Religion is a universal institution in human society. It can be found in every society, both past and present. The preliterate societies we know are religious. Religion dates back to the very beginning of culture. This is a very ancient institution. Without religion, there is no primitive society. Like other social institutions, religion arose from the spiritual power of man in response to certain perceived needs of men. Although most people see religion as universal and therefore a significant institution in societies. This is the foundation on which the normative structure of society stands. A social institution that deals with sacred things goes beyond our knowledge and control. He also influenced other institutions. He had a tremendous influence on the political and economic aspects of life. It is said that man has been incurably religious since the earliest times. Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Semitic religions), Hinduism and Buddhism; Confucianism, Taoism and Shinto (Sino-Japanese religions), etc. Examples of the great religions of the world. Religion deals with people’s shared beliefs and practices. The human response is to elements in human life and the environment that go beyond their usual understanding. Religion is primarily social and is found in almost every society. These religion quotes will guide you to your spiritual voice and guidance.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths. — Muhammad Ali
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. — Albert Einstein
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. — Frederick Douglass
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. — Thomas Aquinas
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart. — Erma Bombeck
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life. — Moses
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein
The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you. — Alan Cohen
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. — Osho
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. — Henry Ward Beecher

Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you. — Osho
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They alone live, who live for others. — Swami Vivekananda
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. — Buddha
We can make changes in our lives, we can live consciously rather than mechanically, we can open our hearts and we can be more fully alive. — Sharon Salzberg
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. — John Morley
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. — Leo Tolstoy
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done. — Bhai Sahib
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau
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When I give I give myself. — Walt Whitman
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware of your infinite nature. — Amit Ray
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. —Noah Levine
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. — Anthony de Mello
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. — Carl Jung

If you don’t behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. — Fulton J. Sheen
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes. — Swami Vivekananda
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it. —Ramana Maharshi
Be here, now! — Ram Dass
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion. — Dalai Lama
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. — Dalai Lama
Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. — Hermann Hesse
One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs. — Steve Maraboli
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. — Jesus Christ
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Thomas Campbell
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is. — Albert Camus
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma
The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake. — Rhonda Byrne
Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness. — 14th Dalai Lama
The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world. — Matthieu Ricard

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller
All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you. — Swami Vivekananda
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein
Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation. — Jack Kornfield
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. — Socrates
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. — Mary Garden
I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand. — Shannon L. Alder
Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance. — Elder Wisdom
Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. — Roy T. Bennett
Your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. — Rhonda Byrne
Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it. — Eberhard Arnold
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. — C. S. Lewis
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. — Ram Dass
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind. — Jack Kornfield

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. — Jane Goodall
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke
Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. — Pema Chödrön
Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. — Swami Vivekananda
Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go “Uh, I’m kind of an asshole”. — Louis C.K.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not. — C.S. Lewis
It took me forty years on earth to reach this sure conclusion: there is no Heaven but clarity, no Hell except confusion. — Jan Struther
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Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. —Eckhart Tolle
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation. — Philip Schaff
You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. — Cory Booker
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. — Swami Vivekananda
The whole of life is to spiritualize our activities by humility and faith, to silence our nature by charity. — Thomas Merton
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification. — Marianne Williamson

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. — Swami Sivananda
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. — George Bernard Shaw
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. — Wayne Dyer
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. — Jesus Christ
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
As long as a sense of self-importance rules your being, you will never know lasting peace. — Matthieu Ricard
If one way be better than other, that you may be sure is… Nature’s way. — Aristotle
When something dies is the greatest teaching. — Shunryu Suzuki
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. — Ram Dass
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. — Joseph Ratzinger
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. — Abu Bakar Bashir
Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. — Thomas Merton

I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. — Max Lucado
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. Aesop
Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. — William Pennington
When everything gets answered, it’s fake. — Sean Penn
Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life’s realities. — Taitetsu Unno
The Holy Land is everywhere. — Black Elk (Native American)
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. — C. S. Lewis
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. —José Saramago
See the things that you want as already yours. — Rhonda Byrne
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Religion, science, and spirituality help us make sense of the world. Life without at least one of them is a lonely and confusing place. — Naval Ravikant
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. — Ramana Maharshi
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. — Saint Ambrose
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. — Philip James Bailey
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be. — Morris Adler
The game is not about becoming somebody, it’s about becoming nobody. — Ram Dass
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. — Ramana Maharshi
I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. — Aaron Neville
To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”. — Ayn Rand
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. — Francis of Assisi
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Everything in the world was my Guru. — Ramana Maharshi
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. — Brené Brown
Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there. — Vine Deloria Jr (Native American)
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available. — Osho
Teach us to give and not to count the cost. — Saint Ignatius
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. —Abraham Lincoln
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. — Rita Mae Brown
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. — 14th Dalai Lama
Be patient. You’ll know when it’s time for you to wake up and move ahead. — Ram Dass
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. — Abraham H. Maslow
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. — Anatole France
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Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything. — Rumi
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. — Stephen Richards
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. — Swami Vivekananda
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world, depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. — Wilferd Peterson

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. — Walt Whitman
What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. — Ram Dass
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind. — Ramana Maharshi
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. — Martin Luther
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back. — Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. — Brian Weiss
Mother Nature speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. — Radhanath Swami
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. — William Shakespeare
No matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? — Elbert Hubbard
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. — Albert Einstein
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. — Albert Camus
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. —David Foster Wallace

Accepting death as a part of life serves as a spur to diligence and saves us from wasting our time on vain distractions. — Matthieu Ricard
God finds himself by creating. — Rabindranath Tagore
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight. — Anne Lamott
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. — Dalai Lama
It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control. — Oprah Winfrey
This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. — Gary North
Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion. — Ved Vyasa
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway. — Joyce Meyer
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Be guided by spirit and not driven by ego. — Unknown
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. — Daniel Defoe
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but rather your thoughts about the situation. — Eckhart Tolle
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable. — Swami Vivekananda
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself. — Augustine of Hippo

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always say yes to the present moment. Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life and see how life starts suddenly working for you rather than against you. — Eckhart Tolle
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. — Albert Einstein
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. — Albert Camus
Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand. — Bob Proctor
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. — Alexander Chase
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. — Dwight L. Moody
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. — Desmond Tutu
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. — Hans Margolius
Family life is full of major and minor crises – the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce – and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. — Thomas Moore
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Wonder is the basis of worship. — Thomas Carlyle

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. — Soren Kierkegaard
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. — Carl Jung
No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. — J. Edwin Orr
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak. — Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. — Mother Teresa
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. — William Blake
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. — Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. — Desmond Tutu
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to yourspirit or further away from it. — Thich Nhat Hanh
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
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. — E. Stanley Jones
I close my eyes in order to see. — Paul Gauguin
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else. — Swami Vivekananda

The power within you is greater than the power within the world. — Rhonda Byrne
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. — Jack Kornfield
You just understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Kahlil Gibran
We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. — Eric Micha’el Leventhal
A belief is only a thought I keep thinking. — Abraham Hicks
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. — Oswald Chambers
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. — Dolores del Rio
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. — William Blake
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state. — Ramana Maharshi
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family. — Ram Dass
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. — Henry David Thoreau

Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak. — William Paul Young
The enquiry “Who am I?” is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss. — Ramana Maharshi
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works? — Diane Duane
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. — 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. — Kripalvanandji
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. — Dalai Lama
For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
The most important time in the world is the time you make for yourself. — Unknown
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. — Swami Vivekananda
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. — Marianne Williamson
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. — C.S. Lewis
When there is love in your heart, everything outside of you also becomes lovable. — Veeresh
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. — Paul Valery
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho
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