All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

World belongs to humanity, not the leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity. 

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

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.  message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. 

Heaven and earth represent the carrot and stick theory of management in religious philosophy.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

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

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; my philosophy is kindness.

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.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. 

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. 

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.