Meher Baba Quotes

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

We will not compromise with any infidel....Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.