If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

God has no religion.

Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

The highest religion is to rise to universal brotherhood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by which it tries to find its inward force. Its expansive movement comes in the thought which it throws out on life, the ideals which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Love is verily the heart of all religions.

The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love, and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.