I recently finished reading Khushwant Singh's THE FREETHINKER PRAYER BOOK and found some interesting quotes from different religious teachings and thinkers.
"If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar
For he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen"
- The Bible
"Only the small of heart think: 'These are my people and those strangers'. For the magnanimous sage, All World is Family"
- Maha Upanishad (Vasudhaivkutumbukam)
"What use is bending or bowing of head,
When you bow, not the heart?"
- The Guru Granth Sahib
"By self along is evil done,
By self is one digraced,
By self is evil left undone,
By self alone is one purified,
Purity and impurity belong to self, no one can purify another"
- The Dhammapada
"Your actions are defined by intention,
Every man shall deserve only that which he intended"
- Prophet Mohammed
"Whether one believes in religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
There isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion"
- The Dalai Lama
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you will be judged
And with the measure you use it, will be measured to you"
- Jesus
"Once I set out to find the crooked of heart and returned disappointed,
Then I looked into my heart; I found the king of crooks hiding there"
- Kabir
"Learn to see the divine in every human being,
Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked,
This is how you feel God"
- Shirdi Sai Baba
"He who knows others is learned,
He who knows himself is wise"
- Lao Tsu
"He that gives should never remember,
He that receives should never forget"
- The Talmud
"Always tell the truth, then you don't have to remember anything"
- Mark Twain
"Do not do to others as you would not wish done to your self"
- Confucius
"Beauty is eternity gazing itself in a mirror,
But you are eternity and you are the mirror"
- Khalil Gibran
"The passing moment is all that we can be sure of,
It is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it"
- W. Somerset Maugham
"When your heart is clean and right,
The Ganga's in your bath tub"
- Ravi Dass
"We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of sea, the bellowing voice from heaven,
Instead we should be looking at day-by-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous"
- M. Scott Peck
"Hands that help are far better than the lips that pray"
- Robert G. Ingersoll
"Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Science without humanity,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principle"
- Seven Deadly Sins by M.K. Gandhi
