Philosophy Of Religion Quotes

Philosophy Of Religion Quote of the day

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Without even knowing, humanity actually worships not an Entity, rather a mental state.

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must firstunderstand the nature of the force behind its existence.

All religions are born from individual experiences of divine awakening, not from some books.

The God that humanity so keenly seeks, lives within the human biology, yet they wander hitherto searching for it.

You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book.

God heals as well as God kills.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.

Religion is the Self revealing secrets of the Self to the Self.

It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified.

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

Dare to contradict the scientist, not because of your scripture, but because of your own rational thinking.

Don't make the Divine a nincompoop's idea, of being a man-like entity. What you see here is merely a wandering whirlwind of Infinity.

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

Blind faith is not real religion my friend.

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines.

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.

​God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.

​Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.

Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.

The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.

To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind of humans.

One who knows the Self, knows God.

A god should not favor any race, any being or any human.A god should not encourage hate, murder, worship or zealotry.A god who does so has no right to be called a god at all.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं, पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है

Spirituality is the ability to say - It is OK, in every circumstance.

The Lord our God reigns!The Lord our God is righteous!

There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.

If you want to consume the cream of Christ's philosophy, then don't read the Bible, read Tolstoy.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

I don't have to touch God to know that he's real.

A smile is the key to the gate of heaven and love is the road which will get you there.

Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing. Real religion is all about you and your fellow humans. There is nothing else.

sometimes we don't need to think to beleive

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

I am not that afraid to lose believers, I am afraid not to win the unbelievers.

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.