(1083 quotes found)
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - This is a somewhat new kind of religion”
Albert Einstein
“A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction”
Blaise Pascal
“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature”
“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle”
George Washington
“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
“Unless we know the value of other religious traditions, it is difficult to develop respect for them. Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony. We should strive for a spirit of harmony, not for political or economic reasons, but rather simply because we realize the value of other traditions. I always make an effort to promote religious harmony.”
Dalai Lama
“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
