It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.
I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.
God has no religion.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.