Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.