“Mere formal worship or mechanical routine performance of rituals cannot induce God to recite in the heart.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Draw near to God, so the ways of our hearts.... look more like his.”
Jaime Lynne Dillon
“There really is a God, however he will not judge people by their beliefs but by their hearts.”
Rid Akbay
“All strict rituals are just clever contrivances. My God knows everything. He has made His Glory manifest, and all people celebrate Him.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Without the True Guru, God is not found; all have grown weary of performing religious rituals.”
“He performs worship ceremonies, applies the ceremonial tilak mark to his forehead, and takes his ritual cleansing baths; he pulls out his knife, and demands donations.”
Atharva Veda
“A peasant dies calmly because he is not a Christian. He performs the rituals as a matter of course, but his true religion is different. His religion is nature, with which he has lived."”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
