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| My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
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| No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity | | Edmund Burke | |
| Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. | | Edmund Burke | |
| Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 7:15) | | Bible | |
| O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: (Psalms 7:1) | | Bible | |
| O you who believe! call to witness between you when death draws nigh to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just persons from among you, or two others from among others than you, if you are travelling in the land and the calamity of death | | Quran | |
| O you who believe! let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to puberty ask permission of you three times; before the morning prayer, and when you put off your clothes at midday in summer, and after the prayer of the n | | Quran | |
| O you who believe! when you rise up to prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles; and if you are under an obligation to perform a total ablution, then wash (yourselves) and if you are sick or on a journey, or one of you come from the privy, or you have touched the women, and you cannot find water, betake yourselves to pure earth and wipe your faces and your hands therewith, Allah does not desire to put on you any difficulty, but He wishes to purify you and that He may complete His favor on you, so that you may be grateful. | | Quran | |
| Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men | | Voltaire | |
| Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh | | Bible | |
| Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees | | Rudyard Kipling | |
| On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots | | Buddha | |
| On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then | | Tom Lehrer | |
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| Only Allah is your Vali and His Apostle and those who believe, those who keep up prayers and pay the poor-rate while they bow. (The Dinner Table 5.55) | | Quran | |
| Only he shall visit the mosques of Allah who believes in Allah and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate and fears none but Allah; so (as for) these, it may be that they are of the followers of the right course. (The Immunity 9.1 | | Quran | |
| Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion | | Thomas Hobbes | |
