True Religion quotes:

Send

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. -- Lord Byron
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. -- Albert Einstein
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. -- Mark Twain
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. -- Louis Nizer
My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness. -- Dalai Lama
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. -- George Washington
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue. -- Bertrand Russell
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. -- Mark Twain
Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. -- Albert Schweitzer
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him -- Charles Hodge
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. -- A. Powell Davies
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. -- Edmund Burke
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections. -- Edmund Burke
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers. -- John Shelby Spong
Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support. -- George Washington
This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord. -- Charles Hodge
The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person. -- Dalai Lama
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. -- Jonathan Edwards
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. -- J.D. Greear
A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. -- William J. H. Boetcker
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them. -- Hal Holbrook
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion. -- Kunal Nayyar
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. -- Saint Augustine
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. -- Lord Hailsham
God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind. -- Max Heindel
I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views. -- Elaine Pagels
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion. -- Henry Eyring
Properly speaking, all true work is religion. -- Thomas Carlyle
Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy. -- Fanny Fern
Show true religion, cause words don't relieve -- Francis Chan
True religion is the realization of truth. -- Franz Hartmann
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion... -- Benjamin Rush
Every thing to be true must become a religion. -- Oscar Wilde
One's true religion is what one cares about most. -- Walter Starcke
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true religion of America has always been America. -- Norman Mailer
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. -- E. O. Wilson
--
It is true that every artist has his own religion. -- Robert Motherwell
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns. -- John Calvin
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith. -- Simone Weil
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. -- Blaise Pascal
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. -- Blaise Pascal
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. -- Henry Ward Beecher
That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it. -- Roger Williams
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt. -- Kedar Joshi
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. -- Jonathan Edwards
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. -- Matthew Arnold
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! -- Mark Twain
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. -- Matthew Arnold
Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them. -- Benjamin Haydon
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves. -- Swami Vivekananda
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same. -- Saint Augustine
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. -- Christopher Hitchens
With religion I was always like, Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy? -- Matt Stone
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! -- Mark Twain
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives. -- Gautama Buddha
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. -- Charles Studd
My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family. -- Orhan Pamuk
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. -- Josh Lanyon
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. -- Ellen G. White
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God. -- Sam Ervin
--
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion. -- John Maynard Keynes
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom. -- Erwin McManus
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. -- Thomas Paine
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true. -- Emile Chartier
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me. -- Gene Luen Yang
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. -- John Ruskin
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. -- Edmund Burke
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery. -- Joseph Campbell
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. -- Frans de Waal
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. -- Ellen Glasgow
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow. -- Dan Simmons
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance. -- Horace Mann
Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. -- Michael Ruse
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. -- Richard Strauss
I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core. -- David O. Russell
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. -- John Arbuthnot
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. -- Florence Nightingale
No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. -- William Ernest Hocking
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. -- Luther Burbank
Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion. -- Dalai Lama
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. -- Jacob Neusner
The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. -- R.J. Rushdoony
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. -- Harvey Milk
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell. -- Elijah Muhammad
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men." -- Shusaku Endo
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men. -- Shusaku Endo
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ? -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion. -- Franz Bardon
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion. -- Lord Acton
--
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. -- Joseph Addison
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. -- Lisa Randall

Send