Philosophy Of Religion Quotes

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

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

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

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

You have to choose your future regrets.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

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”.

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

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.

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

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

​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.

Any silly ism or stupid book that considers men above women, must be shunned like a lowlife demon. For, all's one, barring none.

The poor, the illiterate, the helpless, the distressed — let these be your God.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

If you take each step, as if it was your last. You would appreciate the world in all its glory and bask in the glory of god for in his wisdom he created us and the universe all around us.

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

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

You are both the worshipper and the worshipped.

One who knows the Self, knows God.

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

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.

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

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

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

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we choose creates our destiny.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse: To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?

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

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

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

The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.

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

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

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

What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.

He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .

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

The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.

One who does not believe in the self is an atheist. If you believe in yourself, then you are the most religious person on earth.

​God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

Let your conscience be your scripture and your actions be your religion. Let the humans be your church and compassion be your worship. Let love be your gospel and acceptance be your revelation.

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

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

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

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

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