Religious Traditions Quotes:

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Life, Spiritual, Religious, Peace And Tolerance, Religious Traditions

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Love, Religious, Buddhist, Spiritual Awareness, Mercy And Compassion

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Religious, Mean, Men, Religious Traditions

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Buddhist Monk, Meditation Mindfulness

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurt And Pain, Hurt My Feelings

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Anger, Invaluable, Peace And Tolerance

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Kindness And Compassion, Daily Buddhist

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.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Kindness, Complicated World, Spiritual Awakening

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Buddhist, Love And Affection

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Success, God, Kindness And Compassion, Kindness Generosity

It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Religious Traditions

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Believe, Inspiration, Contentment, Kindness And Compassion, Being Depressed

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Hero, Hatred, True Hero, Religious Traditions

I believe the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in that religion or this religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness...

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Seeking Happiness, Religious Traditions

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Motivational, Compassion, Feelings, Love And Compassion, Cultivating

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Karma, Peace, Stupidity And Ignorance, World Peace Day

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Mistake, Wise Buddhist, Peace And Tolerance

Once you're in a kind of revealed religious tradition, you wind up having to explain how the things said about God in the Bible or the Qur'an or whatever religious text you're dealing with, why these statements are true.

- Peter Adamson

source: Source: www.abc.net.au

topic: Religious Texts, Religious Traditions

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Religious, Atheist, Power Of Myth, Religious Traditions

Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

- Larry Graham

topic: Religious, Healing, People, Vantage Point, Religious Traditions

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

topic: Religious, Littles, Tradition, Religious Traditions

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

topic: Christian, Religious, Principles, Religious Traditions

The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and spiritual practices from the various religions and their application to one's own inner life and development.

- Wayne Teasdale

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Practice, Religious Traditions, Assimilation

Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life. Every tradition on which we draw teaches that the ultimate expression of our spirituality is our action. Deep spirituality leads to action in the world. A deep reverence for life, love of nature's complex beauty and sense of intimate connection with the cosmos leads inevitably to a commitment to work for environmental and social justice.

- Peter Morales

topic: Religious, Love Life, Commitment, Intricate, Web Of Life

Those who like myself, consider themselves to be followers of Buddha, should practice as much as we can. To followers of other religious traditions, I would like to say, 'Please practice your own religion seriously and sincerely.' And to non-believers, I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Warm Hearted, Religious Traditions

Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Religious, Years, Ideas, Religious Traditions

Every time that a man has, with a pure heart, called upon Osiris, Dionysus, Buddha, the Tao, etc., the Son of God has answered him by sending the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit has acted upon his soul, not by inciting him to abandon his religious tradition, but by bestowing upon him light. It is, therefore, useless to send out missions to prevail upon the peoples of Asia, Africa or Oceania to enter the Church.

- Simone Weil

source: "Letter to a Priest". Book by Simone Weil, section 8, 1951.

topic: Religious, Heart, Son, Osiris, Dionysus

Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Religious, Philosophy, Mean, Dogmatic, Religious Traditions

We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.

- David Steindl-Rast

topic: Religious, Moving, Together, Religious Traditions, Get Moving

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Religious, Looks, Wilderness, Religious Traditions

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

- Francis Arinze

topic: Religious, People, Catholic, Religious Traditions, Catholic Church

There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

- Angeles Arrien

topic: Spiritual, Gratitude, Religious, Religious Traditions

A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.

- C. S. Lewis

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Religious, People, Church, Religious Traditions, Whittling

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.savetibet.org

topic: Country, Religious, Principles, Small Countries, Religious Traditions

The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

topic: Religious, Atheist, Roots, Religious Traditions

It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions about designer children and genetic engineering - an appreciation of the giftedness of the child or the giftedness of life does have religious resonance, because a great many religious traditions emphasize the sense in which the good things in life are not all our own doing; they are gifts from God.

- Michael Sandel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Religious, Appreciation, Children, Giftedness, Genetic Engineering

There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.

- Michael Sandel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Religious, Jewish Tradition, Views, Religious Traditions

They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!

- Al-Maʿarri

source: "Studies in Islamic Poetry (The Meditations of Al-Ma'arri)". Book by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, 1921.

topic: Religious, Book, Fiction, Religious Traditions

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

- Karen Armstrong

source: "A question of faith" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

topic: Religious, Criticism, Middle East, Religious Traditions

I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Religious, Believe, People, Religious Traditions, Feminist Movement

We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Religious Traditions

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

- Alexander Gardner

topic: Religious, Book, Buddhism, Japanese Culture, Religious Traditions

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

- Khaled Abou El Fadl

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Religious, Dark, Rights, Throwback, Religious Traditions

It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

- William P. Young

topic: Religious, Expectations, Understanding, Appeasement, Religious Traditions

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

- William Bennett

topic: Christian, Religious, Firsts, Religious Traditions, Intertwined

Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.

- Tom Harpur

topic: Religious, Easter, Spring, Sun God, Equinox

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Religious, Knowing, People, Religious Traditions