Religion SMS

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. -Osho

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances. ~Theodore Dreiser

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him? ~Martin Buber

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~Karl Menninger

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ~Seneca the Younger

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. ~William Ernest Hocking

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. ~Frederick the Great

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. ~Martin H. Fischer

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw

All men have need of the gods. ~Homer

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~Karl Menninger

A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. -John Updike

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.
-Mignon McLaughlin

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. - Mark Twain

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. -Howard Chandler Christy

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? -Freeman Dyson

Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. -Mignon McLaughlin

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. -Malcolm Muggeridge

God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. -Mark Twain

Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. -Anonymous

You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. -Anonymous

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. -Mary C. Crowley

Through ignorance, a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless clamour. -Ramakrishna Paramahansa

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. -Adel Bestavros

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

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. -George Macdonald

All men can be reached by flattery, even God can (what, after all, is prayer?) -Italo Bombolini

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth a man's mind about to religion.-Francis Bacon

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not. -Warren Wiersbe

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. -Blaise Pascal

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -William R. Inge

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. -Alexis Carrel

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

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg

Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for. -Samuel M. Shoemaker

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. -Leo Buscaglia

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. -Robert H. Schuller

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. -Edmund Burke

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. -Dalai Lama

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. -C.C. Colton

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. -G.K. Chesterton

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all. -Eleanor Roosevelt

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible. -George Burns.