Religious Core Quotes

Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the common people. If you take away certain social customs, they think you have taken away religion. For me it means purifying it.

Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.