever you please — but do not break a human heart, for God dwells there.Bulleh Shah
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.B.R. Ambedkar
My heart has become capable of every form: a pasture for gazelles, a convent for Christian monks, a temple for idols.Ibn Arabi
I follow the Way of Love, and where love's caravan turns along the road, that is my religion and my faith.Ibn Arabi
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.Ibn Sina
O God, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.Rabia al-Adawiyya
My religion is to live and die without regret.Milarepa
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Gautama Buddha
Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.Alan Cohen
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and…Denis Waitley
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.Dalai Lama
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.William Arthur Ward
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Joseph Campbell
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.Alfred Painter
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.William Blake
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.Isocrates
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?Gautama Buddha
To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.Confucius
Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the…Robert C. Solomon
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.Lucille Ball
I dedicate today this Institute — not merely a laboratory but a temple.Jagadish Chandra Bose
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.Rabindranath Tagore
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.Nelson Mandela
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.Ramakrishna
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.Richard Bach
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.Bruce Lee
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true.Ramakrishna