Spiritual Teachings Quotes

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Finding that no religion was based upon facts, but that all of them were in opposition to facts, and could not therefore be true, I began to reflect upon what must be the condition of mankind, trained from infancy to believe in these errors, and to make them the rule of their conduct.

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.

I went to Catholic school for 12 years and went to church every Sunday. I may not do that anymore but I think it gave me a good basis. I've also explored things on my own different philosophies and spiritual teachings and I use what works for me.

My brother was my first guru who introduced me to spiritualism at a very young age. He later even enrolled me into Ramakrishna Mission.

All holy days, no matter the religion with which they are associated, contain lessons for all humanity.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the children' and 'Take care of others.' Take care of old people. And we were raised with those values. Those are very important values and my family and I we were raised with those values and they continue strong in us today.

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

You can find a theologian who will spout almost anything.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath school, so that it seemed, before I read it, to be the yellowest book in the catalogue. Yet I early escaped from their meshes. It was hard to get the commentaries out of one's head and taste its true flavor. [...] It would be a poor story to be prejudiced against the Life of Christ because the book has been edited by Christians.

I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.

It is not the Bible that produced religion and morals, but religion and morals that produced the Bible.