Deepak Chopra Quotes

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

Every church is orthodox to itself; to others, erroneous or heretical.

The Church should not be confused with religion.

Religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

God save us from religion.

I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.

The twenty-first century will be regarded by future historians as a century in which religion replaced ideology as the prime animating and destructive force in human affairs.

Religion has caused more misery to all men in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

The [ancient] Jews fought one another over their conflicting interpretations of their Holy Book, and their disagreements about doctrine and matters of ritual

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.

I don't like religion.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.